Witram ESG · Luxembourg
Answer sustainability data requests once, with evidence.
Status: Planned
Witram ESG is a tool we are planning. A company answers the sustainability and supply-chain questions it gets from investors, lenders and buyers once, attaches the evidence, and decides who sees each answer. With the same tool, fund managers, banks and brands collect that data from the companies they invest in, lend to or buy from.
We are in discovery: nothing has been built yet and nothing is for sale. Right now we want to learn how you collect or answer these requests today.
The problem
EU sustainability reporting rules now apply only to the largest companies. The data requests did not go away: they moved on to smaller companies.
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For the companies that answer
A small or mid-sized company gets several sustainability questionnaires a year, from its bank, its investors and its large buyers, each in a different format. It answers each one by hand, often without evidence.
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For the ones who ask
Fund managers, lenders and brands send spreadsheets by email and chase the answers. Many requests go unanswered, the numbers are hard to check, and whatever is missing has to be estimated.
How it will work
One place for the data, with the company that holds it in control.
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Ask
A fund manager, a bank or a brand sends one request to the companies it invests in, lends to or buys from.
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Answer once
Each company answers in its own profile and attaches evidence to each answer. Next time, it starts from what it has already answered.
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Share with consent
The company decides who sees what. A supplier that answers a brand can use the same answers for its bank.
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Review and export
Whoever sent the request reviews the answers and exports them. Every value is marked as reported, estimated or missing.
Two kinds of data, one tool
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ESG data
Questions based on the EU’s voluntary sustainability reporting standard for small and medium-sized companies (VSME), plus the extra indicators that investment funds report on.
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Supplier data
A supplier profile for EU textile and supply-chain rules: sites, certificates, materials, and the country of each processing step.
Who it’s for
We are starting in Luxembourg.
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Fund managers
Luxembourg fund managers (AIFMs and management companies) that collect ESG data from their portfolio companies every year.
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Brands and importers
EU brands and importers that need site and product data from their suppliers, often from outside the EU.
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Banks
Lenders that need sustainability data from the small and medium-sized companies they finance.
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Companies that answer
Portfolio companies, borrowers and suppliers who fill in the same questions again and again, in different formats.
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Fiduciaries and consultants
Advisers who help small companies prepare their sustainability data.
What it will not do
- No scores, no ratings and no home-made sustainability labels.
- Witram is not a certification body. A claim can only refer to a recognised certification scheme, with the certificate number and its validity dates.
- No company’s answers are shared without its consent.
- The data will be stored in the EU.
Talk to us
Do you collect or answer sustainability or supplier data requests, at a fund manager, a bank, a brand or a company that gets these questionnaires? Then we would like to hear how you do it today. A 30-minute conversation, no sales pitch: there is nothing to sell yet. Write to
There is no sign-up form and no mailing list. We only use your email to reply to you.
Who is behind it
Witram ESG is a product of Witram Tech, a software company being set up in Luxembourg. The company is not registered yet; until it is, its founder, Philip Amwata, is responsible for this site.
- Product
- Witram ESG
- Status
- Planned (in discovery)
- Company
- Witram Tech S.à r.l.-S (in formation)
- Country
- Luxembourg
- Founder
- Philip Amwata