Automate and streamline your Environmental, Social & Governance disclosure to save time, risk and costs using our cloud software.
Objective Keystone provides automation, governance and data confidence to the process of producing, reviewing, verifying and publishing disclosure documents and reports. Increase traceability; mitigate risk, inconsistency and errors across your ESG suite.
Objective Keystone Data Models enable ESG data to be extracted and synchronised from Excel or core business systems, then transformed into the required values and formats under full governance. Every change is versioned, tracked, and auditable, ensuring confidence in the data used across your ESG suite.
Integrate your complex datasets, including Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions, carbon intensity metrics, financed emissions, climate risk indicators, and fund-level sustainability measures. Relationship-based data modelling and Excel formula reading enable calculated fields and derived values to be governed and traceable.
Dynamic Data Preview allows datasets to be inserted directly into documents and viewed live during editing, review and verification. This gives teams clear visibility of how ESG data will appear before publication, without needing to publish the entire document.
Insert ESG data as a locked point-in-time snapshot for regulatory certainty, or as governed live links for recurring disclosure. Both options remain fully auditable and subject to Objective Keystone's robust verification controls.
Update and approve the common content once and use it many times throughout your ESG disclosure and reports. In addition, metadata saves time and eliminates errors by allowing you to apply conditional rules and auto-populate fields in your content and data.
Ensure consistency across your ESG disclosures with built-in indexing and auto-referencing for sections, pages, tables and footnotes. This keeps your cross-references, terminology, and sources aligned - even as content and data changes.
Objective Keystone’s built-in AI Text Matching and AI Readability tools help you create precise, consistent, and accessible disclosure and reports. Instantly detect duplicated or conflicting content, ensure language is clear and compliant, and maintain a consistent tone across every document.
Systemise the collection of approvals for every word of your ESG, Climate-Related Disclosure, Sustainability Reports and Annual Reports to mitigate errors. Apply the same governance to both content and data to reduce risk and manual oversight.
Standardise reporting on all approvals and substantiations. Generate a comprehensive audit report that captures every change, review, data update and approval.
Implement safeguards to protect approved content. Get notified immediately when edits are made, so governance and version integrity are always maintained.
Save time producing print-ready, digital, HTML, XML or XBRL versions of your disclosure and reports with a single click using our rich publishing engine.
Make changes and re-publish easily and accurately without relying on typesetters. Tables of contents, page numbers, and styles update without affecting the underlying layout.
Run a comparison to any previous version of the output or compare datasets. At a glance, you'll see all the content or data that has changed between versions.
Our evidence library brings everything together - your substantiation records, version histories, verified datasets, final documents, reports, and attestations.
Automatic task assignment and activity tracking frees up your time from admin to focus on the content.
Immediately see where each piece of content in a document is in the process. Identify bottlenecks and follow up with your team’s tasks.
For when you need to show who did what, and when. Publish a complete verification certificate showing every edit, note and approval - for regulators, auditors, or governance committees.
Automation replaces manual ESG disclosure management
Fit-for-purpose software streamlines production and publication of ESG disclosure, while delivering governance.
Reusable content, data, and automated referencing improve productivity and minimise inconsistency.
Easily produce a Verification Certificate for your Due Diligence Committee or an internal sign-off.
Have complete control over editing, publishing, and centrally storing your disclosure and due diligence records.
With built-in governance, every single edit, review and approval is recorded.
Dashboards and governed data models simplify ESG reporting and reduce disclosure risk.
Bring external parties into your document lifecycle so you can track and evidence every stakeholder's input.
Using Objective Keystone we can now do fee uploads via Excel. Within 5 minutes those fees are cascaded across 20 different documents.
William Gerges
Manager, Disclosure
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Read MoreFinancial Services organisations encounter several major hurdles in ESG reporting. A persistent challenge is the lack of standardised reporting frameworks, making it difficult to achieve consistency across disclosures. The increasing complexity of regulations, especially those applying across international markets, requires constant adaptation and careful management of terminology and definitions.
Many organisations still rely on "people-based" approaches, leading to fragmented processes, manual data entry, and bottlenecks in review and approval workflows. This results in escalating costs, excessive time spent, and difficulties in ensuring consistency across various ESG statements (annual reports, sustainability reports, climate risk reports, etc.).
The ESG reporting landscape is rapidly evolving. While 93% of Australian organisations have adopted some form of ESG practices, the field is still maturing. The TCFD standard is now the most popular for climate risk disclosure, with growing adoption in New Zealand. A significant trend is the increasing focus on Scope 3 reporting, which addresses supply chain emissions and other indirect impacts. Regulators are becoming more attentive to consistency across different disclosure channels, penalising discrepancies between website statements and formal reports.
A new frontier is emerging with the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), which is currently voluntary but expected to become mandatory, mirroring the trajectory of climate risk disclosure.
Organisations make ESG statements across various documents (annual reports, sustainability reports, climate risk reports, modern slavery disclosures), and these must be consistent in detail and terminology. Inconsistency can lead to increasing scrutiny from regulators, which can trigger regulatory action (depending on the jurisdiction) and damage to an organisation’s reputation.
TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) was established in 2015 by the Financial Stability Board. TCFD provides a framework for companies to disclose climate-related financial risks and opportunities. The framework focuses on four core areas: governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets. Companies use TCFD to report how climate change might affect their business operations, financial performance, and strategic planning. The recommendations help investors, lenders, and other stakeholders better understand climate-related risks in their decision-making.
TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures) Launched in 2021, TNFD extends the TCFD approach to nature and biodiversity. It provides a framework for organisations to report and act on evolving nature-related risks and opportunities. TNFD recognises that businesses depend on natural capital and ecosystems, and that nature loss poses significant financial risks. The framework helps companies assess their impacts and dependencies on nature, from water resources and soil health to biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Managing data for ESG reporting presents significant challenges because data sources extend beyond traditional financial systems to include numerous internal and external inputs. These external sources often hold authoritative data (e.g., category or emission standards). Manual data entry is prone to errors and audit issues. A critical aspect is the need to snapshot and time-stamp data at the point of disclosure, as ESG data often evolves. To address these, organisations need integrated data management solutions that can: directly integrate with diverse source systems, transform data for reporting purposes, accurately snapshot and time-stamp data, and link published outputs to specific data snapshots. This sophisticated approach moves beyond simple spreadsheet management to ensure data integrity and traceability.
Objective Keystone is a software service designed to automate and streamline ESG disclosure reporting processes, particularly focusing on the disclosure and reporting end of the chain, as well as internal stakeholder engagement. It aims to solve key problems such as excessive time and costs, difficulties in aligning disclosures with evolving regulations, and challenges in data collection, methods, and integrity.
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Automate and streamline your Environmental, Social & Governance disclosure to save time, risk and costs using our Cloud software.
