The timing for eco-shaper is impeccably aligned with current user demands, scientific advancements, and technological trends. The impending Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) mandates that companies disclose their carbon footprints alongside financial statements. The CSRD applies to all EU Member States, with a deadline for compliance set for July 6, 2024. This regulatory shift underscores the pressing need for comprehensive carbon accounting solutions, precisely the type of innovation eco-shaper provides.
We are a fishing processing company in Leigh on Sea and as part of the new TECFO 25 (Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery Order) licence application criteria, we needed to be able to report our CO2 emissions. eco-shaper was recommended to us by our business coach.
After meeting with Tracey and her team and explaining what we needed to achieve, eco-shaper were happy to develop a system that met our needs and being in fishing and processing it’s not our normal everyday criteria.
We now have successful access to our platform, which we can change to any scenarios, as our business develops and changes. I have already recommended Tracey and her team to another processing company from Leigh on Sea and would recommend to other companies as well.
eco-shaper is a superior solution compared to existing alternatives by offering a comprehensive suite of features, including recording, validating, consolidating, and forecasting environmental impacts. Particularly noteworthy is the platform’s ability to simplify data collection processes and engage employees in emissions tracking, which not only saves time and money but also fosters internal alignment towards sustainability goals.
Through consolidating multiple functions into a single product, the innovation reduces complexity and costs for organizations, a significant advantage in a market where efficiency and cost effectiveness is paramount.
Additional benefits include advanced forecasting and scenario modelling capabilities, along with seamless integration with existing business systems, ensuring smooth implementation and maximizing utility for users. Given the innovation’s superiority and advantages over current solutions, it is reasonable to expect considerable demand from customers.
Slough Borough Council has been engaging with eco-Shaper for several months and this has been positive experience, based on mutual trust, and solution-focussed. I find both Grace and Tracey to be very approachable and understanding of our organisation’s essential needs whilst adapting their product to fit our needs.
I have recently trialed the eco-Shaper product for our carbon footprint reporting, and found it very straightforward to use, and we have now secured an agreement with eco-Shaper to provide Slough Borough Council with an enterprise dashboard that includes questionnaires to calculate Scope 1-3 emissions more accurately over the next 12 months.
These reports are downloadable at any time and are live so as we refine and improve our data sets, we can continue to report on our scope emissions ensuring we have up to date carbon footprint reports. It is a requirement of our Carbon Management Plan to reduce CO2e emissions by 10% per annum and therefore we need to undertake annual GHG reporting. In addition, the reports allow us to run ‘what if reduction’ scenarios. We’ve also opted for the add on of a questionnaire and dashboard for the employee carbon footprint (based on work data, specifically business travel).
This employee data is aggregated and anonymised and feeds into Scope 3 at the enterprise level. I trust this reference gives you the reassurances you are looking for.
eco-shaper development marked a carefully planned journey, commencing with its inception in January 2021. The technology has been meticulously developed in collaboration with academic institutions renowned for their expertise in the field, ensuring safety, security, and reliability. Through strategic partnerships, such as with the University of Surrey.
I am an experienced entrepreneur, business leader and coach, who has founded and grown two successful high-technology engineering companies. I worked with eco-shaper as an advisor on their engagement with the EIC Accelerator program in Brussels. This is one of the most competitive technical innovation competitions in Europe and receives 7,000 applications annually.
They scored highly on their application and did this in record time, achieving a revered Seal of Excellence from the European Union. I had a positive experience working with Tracey and the team found them to be dynamic and effective at delivering on complex tasks, in a timely manner, to a very high standard. I am confident that the eco-shaper team has the skills, experience and motivation to deliver on demanding projects.
The eco-shaper solution marks a significant advancement in carbon accounting, offering unmatched innovation and novelty compared to existing solutions.
I am the former head of Sustainable Business at Schneider Electric. Responsible to the CEO for leading their transition strategy, and had a front-row seat to the system-wide impact multinationals can have when they work in partnership.
I also have over 20 years’ experience of launching, scaling, buying, and selling sustainable businesses and advising the boards of multiple sustainability industry bodies and climate tech start-ups. I am a proud partner of eco-shaper, enabled by cloud technology and AI and we fully support it’s ‘one-system’ approach to consolidate a fragmented market.
Nothing ticks all the boxes like eco-shaper.
The innovation has several superior features and holds significant potential for transforming existing markets while also paving the way for the development of new ones. One key aspect of this innovation is its ability to simplify the complex process of consolidating carbon data from diverse sources.
Powered by AI-driven data aggregation and analysis, it streamlines reporting requirements and alleviates the workload burden on businesses, making sustainability management more efficient and effective.
I am a Senior Lecturer at University of Surrey, also appointed as Fellow at Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence, Institute for Sustainability, and the Lead Researcher of eco-shaper.
My research focuses on development and application of interdisciplinary models in environmental-energy-economic systems for supporting climate change mitigation. Besides working with Tracey on different projects, I invited her to be a guest speaker in the Life Cycle Thinking and Circular Economy module, which is part of our MSc program.
Tracey delivers an excellent lecture to our students with diverse backgrounds. She incorporates the latest progress of eco-shaper and her thoughts on Sustainability every year. It’s a highlight of the module and all our students enjoy her session.
This is a high-potential, high chance of success, game-changing innovation solution that has something that is a necessity for many organizations, and capable to generate high cost reduction and provides unique characteristics.
I met with Tracey Carr during the establishment of eco-shaper Ltd in Ireland, through EIT Digital’s Innovation Factory programme in April 2022. As Director of MaynoothWorks, the technology transfer and start-up incubation team of Maynooth University, I introduced her to a range of Irish venture investors.
We also met extensively with representatives of Enterprise Ireland. eco-shaper was outstanding amongst the companies in the region for its quality, Tracey’s vision and determination, and the depth of market understanding.
The advantages offered by eco-shaper address a very large set of pain topics for stakeholders (e.g. pain due to financial penalties due to non-compliance with regulations, resource allocation inefficiencies, due diligence costs on sustainability practices, increased workload due to map questionnaires into reports, etc.
It is great to discover eco-shaper, it has a lot of potential to bring value for sustainability.
The eco-shaper team has full and credible capability including outstanding professional experts in software development knowledge and AI; in environmental sustainability matters, commercial, business development and financial knowledge, barrister specialists in intellectual property and commercial law, entrepreneurship, quality and regulatory matters, marketing and brand development, visual communications.