One platform, industry packs
Built for every industry, without building a different product for each one.
Industry differences are real. Handling them by building a separate version for each sector is what turns a platform into twelve platforms held together by a shared logo.
An industry pack, not a separate product.
An industry pack covers the things that genuinely differ between sectors: the activity types that matter, the methods and emission factors appropriate to them, the information those methods need, and the disclosure topics that sector is expected to report against.
It sits on the same platform every other sector uses, so there is one product to improve and one path forward. An industry pack changes what Carbonex asks you for and how it calculates – it does not change what Carbonex is.
“Verified” here means the pack's methods and structures are checked against the relevant standard before release. It does not mean certified by an external body, and we will not use it to imply that.
An industry without a pack of its own is not turned away. The universal enterprise pack carries the core ESG structure with a configurable hierarchy, metrics, methods and reports, and it is what any sector starts from. A named pack raises the specificity; it is not the price of entry.
The three we are building first.
Banking & Financial Services (PCAF)
A bank’s emissions are overwhelmingly not its own. They sit in the loan book and the investment portfolio, and accounting for them means attributing a share of a borrower’s or investee’s emissions according to the PCAF methodology – which requires knowing the outstanding amount, the counterparty’s own emissions, and the quality of the data behind them.
This is the sector where telling a measured figure from an estimated one matters most. PCAF’s data quality scoring exists precisely because financed-emissions data ranges from directly reported to broadly estimated, and a total that hides that spread is not much use for a decision. Carbonex is being built to keep that distinction rather than average it away.
Real Estate & Facilities
A property portfolio is a large number of assets with wildly uneven data. Some buildings are metered in detail; others produce a quarterly bill and nothing else. Tenant-controlled space, landlord-controlled space and shared services split responsibility in ways that do not match the legal ownership structure.
The distinctive problem is coverage: knowing which parts of the portfolio are measured, which are estimated, and which are simply absent – and being able to report an intensity figure that is honest about that mix. Carbonex is being built to make portfolio-level completeness visible rather than implied.
Construction & Infrastructure
A contractor does not report by year so much as by project. The boundary is the site and the phase, the activity is cement, steel, asphalt, plant fuel and temporary power, and a large share of the work is carried out by subcontractors whose data arrives in whatever form they choose to send it.
The distinctive problem is that most of the carbon is embodied in materials rather than burned on site, so the figure depends on quantities and material methods more than on meters. Carbonex is being built to keep the project boundary and the annual one as separate, reconcilable views rather than forcing one into the other.
Industry packs that follow.
| Sector | The data problem it brings |
|---|---|
| Energy & Utilities | Generation mix, transmission losses, and a reporting boundary that shifts with the market structure |
| Retail & E-commerce | Very long, very shallow supplier tails and product-level footprints across large catalogues |
| Hospitality & Tourism | Per-property operational data, occupancy-dependent intensity, and franchised estates with mixed control |
| Healthcare & Pharma | Regulated waste streams, cold chain, and anaesthetic and process gases with high global-warming potential |
| Technology & Telecom | Network and data-centre energy, hardware lifecycle, and AI workload emissions |
| Manufacturing & Industrial | Process emissions, on-site generation, and product footprints that allocate shared plant activity across output |
| Transport & Mobility | Mode, distance, load and route across an enormous number of movements, most of them run by subcontracted carriers |
| Agriculture & Food | Land use, biogenic emissions, seasonality, and highly fragmented upstream supply |
| Public Sector & Education | Large mixed estates, public accountability requirements, and procurement-driven supply chains |
What one shared platform buys you.
Every improvement reaches every customer. There is one product, so a corrected method or a new capability is not a separate migration project for every customer.
Data stays comparable. Entities in different sectors are organised the same way, so a group that spans banking and real estate can consolidate without reconciling two products.
The platform can be examined once. One platform can be assured, security-reviewed and audited as one thing. Twelve variants cannot.
The honest cost. We will sometimes say no. Where a request would require the shared model to bend, we will explain why we are not doing it rather than quietly building a variant. Some organisations will find that inflexible. It is the same discipline that makes the rest of the platform trustworthy.