FAQs

Report Adviser is a huge comprehensive knowledge platform, online environment, and a tool kit for sustainability reporting that was created by a team of sustainability professionals. The aim of Report Adviser is to assist you in creating professional, standard-meeting reports, saving you both time and resources.

The database boasts over 30,000 specific examples of sustainability indicator disclosures that were carefully selected and uploaded by a team of dedicated people who have been in the field of sustainability for over ten years. Our team have painstakingly done the work for you and thus have taken the hassle out of reporting due to the depth and intuitiveness of the platform.

Report Adviser is a one stop shop for all your sustainability reporting needs, comprising 12 hubs, in order to make your experience of sustainability reporting easier, faster while creating professional, high quality reports. Furthermore, here at Report Adviser, we strongly believe in the values and goals of a more sustainable world and through our platform we try to promote this through our daily talks and communication with our partners.

There are several groups of professionals who would find Report Adviser an extremely beneficial tool in the area of sustainability reporting. Firstly, Sustainability report writers would use Report Adviser as it is an extremely useful platform to find best in class, peer examples on how to disclose particular disclosures.

TMoreover, we guide, support and assist on what can be a daunting task for first time report writers. We provide useful tips and advice on several reporting frameworks. In turn, report writers are taught how to collect better content, gain knowledge on how to structure the report, gain a better understanding of how particular disclosures are reported and feel more confident in presenting, designing and communicating the report with stakeholders. Secondly, Report Adviser would be extremely beneficial for managers of the reporting process. The platform allows them to explain the various steps of report compiling such as drafting and collecting data while show best in-class examples of particular disclosures for frameworks. Moreover, it shows in one click the way in which these examples can be used and studied for peer analysis. Another group of professionals who would gain immeasurably by using Report Adviser are analysts who can use the platform for benchmarking, focus on investigation of disclosures and analysis of reports. Additionally, Report Adviser can bring benefits for people who are keen to do open research in the field of sustainability, looking at numerous examples from a wide range of reporting frameworks such as GRI, SASB, SDG, TCFD, etc.

Finally, Report Adviser can be a great, fruitful tool for people who work internally in a company and externally who can use the platform for consultancy support and provide a better service to their clients.

Report Adviser was set up with the idea of guiding, supporting and assisting professionals who work in the field of sustainability reporting. We know how important and challenging this area of reporting is and we aim to unite people with a similar passion and who share our values of and interest in this area of sustainability.

We admire the work people do in the area of sustainability, and thus, wanted to create an intuitive platform to guide and support them. We identified the issue of sustainability reporting and created a digitalized solution for long-lasting routine and boring actions in order to leave you, the user, with an easy and more pleasant task of approaching report writing. As we take care of searching information, selecting and highlighting best approaches, creating a faster outlook of tendencies in sustainability while having extremely easy navigation tools on the platform, you can be assured that we strongly believe we have the best solution to tackle all key challenges of sustainability reporting.

Important to note, that Report Adviser has a human touch behind everything we do. Report Adviser is constantly being developed by our team who, every day interact with our companies and our partners related to sustainability reporting which in turn makes us highly qualified and experienced leading to guaranteed quality in our product.

Report Adviser is comprised of a team of 10 professionals who have been in the sphere of sustainability and promoting its values for over a decade. We are a young, passionate team who will support and guide you on your journey of sustainability reporting.

Firstly, there are our wonderful analysts who carefully select best in-class disclosures and upload them to our ever-growing database.

Then there are our vastly experienced consultants who know the process of data collection and report writing both from an internal point of view in terms of writing and managing the process, to externally, where they have consulted numerous companies on how best to approach sustainability reporting, offering advice, support and guidance.

Last but not least we have our team of IT and Marketing professionals who daily support our partners and clients and make their lives more convenient. Our friendly team is always here ready to support you on your journey through Report Adviser in order to give you the best experience possible.

Here at Report Adviser we are dedicated to highlighting and sharing our goals and vision of promoting sustainability. Thus, we are making our contribution towards the topic.

Our comfortable subscription-based model allows us to keep on doing the work we love, while giving you comfort, speed, hassle free access and also giving you the flexibility of our service. We focus on giving you the user the best experience in terms of sustainability reporting making the process extremely convenient. Moreover, we are proud to be able to share our vast knowledge in terms of the best digital solution. We search, find, collect, combine and deal with only market leading examples from several frameworks. This is painstakingly done by our dedicated team, with a human approach. In other words, after one click of the mouse you are presented with access to our huge knowledge database.

The annual cost to subscribe to Report Adviser is £2,999. This is the price for one license. Included in this fee are the following; Full access to all materials on the web platform, advice and guidance by our team of professionals, free report templates and online technical support.

There is a fifty percent discount for small companies with fewer than 500 employees. The price would be £1,500. Here at Report Adviser, we are keen to establish fruitful communication with scholars, business schools, NGOs and academics and thus provide special grants in order to share our values and goals and promote sustainability.

Report Adviser offers annual subscription with a one off payment. Once payment is made you will receive one license granting you full access to all tools on the Report Adviser platform. Extra licenses may be bought within a company. As far as we are providing full demo access to use the platform in terms, cancellation or refunds are not applicable after payment.

No. Report Adviser offers one license per purchase. Additional licenses may be bought separately. We do not mind, however, if a colleague extracts data and resources from the platform for his or her colleague.

Report Adviser takes its social responsibility extremely seriously and as a result, during the Covid-19 pandemic has taken the decision to grant full access to the platform free of charge. We comprehend the challenges being faced by companies throughout the past 12 months and thus would like to share our platform with like-minded professionals. After the end of the Covid-19 period, you may request access to our broad package of demo materials at support@reportadviser.com

Report Adviser is available to be used for free during the Covid 19 period. All you need to do is register at this page and full access will be granted to our intuitive, unique database of best in-class cases on reporting. You may request a trial at support@reportadviser.com

Yes, Report Adviser offers a basic demo video. You will find it by following the link About. Additionally, access to a wide range of our detailed, explanatory tutorials on how to use each hub can be located in our Help desk section on the platform once you have registered and logged in. We are constantly updating our platform and promotional materials and in order to receive the latest updates and please send your request to support@reportadviser.com

No. Report Adviser does not automatically generate or create reports. What it does do however, is to guide, support and assist sustainability report writers to create highly professional, competent and standard-meeting reports by yourself.

Report Adviser provides several kinds of hubs on its platform which have been built around vast experience and a deep understanding of sustainability reporting. The first group of hubs deal with examples of disclosures on the leading, internationally recognized standards, such as GRI, SASB, TCFD and the SDG reporting practice.

Secondly and supporting these hubs, we have our sectorial material topics hub. This is where you can access material topics for 55 sectors and find benchmarking examples. Within these, we have placed elements which are not covered by standard requirements, however are still widely used in reporting.

Moreover, we have what we call our reference hubs where you can cross-reference for example ISO and GRI standards, alongside the NFR reporting hub and the SDG reference hub where you can find examples of the SDG reference table. By using these features, you may easily navigate through difficult reporting systems.

Furthermore, users can take advantage of our hubs dedicated to specific elements of reporting such as the Covid-19 hub.

Additionally, we have our NFR study hub where first time report writers can study and gain a better insight into all of the various elements one needs to take into account while creating a professional, standard meeting report.

Last but not least, we have just launched our internal search engine hub, where like in Google, you can quickly locate specific content oriented requests from a growing database of 10,000+ reports.

Yes. While Report Adviser does not have a specific hub which contains reports on specific aspects, it does have hubs dedicated to GRI, SASB, TCFD and other frameworks where you can locate disclosures for the aforementioned, specific issues.

Inside these hubs, you can see various topics included, such as human rights, child labour to name just 2. You will be presented with best in-class cases where companies have reported and disclosed data. Moreover, you will be given tips and advice on how best to report on such areas. The platform offers a user-friendly experience to find, read and then disclose the standards in your very own reports.

The Report Adviser team is made up of passionate, friendly professionals who will guide and support you on your journey through our intuitive platform. You can be assured that we will assist you on any issue you may have technical and non-technical. Please ask for support at support@reportadviser.com

Here at Report Adviser we do not provide traditional, consultancy support within our web-platform team. However, we will assist you on how best to use our platform and take the hassle out of sustainability reporting. Report Adviser has created a large platform of networks in the field of sustainability reporting through years of mutual support and benefits, subsequently, we can put you in contact with people in your country who may be able to assist you.

Our team of dedicated professionals will support you as soon as we receive your query and will do our utmost to support and guide you through any potential issues you may have. You may receive support by writing to us at support@reportadviser.com

Yes. Report Adviser is proud to offer free support, 24/7/365. Once you have access, you can rest assured that our team are with you on every step of your sustainability reporting journey. You may receive support by writing to us at support@reportadviser.com

Definitely. Report Adviser has several concise brochures on who we are, what is Report Adviser, what we offer and potential partnerships we seek with like-minded people. You may receive support by writing to us at support@reportadviser.com

No. Report Adviser dedicates itself to what it excels at. In other words, we have created a comprehensive platform, highlighting thousands of best in-class, precise examples of disclosures. Moreover, we are dedicated to guiding, advising and supporting sustainability report writers on the journey of creating professional, competent and standard-meeting reports.

However, if you have some specific request for support, you may contact us at support@reportadviser.com and we will endeavour to assist you.

We welcome the work people like you do in the area of sustainability reporting and thus, are ready to hear feedback. We are always keen to hear ideas on how to upgrade our Report Adviser platform. Please send your suggestions to support@reportadviser.com and we will definitely get back to you.

Together we can grow and make the world an even better place.

Report Adviser is always grateful to people together with us who are aiming to make the world a fairer, better place to live. If you need any assistance on doing this, please send us a short message, and we will send you our promotional material with which you can share.

Alternatively, you may send us their contact information and we will get in touch with them.

The simple response is that Report Adviser wants to make the world a better and fairer place to live in, while at the same time, helping sustainability report writers to create professional, standard-meeting reports.

We have developed an intuitive, professional and unique knowledge platform, online environment, and a tool kit for sustainability reporting. There is nothing else out there on the market with similar features and moreover it has been created by a team of passionate and professional people who share the values of sustainability. Everything behind our vast database has been carefully done by hand by our dedicated team over thousands of hours. We take the hassle out of reporting due to the intuitiveness of the platform. Report Adviser is a one-stop shop for all your sustainability reporting needs. Within the platform you will find over 3000 thousand specific examples of sustainability indicator disclosures from more than 250 reports. We truly believe that with the help of Report Adviser, you will create quality reports, saving you both time and resources.

Our aim is to unite people with a similar dedication, promoting sustainability values and guiding writers on their journey of report writing. All in all, the true attraction of the platform is that besides the values we promote there are several cool hubs and features to guide and assist you on your sustainability journey. Undoubtedly, you will be amazed by the added value received by using Report Adviser.

The GRI Hub is a one-stop, vast database of GRI example disclosures, including recommendations and guidance. It can be used in both the reporting process and in the development of ‘reporting and company stakeholder engagement’ systems. In other words, at the click of a button, you get access to over 30,000 examples on any possible disclosure. What is more important, is that fact that all examples were specifically extracted and uploaded into the hub by our team of dedicated sustainability experts. The benefits of this hub are that it is convenient to use, comprehensive and has been structured for your convenience according to country and/or sector.

For your convenience this Hub was created with a table showing how the GRI Standard Disclosures relate to the ISO 26000 clauses.

The left columns of this table list the GRI Standard Disclosures, and the right columns list the clauses in ISO 26000: 2010 that cover similar contents. Inside you may find a digitalized, official reference table from both ISO and GRI. We believe this is extremely useful as there is clear cross-referencing of GRI with ISO 26000 clauses. Moreover, the hub is concise and useful for sustainable report writers to see where and familiarize themselves with potential overlaps.

To bring you a user-friendly experience, the Hub contains a digitalized reference table which shows how the GRI Standard Disclosures relate to SDG goals. By clicking on each goal you will see that on the right columns of this table list the GRI Standard Disclosures are shown, and the left columns a list of cross-referenced SDG goals.

We believe the benefit of the hub is the fact that there is clear referencing of SDGs standards to GRI standards. Moreover, the hub is concise and useful for sustainable report writers to see where and familiarize themselves with potential overlaps in the 2 frameworks. So, in one click, like in other reference hubs, you access a huge knowledge base of GRI disclosures to fulfill expectations on each SDG goal or sub-target.

The EU NFR hub is a comprehensive overview of the Directive giving an overview of the EU NFR Directive Reporting Guide, breaking down each of its requirements, and offers additional information sourced from the GRI database.

Moreover, the hub offers specific answers and sound advice for disclosure approaches in report preparation, by using a broad GRI experience.

After navigating it, users feel fully informed and know exactly how to report. It also assists users in better-understanding the regulatory environment for NFR in the EU.

Moreover, it helps them to cross-check and compare requirements against GRI indicators.

The Sectoral Material Topics hub is a database of pre-selected sustainability topics that consists of specific material for each individual business sector.

Inside you can find disclosures of material topics as a logical supplement to the EU Directive and GRI requirements.

The benefits of this hubs are that reports are conveniently arranged by country, sector, and stakeholder.

It also offers users additional, relevant data and examples to aid them in producing a high-quality report.

The Typical Reporting Elements Hub is a set of the most standard, popular elements that can be found in almost every modern report. Their implementation in a report is recommended and expected.

The benefits of the hub are that there is an assessment of reporting by leading companies to improve the professionalism, quality and look of the report. We only use the best recognized examples from market leading reports.

The NFR Study hub is a roadmap on how to begin your sustainability reporting, with an overview of the reporting frameworks and standards available, the process and resources involved, and useful links to other tools that can simplify the reporting process. Divided into general information and then how to present.

The advantages of the NFR Study Hub are that there is clear guidance, especially for first time writers and a breakdown on how to approach sustainability reporting, easily structured with 6 steps. The preparation stage, collecting and analyzing data stage, writing the report, finalizing it, designing it and then finally how to publish and then inform stakeholders. A useful checklist to be borne in mind, from start to finish in order to create high-quality, standard meeting reports.

The Covid-19 database consists of best cases and examples for Covid-19 reporting. There is analysis and disclosure of the impact of the pandemic on various areas and activities of the company.

The pluses are that there are useful, up-to-date findings about the pandemic and its impact. Included are best in case examples, easy to navigate and conveniently arranged. A useful addition on how best to disclose this feature to reports.

The TCFD is a new collection of TCFD disclosure examples. We are constantly updating the digitalized database of such examples carefully selected by our team. This is painstakingly done in order to give you the best possible experience when creating your very own report.

The gains are that it is easy to navigate based on year, sector and country containing the best in-house examples.

There is additional material for learners to discover a propose TCFD.

The SASB Reporting Practice Hub complements all reporting frameworks. There is a growing database of best SASB Reporting practices, carefully read, selected and extracted.

As a result of the work our team has done, it is less time consuming looking for best cases to follow. The search is easy, user friendly as it is conveniently structured and provides extra support for people to learn about SASB guidelines and how to incorporate them into your own reports.

The SDG Reporting Practice Hub is a database of best cases and models for SDG reporting. It is a user-friendly collection of reports, based on SDG goals, which saves you time as you avoid the feeling of being bogged down looking for best examples to use as a template for SDG. Important to note that all examples have been carefully extracted by our team of sustainability reporting experts, taking thousands of hours in order to accurately demonstrate how to report on SDG goals in your own reports.

Here at Report Adviser, we are looking to primarily work with two distinct groups of professionals. Firstly, we seek to guide and support sustainability report writers. Our platform is designed to take the hassle out of writing reports (especially, but not only) for first time report writers.

People who use our platform can be assured that we will assist them on their journey of creating high quality, competent reports ensuring they meet all relevant standards. Secondly, we are always keen to cooperate with networks and organisations who have a network of people in the field of sustainability and are willing to grant us access to their lists of names. In return, we offer a generous referral bonus package.

We are always looking to form fruitful collaboration with companies, organisations, NGOs, magazines and individuals who we can mutually benefit in our desire to share similar visions and goals in promoting sustainability to create a better world. Please contact us at support@reportadviser.com

Report Adviser seeks partnerships on a commercial basis in order to develop our brand awareness and thus, attract new clients to our platform. We are a serious partner and are happy to pay companies, networking organisations that can help us reach out to a larger audience. For more information, please drop us a line at support@reportadviser.com

Report Adviser expects you to promote our platform when applicable. In return, we are ready to discuss your potential needs in order to fulfil your expectations. Together we can create fruitful collaboration. To discuss this, email us at support@reportadviser.com

We offer a widely-promoted and regularly updated Report Adviser web-platform, a strong knowledge base, back office support, and a network of professionals. For more details, message us at support@reportadviser.com

We expect you to join the RA network of country-based professionals who share our values and vision of sustainability and the work we do. And in turn, we ask that you become an RA strategic partner in your country/region and to actively promote our services within your network and in your daily activities. Upon your desire, it is possible to provide some users of Report Adviser with direct, additional consultancy support. To gain a better insight, please email us at support@reportadviser.com

Having reached an agreement for commercial scheme partnership, we can provide long-term, fruitful collaboration, bringing added value to the work you do. Moreover, we offer a very competitive bonus referral package which we feel is highly attractive to engage like-minded people who share our values and vision.

Additionally, we are always ready to offer support, guidance and help on any questions you may have while attracting new participants to the Report Adviser platform. The idea is that we hand in hand guide, advise and train you in order for you to feel more confident. To express interest in working with our dedicated, friendly team, please write to us at support@reportadviser.com

Currently, Report Adviser is available in English in terms of using and navigating our skin. However, there are plans to launch the platform in other languages, in the future. In the meantime, while you need to use English for browsing the platform, once you have identified the disclosure you need, you may download the report in its original language.

Yes. One of our new features on Report Adviser is that we offer you the user the chance to download the report in both English and its original language. There is something extremely useful as it gives you chance to cross-reference reports in 2 languages and support you from a linguistic concept, moreover, it enables you to find relevant examples in your local language.

Here at Report Adviser, we are constantly improving both the platform and service provided, to bring you the best possible experience on your journey through sustainability reporting. Over the last 6 months, Report Adviser has launched 5 new Hubs. The Covid-19 Hub, the TCFD Reporting Practice Hub, the SASB Reporting Practice Hub, the SDG Reporting Practice Hub.

In addition to this, we are proud to launch our user friendly, ESG Data Search Hub on the platform. This intuitive addition will assist you to save even more time by allowing you to search numerous reports for keywords with instant results shown. So, for example you can enter «child labour» and the engine will generate the extracts from all report disclosures in the platform containing your desired search. It is an extremely useful tool for open topic research, enabling you to read, search and extract only the necessary element.

Here at Report Adviser, we are constantly improving both the platform and service provided, to bring you the best possible experience on your journey through sustainability reporting. As a result, in 2021, our team of dedicated professionals have been enlarging our database, by hand, with a special focus on TCFD, SASB, while also increasing the capacity of the ESG Data Search Hub.

Another new feature, recently launched to our growing platform, is the ability for users to download ready-made tables for disclosing GRI indicators. This function is available in the GRI HUB. This new function will save you time on preparing tables, moreover, there will be advice on what is both required and recommended and this can act as a checklist when you are compiling your own report. Moreover, there is no need to come up with how the table should look in order to make it understandable, everything is done for you. Finally, we will be launching a collection of ESG Databooks which will be structured within its very own hub this year. As well as paying special attention to the area of human rights. We are always keen to hear your feedback and welcome your ideas at support@reportadviser.com

Report Adviser is designed to make it completely unique from all other platforms which focus on sustainability reporting. The main areas of difference and uniqueness centre around three key issues. Speed, quality of cases and hand-made, best in house cases included. If we talk about speed, we know that our intuitive platform provides users with an extremely quick search for specific examples of disclosures based on your search. You can search for reports based on particular disclosures from several reporting frameworks (GRI, SASB, SDG, TCFD etc.).

Also, searches can be carried out speedily based on sector, country or year. All of the cases selected are award winning, best in class disclosures which can be used as a template for you when you create your own sustainability report. What’s even more important is that all examples have been selected by hand by our dedicated team of passionate professionals who have painstakingly searched, read and taking thousands of hours to assist, guide and support you in creating your own market leading, professional, quality reports.

Report Adviser is extremely proud of the work that has gone it to each of its 12 hubs. If we talk about the GRI hub, TCFD, SDG or SASB hubs, we can say that they we believe there is nothing else on the market which gives you instant access to best in-class cases for all aspects of these frameworks. These can be quickly selected based on your search criteria.

The Typical Reporting Elements Hub is unique as it sets out a set of the most standard, popular elements that can be found in almost every modern report. This has been carefully done by our team of specialists. The Sectoral Material Topics Hub is one of a kind as it boasts best examples separated according to not framework but sector. The EU NFR hub is a comprehensive overview of the directive with additional material for you to peruse and incorporate in your reports. The NFR Study hub is a unique tool in that it allows sustainability report writers, especially first time writers to carefully study how best to approach reporting and to ensure they have included all key elements to the report. It is an informative guide to what we think are the 6 steps to sustainability reporting. It has been written by a team of dedicated professionals with you the user in mind. Covid-19 is an unfortunate aspect of life nowadays and as a result the hub has been created to guide sustainability report writers on how best to include this disclosure.

Additionally, we are proud to launch our unique, user friendly, ESG Data Search Hub on the platform. This intuitive addition will assist you to save even more time by allowing you to search numerous reports for keywords with instant results shown. So, for example you can enter «child labour» and the engine will generate the extracts from all report disclosures in the platform containing your desired search. It is an extremely useful tool for open topic research, enabling you to read, search and extract only the necessary element. Furthermore, RA has just launched a unique, new feature which provides users the ability to download ready-made tables for disclosing GRI indicators. This function is available in the GRI HUB. Finally, we will be launching a collection of ESG Databooks which will be structured within its very own hub this year.

Yes. Report Adviser is a unique platform unlike any other as it has been painstakingly created thanks to our team of sustainability report writing professionals who have dedicated thousands of hours, searching, reading and extracting only the best in class examples from a wide array of frameworks. Additionally, it is the largest database of very specific disclosures that at a click, you are presented award winning cases that can be used by sustainability report writers for guidance and reference in order to help to create your own high quality, standard-meeting reports.

The platform boasts 30,000 examples structured around material topic disclosures from more than 200 reports from sustainability leading companies. Not to mention that we offer 12 specialized hubs. which have been built from the team’s vast real-life experience and a deep understanding of sustainability reporting.

The first group of hubs deal with examples of disclosures on the leading, internationally recognized standards, such as GRI, SASB, TCFD and the SDG reporting practice.

Secondly and supporting these hubs, we have our sectorial material topics hub. This is where you can access material topics for 55 sectors and find benchmarking examples. Besides this, in the Typical Reporting Elements hub, we have placed elements which are not covered by standard requirements, however are still widely used in reporting.

Moreover, we have what we call our ‘bridge’ hubs where you can cross-reference for example ISO, Non-Financial Reporting Directive, SDGs to GRI standards. In other words, by using these features, you may easily jump and navigate through difficult reporting systems gaining both experience and knowledge.

Furthermore, users can take advantage of our hubs dedicated to specific elements of reporting such as the Covid-19 hub.

Additionally, we have our NFR study hub where first time report writers can study and gain a better insight into all of the various elements one needs to take into account while creating a professional, standard meeting report.

Last but not least, we have just launched our internal search engine hub, where like in Google, you can quickly locate specific content oriented requests from a growing database of 10,000+ reports.

Yes. There are 30,000 specific examples of sustainability indicator disclosures covering 56 industries in 22 countries (including 12 EU countries) within RA. This huge and unique amount of specific, best in class examples have been carefully selected, extracted and structured by hand, by our team of dedicated sustainability professionals to bring you the best possible experience on your journey to creating high quality, professional sustainability reports.