Features / CompareStage 05 of 5

Read every peer report without reading any of them

Somebody on your team spends two weeks a year opening competitor PDFs and copying what they found into a spreadsheet. Their reports are already public. The work is turning them into one table you can sort, cite and re-run next year.

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Snapshot04 Sep 2026frozen, and citable
DisclosedNot disclosedPartial
Parameter
YouLonereport
NorthwindRetail
HaldenLogistics
MeridianFoods
CalderIndustrial
Scope 1 emissions
Scope 3, category 11
Audit committee chair named
Living wage commitment
Third-party assurance
2 gaps against the peer setScope 3 category 11 and a living wage commitment are disclosed by most of your peers and not by you.
Peer disclosures Questions Snapshots Coverage
1Peer disclosures

A tick you can defend, because the page is attached to it

For each peer we hold the same parameters you track. Behind every one is the sentence they published, the document it came from and the page it is on, so a claim about a competitor can survive somebody asking where you got it.

You
Northwind Retail
Halden Materials
Meridian Group
Calder plc
Scope 1 emissionsmtCO₂e
Scope 2, market-basedmtCO₂e
Scope 3 categoriesof 15 reported
Net-zero targettarget year
Assuranceon GHG data
Behind this cell

Every cell opens the sentence they published, the document it is in and the page it is on. A dash is a finding too: it means we read their filings and they did not say.

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2Questions

Ask a peer’s reports a question, and keep the answer

The parameters cover what you compare every year. The other 40% of the work is a one-off question somebody asks in a meeting. Ask it against that company’s documents, get an answer with page references, and it stays on the record for whoever asks next.

?Which of these peers has third-party assurance covering Scope 3?Ask
The finding, first

Only one of your five peers has assurance that reaches Scope 3.

It only reads their documents No web browsing, no guessing. If the answer is not in a report they published, it says so, and that is recorded as the answer.

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3Snapshots

A comparison you can still defend in six months

Peer reports change. A comparison made in March is wrong by September unless it is dated. Every run is frozen and kept, so you can put a number in a board pack and point at the exact snapshot it came from.

What moved between the two
Halden Materials Scope 3, category 11 → Started disclosing a partial figure in the half-year update.
Meridian Group Third-party assurance → Moved from limited to reasonable assurance.
Calder plc Living wage commitment → No change. Still the only peer in the set without one.
Export CSV A snapshot is a fixed point in time. You can cite the March one in a board pack in June and it will still say what it said.
4Coverage

Their filings, read in full, kept current

You choose the peer set. Their public reporting is collected and re-read as it is published, so the comparison is against what they say now rather than what they said the last time somebody had a spare fortnight.

Parameters found, per peer of the 24 you track
Halden Materials22
Northwind Retail18
Calder plc15
Meridian Group9
Vantage Grid7

The short bars are not gaps in our reading. They are gaps in their reporting, and that is usually the more interesting finding.

Read in fullA 300-page sustainability report is read end to end, not just its summary section, so a parameter buried on page 214 still counts as found.
Re-read as they publishNew reports, CDP responses, proxy statements and factsheets are picked up on a schedule, so the comparison is against what they say now.
One claim, many citationsThe same statement repeated across four documents is one finding with four page references, not four findings.

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The rest of the cycle

Compare is one of five stages. These are the other four.

01 TrackKnow which rules reach you. 02 CollectGet the data in, once. 03 ReportTurn it into a filing. 04 ControlProve it stands up.

See how LoneReport works, end to end

A walkthrough of the full cycle, from the rules that apply to you through to a filed report. We’ll focus on the parts that matter most to your team.

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