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Turn verified data into the thing you file

A report is one of two shapes, chosen when you create it. A disclosure is a numbered list of questions, each with its own owner, status and sign-off. A narrative is one continuous document several people write at once. Both are written in the same editor, and both draw on the same verified data underneath, so the number in a narrative and the number in a disclosure are the same number.

1Disclosure reports

Every question answered, with its evidence

A framework questionnaire is hundreds of questions, each needing a number, a source and somebody’s sign-off. This turns it into one list you can work through. Everything a single question needs sits on the question itself — click through the tabs.

One question
E1-6 — Disclose gross Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions in metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
Draft JLJessica Lee ·2 watchers·CSRD 2026

Everything below is attached to this one question, and travels with it.

01Answer

Write it, or start from a suggested response drafted out of data you have already verified.

Suggested response · drafted from your verified data
Total market-based Scope 2 emissions for the reporting year were 18,420 tCO2e, a reduction of 12% against the prior year, covering all consolidated entities in scope.
Using suggestion3 sources cited
02Sources

Attach a document and point at the exact page, range or paragraph. Not “it’s in the report somewhere”.

Utility invoices 2025.pdfUploaded 12 Feb
p. 3, 12-15
Group consolidation packFinance
Appendix A
Assurance memoExternal assurer
¶ 4.2
03Data points

Link the figure itself, with its parameter, unit and reporting year, so one number can serve every framework that asks for it.

Scope 2, market-based18,420
Scope 2, location-based21,860
Reporting year 2025 · tCO2e · used in 5 reports, 9 questions
04Guidance

What is expected here, written by our team, alongside what you filed last year. A separate check reads your draft and says what is still missing.

State both market-based and location-based figures. If a market-based figure is unavailable for any entity, say so explicitly rather than omitting it.
Last year’s response19,140 tCO2e
05Comments

The argument about the answer, kept with the answer instead of in an inbox.

GGGreta Can we cite the assurance memo here rather than the invoices?
JSJosh Both. The assurer asked for the underlying invoices last year.
06History

Every change to value, source, status and owner, with who made it and when.

MKValue updated from 19,140 to 18,42004 Sep
JLAssurance memo attached as source03 Sep
JSStatus changed to Draft01 Sep

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A report is done when someone says it is

Every question carries a status, and review is a mode rather than a spreadsheet column. Filter the list to what needs attention, set the status, and auto-advance moves you to the next one without going back to the list.

Not startedNobody has opened it yet.
DraftWritten, not finished.
CompletedReady for someone to review.
ApprovedSigned off. It can be filed.

Removed Out of scope this cycle. It leaves the count but stays on the record.

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1.2.2
1.2.3
Auto-advance
Review mode Previous, next and auto-advance along the whole questionnaire, filtered to To-do, Review or Approved.
JL Owner Answers it
GGMK Watchers Hear when it moves
Assign and watch One owner per question, plus watchers who hear when it moves without owning it.
CSRD 2026 E1-6 Why it is asked
Question context The regulation the question comes from, why it is being asked, and guidance on how to answer it.
Asked now · CSA

Does your company report Scope 2 emissions?

Answered in CDP 2025

Please report Scope 2 emissions in tonnes.

Compare questions See how a near-identical question was answered elsewhere before writing a new one.
2Narrative reports

A document where every number knows where it came from

Written together, in the platform, with live cursors and comments. The difference is underneath: any sentence can be linked to the data point behind it, and that link holds when the figure changes.

E1 Climate change — narrative v4 · autosaved JLMKGGJS
Gross Scope 2 emissions
Total market-based Scope 2 emissions for the reporting year were 18,420 tCO2e, a reduction of 12% against the prior year. Coverage includes all consolidated entities within the reporting boundary.
Reductions were driven primarily by renewable electricity procurement across the German sites, alongside efficiency measures completed during the reporting period.
Location-based emissions for the same boundary were 21,860 tCO2e. The difference reflects contractual instruments retired during the year.
Marta
Josh
Greta
Jessica
Linked data point
18,420 tCO2e
Scope 2, market-based · 2025
JLUtility invoices 2025, p. 12-15 Approved
GG GretaName the sites, the assurer asked last year.

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Linking numbers to where they came from

Highlight a figure and link it to the data point behind it. Total market-based Scope 2 emissions were 18,420 tCO2e1, and location-based were 21,860 tCO2e2. Both are links, not typed numbers.

The annotation carries the parameter, the reporting year, the source and the page reference, and keeps its own activity trail. When the underlying figure changes, the narrative knows. And a data point has to be approved before it can be linked at all, so an unverified number cannot quietly end up in a filing.

Working together, and remembering it

Sustainability writes, legal comments, comms tidies. Everyone is in the same file at the same time, so nothing is emailed and nothing diverges. Comment on any passage, resolve it, mention the person who owns a figure by name.

Every edit is kept. Take a snapshot before a review round, compare two versions to see exactly what moved, and restore if a change turns out to be wrong. Import last year's disclosure from Word rather than retyping it, and the old document becomes version one of the new one.

Everything the paragraph needs, beside the paragraph

Eight panels open against the text you are writing. Each one answers a question you would otherwise leave the document to answer, and each one is about the paragraph your cursor is in. Seven of them are here. The eighth, guidance, gets its own section below.

Comments2 open
GGGretaName the sites, the assurer asked last year.
JSJoshAdded them to the second sentence.
JLJessicaThen this one can be resolved.
MKMartaReworded it and restated the figure, see v4.
ResolvedState the consolidation approach used.
MKReply, or @mention…→
Threads live on the passage, resolve with it, and stay on the record.
Data points2 linked Linked, not typed. A figure moves and the sentence moves with it.
Scope 2, market-based18,420
Scope 2, location-based21,860
Scope 3, category 11blocked
This figure is used in8 reports · 29 questions
References
Utility invoices 2025.pdfp. 12-15
Group consolidation packApp. A
Assurance memo.docx¶ 4.2
Everything this document cites, in one list, with the page still on it.
Sources
renewable electricity German sites
3 passages matched across 14 documents
Search and attach without leaving the page.
History
v4
versions kept
Report
58%
of CSRD 2026 approved
Documents14 The files the numbers came out of, filed against a reporting year.
Utility invoices 2025.pdfFinance · 12 Feb
Assurance memo.docxExternal assurer · 03 Sep
Group consolidation pack.xlsxFinance · 18 Feb
2025 filing.docxImported · 21 Aug

Told what is missing while you write it

Guidance sits beside the draft with a severity, so you can tell a must-fix from a nice-to-have.

Every item ends in a decision. Resolve it, or dismiss it with the reason on the record.

And it reads what you actually wrote. Edit the paragraph, run it again, and the list changes. A generic checklist could not tell you a location-based figure is missing from this section.

3Ask LoneReport

Watch where the answer comes from

Every sentence it writes is built from data you already verified, and it shows you which. Nothing here is a claim about AI. It runs on its own below, and you can run it again.

CSRD 2026 · E1-6
Disclose gross Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions in metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent, market-based and location-based.
No answer yet
Found in your Data Library
18,420 tCO2eScope 2, market-based 21,860 tCO2eScope 2, location-based 12%Year-on-year change
Every sentence traced
Utility invoices 2025Verified 12 Feb · Finance
p. 12-15
Group consolidation packVerified 18 Feb · Finance
Appendix A
Assurance memoExternal assurer
¶ 4.2
It only reads your own verified data. It cannot invent a number.

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Never the open internetThe Data Library is the only thing it reads. If the figure is not verified, it is not available to draft with.
Gaps, not guessesWhere nothing is verified, it says so and points at the missing data rather than filling the hole.
Question or whole reportWorks on one answer, across an entire questionnaire, or inside a narrative.
4Response Tracker

One board instead of a status meeting

Every open question across every framework, in one place, by what state it is in. Filter to a person and you have that person’s Monday morning. These filters work.

Owner

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5A report, start to finish

Six steps, and then next year starts from this one

The parts nobody demos. Scroll and it walks itself, or jump to any step.

Requested

Someone asks for a report against a specific regulation, with a due date and notes. Requests already made are visible, so two people cannot ask for the same thing twice.

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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