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.
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.
Everything below is attached to this one question, and travels with it.
Write it, or start from a suggested response drafted out of data you have already verified.
Attach a document and point at the exact page, range or paragraph. Not “it’s in the report somewhere”.
Link the figure itself, with its parameter, unit and reporting year, so one number can serve every framework that asks for it.
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.
The argument about the answer, kept with the answer instead of in an inbox.
Every change to value, source, status and owner, with who made it and when.
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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.
Removed Out of scope this cycle. It leaves the count but stays on the record.
Does your company report Scope 2 emissions?
Please report Scope 2 emissions in tonnes.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
The rest of the cycle
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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