r/ESGIndia

I've been working alongside a few people who prepare BRSR reports, and the same thing kept coming up: the hardest part of a BRSR engagement isn't the analysis, it's the grind. A blank 108-field format, data scattered across five different teams, and no quick read on what a client already covers in their existing filings vs what you have to collect fresh.

So I built a free tool for it: https://saaksh.co

You fill in a short intake (industry, size, filing status, existing compliance) and it generates a gap-analysed action plan across all 108 BRSR fields, what's "ready to pull" from existing filings, what needs verification, and what to collect fresh, each cited to the SEBI BRSR format and the ICAI material. It also has:

- Scope 1 & 2 / energy / water / Scope 3 calculators (CEA, IPCC, DEFRA factors, all cited)

- BRSR ↔ GRI / TCFD / IFRS S1-S2 / TNFD mapping you can export

- A CBAM / CCTS in-scope readiness check

- A downloadable, client-facing "who-owns-what" data request

Two things I deliberately did: it's **free**, and the free tool runs **100% in your browser** — nothing about your client is uploaded or stored anywhere (I'd rather earn trust than hoard data).

I'm not claiming it's perfect. What I actually want from this sub:

- If you file BRSR, is the gap analysis accurate for the kind of clients you work with?

- What's the single most painful part of your BRSR workflow that a tool could take off your plate?

Happy to answer anything about how it works, the data sources, or BRSR/CBAM/CCTS in general. Not trying to sell anything here, the readiness tool is free and I'd genuinely value the feedback.

I recently started my career in sustainability reporting, and one thing I didn't expect was that collecting the data would be far more challenging than the reporting itself.

A large part of my role involves reaching out to different departments to request data, and I often find myself following up multiple times just to get a response. I worry that the repeated reminders and emails become frustrating for colleagues, yet deadlines keep approaching and the data is still missing.

Even when the information arrives, it is often different from what was requested. I might ask for monthly figures and receive annual totals instead, or request a detailed breakdown and receive aggregated numbers that cannot be used for reporting purposes. Sometimes different teams interpret the same request in completely different ways, which creates even more work and delays.

What has surprised me most is that sustainability reporting seems to be as much about communication, relationship management, and data governance as it is about sustainability itself.

As someone at the beginning of their career, and as part of Gen Z working with colleagues from older generations, I sometimes wonder whether others have gone through the same experience and how they managed to improve collaboration, response times, and data quality over time.

I'd love to hear how others in sustainability or ESG roles have navigated this challenge.

I built a free BRSR gap-analysis tool for Indian ESG consultants, no login, runs entirely in your browser. Looking for feedback.

I’m Gen Z in sustainability, and getting the data is harder than the analysis