STRATAESG

Solutions, SMEs and suppliers

Your client's questionnaire, without claiming anything you cannot prove.

What your client can demand, what you can refuse, and an answer returned in their own file.

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In short

How does an SME answer a client's sustainability questionnaire?

In three steps. First it checks what the client can demand: the Omnibus directive caps what can be required from a partner with fewer than one thousand employees at the content of the voluntary standard, for financial years starting from 2027. Then it answers in the file it received, filled in its original cells, with an annex proving every answer. Finally it sends only the extract needed, which carries the fingerprint of its source document.

The scene

An email from your largest client's procurement team. Sustainability questionnaire attached, one hundred and eighty lines, in house format, fifteen days to answer, and a sentence about supplier listing.
SME under pressure from its value chain

What we answerYou do not have to give everything. And what you do give, you must be able to prove.

Built for suppliers

Five moves, from the email received to the answer sent.

Each one links to the page of the site that details it.

  1. Know what your client can demand

    Eight questions review six regulatory regimes, each with its text and its date of entry into force. You come away with the exact limit that applies to you, the sourced sentence to put to your client, and the list of what remains owed.

    See: Your right, before your obligation

    Your right, before your obligation

    1. The exact limit that applies to youEight questions, six regulatory regimes reviewed, each with its text and its date of entry into force.
    2. The sentence you can put to themWritten, sourced, ready to paste into your answer. This is not a refusal on principle, it is a professional reply.
    3. What you still have to produceThe list of what remains owed, named, with who holds it inside your company and where to look for it.

  2. Your client's own file, filled in

    You upload the questionnaire you received. It comes back in its original format, in its original cells, formulas and formatting preserved, with an annex proving every answer. The following year, only the values that need updating are asked for again.

    See: The deliverables

    The deliverables

    1. Your client's own file, filled in
    2. Bounded access, not an attachment
    3. An extract, not the whole invoice
    4. A sealed file, with its verification code

  3. An extract, not the whole invoice

    You prove a figure without sending the full document. The extract carries the fingerprint of the source document: the recipient checks that it really comes from there, without seeing the rest.

    See: The chain of evidence
    The evidence chain, both waysThree linked steps, on an anonymised demonstration file: the electricity invoice grounds the ENERGY_TOTAL datapoint, which serves the ESRS E1-5, VSME B3 and GRI 302-1 disclosures. The path can be walked back from the disclosure to the uploaded document.EvidenceElectricity invoiceDatapointENERGY_TOTALDisclosureESRS E1-5VSME B3GRI 302-1what depends on itwhat grounds it

  4. Measure your carbon footprint

    Every result traces back to an official emission factor from the French national database, sourced, dated, with its uncertainty. That is what makes a footprint auditable rather than approximate. Results feed the climate section of the cockpit with no re entry.

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    STRATA Scope

    Carbon footprint across Scopes 1, 2 and 3, on the official ADEME Base Empreinte.

    €59per month

    • Complete, auditable Scopes 1 and 2
    • Guided entry and file import
    • BEGES regulatory exports
    • Every figure traced to its factor

  5. See the deadlines coming

    Four deadlines already published, with what they carry. None of them is a projection of ours.

    See: The calendar
    Timeline of regulatory deadlines, June 2024 to June 2027June 2024: some public transition funding conditional on an up to date emissions report. 27 September 2026: environmental claims. 30 December 2026: imported deforestation, large and medium companies. 30 June 2027: imported deforestation, micro and small companies. The greenhouse gas emissions report is in force over the whole period.Emissions report: in force252627FundingJun 2024Checked on 14 August 2026Claims27 Sep 2026Deforestation30 Dec 2026micro and small30 Jun 2027

What it costs

One price per product, paid on the product.

The entry prices below are read from the published pricing; details and payment live on each product.

  • ESG Optimizer

    The CSRD and VSME cockpit. Your compliance analysed in under three minutes.

    €49per analysis, one off payment

    • First diagnostic offered on sign up, no card required
    • Full report across the 10 ESRS standards
    • Evidence vault and traceability
    • Year over year comparison
    • Unlimited Pro plan at €149 per month

  • STRATA Scope

    Carbon footprint across Scopes 1, 2 and 3, on the official ADEME Base Empreinte.

    €59per month

    • Complete, auditable Scopes 1 and 2
    • Guided entry and file import
    • BEGES regulatory exports
    • Every figure traced to its factor
    • Full Scope 3 at €99 per month
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What can be checked

None of the above should be taken on trust.

Three public, dated documents you can read before writing to us.

  • The calculation method

    Published in full, versioned and dated.

    Read the method

  • Retracted claims

    What we stopped claiming, with the date and the reason.

    Read the log

  • Your data

    What is collected, where it is stored, and for how long.

    Read the policy

Frequently asked questions

What we get asked most often.

  • What is the voluntary reporting standard, formerly VSME?

    It is the sustainability reporting standard for unlisted companies, adopted by delegated regulation of the European Commission on 3 July 2026, alongside the revision of the ESRS standards. It targets companies up to one thousand employees and four hundred and fifty million euros of turnover, that is to say precisely those the Omnibus reform took out of the scope of the sustainability reporting directive.

  • Can my client demand any sustainability data from me?

    Not everything. The value chain cap, set by the Omnibus directive, prevents a client from requiring a partner with fewer than one thousand employees to provide more than the content of the voluntary standard, adopted by delegated regulation on 3 July 2026. A two hundred line in house questionnaire is not enforceable as such; the cap has a legal basis. It takes effect for financial years starting from 2027. Until then, it is invoked in a commercial negotiation as an adopted standard and a known ceiling, not as a prohibition already enforceable before a court.

  • Does the Omnibus reform exempt me from all reporting?

    It probably takes you out of the legal obligation, not out of the commercial demand. The directive published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 26 February 2026 narrows the scope of the sustainability reporting directive from around fifty thousand to around five thousand companies. But the remaining five thousand are the most international ones, and they keep asking their suppliers for data. The pressure does not disappear, it standardises.

  • Does a STRATA ESG score replace an audit?

    No, and that limit is written on every deliverable. Our scores are indicative and do not replace an audit by a registered statutory auditor. What they provide is the file that audit can rely on: documents in their place, assurance levels field by field, and the state of the file at the closing date rather than today's.

The first diagnostic is offered, you judge on the evidence.

The first diagnostic is offered on sign up, no card required.

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