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.
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 and Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/1560 cap what a client within the scope of the sustainability reporting directive can require, for its own report, from a partner with no more than one thousand employees on average, at the datapoints of that regulation's Annex II, for financial years starting on or after 1 January 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.
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.
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 obligationYour right, before your obligation
- The exact limit that applies to youEight questions, six regulatory regimes reviewed, each with its text and its date of entry into force.
- 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.
- 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.
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 deliverablesThe deliverables
- Your client's own file, filled in
- Bounded access, not an attachment
- An extract, not the whole invoice
- A sealed file, with its verification code
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 evidenceMeasure your carbon footprint
Every line traces back to an official factor from the ADEME Base Empreinte, with its identifier, its vintage and its uncertainty, and carries a data quality grade. BEGES, CSRD ESRS E1 and Science Based Targets exports come out of it, and results feed the climate section of the cockpit with no re-entry.
See: STRATA Scope, opens in a new tabSTRATA Scope · Core
Complete, auditable Scopes 1 and 2, to start on solid ground.
€59per month, no commitment
- Scopes 1 and 2 on the ADEME Base Empreinte
- Step by step guided entry and CSV import
- Management dashboard and trajectory
- BEGES regulatory exports (article L. 229-25)
See the deadlines coming
Four deadlines already published, with what they carry. None of them is a projection of ours.
See: The calendar
What it costs
One price per product, paid on the product.
The prices below are read from the published pricing; details and payment live on each product.
ESG Optimizer
The CSRD and VSME cockpit: data entered once, with its document, comes out in every framework.
See the ESG Optimizer price listno card required
- Discovery
- Free
per analysis, one-off payment
- Essential
- €49
per month, no commitment
- Pro
- €149
one-off payment
- First Report
- €990
- Guided Report
- €2,490
Prices in euros, net of tax: VAT not applicable under Article 293 B of the French General Tax Code. The amount shown is the amount paid.
STRATA Scope
The Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon footprint, every line traced to its ADEME Base Empreinte factor.
See the STRATA Scope price listper month, no commitment
- Core
- €59
- Suite
- €99
per month, on top of Core
- Scope 3 add-on
- €59
Prices in euros, net of tax: VAT not applicable under Article 293 B of the French General Tax Code. The amount shown is the amount paid.
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 methodRetracted claims
What we stopped claiming, with the date and the reason.
Read the logYour data
What is collected, why, and how long it is kept.
Read the policy
What is the voluntary reporting standard, formerly VSME?
It is the voluntary sustainability reporting standard, carried by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/1560, adopted on 3 July 2026 and published in the Official Journal on 21 September 2026, alongside the revised ESRS standards. It is meant for companies with no more than one thousand employees on average, outside the scope of the sustainability reporting directive since the Omnibus reform.
Can my client demand any sustainability data from me?
Not everything. The value chain cap, whose principle is set by the Omnibus directive and whose content is fixed by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/1560, prevents a client within the scope of the sustainability reporting directive from requiring, for its own report, a partner with no more than one thousand employees on average to provide information beyond the datapoints listed in Annex II of that regulation. A 180-line in-house questionnaire is not enforceable as such; the cap has a legal basis. It applies to financial years starting on or after 1 January 2027. Until then, and while the directive is not transposed into French law, it is invoked in a commercial negotiation as 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.
Where to start
The first diagnostic is offered, you judge on the evidence.
The first diagnostic is offered on sign-up, no card required.
