Free · for businesses of every size
Sustainability, broken down one granule at a time
The five pillars:
- Energy & emissions
- Waste & circularity
- Water
- Social
- Governance
Answer one questionnaire and get your personal map of reporting rules, customer expectations and practical next steps — explained in plain English.
How it works
Tell us about your business
Around 60 plain-English questions on your size, sites, supply chain and current practice — about 10 minutes, saved as you go.
See what applies to you
Mandatory rules, what's coming, and what customers and tenders will expect — explained plainly.
Work through your plan
A tailored dashboard of metrics and actions across energy, waste, water, social and governance.
ESG, easy to remember
Three letters, three questions. Everything in Granular is colour-coded to them.
What do we take from the planet, and what do we leave behind?
How do we treat the people we work with and for?
How are decisions made — and how are we kept honest?
Five pillars, one clear picture
ESG broken into five areas you can measure and act on — weighted by what matters in your sector.
Energy & emissions
Measure your carbon footprint and cut energy use
Waste & circularity
Reduce, track and recover the materials you use
Water
Use less water and understand your water risk
Social
Look after your people, your supply chain and your community
Governance
Make sustainability part of how decisions get made
ISO 14001? CSRD? Scope 3?
A plain-English glossary of 54 standards, laws, certifications and concepts — each tagged E, S or G and linked to its official source.
Guides for small businesses
Plain-English answers to the questions customers, tenders and banks are asking you.
- ESG4 min readA customer sent you a sustainability questionnaire. Here's how to answer itWhat large customers are really asking for, the five documents that answer most questions, and what to say if you're not there yet.
- G4 min readDo small businesses have to report on sustainability in the UK?SECR, ESOS, gender pay gap, modern slavery, recycling — which ones actually apply to a business your size.
- E3 min readHow to calculate your small business's carbon footprint from your billsTurn a year of energy and fuel bills into a Scope 1 & 2 carbon figure, with a worked example.
Who Granular is for
Small & medium businesses
Customers are sending ESG questionnaires and tenders want carbon plans. Get a proportionate starting point without consultants.
Large companies
Check which rules apply across the countries you operate in, and point smaller suppliers to a free, plain-English place to start.
Free and private
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