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title: "Sustainability Management Software | Spirefly"
description: "Turn your footprint into decisions the whole organisation uses. Spirefly's Workbench builds dashboards, answers questions, and models scenarios from your data."
url: "https://www.spirefly.com/act/"
type: marketing
license: proprietary
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# Sustainability management software that turns your footprint into decisions

The Workbench is where your footprint stops being a file and starts steering the organisation.

## Most teams finish their assessment and hit two walls: the data has no direction, and it never travels past the people who can read it.

**Now what?**

You have carbon totals, nature hotspots, a footprint across the assortment. What you do not have is a next move. As Louise Amand of the Capitals Coalition puts it: "companies get stuck asking, now what, and how much can I rely on this?"

**The data never leaves the sustainability team**

A carbon total does not help a buyer switch cotton suppliers. A risk score does not land in a board meeting without a story. So the assessment you spent a quarter on stays inside the one team that can read it.

**Decisions get made without the data in the room**

Buying happens in buying meetings. Sourcing is set by procurement. By the time the footprint arrives at year-end, the decisions it should have shaped are already made.

## The Workbench: the colleague you cannot always hire

The Workbench turns your footprint into a working tool for the whole organisation, from the buying team to the board.

Part data analyst, part sparring partner, part communication designer. When a buying decision is coming, it models the impact. It builds the presentation the board needs, and the context is ready when someone new joins.

One retailer covers 40,000+ products across food, fashion, and household goods with a two-person team. They run a single nature assessment through the Workbench and it becomes buying conversations, supplier negotiations, and a set of public commitments.

It runs on the footprint data from Measure and feeds straight into Report. Measure, Act, Report.

## Custom dashboards: Frame your footprint for every audience

Most sustainability data does not land. A PDF sent to procurement, a table appended to a board update, numbers with no story around them.

Data lands when the receiver reads a story. One click turns a baseline into a view shaped for its reader: a buying team sees the product categories driving impact, a supply chain director sees material risk, the board sees the strategic picture and the decisions it leads to. Same measurement, different framing.

[See custom dashboards](https://www.spirefly.com/act/custom-dashboards)

## Sustainability intelligence: Learn from peers, best practices, and frameworks

A chart cannot answer a question. A sustainability professional asks why a category scores badly and what would change it.

Spirefly's intelligence layer is built around that gap. It draws on your targets, your data, and your frameworks, so the answers are about your company from the first question.

- **You teach it your context** — Upload your report and describe your goals. It carries your targets, initiatives, and constraints into every conversation, and gets proactive about what changed.
- **It works from trustworthy sources** — Behind the assistant is a curated base of SBTN, TNFD, GHG Protocol, CSRD, and EUDR. Answers come from real sources you can cite to an auditor.
- **It uses your actual data** — It runs on your own numbers: your products, your suppliers, and the volumes you actually buy. Specific inputs give you specific, defensible analysis.
- **Expert-built workflows guide the work** — For a hotspot analysis, a CSRD chapter, or a transition plan, it uses expert templates that structure the work and define what done looks like.

[See sustainability intelligence](https://www.spirefly.com/act/sustainability-intelligence)

## Scenario planning: Model your progress towards targets

The assessment tells you where you are. Scenario planning tells you where you could go, and what it takes to get there.

Before an order goes out, model it. Shift 30% of cotton to certified organic, switch a packaging supplier, scale recycled materials across a line. Scenarios run on your actual purchase volumes and return every impact dimension at once: carbon, water, pollution, land, biodiversity, and materials, all from the same data.

[Explore scenario planning](https://www.spirefly.com/act/scenario-planning)

## What teams say about the Workbench

> "At some point you can keep talking about water pollution, but then, how does that work? I had quite a lot of manure scoring high. So I go straight to the concrete: regenerative farming, what is that, what would the impact be? It's really nice that you can just directly consult about it."
> — Fuusje Schlette, HEMA

> "In my mind, what I would like best is a dashboard view. I click some things, I see my top five products with the highest impacts. And then side by side with a chat screen, I start creating that strategy."
> — Jorrit, Picnic

> "I could use the results directly in my work. Unlike with general AI chatbots, I really felt that I could trust the data and information that was provided, and that it provided spot-on suggestions."
> — Miranda Pierson, van Rees

Next step: [Move to audit-ready reporting](https://www.spirefly.com/report)

## Frequently asked questions

**What is sustainability management software?**

Sustainability management software turns a company's environmental footprint into decisions the whole organisation can act on. Spirefly is sustainability management software built around a Workbench: it takes your measured carbon and nature data and helps you build dashboards, answer questions from your own data, and model scenarios before you commit, so sustainability work reaches buyers, procurement, and the board across the whole organisation.

**Can I trust what Spirefly's Workbench tells me?**

Yes. Every answer the Spirefly Workbench gives traces back to a source you can see: your own data, a named regulatory framework, or a curated methodology base covering SBTN, TNFD, the GHG Protocol, CSRD, and EUDR. It does not pattern-match a generic reply, so when it returns a number or a recommendation you can check exactly where it came from, which is what you need when you defend it to an auditor.

**Can other departments access Spirefly dashboards?**

Yes, and sharing sustainability data across the business is the point of the Spirefly Workbench. You design a dashboard for a specific audience, so a buying team sees different metrics than a CFO, and share it directly. An interactive version is in build, where a colleague opens a shared dashboard and asks the agent follow-up questions in their own session, without editing the underlying data.

**Is Spirefly's Workbench useful between measurement cycles?**

Yes, that is exactly what it is for. Most strategic sustainability work happens after the measurement: translating findings into supplier conversations, building a board update, or modelling a sourcing decision before it is made. Teams on biannual measurement cycles use the Spirefly Workbench all year, and continuity is a common reason, since switching tools can leave you with only screenshots of an old carbon dashboard.

**Does Spirefly's Workbench replace my sustainability consultant?**

No, and the two work well together. Your consultant stops building slides around your data and spends that time on deep strategic work, which is what you actually pay them for. The Spirefly Workbench handles the layer between analysis and communication: turning findings into dashboards, narratives, and internal documents. That frees expert time for the judgement calls that need a human.

**How long does it take to onboard Spirefly?**

Onboarding Spirefly takes a single session. You upload your sustainability report, or describe your goals and current initiatives, the system builds your company profile, and your first working session can start the same day. The Workbench gets more useful as it accumulates data across measurement cycles, but you do not wait for that to get started.

**Can I use Spirefly to share my sustainability position with buyers or retail partners?**

Yes. With the Spirefly Workbench you build a dashboard for a buyer or procurement team that shows what they need, framed for them and drawn from your existing footprint data. A narrative built on your actual data is faster to produce than a static PDF. Sharing features for external stakeholders are in active development.

**Can Spirefly benchmark how I compare to peers in my sector?**

Yes. Benchmarking is part of the Spirefly Workbench's intelligence layer. It pulls qualitative context from peer sustainability reports to inform policy design, plus quantitative benchmarks where sector data exists. One retailer used this to shape its own nature policy, reviewing how H&M, Inditex, and others structured their disclosures before deciding on an approach.