--- title: "Custom Sustainability Dashboards | Spirefly" description: "Describe a goal and an audience, and Spirefly builds a live sustainability dashboard from your supply-chain data in five minutes. You review, adjust, and share." url: "https://www.spirefly.com/act/custom-dashboards/" type: marketing license: proprietary --- # A sustainability dashboard for every audience, in five minutes Turn data points into stories that resonate with your audience. ## The problem: data that doesn't travel Most sustainability data is produced for the sustainability team, and it stays there. **Footprints are hard to interpret** A full footprint analysis shows every dimension and every figure, with no story guiding the reader. **Every audience needs a different translation** Sustainability teams spend a lot of time turning one dataset into something each stakeholder can act on. **Only carbon makes it out** Teams that measure carbon, water, pollution, land, biodiversity, and materials often communicate carbon alone: for complex topics like biodiversity, building a coherent story takes more time than anyone has. What goes unformatted goes unshared. ## Tell the system what you want to achieve Set a goal: cut scope 3 by 30%, prepare a nature disclosure, show buyers where their decisions drive impact. The assistant reads your supply-chain data and builds a starting dashboard around that goal. You shape it from there, through the widget builder or in plain language. Every widget queries your data live, so the dashboard stays accurate as your data changes. ## What you see, why it matters, what to do next Every chart on a Spirefly dashboard carries a companion text, a live explanation written for the person reading it. You review a draft already written from your data and your context. That is what makes a five-minute dashboard possible. - Why it matters to you. The explanation draws on your goals, your industry, and your context from the Sustainability Intelligence layer. - What to do next. The follow-up, linked to the capability that runs it: a scenario to model or a supplier conversation to open. You need context to truly understand your data. Spirefly's custom dashboards make interpretation so much faster! ## You decide what lands on the canvas The assistant proposes changes, flags what needs a second look, and waits for your approval. That layer is what makes a five-minute dashboard defensible. **Approvals before anything lands** AI-generated additions surface as approval requests before they appear on the canvas, whether they come from initialization or a later conversation. You accept, reject, or modify each change. **Direct edits at any point** The widget builder lets you create, configure, and reorder any widget manually. Charts stay directly editable too: scope, aggregation level, and axis labels are yours to change. **Every save is a snapshot** Each save creates a named snapshot in revision history, and you can return to any earlier version at any point. Nothing is lost between sessions, and nothing is overwritten silently. **Flags on what needs attention** When data has gaps, a figure looks inconsistent, or a chart outruns what your data supports, the assistant flags it inline, next to the widget. You decide whether to address it or document it. ## One measurement, a view for every reader The buying team needs the categories that drive impact. The board needs progress against targets. A supplier needs their share of your footprint and what you are asking of them. An auditor needs every figure traceable to source. All of these views come from the same measurement, each with its own scope, framing, and format. When a new measurement cycle runs, every dashboard updates. ## What customers say > "Finally, I have the ammunition to make people realize the scale of our impact. It’s no longer just an opinion; I can say with confidence: this is the reality of our footprint, and this is where we need to act." > — Daan Reith, Heijmans > "The dashboards bring structure as well as inspiration and creative thinking. They take me by the hand through a meaningful process, while they adapt to my context and needs and keep me in control." > — Miranda Pierson, van Rees ## Frequently asked questions **What is a sustainability dashboard?** A sustainability dashboard is a live view of a company's environmental data (carbon, water, pollution, land, biodiversity, materials) built to inform a specific audience. In Spirefly, you describe the goal and the audience, and the assistant assembles a dashboard from your supply-chain data: charts plus written explanations of what each one shows, why it matters, and what to do next. **We already have Power BI and a data analyst. Why build dashboards in Spirefly?** Power BI produces the visualization; Spirefly produces the visualization plus the explanation around it. That companion text draws on your sustainability goals, your methodology, and framework knowledge such as the GHG Protocol and TNFD, which is what a board or buying team needs to act on a chart. Your analyst can still pull Spirefly data via export for separate workflows. **Our purchase volumes are commercially sensitive. Can we share a dashboard without exposing them?** Yes. You control exactly what appears. Volume data, supplier names, and cost-adjacent figures only appear if you choose to include them, so a dashboard built for a buying team can show categories and percentages while the underlying volumes stay private. You review every widget before sharing, and access can be revoked at any point. **The AI writes the explanations. What happens if one is wrong?** You review every explanation before it goes anywhere, the same way you would review a consultant's slide deck. The text is a draft, and everything in it is traceable: to a figure in your footprint, a methodology in the knowledge base, or a finding the system flagged for follow-up. You edit directly in the dashboard, and you sign off before it is shared. **We built sustainability dashboards before and nobody used them. What makes these different?** A chart on its own gets filed. Spirefly pairs every chart with a three-part explanation (what you see, why it matters to you, what to do next) written for the specific reader, so a buying team or board member understands why the finding is their problem and which action follows. That connection to the reader's own decisions is usually what earlier dashboards were missing. **Can the dashboards follow our own sustainability methodology?** Yes. Spirefly dashboards work from your footprint data, calculated with your methodology, and your company context as you defined it. If you allocate a joint venture a specific way or set scope boundaries differently from the default, you explain it once and the assistant carries it into every conversation. Where it references a framework definition (GHG Protocol, TNFD), it cites the source so you can verify the interpretation. **Do shared dashboards change when our data updates?** Yes. Shared Spirefly dashboards are live and reflect the current state of your data. For a point-in-time record (an audit, a regulatory submission, or a board pack), you export the document version at that moment: the export is a frozen record while the live dashboard keeps updating. You choose which one goes to whom.