What is carbon accounting software?
Carbon accounting software quantifies a company's greenhouse gas emissions across Scope 1, 2, and 3, mapping activity data to emission factors so the result can be reported and defended. Spirefly is carbon accounting software that also measures nature impact from the same data: it pre-processes your inputs, aligns them to the GHG Protocol and SBTN, and returns a footprint with every figure traceable to its source.
Can we build our nature assessment on top of our existing carbon measurement?
Yes. If your carbon measurement follows the GHG Protocol, Spirefly ingests it as a foundation and runs a nature assessment on the same data, so you do not redo the carbon work. Many teams move their carbon measurement into Spirefly over time to keep both in one environment: one update cycle, one traceability record, and one set of scenarios showing the carbon and nature trade-offs.
We only have spend-per-supplier data. Is that enough to start?
Yes, as a starting point. Spend-level data gives you a directional footprint in Spirefly: which categories and suppliers carry the most risk, and where better data would help most. It is not precise enough for product-level disclosure, but it is enough to prioritise data collection and start the supplier conversations that improve it. Every spend-based figure carries a confidence flag, so you know what you can act on now.
We tried tools before and ended up filling templates that took as long as our spreadsheets. Why is this different?
Spirefly reads your data in the formats it already exists in, so you skip reshaping it into a structure the tool accepts. The pre-processing, normalization, factor mapping, and anomaly detection happen inside the platform, which is where most of the manual time went. Expect your first cycle to be the slow one: the payoff compounds as the methodology carries forward.
Setting up a measurement methodology sounds technical. We do not have that expertise in-house.
Many teams do not, and that is expected. Which Scope 3 categories are material, which allocation methods to use, how a joint venture sits within your boundary: these are specialist calls that affect every output downstream. Spirefly offers expert onboarding to work through the setup with you, or to handle it so you step in at the review stage. Each decision stays explicit and auditable.
How does the process hold up when our data changes year to year?
Spirefly reads your data dynamically, so a change in structure does not force a rebuild. A new supplier format, a split category, a different billing system: it applies the methodology you already defined and flags what changed for your review. Your methodology stays constant; only how it is applied adjusts.