Watershed

“"Watershed updates emission factors automatically in the background—I didn't even know I needed that until I saw the same electricity usage showing lower emissions because the grid had gotten cleaner,” the treasury manager says.”

“"It was completely manual," the treasury manager explains. "I'd collect utility bills, put them in a spreadsheet, submit a ticket to IT to upload them, wait for the reports to come back, and hope everything was right. If I needed to correct a single data point, that was a three-week IT ticket."”

“"The auditability is completely different," says the company's treasury manager. "I can see how the numbers are calculated, track changes with reason codes, and feel confident handing this over to auditors."”

““ Better data helps us tie our climate goals back to our company goals and get buy-in from all levels. Clients take our sustainability work seriously, so we need to be aligned to continue to work with them. ””

““ I didn’t feel confident that our footprint was externally legitimate and thought our sustainability work should be a business accelerator rather than a risk. ””

““I finished my CDP report in less than half the time of my first attempt thanks to Watershed’s guidance on how to interpret the questions and pre-population of data. The peer benchmarking in the software also helped us provide more mature answers. The time savings was immense, and I had more confidence in the data””

““Watershed’s product lets us easily track all of our clients, their portion of our overall revenue, and their climate reporting expectations of us. We can now evaluate future sustainability initiatives directly with these hard dollars in mind.””

““Over a dozen clients were asking us to identify our emissions tied to their work. I was able to pull and report on that data in a matter of minutes instead of the week it used to take. Being able to respond to ad hoc requests from different clients very quickly and accurately with legitimacy has been a game changer.””

““We don’t want to set targets just for optics purposes, we want to create and act on goals that are externally credible. Using Watershed, we are able to confidently project our work into the future so we can create and submit science-based targets for validation.””

““In-person work with our clients is a big part of what makes us special, so while we’re never going to stop traveling, we can do it more thoughtfully.””

““Implementation was a breeze, and the product made it very clear what data we needed and how to go about finding it. This was a big blind spot when I was creating our footprint myself, leading to significant data gaps, for example not including the travel of our 35,000 consultant employees in our initial footprint.””

“Watershed helps us be proactive instead of reactive—and gives us confidence that we’re focusing on the right things.”

““The amazing thing is the agent allowed us to be proactive and really embed ourselves in operational decisions for the future.””

““ I could have worked all the hours in the day and I still wouldn’t have produced the type of output that the agent was able to provide in the short timescale. It really does help bring the data to life. ””

““Start to finish, it took our team less than a week to pull together all of the data needed to calculate our footprint.””

““ A lot of companies are approaching their legal or social impact teams and saying, ‘You're now our environmental expert, go learn!’ We’re thankful to have Watershed as a partner to help us learn and make the right choices for our business. ””

““ The upcoming climate disclosure will require a new level of rigor. We’re leaning on Watershed to make sure we're aware of SEC and other reporting requirements, measuring our emissions to address the requirements, and getting disclosure-ready across the required components. ””

““ We're grateful to our partners at Watershed who helped devise a strategy for clearly and thoughtfully calculating and evaluating our carbon footprint. ””

“Using Watershed helped us be more efficient so we can focus on the real work of putting our climate strategies to action. We get it right, and we get it right faster.”

“Watershed’s platform helped us better understand what every question was asking, how CDP awards points and how to best frame our answers.”

“Kroll is about action, and Watershed helps us get the reporting done faster, so we can spend more time focused on what matters most.”

“Watershed’s technology eased the process.”

“At Kroll, our experts provide our clients with data-tested analysis to stay ahead of the most complex business challenges—and we expect our internal ESG strategies to be backed by the same type of rigorous analysis. We needed a strong SaaS program with vetted systems and methodologies to help form a strong climate strategy, and Watershed fit that bill.”

“While we’re just at the beginning, our team is very committed to this learning journey where we’re getting smarter each year and paying it forward.”

“Knowing the numbers for each subcategory for our emissions helped us focus our energy in places where it will count. For example, we’re prioritizing emissions from our supply chain and thinking less about employee commuting since our employees are mostly remote.”