IMPACT MATERIALITY SOFTWARE

Simple impact materiality assessment software and expert advisory

Socialsuite brings you end-to-end impact materiality software with expert support to guide your progress, save money, and meet compliance requirements.

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What is Impact Materiality?

Impact materiality relates to the organization's impacts on the environment and society. This perspective on materiality takes an inside-out view to identify the sustainability matters that have material actual or potential positive or negative impacts on people or the environment. Impacts include those caused by the company and it's upstream and downstream value chain.
Prioritizes the impact your company has on the external world
Covers the full breadth of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
Engages multiple stakeholder groups across the business
Align to GRI's materiality requirements

Our Impact Materiality Process

Scope

Determine your materiality approach, requirements, and objectives.

Define

Define your list of potential material sustainability topics with the executive team and peer benchmarking.

Identify

Assess your value chain to identify, group, and select key stakeholders. Stakeholders include employees, customers, board members, etc.

Engage

Engage with stakeholders via surveys and interviews to gather quantitative and qualitative data and insights.

Analyze

Analyze the results, conduct internal validation, and select final material topics.

Why are impact materiality
assessments important?

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Informs and prioritizes business strategy
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Provides qualitative and quantitative data
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Enables data-driven decision making
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Creates a sustainability roadmap for executives
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Builds trust and credibility
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Improves transparency and disclosure
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Product Features

Impact Materiality Assessment

Streamlined impact materiality assessment software designed to increase transparency, align with stakeholders, and get compliance-ready.

Expert Advisory

Leverage Socialsuite's advisory services to help run one-on-one interviews, workshops, and focus groups to further assess materiality.

Peer Benchmark Analysis

Analyze where your competitors and peers are on their sustainability and materiality journey so you don't fall behind the curve.

Customized Stakeholder Management

Group, weigh, and track unlimited stakeholders. Engage stakeholders via our proprietary survey technology and/or conduct interviews/workshops.

Advanced Topic Selection

Pre-defined topic lists developed from peer, industry, and competitive data and standardized frameworks (SASB, GRI, CSRD). Include extra customized topics or open-ended questions for more insight.

Secure Cloud Environment

Enterprise-level cloud security to safely collect and store your ESG data in one centralized platform.

Dynamic Scoring

Calculates materiality scores from multiple quantitative and qualitative data sources.

Real-Time Automated Analysis

Analyze quantitative and qualitative data through aggregated standardized scoring. Visualize results for impact, risk, and opportunity in a scatter-plot matrix.

UN SDG Alignment

Material topics are automatically aligned with the relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Prioritize the SDGs your organization impacts most.

Instant Materiality Report

Consolidated summary highlighting the methodology, materiality matrix, analysis, and UN Sustainable Development Goal alignment.

Ready to streamline your materiality assessment?

Whether you're a public or private organization, Socialsuite has the right materiality solution for you.

Pricing

Software and Advisory Packages

Simple, transparent pricing that enables growth and progress year over year.

Materiality Software

Conduct an impact, financial, or double materiality assessment.
FEATURES
Software platform access
Up to 20 users
Stakeholder Engagement
SDG mapping
Simple, self-guided
Analysis scoring
Customer support
Materiality report
Materiality matrix
Survey and interviews
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Add advisory support services:

Silver Support

16 hours

Gold Support

32 hours

Platinum Support

48 hours

What our clients say...

"Thank you Socialsuite for partnering with us, listening to our stakeholders, and making a positive impact on what matters most!"

Chief Technology Officer
Public Software Company

"I love it. It's great to see. It's huge that you do double materiality..."

ESG Senior Manager
Private Accounting & Assurance Firm

"Socialsuite's materiality software was easy to use..."

Head of IR & ESG
Publicly traded pharmaceutical company

"... I think the materiality assessment is great. I think the idea behind it is really smart."

Director of ESG
Publicly traded construction company

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