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AI and sustainability advisory

If it doesn't change a decision, it's reporting, not intelligence.

Sustainability data is worth what it changes. We help sustainability leads, CFOs and COOs at mid-to-large companies turn upstream climate exposure, Scope 3 leverage, regulatory pressure and disclosure risk into decisions their boards can act on — in days rather than quarters, at a fraction of consultant cost.

Most companies still attack these as four disconnected pieces. We treat them as one.

The work comes as one offer: a senior sustainability function on retainer, at a fraction of the cost of hiring one.

Rooted in Europe and the US, working wherever your supply chain runs.

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Point of view

Technology in service of a decision, not a report for its own sake.

Michael Beutler built the first Group-wide Environmental Profit & Loss account at Kering to put a cost on supply-chain impact that executives could weigh against margin. The account mattered because it changed what got decided.

Frontier AI gets the same test. Every piece of work names the decision it informs, who makes it, and what changes: which suppliers to requalify, which Scope 3 lever to pull, which disclosure claim to substantiate or drop. That is what we mean by sustainability intelligence.

The offer

One senior sustainability function, on retainer.

A standing team of named specialists, working with frontier AI and assembled around your footprint, for a fraction of the cost of a single senior hire. Scope and fee are fixed per quarter and revisited each quarter.

  1. The way inAI Readiness SprintTwo sessions: a diagnostic, then a demonstration and a prioritised 90-day plan. It scopes and prices the first quarter.
  2. Then90-day pilotOne use case, run on your data under the governance the Sprint mapped.
  3. OngoingQuarterly retainerMonitoring, analysis and drafting on frontier tooling, with a named senior lead accountable for the work.
Add-on, or on its own before a publication deadline: a red-team review of your disclosure →How the retainer works
The model

Resilience work usually fails on cost and depth. We remove both: the machine does the volume, the experts do the judgement.

Frontier AI

Models that read a fragmented supplier estate, geospatial and hazard data, a decade of disclosures and a shifting rulebook in days, work that used to take a team a quarter.

Senior experts

Climate and nature impact measurement, natural-capital dependencies, supply chain operations, disclosure and the investor view — the disciplines climate resilience actually depends on. People who have run the work, not analysts learning on your budget.

Low cost

No pyramid, no standing bench, no six-month discovery. You pay for the expertise the question needs, for as long as it needs it.

What the retainer covers
Physical exposureClimate exposure starts upstream, where you can't see itHazard platforms score the assets you own. The farms, mines and mills three tiers up are where the risk actually sits, and nobody has mapped them.Operational resilienceYour Scope 3 roadmap is solving the wrong problemSupplier energy is the usual target. Overproduction, inventory turns and forecasting move more, and free working capital at the same time.Regulatory resilienceRegulation moves faster than your ability to respondCSRD, ISSB, EUDR and US disclosure rules keep shifting. We work out which apply to you, map them to the data you hold, and sequence the build in weeks.Narrative resilienceSomeone will red team your report. Better it's usNGOs, short sellers and plaintiff firms now read your report with frontier AI. A ranked findings register shows you what they will find, first.
The people

Michael Beutler

Sustainability strategy, impact accounting & applied AI

More than twenty-five years using data and technology to give executives a better basis for decisions. Former Chief Sustainability Officer of Moncler Group. At Kering, led the first Group-wide Environmental Profit & Loss account, including its 2015 open-sourcing. Six sector-leading results in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices across Moncler, Kering and SAP. Advises the European Commission, the OECD and the AI 2030 Responsible AI Advisory Board. Founder of OurImpactAI.

Panu Kärävä

Data, energy & circularity

Two decades at the intersection of sustainability, energy and industrial data: nearly eight years at Siemens, then senior sustainability consulting at AWS on carbon accounting, ESG reporting, traceability and IoT energy optimisation. Now a Partner at E2 Management Consulting in Zürich, and active as a founder and advisor in utility-scale battery storage, circularity and risk analytics.

Neil Brown

Capital markets & investor view

More than twenty years in sustainable investment, most recently Head of Equities at GIB Asset Management. Former Liontrust partner and SRI fund manager; UN PRI listed equity steering committee member. Brings the allocator's perspective on how disclosure and transition plans actually land with investors.

Kyle Cheng

Frontier AI engineering & agentic systems

Leads the build-out of a production AI-agent platform at a financial-services firm. Former Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; built Amazon CodeWhisperer’s Chat integration for JetBrains and an Oracle platform used by 60,000+ employees. Makes frontier AI trustworthy on messy enterprise data.

Training & talks

Michael Beutler teaches and speaks on AI and sustainability.

Executive briefings, in-house workshops, an online course on supply chain resilience, and three signature talks, for boards, leadership teams and sustainability functions.

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Common questions

What does OurImpactAI do?
OurImpactAI is an AI and sustainability advisory firm. We help mid-to-large companies turn climate exposure, Scope 3 emissions, sustainability regulation and disclosure risk into decisions their executives and boards can act on. Frontier AI models do the high-volume analysis, and named senior experts make the judgement calls.
How is this different from a sustainability report or an ESG dashboard?
A report describes what happened. We start from the decision in front of you, such as which suppliers to requalify, which Scope 3 lever to pull, or which disclosure claim to substantiate, and build the analysis back from it. If an output doesn't change a decision someone is about to make, it's reporting, not intelligence.
How can AI help a corporate sustainability team?
AI reads the material a small team never gets through: fragmented supplier records, audit and certification documents, geospatial and hazard data, years of disclosures, and changing regulations. That makes it practical to screen every supplier, map upstream exposure, and test a sustainability report the way a hostile reader would, in days rather than quarters. Experienced people still decide what matters and what to do about it.
Who is behind OurImpactAI?
OurImpactAI was founded by Michael Beutler, former Chief Sustainability Officer of Moncler Group, who led the first Group-wide Environmental Profit & Loss account at Kering and advises the European Commission and the OECD. The expert network includes Panu Kärävä (Partner, E2 Management Consulting), Neil Brown (former Head of Equities, GIB Asset Management) and Kyle Cheng (former Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic).
What is a virtual sustainability team?
A senior sustainability function on a quarterly retainer. You get named specialists across climate impact, Scope 3, regulation, disclosure and AI engineering, working with frontier AI tooling, for a fraction of the cost of building the team in-house.
How do engagements start?
The usual starting point is the AI Readiness Sprint: two half-day sessions, two weeks apart, with your sustainability and IT teams in the room, ending in a written AI roadmap. It's fixed scope and fixed fee, and it also scopes and prices the first quarter if you go on to retain a virtual sustainability team.
Do you need access to our confidential data?
Not to start. We begin with public, synthetic or aggregate data, so you see the method before anything confidential moves. Where an analysis genuinely needs real data, we scope it with your IT and legal teams first.
Which regulations and frameworks do you cover?
CSRD and the ESRS, the ISSB standards, the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), and US climate disclosure requirements. We work out which ones apply to you, map them to the data you hold, and sequence the build.

Start with a decision, not a data room or a procurement cycle.

Describe the decision in front of you. You'll see the method on public, synthetic, or aggregate inputs first, and decide from there whether and where to run it on real data.

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