Overview
Watershed is an enterprise sustainability AI platform designed to help organizations manage their environmental data, meet strict reporting requirements, and execute actionable decarbonization strategies. By leveraging industry-leading methodologies, Watershed enables companies to uncover operational efficiencies and new business opportunities hidden within their sustainability data.
What sets Watershed apart is its combination of rigorous data quality and AI-accelerated workflows. Managing over 4 gigatons of emissions, the platform is trusted by over 90 Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, and global private equity firms to deliver audit-ready ESG data and real environmental outcomes.
Key Features
- Comprehensive Measurement: Tracks carbon emissions, water, and land use using a library of 2.3 million emission factors, benchmarks, and methodologies with transparent calculations.
- AI-Powered Reporting: Accelerates ESG disclosures across regulatory frameworks with pre-populated data, AI drafting, full data lineage, and peer benchmarks.
- Watershed AI Agents: Automates data cleaning, formatting, and analysis, allowing sustainability teams to get actionable data up to 80% faster.
- Decarbonization Action: Surfaces cost savings and strategic decarbonization paths, enabling companies to buy into vetted clean power projects and forecast changes at the material, product, and company level.
- Cornerstone Data Initiative: Provides high-quality, open sustainability data in collaboration with ERG and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
Use Cases
- Automating Regulatory Disclosures: Drafting compliance reports for frameworks like California's SB253 and SB261 or CSRD with full transparency and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Cleaning Raw Sustainability Data: Ingesting and structuring messy operational data, such as travel CSVs, using built-in OCR and AI-powered data cleaning agents.
- Supply Chain Decarbonization: Analyzing Scope 3 emissions hotspots and collaborating with suppliers to forecast and reduce product-level footprints.
- Procuring Clean Energy: Investing in highly vetted clean power projects, such as community solar, to achieve measurable carbon reductions.
Who It's For
Watershed is built for sustainability teams, ESG managers, and corporate executives at enterprise-scale organizations—including Fortune 500 companies, major banks, and private equity firms—who need to manage complex environmental footprints and meet rigorous compliance standards.
