Work towards B Corp in a way that improves your business

Organisations we work with

We met some of them through ABN AMRO’s Impact Nation.

What you get

• A clear view of where you stand

  We go through the B Impact Assessment or B Lab’s new standards with you and show which requirements you already meet and where the gaps are

• Prepared for B Lab’s new standards

  B Lab’s new standards put more weight on requirements per topic than on a total score. We help you understand what that means for your company and plan accordingly

• Mission anchored in governance

  Support with the legal requirement: writing your mission into your articles of association and into how your board makes decisions

• Measure once, use it for B Corp and the VSME

  We link your B Corp evidence to the VSME or CSRD data your customers and bank ask for, so you don’t collect the same figures twice

• B Corp in sales, without greenwashing

  Talk about your certification in sales and communication with claims you can back up

Why we do what we do

Read the film as text

1. We all want to know
2. our place in the world.
3. Thin grey lines join dots into a web.
4. We like to believe that what we do is part of something larger.
5. It is.
6. Together we make our surroundings, our brands, our communities.
7. We shape the work of others, as they shape ours.
8. The web grows dense.
9. We live in one web of cause and consequence.
10. Each path tells a story, part of a larger narrative.
11. A system of meaning.
12. So what is our impact?
13. Whose lives do we touch?
14. What changed? For whom? How much? And what part was ours?
15. Intended or not, for better or worse.
16. Knowing that changes what you do next.
17. A dark line draws a path through the web. Impact management helps you see it, steer it, and use it.
18. A large word: Lead. A purple path runs through the web. Lead with purpose, and fund your mission.
19. A large word: Improve. A green path runs through the web. Learn what doesn’t work and design for better.
20. A large word: Engage. A blue-green path runs through the web. Share your story, and bring others into it.
21. A large word: Account. A blue path runs through the web. State your claim, and prove it.
22. A large word: Discover. A yellow path runs through the web. Find your next impact before it happens.
23. “How do you measure impact?”
24. It sounds hard.
25. It isn’t.
26. It’s not about the how.
27. It’s about
28. Portraits of people fill the screen.
29. A large word: Who.
30. About rights-holders, whose lives are touched.
31. And stakeholders, whose choices shape them.
32. The people stand side by side, at the same height. A wave of colour runs through the web. Every voice, every perspective, equally weighed.
33. The web turns many colours. Pluriform and equivalent.
34. Who determines what.
35. And what determines how.
36. That’s it. No more, no less.
37. We count what can be counted, and listen to the rest.
38. Coloured paths wind across the web. We find the stories that connect the dots, and make sense of the whole.
39. We love our craft:
40. to ask the questions,
41. to measure what matters,
42. and narrate what works.
43. One dark path remains. Let’s reveal your path.
44. The word narrate, with the line: impact in numbers and stories.

What we often hear

• “We’ve started the B Impact Assessment, but I can’t tell what counts as evidence.”

  We go through the assessment with you, gather the documentation you already have and help you decide what to improve first, before you submit for verification

• “B Lab’s new standards are coming. What changes for us?”

  We compare your current practice with the topic requirements in the new standards, so you know where to act now and what can wait

• “We have to recertify in six months, and whoever did it last time has left.”

  We help you rebuild the evidence, update your policies and set up a simple routine, so the next recertification takes less effort

• “The legal requirement means changing our articles, and the shareholders have questions.”

  We help you explain what the change means in practice and how your mission shows up in governance and decision-making, alongside your own legal adviser

• “We want to use B Corp in sales and tenders, but we’re afraid of overclaiming.”

  We help you link the certificate to concrete results and describe them in plain terms, so customers see what is behind the logo

What you may be wondering

• Will we make it under B Lab’s new standards?

  We compare what you do with the requirements per topic. Then you see what needs doing now and what can wait. The decision is B Lab’s.

• What if someone challenges our claims?

  We link every claim to evidence, including from your supply chain. What you can’t back up, you don’t say.

• Isn’t this double work alongside the VSME?

  No. We build one set of figures you use for B Corp, the VSME and customer questions.

To read

• Do the standards finally speak one language?

  The ISSB, the ESRS, GRI, the VSME and the new B Corp requirements are growing towards one another. What that harmonisation is, which principles it rests on, and what it still leaves open.

• Does impact come off the peg?

  Standards such as the CSRD, the VSME and IRIS+ make reports comparable. That is useful, and at times necessary. But whatever does not fit the size gets trimmed away.