Impact expertise for professional services firms

What you get

• Add impact to your service offer

  Bring credible impact measurement and reporting expertise to your clients without building a methodology from scratch.

• Speak your clients’ language

  From CSRD, ESRS and VSME to impact storytelling, we help your advisers translate frameworks into advice clients can act on.

• A partner, not a competitor

  We work alongside your firm, co-delivering, training or reviewing, so the client relationship stays yours.

Find your specialism

• PR & communications agenciesImpact stories with evidence behind the claims
• Marketing & brand agenciesPurpose campaigns with claims that hold up
• Accountancies & audit firmsImpact expertise alongside your assurance work
• Law firms & legal servicesImpact and due diligence know-how alongside your legal advice
• Lobby & advocacy organisationsBack your advocacy with solid evidence

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

• “A client asks about CSRD or an impact claim. Looking it up costs me hours I can’t bill.”

  We provide targeted training and on-call expert support, with answers to specific questions within three days, so your advisers can handle impact questions credibly.

• “When I help a client with an impact claim, my own reputation is at stake too.”

  We check which claims the evidence supports, and which need rewording or dropping, using recognised frameworks and transparent methods.

• “An impact service line is hard to justify while I can’t prove the demand.”

  We co-deliver your first client projects with you, so you build capability and references at the same time.

• “Because of the Omnibus, what was right last year may not be right now.”

  We keep you up to date on standards and regulation, and translate changes into practical guidance for your clients.

What you may be wondering

• Is there really enough demand among my clients?

  You find out in the first engagements. We deliver those together, so you build knowledge and references at the same time.

• How quickly do I get an answer to a client question?

  We answer an expert question within 3 days. Then you know what to tell your client.

• Don’t the rules keep changing?

  Yes, including through the recent EU simplification. We translate those changes into what they mean for your client.

To read

• The CSRD after the Omnibus: what changed, and for whom

  The European reporting duty will apply to far fewer companies. What changed, for whom, and which questions remain.