Upright Launches Free AI-Driven Double Materiality Assessment Tool

Impact data company Upright announced the launch of a free double materiality assessment tool that produces full CSRD-aligned assessments from a company URL in minutes, covering all 80-plus European Sustainability Reporting Standards topics. Enterprise features including peer benchmarking, financial impact translation, and collaborative workflows are available through an upgrade.

Double materiality — a hallmark feature of the EU's CSRD — requires companies to assess and report both the financial risks that sustainability issues pose to the enterprise and the enterprise's own impacts on environment and society. Upright's solution automates this dual assessment by drawing on the company's product and service data sourced from online information, matching it against global scientific research, public databases, and value chain impact models within the Upright engine, then running results through a DMA framework built on hundreds of detailed sustainability questions. The output can be refined with company-specific information including detailed product data and revenue splits.

Traditional DMA processes are resource-intensive, typically requiring months of consultant-led stakeholder engagement and internal data collection before a company can complete even a basic materiality assessment. Upright's tool aims to compress this to a near-instant baseline that sustainability teams can then refine rather than build from scratch. The free access model is designed to maximize adoption across companies that have not yet initiated their CSRD journeys, including many smaller European companies and international companies assessing their EU reporting obligations.

For Indian companies with EU operations or European supply chain customers requiring sustainability disclosures, the availability of a free, automated DMA tool represents a significant reduction in the cost and effort of initiating CSRD compliance. Upright described the DMA as the first in a series of real-time applications it plans to introduce, with investor-focused versions already in development. The company's broader argument — that objective third-party impact data provides more reliable materiality assessments than self-reported company data — aligns with a growing debate in sustainability disclosure circles about the limitations of company-led sustainability reporting.

Key figure — 80+ ESRS topics covered in the automated DMA assessment