
ESG Research Services
We Find, Extract, Verify, and Structure ESG Data Points from Disclosures, Filings, and Public Sources
- For ESG platforms, rating agencies, and index constructors
- Coverage across 100+ Environmental, Social, and Governance Sustainability Metrics
- Clean, framework-mapped data delivered in your schema
- Trained analysts for ESG data sourcing, extraction, validation, and standardization
Can Your ESG Rating/Score/Data Survive a Challenge from a Regulator?
If a regulator, client, or journalist questions a single unverified data point, will your rating methodology and underlying data foundation (and by extension, your reputation in the market) hold?
Generic web scraping and "black-box" data aggregation are massive compliance liabilities for ESG rating and scoring firms. Automated bots break down when faced with fragmented, heavily unstructured, and unreliable disclosures. Additionally, unsupported estimates and a lack of data transparency erode the defensibility of your ratings and benchmarks under regulatory scrutiny.
Our ESG data research services protect your platform from the liabilities of sloppy sustainability data collection. We are the human-intelligence engine behind top-tier ESG rating platforms, scoring models, and benchmarking software. Our team extracts, cleans, and structures raw data from public disclosures and regulatory filings to feed your internal pipelines, built strictly around your unique taxonomy.
Line-by-Line Data Provenance
100% defensible against greenwashing challenges, regulatory audits, or investor investigations.
Schema-Ready Data Integration
Delivered in your proprietary schema, required transport protocols, and file formats (JSON, CSV, or direct API).
Humans-in-the-AI-Loop
Specialists aligned to process unstructured PDFs, complex local regulatory registries, or non-English disclosures.
Auditable and Accurate ESG Data for Rating Agencies
Our ESG research services solve the industry’s biggest data challenges—unstructured formatting, reporting gaps, and opaque disclosures. We eliminate the operational burden on your team, providing a fully traceable data foundation aligned with your compliance and methodology needs.
Environmental Data Collection Services
We research and compile data related to emissions, resource use, and waste generation (such as greenhouse gas emissions, air pollutants, water withdrawal, etc.). Each figure is sourced from company disclosures, filings, or public environmental data, and logged with its source, so your reporting team can trace where every number came from. Where a company reports emissions under a different scope boundary than your taxonomy expects, we flag the mismatch for your reference.
Social Data Collection
We aggregate workforce and welfare data directly from corporate sustainability reports, public filings, and disclosures. This includes key ESG metrics such as headcount by gender, women in management, injury and fatality rates, trade union representation, employee turnover, and workforce growth. Because reporting timelines vary across organizations, we anchor every data point with its specific disclosure date and a verifiable source document trail to ensure full traceability.
Governance Data Collection
Corporate governance data is most often buried in dense legal-filing language. Our team manually reviews and collects such records by researching board composition, audit fees, litigation expenses, lobbying, and political donations. Additionally, we evaluate core corporate frameworks, including codes of conduct, human rights commitments, anti-corruption measures, and environmental policies, to deliver a clear picture of corporate accountability.
Exposure Data Research
We assess corporate exposure to critical ESG risks by mapping company operations against geographic, sector-specific, and supply-chain vulnerabilities. Our team tracks operational footprints to identify assets located in water-stressed regions, high-biodiversity zones, or areas prone to severe climate events. We also research involvement (direct production and indirect participation) in controversial weapons, tobacco, gambling, or sanctioned regions, needed to evaluate systemic risk.
Data Calculation & Estimation
When gaps or anomalies exist in public corporate disclosures, we apply industry-standard estimation methodologies to complete your dataset. Whether calculating Scope 3 emissions based on procurement spend or estimating energy consumption using regional and sector averages, our calculations are fully transparent. Every estimated data point is clearly flagged, paired with the underlying formula and the raw data points used, so that you can verify the chain of logic behind each estimation.
Web Data Extraction
Sustainability disclosures are fragmented across websites with inconsistent architectures, unstructured PDF-only reports, and restrictive regulatory portals. Rather than relying on generic web crawlers that miss critical details, we deploy a hybrid approach combining custom automated scraping scripts with targeted manual research. This ensures we extract the exact data required and can maintain a verifiable audit trail.
Data Verification and Validation
To ensure data accuracy, every collected data point undergoes cross-checking against independent secondary sources before delivery. When data discrepancies occur, we intentionally log and preserve the mismatch, providing your team with total visibility into where and why specific disclosures are contested or inconsistent.
Data Cleansing and Standardization
Raw ESG data arrives in a chaotic mix of units, naming conventions, and reporting metrics. We normalize all data points, standardize metrics, currency conversions, units of measure, and date formats, and resolve duplicate or conflicting records, delivering a clean, uniform dataset that integrates seamlessly into your existing infrastructure.
Environmental Data Collection Services
We research and compile data related to emissions, resource use, and waste generation (such as greenhouse gas emissions, air pollutants, water withdrawal, etc.). Each figure is sourced from company disclosures, filings, or public environmental data, and logged with its source, so your reporting team can trace where every number came from. Where a company reports emissions under a different scope boundary than your taxonomy expects, we flag the mismatch for your reference.
Exposure Data Research
We assess corporate exposure to critical ESG risks by mapping company operations against geographic, sector-specific, and supply-chain vulnerabilities. Our team tracks operational footprints to identify assets located in water-stressed regions, high-biodiversity zones, or areas prone to severe climate events. We also research involvement (direct production and indirect participation) in controversial weapons, tobacco, gambling, or sanctioned regions, needed to evaluate systemic risk.
Data Verification and Validation
To ensure data accuracy, every collected data point undergoes cross-checking against independent secondary sources before delivery. When data discrepancies occur, we intentionally log and preserve the mismatch, providing your team with total visibility into where and why specific disclosures are contested or inconsistent.
Social Data Collection
We aggregate workforce and welfare data directly from corporate sustainability reports, public filings, and disclosures. This includes key ESG metrics such as headcount by gender, women in management, injury and fatality rates, trade union representation, employee turnover, and workforce growth. Because reporting timelines vary across organizations, we anchor every data point with its specific disclosure date and a verifiable source document trail to ensure full traceability.
Data Calculation & Estimation
When gaps or anomalies exist in public corporate disclosures, we apply industry-standard estimation methodologies to complete your dataset. Whether calculating Scope 3 emissions based on procurement spend or estimating energy consumption using regional and sector averages, our calculations are fully transparent. Every estimated data point is clearly flagged, paired with the underlying formula and the raw data points used, so that you can verify the chain of logic behind each estimation.
Data Cleansing and Standardization
Raw ESG data arrives in a chaotic mix of units, naming conventions, and reporting metrics. We normalize all data points, standardize metrics, currency conversions, units of measure, and date formats, and resolve duplicate or conflicting records, delivering a clean, uniform dataset that integrates seamlessly into your existing infrastructure.
Governance Data Collection
Corporate governance data is most often buried in dense legal-filing language. Our team manually reviews and collects such records by researching board composition, audit fees, litigation expenses, lobbying, and political donations. Additionally, we evaluate core corporate frameworks, including codes of conduct, human rights commitments, anti-corruption measures, and environmental policies, to deliver a clear picture of corporate accountability.
Web Data Extraction
Sustainability disclosures are fragmented across websites with inconsistent architectures, unstructured PDF-only reports, and restrictive regulatory portals. Rather than relying on generic web crawlers that miss critical details, we deploy a hybrid approach combining custom automated scraping scripts with targeted manual research. This ensures we extract the exact data required and can maintain a verifiable audit trail.
Go from Fragmented Disclosure Data to an Audit-Ready Trail for ESG Ratings
By combining strict data sourcing, specialized human intelligence, and automated validation gates, we transform scattered corporate disclosures into a highly structured, auditable data stream designed to withstand the scrutiny of investors and regulators alike while protecting ESG rating agencies, scoring firms, index constructors, and third-party data providers from compliance liabilities.
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ESG Data Collection Scope Mapping
With your team, we determine your target reporting frameworks (e.g., CSRD, SFDR, ISSB), the required metric taxonomy, and strict source boundaries—establishing exactly which public disclosures, regulatory registries, or internal systems are in-scope for ESG data collection.
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ESG Research & Sustainability Data Collection
Our team collects ESG data across all predefined sources, processes fragmented page architectures by updating scrapers frequently, and extracts data from unstructured documents. We also process global, non-English disclosures without sacrificing delivery speed or accuracy, while creating an audit trail for each data point.
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Data Verification & Validation
The collected data is programmatically matched against secondary registries and peer benchmarks. If a metric triggers an anomaly alert or conflicts with a historical filing, the data point is isolated. The QA lead routes these contested figures into a dedicated "Exception Log," alerting your team with a clear comparative breakdown.
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Schema-Ready Integration
The validated data is cleaned, standardized, and mapped to your custom data schema, with required transport protocols and file formats (structured JSON, optimized CSVs, or direct API integration). The finalized dataset is integrated seamlessly into your production environment, ready for immediate use by your analytics models and scoring engines.
ESG Data Collection Services across 100+ Metrics
Our research infrastructure is built to capture raw data points across every major sustainability pillar, from quantitative ESG metrics to qualitative ESG policies. Whether you need to populate carbon accounting models or evaluate corporate governance risks, our team targets the exact data fields that drive institutional analysis.
Environmental Research Services
We track down and compile operational footprint data from primary disclosures, environmental registries, and climate filings. Our research focuses on quantitative resource consumption, emissions outputs, and waste management practices. Every collected data point is anchored to its specific unit of measure and reporting boundary, giving your team the exact numbers needed to calculate environmental impact, track net-zero pathways, and run climate risk modeling.
Employee diversity
Gender representation, women in management, workforce diversity ratios, and DEI initiatives.
Working conditions & satisfaction
Employee turnover, lost working days, workplace satisfaction levels, and labor practice disclosures.
Health & safety for employees
Injury rates, fatalities, safety incidents, and occupational health & safety policies.
CSR data collection
Corporate philanthropy, community engagement, employee volunteering, and broader social impact initiatives.
Social policies
Policies on child labor, forced labor, whistleblower protection, and grievance redressal.
Society & human rights
Union representation, human rights due diligence, and community impact initiatives.
Human rights & supplier ethics
Supplier codes, ethical sourcing, contractors, and supply chain working conditions.
Diversity & inclusion
Gender pay gap data, equal opportunity disclosures, diversity targets.
Product responsibility
Product quality management systems, safety standards, and responsible lifecycle policies.
Customer experience
Customer data privacy policies, consumer rights, and service quality commitments.
ESG Frameworks and Reporting Standards We Map Data To
ESG platforms aligned with globally recognized industry standards (like CSRD, ISSB, SASB, or SFDR) rely on explicit metric definitions to calculate sustainability scores. But each of these strict regulatory blueprints demands completely different metrics and units. For instance, while SASB might require industry-specific Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions in metric tons, SFDR demands carbon footprints scaled to investment value, and CSRD insists on broad double-materiality metrics. Our third-party ESG data research services translate and format raw data points to match the exact compliance schemas your specific coverage requires, ensuring a directly ingestible data feed.
Scaling Research and Compliance for ESG Rating & Scoring Agencies
Discover how global rating agencies, sustainability software vendors, and impact reporting platforms scale their coverage, eliminate tracking bottlenecks, and secure compliance by outsourcing ESG research services.
Engineering Real-Time Reliability with ESG Data Research Services
When collecting data for ESG ratings, relying purely on annual sustainability reports creates an invisible blind spot: you get data that was technically accurate at the time of filing, but could be six to twelve months out of date at the time of extraction. That’s because self-reported annual and sustainability reports update just once a year
Preserving Data Lineage in the Absence of Declared Data across Disclosures
If a greenwashing regulator or an institutional investor challenges a data point that supports your ESF ratings, you must be able to defend it. That is the capability Data-Entry-India offers. We act as the disciplined, human execution engine for your methodology, giving you a 100% auditable trail that you can confidently stand behind.
Security & Compliance
ISO Certified
HIPAA Compliance
GDPR Adherence
Regular Security Audits
Encrypted Data Transmission
Secure Cloud Storage
Market Research Data Collection Services, Adaptable to Your Industry’s Complexities
While market research support services (such as data extraction or data processing) follow a structured technical framework, the operational approach varies significantly depending on the industry being studied. Depending on how accessible the data is in your vertical, our B2B market research company adjusts its approach to ensure the best possible results for your project.
Energy & Utilities
Oil & Gas
Chemicals
Finance & Banking
Real Estate
Mining & Metals
Manufacturing
Transportation & Logistics
Insurance
Technology
Telecommunications
Healthcare & Pharma
Retail & Consumer Goods
Food & Agriculture
Tourism & Hospitality
ESG Research & Sustainability Data Collection
for Ratings, Benchmarks, and Analytics
ESG data buyers operate on diverse methodologies, so a dataset that powers a benchmarking tool will fail if plugged into a real-time controversy monitor. That is why we align our ESG research services with the specific data sources, verification & estimation methodologies, and data update frequency you require, delivering data built exclusively for your production environment.
Corporate ESG Scoring Platforms
We help you expand your coverage into new industries or countries by finding, translating, and organizing data across localized disclosures and web sources.
Sustainability Benchmarking Tools
We build reliable peer-group datasets for side-by-side comparisons by mapping the data for all entities in that bundle to the same metric definitions/framework.
Private-Company ESG Data Providers
Our ESG research team builds ESG profiles for private companies with no disclosure obligations by tracking down voluntary sustainability reports, local news, and verified public records.
ESG Controversy and Risk Monitoring Platforms
Our exposure research service team collects data on news, regulatory action, and public records tied to a company's environmental, social, or governance conduct, to identify suspicious activities.
Impact Reporting Platforms
We provide sustainability data collection services to platforms that compile and present a company's ESG performance to its own stakeholders, with a clear source-document trail.
Sustainability Technology Platforms
When your corporate clients lack the resources to upload their own legacy data, our team handles the back-end extraction and migration to get their records live on your platform faster.
A Complete Suite of Research & Intelligence Services for Enterprise Teams
Our team offers 360-degree support to sales and marketing teams — clean existing data, enrich lead records, verify data before appending, build segmented lists based on custom criteria, and supply the market context for targeted outreach — so you can run campaigns confidently.
Scale Coverage, Stay Compliant—With an ESG Research Company
Don't wait for an auditor, investor, or journalist to expose an unverified metric on your platform or in your ratings. Handover ESG data extraction to our specialized sustainability research team. From environmental, social, and governance research services to exposure research and estimation, we deliver every ESG data research-related requirement.
See the research before you commit to it. Send us a short list of companies and the metrics you need, and we will return a sample dataset structured to your framework — no engagement required to evaluate it.







