We offer customized sustainability playbooks to inform business, investment, and purchasing decisions.

The SPARCLE playbook aligns with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It provides actionable insights into the connections between a company’s sustainability performance, culture, purpose, and stakeholder governance on 'focal point' issues rapidly reshaping capitalism, the economy, and daily life.

The SPARCLE Playbooks

The SPARCLE playbooks empower companies and their key stakeholders—including customers, employees, and investors—to better understand, measure, and improve a company’s impacts on people and the planet.

SPARCLE offers:

A future-proof Sustainability Playbook for companies
Impact investing insights and analysis for investors
Exogenous event Thematic research for organizations
A Sustainable Living Playbook for consumers

We equip clients with the information, tools, and insights needed to distinguish companies—and their products and services—that SPARCLE from those that have lost their SPARC.

The SPARCLE Edge

Most sustainability research and rating agencies today focus on sustainability symptoms that appear in the headlines, including geopolitical conflicts, severe weather damage, water and food scarcity, biodiversity loss, and many other social and environmental calamities illustrated below.

SPARCLE is different. We start at the root problem behind today’s climate, inequality, and environmental crisis, which is at its core: The unsustainable extraction, consumption, and allocation of natural resources.

The SPARCLE scorecard draws from the UN SDGs and other globally recognized sustainability standards and frameworks (including the ISSB, CSRD, GRI, and others). It distills this into twenty categories we call ‘The Sustainability Imperatives’.

The SPARCLE scorecard measures a company’s performance on these twenty imperatives.

The Scorecard

The scorecard has two parts. The first part, Impact Frames, provides in-depth ‘bottom-up’ corporate sustainability research.

The Impact Frame scorecard goes far beyond traditional surface-level company research to assess a company’s net impacts on people and the planet across ten interconnected themes depicted below.

The second part of the SPARCLE scorecard overlays seven key determinants exhibited by future-proofed companies poised for success in today’s low-carbon, natural-resource-constrained, and geopolitically volatile world.

The SPARCLE model is designed to fully illuminate a company’s performance at managing its Stakeholders, Purpose, Authenticity, Reputation, Capital, Longtermism, and the Environment (its SPARCLE).

SPARCLE Empowers

The SPARCLE Playbook provides actionable insights needed to distinguish SPARCLE companies from those that have lost their SPARC or are approaching an inflection point that you can apply today.

Gain an in-depth understanding of the connections between company culture and 'focal point' issues that are rapidly reshaping capitalism, the economy, and our daily lives, such as: