Upright Launches AI for Quantifying Sustainability Impact

Upright’s AI Model Transforms Sustainability Data

Impact data company Upright has launched a new vertically-trained AI model designed to quantify sustainability impacts, risks, and opportunities for companies and investors. This new large language model (LLM) moves beyond traditional corporate disclosures, basing its impact quantification on robust scientific evidence.

The model aims to transform sustainability from a backward-looking reporting exercise into a forward-looking decision-making tool.

Future-Focused Decision Making

Upright Co-founder and CEO Annu Nieminen stated the model provides a future-looking tool by quantifying impacts in monetary terms and enabling scenario modeling. The LLM will power Upright’s platform, offering real-time assessments for any company, fund, or portfolio.

• Key applications include double materiality, climate risk assessment, financial effects, net impact, EU Taxonomy, SFDR PAIs, and UN SDG analysis.
• Users can integrate their own data and business context.
• It allows benchmarking against peers and assessing risks.

Juho Ojala, Co-founder and CTO, highlighted the model’s ability to maintain coherence across comparisons and ground conclusions in scientific evidence, addressing data sparsity in impact-size questions.