Simple AI - How It Works

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The world can see the carbon problem. It cannot pinpoint where emissions actually happen. More than thirty standards now demand the same thing. CSRD, SBTi, CBAM, IFRS: prove your CO2e numbers with accurate and auditable data, not estimates. For most companies, the emissions are not inside the building. On average, the supply chain is twenty-six times larger than a company's own operations. And the data behind it sits with thousands of suppliers. Today most of that data is estimated: money spent, times an average industry factor. That number moves with prices and margins, not with emissions. Supplier questionnaires and one-off product studies close a fraction of the gap - slowly and manually. The data already exists. It sits on your invoices, your quotations, your delivery notes, and in your ERP or financial software. Simple reads it, and calculates CO2e for every single line item. Here is a new company on our cloud app, with no data imported yet. Drag in PDF invoices or folders, or connect your ERP through our API. Scanned paper invoices and photos work too. We built Simple for companies of any size, from paper-based small businesses to fully digital enterprises, with minimal setup. Step one: Simple AI reads every line on every document. It identifies the lines that carry a physical activity, and separates out the ones that do not, discounts, fees, rounding, positions without a quantity. Nothing is silently dropped. Every line stays visible and traceable. Step two: close the data gaps. Here is a delivery of round steel piles, invoiced in pieces. The emission factor requires kilograms. Simple takes the dimensions from the line item, derives the weight from volume and steel density, and carries that conversion through into the calculation, with a complete audit trail. Thousands of these calculations run in parallel. Step three: every line is matched against our emission factor library, around 700,000 factors from scientific sources. Simple employs a data quality waterfall. First, supplier-specific primary data: EPDs and PCFs. Then activity-based factors on real quantities and materials. And where a line item carries no usable quantity, it uses spend-based, as a disclosed fallback. Every calculation logs which tier it used, and which source the factor came from. That is the audit trail behind every number. Now the dashboard. The total footprint across all three scopes. Scope 1, emissions from burning fuels. Scope 2, electricity, heat, steam and cooling. Scope 3, the supply chain, in this example ninety percent of the footprint. Below that, every scope is broken down into GHG Protocol categories. Purchased goods and services, transport, business travel, energy. Every transaction is assigned automatically. And from that company overview, you can go into detail all the way down. By supplier. By article. By material. By scope and category. By site and period. Down to one line item on one original document. Here, a concrete delivery: the detected lines, the matched dataset, the CO2e for each position, next to the scan of the paper invoice it came from. From here it goes straight into a report, with charts, ready for the supplier conversation, the reporting cycle, or the auditor. And it does not have to wait for the invoice. Simple processes quotations the same way. That means CO2e sits next to the price while the procurement decision is still open, not twelve months later in a report. The same engine works at product level. From a bill of materials, Simple generates a screening-level product carbon footprint automatically, with verified EPDs available through our partner network. This is what changes. From once a year, 12 months in the rearview, to continuously available emissions, like financial data. From one blended number for the whole company, to article by material by supplier. From estimated based on prices, to activity-based on real quantities. Companies can stop worrying about reporting carbon and start steering it. Reductions become actionable, because you can finally see where the tons actually sit. Simple makes carbon data as available as financial data is today. An essential business tool, not only a compliance exercise. Simple. Making carbon visible.