Materiality Assessments That Drive Strategy
Move beyond static, once-a-year materiality exercises. ESG:ONE enables dynamic, data-driven materiality assessments — including CSRD-aligned double materiality — that continuously inform your ESG strategy, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
The CSRD and ESRS have made double materiality assessment a regulatory requirement for thousands of European companies. ESG:ONE provides the structured workflows, stakeholder engagement tools, and analytical capabilities to conduct rigorous materiality assessments that satisfy regulators, inform strategy, and engage stakeholders meaningfully.
Book a DemoWhy Traditional Materiality Fails
Most materiality assessments are conducted as annual compliance exercises that produce a static matrix and gather dust until next year. They fail to reflect the dynamic nature of ESG risks and opportunities, and rarely connect to strategic decision-making.
Annual materiality assessments become outdated within months as the regulatory landscape, stakeholder expectations, and business context evolve
Stakeholder engagement is limited to a small number of interviews or a single survey round — producing results that lack statistical validity and broad representation
Single materiality approaches only consider impact on enterprise value, ignoring the organisation's impact on people and the environment — a gap that CSRD explicitly addresses
Results sit in a PowerPoint presentation rather than being integrated into strategy, target-setting, risk management, and reporting workflows
There is no audit trail for how topics were scored, weighted, and prioritised — making it difficult to demonstrate rigour to auditors and regulators
Competing frameworks define materiality differently, forcing teams to run separate exercises for GRI, ISSB, and CSRD rather than building on a unified assessment
Key Benefits
Dynamic, Continuous Assessment
Replace static annual exercises with a living materiality assessment that updates as new data, regulations, and stakeholder inputs emerge. Set materiality review triggers based on regulatory changes, market events, or stakeholder feedback to ensure your assessment remains current and relevant.
Scalable Stakeholder Engagement
Engage hundreds or thousands of stakeholders through configurable digital surveys, structured interviews, and workshop facilitation tools. Weight responses by stakeholder group, expertise, and relevance to produce statistically valid and representative materiality results.
CSRD Double Materiality
Conduct ESRS-aligned double materiality assessments that evaluate both financial materiality (impact on enterprise value) and impact materiality (impact on people and the environment). Structured workflows guide you through the CSRD's specific requirements for identifying and assessing impacts, risks, and opportunities.
Multi-Framework Alignment
Map materiality results across CSRD/ESRS, GRI, ISSB, and other frameworks simultaneously. Conduct one assessment process and produce framework-specific materiality outputs — eliminating duplicate work while ensuring each framework's specific requirements are met.
Strategy Integration
Connect materiality results directly to target-setting, KPI definition, risk management, and reporting workflows within ESG:ONE. Ensure that material topics drive actual business action — not just disclosure — by linking assessments to strategic planning and performance tracking.
Interactive Visualisation
Generate interactive materiality matrices that stakeholders can explore by topic, dimension, stakeholder group, and time period. Create board-ready visualisations that communicate complex materiality results clearly and support informed strategic decision-making.
Platform Capabilities
Stakeholder Surveys & Engagement
- Configurable digital surveys with topic-specific questions and contextual guidance
- Multi-stakeholder group management with customised survey versions by audience
- Anonymous and attributed response options with real-time completion tracking
- Structured interview templates and workshop facilitation guides for qualitative input
- Multi-language survey support for global stakeholder engagement programmes
Impact & Financial Scoring
- Structured scoring frameworks for both impact materiality and financial materiality
- Configurable scoring criteria aligned with ESRS IRO (Impacts, Risks, Opportunities) assessment
- Severity and likelihood assessment for negative impacts following CSRD guidance
- Scale, scope, and irremediability evaluation for human rights and environmental impacts
- Financial quantification of risks and opportunities linked to material topics
Matrix Generation & Analysis
- Automated generation of single and double materiality matrices from stakeholder and expert input
- Dynamic filtering by stakeholder group, geography, business unit, and assessment period
- Threshold configuration for determining which topics qualify as material under each framework
- Year-over-year comparison showing how materiality priorities have shifted
- Statistical analysis of stakeholder response patterns and consensus levels
CSRD & Framework Alignment
- Pre-loaded ESRS topical standards mapped to materiality assessment topics
- Gap analysis identifying which ESRS disclosure requirements apply based on materiality results
- GRI Standards alignment with topic-specific Standard recommendations based on material topics
- ISSB sustainability-related financial disclosure mapping for material climate and sustainability topics
- Audit trail documenting the entire materiality assessment process for assurance readiness
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See how ESG:ONE transforms materiality from a static compliance exercise into a dynamic strategic tool — fully aligned with CSRD double materiality requirements.