Show HN: AI Agent for ESG analysis
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Jul 9, 2025 12:35
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Summary
A new AI agent prototype is being developed to automate ESG analysis by extracting GHG emissions data from corporate websites, significantly speeding up a process that is typically manual and time-consuming. The tool allows users to trace extracted data back to its source documents and aims to overcome challenges like restricted downloads from certain companies. This project highlights AI's growing role in scalable, transparent ESG data extraction and its potential for broader, customizable metric analysis.
We are developing agents for doing ESG analysis at scale. For this prototype, we looked at the use case of finding GHG emissions numbers for companies from their corporate websites, which takes a long time due to the large size of the documents when done manually. Please try a few companies and keen to get some response. You can also click on the numbers and see where the information came from, down to the page of the docs. Some things we are working on: 1. Robust downloads from companies who actively prevent downloads like Tesla and Saudi Aramco 2. Expanding this to be more general purpose where the user can specify which metrics they want to extract. Thanks! @MartianMan Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44509280 Points: 1 # Comments: 0