The Upright Project

Most sustainability metrics tell investors how well companies talk about their impact, not what that impact actually is. The Upright Project was founded on the premise that science, not corporate reporting, should determine how company impact gets measured. Its proprietary Net Impact Model quantifies the positive and negative effects of companies’ core business activities across society, health, environment, and knowledge dimensions, producing a single net impact score per company.

For investment teams with ESG or impact mandates, Upright addresses several distinct workflow needs:

• Net impact scoring across 10,000+ companies, drawn from open science rather than self-reported data
• EU taxonomy alignment, SFDR, CSRD double materiality assessments, and SDG mapping
• A self-service double materiality assessment tool for CSRD compliance, described as the market’s most data-driven option
• Open-access company profiles, freely available on the Upright platform
• Datasets and API access for data platforms and institutional users

Clients shown on the site include EQT, Nordea, LGT Capital Partners, Royal London Asset Management, Azimut, the European Investment Bank, and the European Investment Fund, suggesting the product is used across institutional investors and large asset managers rather than exclusively family offices. The data model’s independence from company sustainability reporting is the central differentiator: coverage does not depend on whether a company publishes sustainability disclosures, which matters for private credit and smaller listed companies where disclosure quality is uneven.

Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The platform appears primarily designed for institutional investment teams managing public and private market portfolios with regulatory reporting obligations. Family offices without formal SFDR or CSRD exposure may find limited immediate use for the compliance-oriented modules.