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ESG
Sep 8, 2026
5 min
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Less recurring data work, more time for impact: this is Tanso AI

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In many sustainability teams, most of the time doesn't go into strategy or implementing reduction measures. It goes into collecting, mapping, and substantiating data. Typing up invoices, tracking down the right emission factor, looking up the same value for the third time for a questionnaire, or consolidating consumption data across different sites and legal entities: these are the tasks that keep you from the work you took on ESG responsibility to do.

This is exactly where Tanso AI comes in: a range of specialized agents, each handling one concrete, recurring task. They grew out of our work with more than 300 industrial customers, built around real, manual ESG tasks from manufacturing companies.

On recurring tasks, customers save up to 70% of their time this way. Every agent works on your verified data and shows the source behind every result. You review and approve what gets used.

Your AI agent team for the biggest time sinks

Here's a selection of our specialized agents:

Agent Description
Document Extraction Agent Reads energy and supplier invoices, delivery notes, and travel receipts as PDF, image, or scan, and turns them into structured activity data.
Emission Factor Agent Maps activity data to the right emission factor from the Tanso database, with reasoning and a source for every factor.
Data Quality Agent Flags outliers, gaps, unit errors, double counts, and unusual year-over-year jumps before the report closes, with an explanation for each flag.
Report Drafting Agent Drafts disclosure text for the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) from your structured and unstructured data, and links every figure back to its source in the Tanso platform.
Questionnaire Agent Answers EcoVadis, CDP, bank, and customer ESG questionnaires from your existing Tanso data and document library, with linked evidence for each answer.
PCF Agent Builds a first Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) from bill of materials, manufacturing routing, and production data from ERP and PLM systems, aligned with ISO 14067 and ISO 14040/44.

Audit-ready AI you can trust

Saving time isn't worth much if the result doesn't hold up under review. That's why Tanso AI is built for traceability from the ground up:

  • A solid data foundation. Tanso AI works on your own verified data and the Tanso emission factor database, not on generic internet knowledge. Your data never trains third-party models.
  • Built and hosted in Germany. GDPR-compliant and ISO/IEC 27001-certified, with data hosted in Germany and a TÜV Rheinland-certified methodology.
  • Human control by default. Tanso AI proposes, it doesn't decide on its own. No agent writes results into your balance sheet or report before a person has reviewed and approved them.
  • No black box, audit-ready by design. Every AI-assisted action is flagged and backed by its source. You can see what a result is based on and trace it back to the original document or dataset. Results come with source, context, and an approval step, and hold up under review.

What this means in practice

Here's what customers using the AI agents in their daily work have to say:

“The Report Drafting Agent gave us direct suggestions for 140 of 166 VSME Standard data points. That noticeably sped up our first draft and was genuinely helpful throughout the reporting process.“
Katharina Garza
Katharina Garza
Head of Corporate Responsibility at KTR Systems GmbH

“The automatic pre-filling from our documents through Tanso AI creates significant efficiency gains in our ESG data collection.“
Siema Lange
Siema Lange
Sustainability Manager at Alberdingk Boley GmbH

Tanso fits into your AI strategy, not the other way around

The Tanso agents work directly within the Tanso platform. If your organization uses its own AI systems, the Tanso MCP Server (Model Context Protocol) lets them query ESG data from Tanso securely and live, without custom integration. Any AI frontend, whether Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or your own AI agent, connects to Tanso through the standard. Tanso's access permissions apply to AI agents as well, read-only by default, with every query logged. Your ERP stays the system of record, and no new data silo is created.

Tanso AI is available now

Interested in a demo? We'll walk you through Tanso AI in a 30-minute conversation.

Already a Tanso customer? Talk to your Customer Success Manager to identify the right agents for your biggest time sinks.

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