The questionnaire marathon
EcoVadis, SEDEX, customer portals - and none of them accepts the others' answers. The same metrics, typed in ten times over.
Example: a 120-page EcoVadis report, hand-translated into every new customer format.
Your customers keep asking.
Always the same. Always anew.
Sustainability, ISO 27001, GDPR - every customer wants evidence, each in their own format, through their own portal. And every time someone on your side answers the same facts from scratch. That costs time you need elsewhere.
The problem ESG & sustainability Information security Data protection
Three topics, one pattern: the same work, over and over.
What used to be a niche is now mandatory for every supplier. And it is growing - in all three directions at once.
Audits without end
ISO 27001 evidence, security questionnaires from key accounts, TISAX. Expertise stuck in people's heads and scattered documents.
Example: every new enterprise customer sends its own security questionnaire with 200 questions.
GDPR on demand
Data processing agreements, TOMs, data-protection enquiries. Questions that overlap - yet are answered one by one every time.
Example: the same statement on access controls, once for ISO, once for GDPR.
The knowledge already exists in the company. It is just scattered - across heads, emails, old reports. That is the real pain: not missing knowledge, but knowledge you have to gather again every single time.
The idea
A foundation that keeps your knowledge clean once - and keeps itself current.
Instead of three separate tools for three topics, we build one shared knowledge foundation. It knows the origin and the status of every piece of information - and a product sits on top that works with it.
It fills itself Every question without an answer yet is answered once - and flows permanently back into the foundation. Mandatory work becomes accumulation.
It knows what it no longer knows for sure Every answer has an origin, an owner and a validity. Outdated content is flagged instead of quietly going wrong.
Tailored to your company Not a generic tool for everyone. The foundation speaks your language, knows your evidence, your structure.
Product layer
Questionnaire answerer · internal chatbot for the whole team · more surfaces later
Knowledge foundation
One maintained truth for ESG, information security and data protection - with origin & validity per data point
EcoVadis / SEDEX Policies & certificates ERP & live sources Answers from day-to-day work
The proof - using ESG as an example
Answer, complete, hand on - and the foundation grows.
The foundation answers most of it instantly. One open question is completed internally, once. And when an answer sits with a supplier, Evergreen forwards exactly the right question. Every answer flows back into the foundation.
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Knowledge foundation
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Runs once and stops - then you can step through it.
Three paths, one goal: answer instantly, complete internally, or ask the supplier. Every answer makes the foundation more complete - next questionnaire, it is already there.
Before we talk
Four questions to ask yourself.
No required fields, no form. If you nod at any of these, the conversation is worth it.
Which of the three topics - ESG, information security, data protection - costs you the most time right now?
How often do such questionnaires or evidence requests come in - per month?
How many people are involved until an answer goes out - and do they search again every time?
Is there someone who already has the overview - or is the knowledge spread across many heads?
That is exactly what we discuss in the meeting - on your specific setup, not in theory.
Let's talk
Every setup is different. So we start with a conversation.
We show you what the foundation could look like for your case - and whether it is worth it for you at all. Honest, no sales pressure.
Or drop us a line.
We will get back to you soon and suggest a time.