Pro vs SME: Which platform is right for you?

Pro Platform

The Pro platform is designed for capital allocators, particularly in private markets, who need to rapidly assess environmental and social risks across individual assets and portfolios.

Vested Impact enables investment teams to generate auditable, science-backed and comparable environmental and social risk insights in minutes — supporting faster screening, deeper due diligence, and more defensible investment decisions. Our assessments cover over 150 topics and are grounded in evidence from 200M+ academic papers and 100M+ independent impact data points, linked directly to real-world business activities.

Vested Impact equips private market investors with objective risk intelligence to:

• ACCELERATE SCREENING & DUE DILIGENCE: Rapidly assess environmental and social risk at asset and portfolio level without manual research.
• GAIN LOOK-THROUGH ON UNDERLYING EXPOSURES: Identify material risks across sectors, geographies, and industries, even where disclosure is limited.
• SUPPORT AUDITABLE INVESTMENT DECISIONS: Provide transparent, evidence-linked outputs that stand up to IC scrutiny, LP questions, and regulatory review.
• MANAGE PORTFOLIO-LEVEL RISK & OPPORTUNITY: Consistently compare assets, monitor risk concentrations, and surface engagement or mitigation priorities.

The Pro platform is built for investment workflows - integrating into screening, due diligence, and portfolio analysis.

SME Platform

The SME (Small & Medium Enterprise) platform is designed for businesses that want to understand the environmental and social risks and impacts of their own products, services and operations.

Vested Impact enables SMEs to generate an auditable, science-based, and context-specific impact and risk assessment in minutes, without detailed surveys, consultants, or complex data collection. Assessments are grounded in evidence from 200M+ academic papers and 100M+ independent impact data points, linked to business activities, sectors, and geographies.

Using minimal inputs (i.e. business activity, location and high-level financial data), SMEs receive a clear, objective profile of their environmental and social risks and impacts, including evidence-linked justification that can be used internally or shared externally.

The SME platform helps businesses to:

• WIN BUSINESS AND GROW: Evidence environmental and social performance for customers, procurement processes, and partnerships.
• ACCESS FINANCING AND INVESTORS: Provide credible, decision-ready impact and risk data to banks, lenders, and impact-oriented investors.
• EVIDENCE AND COMMUNICATE IMPACT: Support impact narratives with transparent, science-backed evidence rather than self-reported claims.
• IDENTIFY AND MITIGATE POTENTIAL RISKS: Understand where operational, environmental, or social risks may arise and where impact opportunities exist.

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SME vs Pro: Platform Selector

Which platform is right for you?

​	SME Platform	Pro Platform
Designed for	Small & medium enterprises	Capital allocators with multiple assets
Primary user	Business owners, operators, sustainability leads	Investment teams, ICs, risk teams
What you assess	Your own company’s products, services and operations	Individual assets and portfolios, as well as aggregated funds, portfolios and groups
Primary use case	Self-assessment, regulatory compliance, communication, financing	Screening, due diligence, portfolio risk
Speed	Minutes per company	Minutes per asset or portfolio
Look-through	Activity- and geography-level insight into your own products, services and operations	Activity-, geography-, and industry-level insight across all assets and portfolios
Outputs	Company-level impact & risk profile with supporting evidence	Asset- and portfolio-level risk insights comparable across deals, with supporting evidence
Best fit if you are…	Assessing, reporting and communicating your own impact	Allocating capital and managing risk across diverse investments and markets

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