Scalefocus wins Gold Stevie for carbon accounting technology

EU engineering company Scalefocus has won a Gold Stevie Award for its CarbonOps platform, an AI-enhanced technology solution designed to help businesses manage emissions data and meet increasingly complex environmental reporting requirements.

The award recognises Scalefocus CarbonOps in the Carbon Accounting / ESG Technology Solution category at the 2026 International Business Awards. More than 3,800 nominations from organisations across 78 countries were submitted for this year’s programme.

Scalefocus CarbonOps is designed to address a common challenge for companies preparing carbon disclosures: emissions data is often spread across operational and financial systems, making it difficult to collect, reconcile and report consistently.

The platform connects with systems including SCADA and IoT platforms, enterprise resource planning systems, utility invoices and spreadsheets. It brings the information into a common data model and calculates emissions across Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 from a single data entry.

The technology is designed to generate audit-ready reporting for multiple sustainability frameworks, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), EU Emissions Trading System Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (EU ETS MRV), the EU Methane Regulation, CDP and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).

Scalefocus said the approach is intended to reduce the need for businesses to repeatedly collect the same underlying emissions information whenever reporting requirements change. Instead, additional reporting frameworks can be configured using data already held within the platform.

“Every company we work with already has its emissions data. What it does not have is a way to reach that data without starting over for each new framework,” said Dafar Shaban, Senior Manager, Energy & Utilities at Scalefocus.

The CarbonOps platform uses AI-powered data ingestion to process information from invoices, sensor feeds and procurement records. It can identify potential outliers, duplicate entries and unit mismatches before activity data is passed to the emissions calculation engine.

The platform also includes a what-if simulation function, allowing companies to model the potential carbon impact of planned investments before making capital commitments. Examples include fleet electrification and switching to renewable power purchase agreements.

Scalefocus has also built an audit trail into the system. Individual activity records can be linked to source documents through an evidence hash, while reporting periods can be automatically locked after they are closed.

The platform supports both sovereign and private cloud deployment, allowing companies to keep sensitive business information within their own data environment.

The Gold Stevie recognition comes as companies face growing pressure to improve the accuracy, traceability and consistency of corporate emissions reporting. As sustainability regulations expand, businesses are increasingly looking for ways to integrate carbon accounting into existing operational systems rather than treating it as a separate reporting exercise.

For Scalefocus, the award highlights its focus on building the data infrastructure needed to connect operational activity with emissions reporting, while giving companies tools to assess the carbon implications of future business and investment decisions.