London, England, United Kingdom
Transforming ESG compliance from costly obligation to ethical opportunity through automation that redirects corporate spending toward sustainability, fair labour, and local prosperity.
Proof of Concept
Last update: October 05, 2023
The world is burning, poverty is surging, and in our technocratic autocracy corporations bear a disproportionate share of responsibility. ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) frameworks exist to address these issues, but compliance is a costly, constantly evolving, complex, and fragmented bureaucratic burden rather than a tool for impact. Businesses spend millions interpreting regulations, leaving little for implementation.
Corporations are also facing converging pressures: new EU directives (CSRD, CSDDD), escalating litigation (the Finch and Klimaseniorinnen cases), and reputational damage up to 6% of annual share value for ESG failures. Corporations and lawyers tell us they want compliance simplified. From living in their failure, we know they need to be compliant at a minimum.
The current ESG economy mirrors the Wealth Defence Industry: knowledge is concentrated among consultants and lawyers, value is extracted through interpretation, and impact is delayed. Compliance knowledge has become a luxury commodity. This dynamic entrenches the very concentration of wealth, power, and bodily/planatary safety that ESG frameworks were meant to challenge.
Our challenge is to reverse this dynamic. We aim to make ESG understanding and compliance accessible and affordable, enabling corporations to redirect compliance budgets away from legal interpretation and toward tangible ethical action. In doing so, we turn compliance itself into a reinvestment engine for equity and sustainability.
Our work directly aligns with the Wealth Hack Initiative’s mission to challenge systems that centralise wealth, knowledge, and technological power. We’re building an ethical platform that makes ESG compliance dramatically faster, simpler, and more affordable. We automate understanding so resources are free for measurable action. In doing so we turn ESG compliance into a reinvestment engine, a trim tab capable of redirecting the machinery of business toward transparency, sustainability, and collective prosperity.
Our early prototype already includes an ESG Dashboard and Chatbot, with work underway on the template generator. With the Wealth Hack Initiative’s support, our next milestone is a deployable beta capable of automatically:
1. identifying relevant jurisdiction(s);
2. mapping every applicable ESG obligation to that company;
3. producing a report for that company, assessing compliance status;
4. recommending ethical small-business partners to remedy non-compliance; and
5. pre-filling regulatory reports.
A public-perception tracker also surfaces real-time insights from open data, turning compliance from a reactive exercise into a transparent, proactive system for continuous improvement.
Redistribution and Empowerment
By automating compliance mapping and interpretation, our platform significantly lowers the cost of ESG compliance. Corporations can understand obligations at a fraction of current cost, freeing capital for ethical action. The system redistributes wealth through compliance and diverts it from WDI consultants and lawyers.
We target the corporations whose ESG budgets, behaviours, and supply chains shape global standards. When they redirect even a fraction of compliance spending from interpretation to implementation, the effects cascade: workers gain protections and wealth; suppliers adopt ethical practices and access ESG-compliant procurement markets worth billions; and local economies capture new value, with smaller businesses benefiting.
Ethical Infrastructure
We hold ourselves to the same standards we demand of others. All our systems will be locally hosted, renewable-powered, and built exclusively on open-source, ethically licensed models. We refuse reliance on extractive platforms like Google, Meta, or OpenAI. The result is infrastructure that embodies its principles: transparency, justice, and equity.
Team Capability
Our team combines legal precision, technical innovation, and lived experience of systemic exclusion. The founder brings a dual background in law and AI innovation. Having won “Most Creative Solution” at King’s College London’s Generative AI Hackathon and specialising in Environmental Law, they’ve developed prototypes including an ESG dashboard, compliance chatbot, and semantic search system entirely without external funding. Their work helping represent states at the International Court of Justice, Pacific island communities with the International Seabed Authority, and co-authoring the forthcoming UK Methane Climate Remedies Report demonstrates regulatory fluency and the ability to deliver. As a first-generation graduate who has experienced homelessness and works across queerness, disability, and racial diversity, the founder builds technology for equity, not exclusion.
We are currently shortlisting a Technical Lead with experience in AI/ML and compliance systems, drawing from both academic collaborators and open-source developers to ensure resilience and ethical integrity. We expect them to join us from week five of the sprint.
Resource Efficiency
Funding from the Wealth Hack Initiative would enable a focused eight-week sprint to move from prototype to deployable beta. The support would cover two components:
Build and Integration: Development time for the founder and Technical Lead to refine performance, integrate datasets, and complete reporting and recommendation modules.
Infrastructure and Deployment: Establish renewable-powered local servers, expand data storage, and pilot with corporate users to validate functionality and usability.
WHI funds would bridge the gap between prototype and MVP, resulting in a working system that automates ESG interpretation, produces compliance reports, and suggests ethical supply-chain alternatives.
We have begun informal consultations with corporate sustainability officers and ESG lawyers who have expressed interest in piloting the beta.
As WHI support will move us from prototype to Minimum Viable Product, all outcomes are prospective.
Direct Impact
Our system makes compliance continuous and transparent. It reports performance, flags non-compliance, and recommends ethical partners to help remedy it. A company can instantly detect a supplier paying below minimum wage and replace them with a verified fair-wage alternative. We make compliance continuous, actionable, and profitable — turning risk management into value creation.
Systemic Change and Scalability
By targeting the corporations whose ESG choices shape global markets, we unlock cascading transformation. As they redirect millions from interpretation to implementation, entire supply chains evolve to meet new standards. SMEs gain access to transparent procurement networks, workers gain wealth, and communities see capital reinvested locally. Our locally hosted, modular architecture can rapidly expand across jurisdictions, establishing a new ethical infrastructure where compliance is a catalyst for equitable growth, not an obstacle to it.
Community Engagement
We are committed to contributing to the WHI cohort. In our current accelerator, we have supported peers in ethical decision-making, mentored new founders, and shared insights through panels and workshops. We look forward to offering the same collaboration and support within the Wealth Hacker community.
With WHI’s support, we can deliver a working beta by February — a credible, ethical alternative to extractive AI and consultancy models. Every element proves that innovation and integrity can coexist. Our goal is simple: help corporations do better by making it easier to be good. When the largest players act responsibly because it’s efficient to do so, the entire market follows. Together, we can show that doing the right thing is finally the smartest move.
