Practical Tools
Decision-grade tools for
sustainability practitioners.
Alongside our advisory work, Glatow & Associates builds focused, audit-grade tools for the specific calculations, evidence steps, and questions our clients return to most often. Every tool is purpose-built, narrowly scoped, and designed to be defensible in front of an external auditor.
Generic carbon calculators rarely survive a real ISCC or REDcert audit. Our tools take the opposite approach: each one is locked to a specific scheme, a specific step in the value chain, and a specific set of methods — with the regulatory references built directly into the calculation trace.
Featured Tool · New
FeedstockTrace
RED III / ISCC-EU / EUDR traceability for waste & residue collection — from the photo at the collection point to the audit export
Field-to-audit traceability for waste & residue collection — with an AI compliance advisor.
A purpose-built platform for any company collecting waste & residue feedstocks — used cooking oil, animal fats, agricultural and forestry residues and other RED-listed wastes — under RED III, ISCC-EU and EUDR. Dispatchers plan tours on a map with real road distances; drivers record each pickup in the truck — photo, signature, GPS and a self-declaration snapshot — from an offline-capable mobile app. The system computes transport etd per leg, closes the mass balance per ISCC EU 203, and produces one-click ISCC audit Excel plus EUDR-ready UDB exports. A RAG-based AI advisor, grounded in the actual EU regulations, answers compliance questions with cited sources.
Six core modules
- Tour planning — map-based auto-sequencing with auditor-accepted road distances via Google Routes.
- Driver app (PWA) — mobile-first and offline-ready; photo, signature and GPS per pickup, syncs when back online.
- Collection points — master data, existence-proof photos with EXIF GPS, self-declaration workflow and blocklist review cycle.
- GHG calculation — Method 1, Method 2 and disaggregated default value, automatic per tour and per pickup.
- Mass balance — ISCC EU 203-compliant pool, tank and sustainability-declaration issuance.
- Audit & UDB export — one-click ISCC audit Excel plus EUDR-ready UDB CSVs.
Audit evidence & AI advisor Beta
- Five pieces of evidence per pickup — quantity, container photo, GPS coordinates, handover signature and a valid-SD snapshot (ISCC EU 203 §4.2).
- Collection Evidence Report — one auditor-ready page per pickup with an 8-point completeness check, exportable to PDF.
- Land-use evidence frozen on every sustainability declaration (ISCC Principle 1).
- AI Compliance Advisor — RAG-grounded in RED III, ISCC EU 203/205 and IR 2022/996, with source-cited answers.
- Trilingual — English, Deutsch and 中文, switchable per user.
- Built by ISCC insiders. Designed by former ISCC integrity assessors — not generic compliance SaaS. Pilot / demo release; not a substitute for certified audit.
Domain: feedstocktrace.com
Featured Tool
Transport etd Calculator + AI Advisor
ISCC EU / RED III — Transport & Distribution Emissions, with a built-in AI advisor.
A single-purpose calculator for the transport and distribution stage of biofuel and bioliquid certification. It computes per-leg etd using the five recognised methods (M1–M5), tracks the factor-governance status of each input (default, measured, verified, manual), and generates an audit-ready evidence trail in CSV or JSON format. A scoped AI advisor sits next to the calculator and answers questions only inside the transport sections of ISCC EU 203 / 205, RED II/III, and IR 2022/996.
Calculator engine
- Method M1 — actual measured fuel consumption per leg.
- Method M2 — verified provider-specific factor with documented basis.
- Method M3 — IR 2022/996 Annex IX default efficiencies and fuel emission factors.
- Method M4 — country-specific grid electricity factor with HV / MV / LV voltage levels.
- Method M5 — RED II/III disaggregated default values for transport.
- Optional depot & filling-station distribution add-on.
- Per-leg factor governance: every input is tagged as default / measured / verified / manual and validated against scheme readiness rules.
- Full calculation trace per leg plus CSV / JSON export for audit packs.
AI advisor Beta
- Strict scope: ISCC EU 203 / 205 transport sections, RED II/III transport-related provisions, IR 2022/996 Annex IX (efficiencies, fuel EF, grid EF).
- Retrieval-augmented: grounded in indexed regulatory text rather than free-form generation, with citations.
- Polite refusals for out-of-scope topics (full-chain GHG, GHG saving %, RED pass/fail, RFNBO/RCF, processing/allocation, heat or electricity certification) with a pointer to the right advisory channel.
- Streamed answers (SSE) for fast feedback while typing follow-up questions.
- Per-session and per-IP rate limits to prevent abuse.
- Advisory only. Not a substitute for certified audit, scheme verification, or legal advice. Glatow & Associates accepts no liability for AI-generated responses.
Featured Tool · New
Carbon Audit Dashboard
Co-issued with TVA — Technical Verification Alliance
Plain-language carbon footprinting for freight, travel, hotels, fuel and electricity — with an AI extractor.
A general-purpose Scope 1 / 2 / 3 calculator that turns natural-language descriptions into auditable CO2e numbers. Type "we shipped 2 tonnes from London to Berlin in a diesel truck" and the AI extractor maps it to the right activity, fuel and route, runs it through industry-standard factor databases (DEFRA, GLEC, ICAO, Ember), and returns a per-leg breakdown with full source traceability and a route map.
Categories covered
- Freight & Logistics — road, rail, sea, air with mode-aware fuel mapping (diesel → Jet A-1 for air, HFO for sea, etc.).
- Passenger Travel — flight (with cabin class), car, taxi, bus, rail, ferry; per-passenger-km factors.
- Hotel Stays — country-level factors plus a benchmark mode for cross-country comparison.
- Fuel Combustion (Scope 1) — 16 fuel types from natural gas to wood pellets, in litres, kWh, kg or m³.
- Electricity (Scope 2) — country grid factors or AWS / Azure / GCP cloud regions.
- AI Inference — token-based emissions across 8 LLM providers, with optional cached-token discount.
AI extraction & audit trail Beta
- Plain-language input — supports English and German, asks clarifying questions when ambiguous.
- Multi-activity prompts — extracts several legs from a single sentence (e.g. flight + hotel + fuel).
- Math traceability per row: distance × dimension × factor reproduces the headline number.
- Route map for transport activities (OpenStreetMap-based, with origin/destination markers and waypoints).
- PDF & CSV export with methodology, sources, and a per-row factor breakdown.
- Beta release. Planning aid only — not a substitute for a certified third-party-assured Scope 1/2/3 audit. Sub-processors are listed in our Privacy Policy.
Subdomain: ef.ga-advice.com
Featured Tool · Beta
CAB-Manager
ISO/IEC 17029 & ISO 14065 administration suite for certification & conformity-assessment bodies (CBs / CABs)
Beta · In Development Currently in private beta — actively being tested and expanded. Module coverage grows with each release, and the framework is built to be extended to any further standard, scheme or regulatory programme a certification or conformity-assessment body works under.
The accreditation process of a validation & verification body — in one place, with impartiality enforced.
A back-office suite that maps the full ISO/IEC 17029 process — from pre-engagement and AI-assisted acceptance review, through automatic quotation, planning, execution and document evaluation, to the review, decision and issuance of the validation/verification statement. The phase-gates enforce the standard’s rules: a case cannot pass review or decision if the reviewer or decision-maker was involved in the execution (9.6.2 / 9.7.1.2). ISO 14065 / ISO 14064, ISO/IEC 17065 and ISO 14066 are already modelled on top of the shared core.
The 17029 process, gated
- Pre-engagement & intake (9.2) — minimum-information questionnaire with an AI/heuristic acceptability pre-check and accept/decline proposal.
- Engagement & offers (9.3) — automatic quotation from the questionnaire plus programme/standard templates.
- Planning & execution (9.4–9.5) — team assignment, V/V plan, findings and AI evaluation of incoming documents.
- Review, decision & issuance (9.6–9.7) — enforced separation of reviewer / decision-maker from the execution team.
- Impartiality, competence & programmes (5.3 / 7 / 8) — live risk register and personnel-separation checks across all cases.
- Records, appeals & management system (9.9–9.11 / 11) — audit trail, appeals/complaints, management review, internal audits, corrective actions.
AI, extensibility & audience
- Provider-independent AI — DeepSeek / OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic Claude, with a rule-based heuristic fallback that runs with no API key. Intake extraction, document evaluation, a case advisor, and drafting of 15 correspondence types.
- Extensible by design — programmes carry a standard reference; the framework can be extended to further standards, schemes and regulatory programmes on request.
- Built for CBs & CABs — certification bodies and conformity-assessment / validation-verification bodies that want their accreditation process and impartiality controls in one place.
- Trilingual — English, Deutsch and 中文, switchable per user.
- Private & release-controlled — correspondence is sent only after human release; outgoing email is optional.
- Beta — not a substitute for the standard text or accreditation advice. Built on the structure of DIN EN ISO/IEC 17029:2020.
Status: Private beta — public release in preparation
Who Uses Our Tools
Built for the people who actually have to defend the number.
Producers & Collectors
Capture pickups and shipments, compute the emissions behind each batch, and maintain the evidence log that supports outgoing Proof of Sustainability and sustainability declarations.
Traders & Storage
Assess incoming PoS data, recompute legs where defaults are too conservative, and decide whether to switch a leg from default to actual or verified. Document every change.
Internal Audit & Readiness
Pre-audit your calculations and evidence before the certification body opens the file. Use the calculation traces and governance flags to find weak spots in evidence quality.
Sustainability Officers
Translate scheme-level requirements into a working calculation that operations teams can actually populate, line-by-line, with the evidence they have on hand.
Consultants & Auditors
Replicate or sanity-check a client's emissions and evidence trail in minutes. Compare a default-only run versus an actual-data run to quantify the headroom.
Training & Capacity Building
Walk teams through the underlying methods and evidence steps in a working environment, with the AI advisor supplying scheme references on demand. A safer learning surface than a production audit file.
How Our Tools Work
A defensible number, built one evidence step at a time.
Whatever the tool — collection traceability, transport etd, or a full Scope 1/2/3 footprint — every Glatow & Associates tool follows the same discipline: a narrow scope, a regulatory citation behind each value, an evidence reference behind each input, and an export an external auditor can actually open.
Principle 1
Scope tightly
Each tool is locked to one scheme and one step in the value chain. Narrow tools survive the audits that generic all-in-one calculators fail.
Principle 2
Ground every value in the regulation
Methods and factors trace back to the actual text — RED II/III, ISCC EU 203/205, IR 2022/996, the GHG Protocol — not to a black-box average.
Principle 3
Capture evidence at the source
A delivery note, GPS log, container photo, signature or supplier certificate is pinned to each input the moment it is recorded — the same record the auditor will later request.
Principle 4
Make every input governable
Each value carries a status — default / measured / verified, or a completeness check — so you can see at a glance whether it will hold up.
Principle 5
Export audit-ready, and ask when unsure
One-click CSV / JSON / Excel / PDF export with citations attached, plus a scoped, source-citing AI advisor that refuses to speculate outside its lane.
Scope & Honest Limits
What our tools do — and what they deliberately don't.
In scope
- ›Tightly-scoped, scheme-specific calculations — transport etd, Scope 1/2/3 footprints, waste & residue collection traceability
- ›A regulatory citation behind every value
- ›Evidence reference and source note on every input
- ›Per-line governance or completeness status
- ›Calculation trace plus CSV / JSON / Excel / PDF audit export
- ›A scoped, source-citing AI advisor inside each tool
Deliberately out of scope
- ›A substitute for a certified third-party audit or scheme verification
- ›Legal or regulatory opinions you can rely on without review
- ›Final pass/fail determinations or full-chain GHG sign-off
- ›RFNBO / RCF certification
- ›Guaranteed correctness of AI-generated answers
- ›Anything outside each tool's stated scheme scope
For these wider topics, please reach out — we cover them through the advisory practice, not the tools.
Frequently Asked
Common questions, answered honestly.
Are the tools free to use?
It varies by tool. The Transport etd Calculator is free during its current beta (request a code on the login screen). The Carbon Audit Dashboard has a free tier of around 20 calculations per day. FeedstockTrace is offered as a 30-day pilot. We will always tell existing users before any pricing change.
Can I use a tool's output directly in my audit?
Our tools produce audit-ready evidence — calculation traces, governance flags, evidence references and exports. However, it is your responsibility, and your certification body's, to assess whether the records behind each input actually qualify under the applicable scheme. The tools document your inputs; they do not certify them.
Why are the AI features in beta?
Because we have not yet tested them across enough edge-case prompts to call them production-grade. They are grounded in indexed regulatory text and refuse out-of-scope topics, but no AI system is infallible. Treat answers as a starting point for your own reasoning or as a research aid — not as a regulatory opinion. Our advisory team remains the appropriate channel for anything that must be defensible.
What happens to the data I enter?
It depends on the tool. The Transport etd Calculator runs client-side in your browser — inputs stay local unless you export them. The Carbon Audit Dashboard and FeedstockTrace process inputs server-side under the sub-processors listed in our Privacy Policy. Across all tools, the AI features send your question plus retrieved context to a model provider for inference (rate-limited); we log session metadata for security, not your underlying business data.
Why are your tools so narrowly scoped?
Because narrow tools survive audits better than wide ones. A single tool trying to cover feedstock, processing, allocation and end-use would have to assume too much per client. Narrow, single-purpose tools — transport etd, Scope 1/2/3 footprinting, collection traceability — each have well-defined methods and a clean evidence boundary, which is exactly when a tool can be both useful and defensible.
Can a tool be white-labelled or hosted on our own domain?
Possibly. Drop us a note via the contact page outlining the use case (internal teams, external clients, training, etc.). White-label arrangements are handled case by case.
I see a bug or a value that looks wrong. What do I do?
Email us with the setup that reproduces it — the inputs, factors and references involved. Our data tables are versioned and regenerated from a single master, so corrections propagate cleanly.
Open a Tool
Each tool lives on its own domain. Some open with a free tier; others need an access or pilot code you request from the login screen or directly from us.
Tool 01
FeedstockTrace
Waste & residue collection traceability — RED III / ISCC-EU / EUDR.
Pilot · 30 days →Tool 02
Transport etd Calculator
Transport & distribution emissions with a scoped AI advisor.
Beta · Login →Tool 03
Carbon Audit Dashboard
Plain-language Scope 1/2/3 footprinting with AI extraction.
Free tier →Tool 04 · Beta
CAB-Manager
ISO/IEC 17029 / ISO 14065 administration suite for CBs & CABs.
Request access →Roadmap
More tools on the bench.
In Development
CBAM Embedded-Emissions Helper
A guided walkthrough for the CBAM declarant role: aggregating supplier data, applying default values, and producing the quarterly report skeleton.
In Development
EUDR Due-Diligence Checklist
A structured intake form covering geolocation evidence, risk assessment, and documentation completeness for in-scope commodities.
Concept
RFNBO Pathway Sketcher
A first-pass sketch tool for renewable hydrogen and downstream synthetic-fuel pathways, mapped against the RFNBO additionality and temporal-correlation rules.
Got a tool you wish existed in your daily compliance work? Tell us about it.