Bardo provides a carbon accounting platform that calculates emissions from actual purchased products rather than spend-based estimates. The platform reads financial data, identifies specific items like an iPhone 16 Pro Max, and traces each to verified supplier life-cycle assessments for audit-ready Scope 1, 2, and 3 reporting.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Traditional carbon accounting relies on spend-based estimates that multiply category averages by total expenditure, producing rough numbers that miss what companies actually bought. These methods are audit-fragile, require months of manual spreadsheet work, and fail to capture supplier-specific emissions or year-over-year changes driven by greener purchasing decisions.
Solution
Bardo calculates emissions from the actual products a company purchased, not from what it spent. The platform reads financial data from PDFs, ERP exports, and other formats, identifies specific products and suppliers, then traces each item to verified supplier life-cycle assessments that reflect real production data. Automated calculations reconstruct historical emissions from existing financial records, surfacing details that spend-based methods miss, such as suppliers shifting fuel mix or electricity contracts changing providers. Every number traces back to a source document, enabling auditors to sample activities and statistically verify the entire dataset like a financial audit. The result is audit-proof, product-level carbon data across Scope 1, 2, and 3 that lets companies see actual emissions drop when they switch to greener suppliers.
Target Audience
Primary customers are sustainability leaders, controllers, and finance teams at mid-to-large companies that need accurate, audit-ready carbon reporting across their operations and supply chains.
Features
- Automated ingestion of financial data from PDFs, ERP exports, and other formats with no manual data entry
- Product-level identification that distinguishes specific items, such as an iPhone 16 Pro Max, rather than generic categories like "IT equipment"
- Traceability to verified supplier life-cycle assessments with quality grading for full auditability
- Statistical verification capability that lets auditors sample 50 activities and validate the entire dataset
- Real year-over-year emissions comparison that removes inflation noise and reflects actual purchasing changes
- Coverage across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions for every entity and invoice in the supply chain