How an engagement runs

Rapid sustainability risk analysis

A single-pass screen on a deal before it reaches the investment committee: the capital it will need, penalty exposure, physical climate risk, available incentives, the questions to put to the seller, and a clear signal on the deal.

Nobody decides mid-run. This is a screen, and speed matters more than precision, so it runs start to finish and comes back to the expert once.

One deal Led by the Screening lead

From start to finish

1Documents
2Energy and carbon
3Regulation and climate
4Capital and economics
5Deal signal
Expert
Share the offering memorandum, or just the address.
Receive the report and a short summary in the thread.
Lead agent
Asks for the OM if there is none; sets the confidence level.
Flags any conflict between fund policy and the deal, and keeps going.
Compiles each seller question with the finding that raised it.
Delivers once the review passes.
Knowledge check
Checks what we already know about the location and its rules.
Document analyst
Page-cited facts and the exact location.
Energy and carbon analyst
Energy position and carbon target.
Regulatory and climate risk analyst
Local penalty exposure and physical climate hazards.
Measures and economics
Candidate measures, costs, incentives, and cashflow against your hurdle rate.
Scorecard and report writer
Four risk axes resolved into one deal signal.
Quality reviewer
Independent recalculation. A fail stops the report.
Expert decision
Automatic check
Lead agent
Specialist
Repeats per building
On site
Read the diagram as text
Rapid sustainability risk analysis: who does what at each step
StepExpertLead agentKnowledge checkDocument analystEnergy and carbon analystRegulatory and climate risk analystMeasures and economicsScorecard and report writerQuality reviewer
1. DocumentsShare the offering memorandum, or just the address.Asks for the OM if there is none; sets the confidence level.Checks what we already know about the location and its rules.Page-cited facts and the exact location.
2. Energy and carbonEnergy position and carbon target.
3. Regulation and climateFlags any conflict between fund policy and the deal, and keeps going.Local penalty exposure and physical climate hazards.
4. Capital and economicsCompiles each seller question with the finding that raised it.Candidate measures, costs, incentives, and cashflow against your hurdle rate.
5. Deal signalReceive the report and a short summary in the thread.Delivers once the review passes.Four risk axes resolved into one deal signal.Independent recalculation. A fail stops the report.

The specialists

Each one has a single job. They work from shared files, hand back what they found, and never speak to you directly. Everything comes back through the lead agent.

Document analyst

Reads the deal documents so assumptions are replaced with page-cited facts, and pins down the exact location.

Tools: document_intelligence, knowledge, building-science, overture-maps

Energy and carbon analyst

A light energy position, with no full model at this speed, and where the asset sits against its carbon target.

Tools: baseline, cambium, crrem-skills

Regulatory and climate risk analyst

Physical hazard exposure and regulatory exposure, kept as two separate questions.

Tools: physrisk, bps-compliance, crrem-skills

Scorecard and report writer

Four axes, physical climate, regulation, market liquidity and confidence in the data, resolved into one deal signal. Produces no capital-plan detail; this is a screen, not a plan.

Tools: soapbox-agent

Quality reviewer

Recalculates penalty exposure against how each jurisdiction actually charges, and checks every threshold shown against its source.

Tools: bps-compliance, crrem-skills, physrisk

When it is not clear-cut

The lead agent never improvises. Each of these is decided the same way every time.

Is there an offering memorandum?

If Attached, or already in your library: Full-confidence screen

If not Address-only screen, with the lower confidence stated up front

Fund policy and the deal disagree

If Your fund documents conflict with something in the deal: Flag it, name the action, keep going

Does a measure clear the bar?

If It beats your hurdle rate: Recommended

If not Shown anyway, marked below the bar