Impact as a Service
Impact as a Service is the model in which environmental and social impact is not a one-off project but a continuous service: businesses activate talent, measurement, and certification when needed, and every result is recorded in a verifiable registry. Simbial is the platform built precisely on this model.
What is Impact as a Service
Just as software became a service, impact can be one too: instead of purchasing a closed consultancy, the company activates an ongoing programme — an extended team of independent green talents working alongside its people — projects, measurement, responses to ESG requirements, training — in a modular, pay-as-you-go model. The result is not a document: it is measured impact that lasts.
How it works on Simbial
Every need becomes a piece of work with a measurement target defined before it begins: an Impact Project focused on costs and waste, a continuous sprint, a certification task, a report for management and banks. Makers create impact, Impact Controllers certify its truth, and everything flows into the Simbial Impact Score — a single number, always breakable down into the scientific indicators that compose it.
Who it is for
For companies receiving ESG requests from clients, banks, and buyers who want to turn them into value; for lead organizations that need to support their supply chain; for partners — associations, institutes, and institutions — looking for a measurable way to bring impact to their territories and networks. And for the talent already working within the company, generating impact from the inside.
The difference from traditional consulting
Consulting sells days; Impact as a Service delivers results measured with a public method and versioned coefficients, validated by Impact Controllers independent of the project. The proof record stays with the company: every number can be opened, verified and used — in client questionnaires, with the bank, in financial statements.
Impact and open innovation
There is a dividend that traditional innovation programs rarely deliver: an Impact Project is open innovation with a real constraint. It forces a hands-on rethinking of actual processes — energy, materials, supply chain, data — brings in new technologies, AI included, and pairs the company's own people with external talents who see what can no longer be seen from the inside. And since results are measured in the Impact Score, innovation doesn't remain a lab experiment: either it takes root in the numbers, or it shows immediately.
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Frequently asked questions
What does impact as a service mean?
It means obtaining environmental and social impact as a continuous and modular service — team, measurement, certification and reporting activatable when needed — rather than as a one-off consulting project. Simbial's model is built on this logic.
How does it differ from ESG consulting?
In the proof: every intervention starts with a measurement target and closes with indicators verified by Impact Controllers independent of the project. Not days delivered but results measured, with a public method that anyone can check.
Is it suitable for an SME?
Yes: it is designed for companies that do not have dedicated internal structures. You start from what is already urgent — an ESG questionnaire, energy costs — and grow in a modular way, with your own people involved in the teams.
How is the generated impact measured?
With the Net Positive Impact Score methodology: indicators in real units (kWh, kg of CO2, people trained) converted with public, versioned coefficients, each with its own verification level up to the signature of an Impact Controller. The aggregate is the Simbial Impact Score, always openable in its composition.
Who certifies the results?
Field validation is entrusted to Impact Controllers independent of the project, who sign a validation act recorded on the platform: every score remains linked to who verified it and to the evidence used. The method is public and the impact register can be consulted by anyone who receives a report.
How much does an Impact Project commit my company?
The typical journey lasts six weeks and is fully turnkey: the brief is co-designed with Simbial before kick-off, and the management is handled by the platform. The time commitment for your people is measured in hours, not days — and when the first Impact Project works, it can become an ongoing programme.