Fringe
Fringe is an AI-powered sustainability reporting platform built for SMEs that lack the resources, expertise, or time to produce credible ESG reports.
Core trick
A Claude agent searches live industry benchmarks and maps company inputs against GRI and ESRS standards to score ESG performance with cited sources.
Description
Fringe is an AI-powered sustainability reporting platform built for SMEs that lack the resources, expertise, or time to produce credible ESG reports.
Small businesses today face growing pressure from enterprise clients, regulators, and investors to disclose their environmental and social impact but existing tools are built for large corporations with dedicated ESG teams. Fringe closes that gap.
Users input their company's operational parameters energy consumption, supply chain, fleet, waste, staffing through a simple UI. A Claude Opus 4.7 agent then autonomously searches for real-time industry benchmarks, maps compliance gaps against GRI and ESRS standards, scores the company's ESG performance, and generates a prioritized 12-month action roadmap with ROI estimates all with cited sources, not assumed figures.
The output is a formatted, export-ready sustainability dashboard and PDF report the kind that previously required consultants or enterprise software costing tens of thousands of dollars delivered in under 90 seconds.
Fringe makes sustainability reporting accessible, credible, and actionable for the 99% of businesses that have been left out.
README excerpt
This is a [Next.js](https://nextjs.org) project bootstrapped with [`create-next-app`](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/cli/create-next-app). ## Getting Started First, run the development server: ```bash npm run dev # or yarn dev # or pnpm dev # or bun dev ``` Open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) with your browser to see the result. You can start editing the page by modifying `app/page.tsx`. The page auto-updates as you edit the file. This project uses [`next/font`](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/optimizing/fonts) to automatically optimize and load [Geist](https://vercel.com/font), a new font family for Vercel. ## Learn More To learn more about Next.js, take a look at the following resources: - [Next.js Documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs) - learn about Next.js features and API. - [Learn Next.js](https://nextjs.org/learn) - an interactive Next.js tutorial. You can check out [the Next.js GitHub repository](https://github.com/vercel/next.js) - your feedback and contributions are welcome! ## Deploy on Vercel The easiest way to deploy your Next.js app is to use the [Vercel Platform](https://vercel.com/new?utm_medium=default-template&filter=next.js&utm_source=create-next-app&utm_campaign=create-next-app-readme) from the creators of Next.js. Check out our [Next.js deployment documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/deploying) for more details.