FAQ

ZeroCarbon is an enterprise carbon accounting and compliance platform that helps organizations measure, report, and responsibly neutralize their emissions. We combine automated invoice OCR measurement with clear disclosure reporting and verifiable cryptographic action, making carbon accountability straightforward, verifier-ready, and trustworthy.

ZeroCarbon offers automated Scope 1, 2, and 3 carbon accounting ledgers, AI document OCR for utility and fuel bills, compliance reporting (BRSR, GHG Protocol, CSRD, CDP), reduction scenario forecasting, verified registry offset management (Verra VCS, Gold Standard), and cryptographic SHA-256 data lineage.

Our AI Assistant provides conversational sustainability intelligence, emission factor lookups, regulatory guidance, and decarbonization advice. It is trained on GHG Protocol standards, SEBI guidelines, and international climate taxonomies to help sustainability teams make data-driven decisions rapidly.

Carbon accounting measures greenhouse gas emissions across three scopes: Scope 1 (direct fuel combustion, fleet, and fugitive emissions), Scope 2 (purchased electricity, heating, and cooling), and Scope 3 (value chain spend, supplier operations, logistics, business travel, and product lifecycle). Our engine automatically converts operational activity data into CO₂e metrics using official emission factors.

We support GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting Standard, ISO 14064-1, WBCSD PACT v3.0 Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) exchange, SEBI BRSR Core (India), UK DESNZ conversion factors, US EPA eGRID, CEA India CO2 Baseline Database (v22.0), and IPCC Assessment Reports (AR5 and AR6).

Our document reader extracts raw activity data directly from utility power bills, diesel receipts, natural gas manifests, and ERP exports. Text PDFs are parsed line by line and scans or photos go through a vision model. Every figure keeps its source line, and each extracted row is a draft a person approves before it counts, replacing manual spreadsheet data entry.

We facilitate access to credits from projects verified by accredited registries such as Verra (Verified Carbon Standard / VCS), Gold Standard and Plan Vivo. Verification, additionality and permanence are assessed by the registry under its own standard, and a retirement is shown only once it carries the registry's own serial number and certificate.

ZeroCarbon links every calculated figure back to its source document, the line it was read from, and the emission factor edition used, and anchors every report with a SHA-256 hash. The hash is tamper-evident: any later change to a report can be detected.

We support verified high-durability projects across solar and wind renewable energy, nature-based afforestation, blue carbon coastal wetland restoration, clean cookstove distribution, and biochar carbon removal. Each project provides public monitoring reports and verifiable credit retirement serials.

Yes, ZeroCarbon generates 1-click verifier-ready disclosure reports for SEBI BRSR Core (KPIs 1-3 for top listed enterprises in India), GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, CSRD (ESRS E1), SEC Climate Disclosures, and CDP climate questionnaires.

ZeroCarbon is built for assurance. Every figure includes calculation methodology logs, factor references, and the original document, so assurance teams can re-perform each disclosure. No assurance provider has reviewed a ZeroCarbon output yet.

We use mandatory two-factor sign-in, row-level isolation between companies, encryption at rest by our database and storage providers, HTTPS for all traffic, and a hash-chained audit log. We are working towards SOC 2 and align our controls with ISO/IEC 27001, but hold neither certification yet. Customer financial and emissions data is never shared or used to train external AI models.

Your data is private by default. You have complete granular control via Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to designate specific viewing, editing, and auditing permissions for internal teams, sustainability officers, and external assurance partners.

ZeroCarbon supports many facilities and CBAM installations per company, automatic unit conversions, Tally and Zoho Books connectors, bulk document import, and enterprise support agreements, for single-site and multi-site companies. Group and subsidiary structures are not supported yet.

Yes. ZeroCarbon has a REST API, an MCP server (for Claude, Cursor and similar tools), a Tally bridge for Tally XML and Excel exports, read-only access to Zoho Books, Gmail, Google Drive and Microsoft 365/Outlook, approval-gated connected apps through Agentic Fabriq and Composio, CSV and Excel import, and email forwarding of bills. There are no SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Dynamics or Workday connectors yet; data from those systems can come in as CSV or Excel exports or through the API.