Proof Gap Cost Calculator
Discover your estimated time and money spent on ESG and compliance work.
What Manual Proof Work Costs Your Team
Manual proof work quietly costs a large enterprise around 10,000 hours and six figures every year. Sustainability, compliance, and procurement teams lose that time gathering evidence, answering customer and investor questionnaires, and preparing for audits, usually rebuilding answers they have already produced.
The Proof Gap Cost Calculator turns that hidden cost into a number for your own team: enter your team size, region, and the share of time you spend on proof, and it returns your annual hours, your cost in euros or dollars, and how much you can recover by keeping proof in one reusable library instead of scattered across files and inboxes. Estimates draw on 2025 salary benchmarks and aggregated Sunhat customer data, updated for 2026.
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Real enterprises. Real results. See how teams cut response times in half and turn proof into their competitive edge.
"Sunhat helps us to streamline the collection of data for reporting and multiple ratings, which are crucial for us to maintain credibility and transparency for our sustainability goals."
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“In the past, dealing with complex investor questionnaires sometimes required inquiries to several departments. Today, thanks to Sunhat, we can often find the right answers and evidence in seconds - which saves a tremendous amount of time.”
Investment data points for CSRD were retrieved through a structured process
"With Sunhat, we significantly improved our EcoVadis reporting efficiency and transparency, gaining a competitive edge. We appreciate the good communication and quick response time from Sunhat and Cozero, which has enabled us to achieve the success of our sustainability management."
streamlined compliance reporting for CSRD, CDP and Ecovadis
"Sunhat streamlines our customer response process, and allows the information from our subject-matter experts to be added to our knowledge library to reduce duplicate work."
time saved to answer multiple ESG ratings and manage reporting projects
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Frequently Asked Questions
The proof gap is the gap between knowledge and being able to prove it. : gathering evidence, answering questionnaires, and preparing for audits, often rebuilding the same answers every cycle. In a large enterprise it adds up to roughly 10,000 hours and six figures a year.
You enter three things: how many people work on ESG, compliance, and proof, your region, and the share of their time that goes into proof work. The tool multiplies your team's productive hours by that share and a loaded hourly rate for your region, then shows your annual hours, cost, and how much you can recover.
The result is a directional estimate, not an audited figure. It draws on 2025 salary benchmarks, standard full-time working hours, and aggregated Sunhat customer data, and every input is editable so you can match your own team. Use it to size the opportunity, not to close your books.
Most of the lost time is rework: searching for the right file, chasing approvals, and re-sending answers you already have. Teams that keep proof in one reusable, verified library instead of scattered files report cutting that effort by 50 to 60 percent. That is what Sunhat's Collaborative Proof Platform is built to do.
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