CSR & ESG

Show your board the evidence. Not just the intentions.

Folktale is the community evidence platform for CSR and ESG teams. Continuous listening across every implementing partner and site, AI pattern detection, and an audit-ready trail your assurance partner will accept.

GRI, SASB, CSRD alignedTrusted by sustainability teamsAssurance-ready evidence trail

Portfolio impact · FY26

Live

14,902 voices

across 7 partner sites

Service access74%
Livelihood gains61%
Risk signals18%
The problem

Your impact is real. Your evidence is fragmented.

Implementing partners report in their own templates. Consultants deliver PDFs. Internal teams run ad-hoc surveys. By the time the board asks for proof, you have eight versions of the truth and no way to defend any of them.

  • Eight implementing partners, eight reporting formats
  • Consultants charging by the week to reconcile data
  • ESG submission rebuilt by hand every cycle
  • Quotes used in marketing without consent records

Before Folktale

ESG cycle headcount3 consultants
Avg cycle length8 weeks
Sources reconciled by hand100%
Always-on listening

Continuous community feedback, not annual snapshots.

Boards no longer accept once-a-year community surveys as proof. Folktale lets you keep listening channels open across every site, in every language, and surface what changed this quarter, not last year.

  • Multi-channel collection: SMS, web, voice, in-person
  • 30+ languages with on-device translation
  • Live dashboard refreshed as responses arrive

Always-on listening

7 sites

2,134

community responses, this month

Audio

612

Text

1,308

Photo

214

One source of truth

Qualitative and quantitative, in one defensible schema.

Your partners send Kobo exports. Consultants send PDFs. Internal teams run their own surveys. Folktale ingests it all and aligns it to your indicator framework, so the board sees one consistent story.

  • Map any partner data source to your KPIs once
  • Side-by-side qual quotes and quant trends
  • Indicator framework versioned and audit-logged

Unified schema

Partner A · Kobo1,204
Partner B · Survey612
In-house panel894
Consultant reportImported
One indicator framework, every source.
AI across the portfolio

Spot the pattern across sites, before the board does.

When water access starts trending in three of seven sites, you want to know in week two, not month six. Folktale's AI watches your full portfolio for emerging themes and flags them for your team to validate.

  • Cross-site theme detection with confidence scores
  • Anomaly alerts on indicator drift
  • Drill from a flag to source quotes in two clicks

Cross-portfolio signal

"Water access" mentioned in 3 of 7 sites this quarter, up from 1.

Site A · Kenya↑ 38%
Site D · Vietnam↑ 22%
Site F · Brazil↑ 14%
Auto-flagged · Review with team
Assurance-ready

An audit-ready evidence trail your assurance partner will accept.

Every chart, every quote, every figure in your sustainability report links back to its source response, with consent attached. Hand your assurance partner a single pack and answer their queries before they ask.

  • GRI, SASB, CSRD-aligned report templates
  • Source-linked figures and quote-level provenance
  • Auto-generated auditor pack with full data lineage

Sustainability report

Northwave Group · FY26

GRI mapped

42 / 42

Sources cited

218

Assurance-ready · Auditor pack attached
Our ESG submission used to require three consultants and eight weeks. We now produce it in-house, on demand, and the board trusts the numbers more than ever.

Marcus Hale

Head of Sustainability, Northwave Group

8 weeks → 6 days

ESG cycle turnaround, in-house

7 partner sites

Reconciled into one indicator framework

Zero consultant fees

Assurance pack generated by Folktale

For sustainability leads

The questions ESG teams ask before signing.

Ready when you are

Bring your impact story to the board with confidence.

Start a free campaign today, or speak to our ESG team about how Folktale fits your reporting cycle.