Creating Business Value and Sustainable Impact with Generative AI

All results, zero hype. The technology tools and support companies need to create value from sustainability, with speed and scale.

Our Gen AI tools help companies automate sustainability strategy development, analysis, and reporting. We also offer access to real-time business insight to help our clients amplify their competitive advantage. In addition to using AI tools to make consulting work more efficient, we build lightweight AI-powered applications and workflows for our clients to deploy within their secure IT environments.

Our AI “Golden Rules”

INNOVATION MUST DELIVER
REAL VALUE
GEN AI MUST ENHANCE – NOT
REPLACE – HUMAN EXPERTISE
RESPONSIBLE USE OF GEN AI
REQUIRES TRANSPARENCY

We believe Generative AI is a tool to create better outcomes, not just faster ones. We use the latest Gen AI technologies to make sustainability solutions more accessible, affordable, and effective for our clients.

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Our Gen AI tools are designed to empower and enhance the capabilities of leaders in your organization to drive positive change. Creating value from sustainability requires uniquely human processes and traits, including:

  • Vision and leadership
  • Product and service level execution
  • A programmatic continuous improvement mindset
We understand our clients’ business dynamics, competitive landscape, and which levers truly contribute to sustainable growth.

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With all of its potential, use of Gen AI comes with significant ethical and responsible use concerns for companies, from copyright and IP protection to corporate data security and labor shocks. When it comes to environmental sustainability, the true value of Gen AI lies in the products and services we empower our clients to bring to market. When we utilize Gen AI tools, a member of our consulting team is always accountable for ensuring that responsible use policies are created and followed.

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How We Use Gen AI to Drive Impact for Our Clients

Third Partners is among the first management consultancies to leverage Generative AI to solve mission critical corporate sustainability challenges. 

Third Partners’ Gen AI Advantages for Sustainability Consulting

Lean Staffing

Sustainability teams have always been lightly resourced. With Gen AI, our clients can extend the capabilities of in-house teams without adding headcount.

Increasing Your Strategic Focus

We automate time-consuming tasks with AI to lower certain project costs and enable busy managers to redirect effort towards higher order strategic business challenges.

Deeper Insights

We analyze vast stores of unstructured business insights and data in a fraction of the time, uncovering new competitive opportunities for our clients.

Faster Results

As an agile team, we help clients accelerate project timelines and reach solutions quicker. While larger firms are stuck whiteboarding AI solutions, we are deploying and improving them for our clients.

Disruptive Value

We can achieve results at a fraction of the cost of larger, more expensive consulting relationships or bespoke software solutions.

Data Discipline & Security You Can Trust

Third Partners has over a decade of consulting experience working within the data security guardrails of major corporations, from large banks to SOC2 certified SaaS providers.

Sustainable Business Solutions: Better & Faster

Specific Gen AI applications we’ve developed for clients to use:

Internal Alignment on Sustainability Strategy

Critical questions require nuanced and intelligent answers. Our purpose-built Gen AI RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architecture gives clients accurate, relevant, bespoke answers to questions like, “How can we improve our product’s environmental footprint and achieve a competitive advantage in our industry?”

Auto-Complete Any Sustainability Survey or Data Request

Sustainability surveys from buyers, investors, and other stakeholders are important, but they aren’t the best use of your team’s time. Our sustainability survey response utility enables clients to decrease time and effort required to generate compliant submissions while keeping proprietary company information secure.

On-Demand Sustainability Knowledge Base

We deploy agent-based Gen AI tools to provide employees and managers instantaneous access to technical responses regarding corporate practices, product-level impacts, and even external megatrends.

Product and Service Impact Assessment

By combining existing datasets with Gen AI tools, companies can conduct rapid product carbon footprint and environmental impact screenings, accelerate sustainable marketing claims development, optimize raw materials choices, and determine circular product development priorities.

All of the Benefits Without the IT Complexity

Gen AI As-A-Service Brings Your Ideas to Life in Days Not Months

We can help you conceive, prototype, build, and deploy custom Gen AI-powered solutions directly into your existing technology ecosystem, including Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Salesforce Einstein, and virtually all ERP systems.

With our Gen AI as-a-service solution, you can capture many of the benefits of Gen AI, even if your organization has not fully deployed AI tools internally.

Solutions We Have Deployed Include:

AI Data

Strategy
Optimize your company data for LLM readability to improve the accuracy and relevance of your Gen AI workflows.

Policy

Development
Draft and refine governance policies by combining AI-driven insights with the real world experience of our consulting team.

Competitive

Benchmarking
Instantly analyze competitor and peer performance data to monitor best practices and defend an industry-leading position on any sustainability and ESG issue.

Regulatory and Voluntary

Reporting
Expedite compliance with complex regulations like TCFD for California SB 261, EcoVadis, CDP, and other reporting frameworks.

Sustainability

Reports
Use AI to build the creative theme, structure, and content for your next sustainability report, freeing your team to focus on strategy and performance improvement.

Environmental Data

Monitoring
Pair Gen AI data insights with Third Partners’ powerful environmental data management dashboards to automate trend analysis and GHG reporting. This ISO 50001-aligned process puts your company on the fast track to best-in-class environmental data management.

Custom AI

Automations
Need to automate a unique repetitive process? We work with you to develop a logical and efficient Gen AI workflow.

Responsible and Sustainable AI Strategy

Become a More Confident Gen AI User by Mitigating ESG Risks

There are myriad problems to consider, from increasing energy consumption and demand to major intellectual property concerns. Don’t let these risks take your organization by surprise or stand in the way of AI adoption altogether. When developing Gen AI solutions, Third Partners helps companies proactively identify and mitigate key ESG risks using science and data.

Is AI sustainable?

We can help your team gain a clear picture of how Gen AI impacts your sustainability and ESG objectives, from energy consumption to social and economic dimensions. More importantly, we help companies plan ways to leverage AI to make a net positive impact on company environmental sustainability goals.

Learn more about our outlook for companies on the growing environmental impact of AI.

Is AI responsible?

AI raises challenges in data protection, personal data privacy, intellectual property protection, talent development, and more. Third Partners helps HR, Legal, and C-Suite leaders assess and mitigate AI-related risks. Smart AI use starts with corporate policies and procedures to minimize the potential for waste, abuse, and downside risk. In addition, choosing the right AI technologies can make a huge difference in how organizations implement AI tools ethically and responsibly. All providers are not equal.

Gen AI solutions that drive business and sustainability.

Streamline reporting, reduce product footprints, and scale your impact faster.