đNavigating Brightest
Below are brief descriptions of the different modules in Brightest. Note, some modules may only be accessible for Transform or Enterprise subscriptions.
Table of Contents
Partners (Suppliers)
ESG & Sustainability Reporting
Manage Teams (for Administrators)
ESG Dashboard
Your ESG dashboard is the website landing page (visible to Administrator & Manager users). The left column shows your menu bar where you can access all the different Brightest modules. The ESG Dashboard is an accumulation and analysis of the data and information you have entered throughout your Brightest account.
Environmental dashboard: view charts and analytics for your emissions by scope, year, energy and water consumption as well as waste data. Add your custom KPIs or ESG standard-related KPIs to your Environmental dashboard.
Social dashboard: view data and charts related to your company's diversity, equity & inclusion, environmental health & safety, and add any custom or ESG & Sustainability-related KPIs.
Governance dashboard: assign colleagues tasks, record incidents & risks, upload polices & track % of employees trained, upload certifications or documents, edit board diversity data and upload custom or ESG & Sustainability-related KPIs.
Goals
Goals can be any company-wide objective, emissions targets or KPIs. How you decide or define your mission, strategy, materiality, and priority impact, sustainability, or ESG metrics is up to you and your organization, but generally Brightest is flexible enough to accommodate nearly any type of organization and nearly any sets of goals or targets.
By setting goals and metrics in the "Goals" module, you can create an internal framework for what your organization is trying to achieve, when you are trying to achieve it by, and how you're measuring, tracking, and reporting progress.
If you're new (or newer) to impact measurement and reporting, you may also want to reference our free impact measurement and ESG reporting guides, and watch our how-to tutorial on using goals and metrics in Brightest.
The Goals module is also where you can establish environmental or emissions-based targets as well as create your materiality matrix (for transform & enterprise accounts). Materiality pillars are represent as goals and materiality themes represented by tags.
Actions
Actions can represent specific projects and initiatives, events, fundraisers or volunteer opportunities. This tool can be used as a project management tool, assign an action to a colleague, create a budget and monitor the actionâs status. The action can also be publicly shared via your company's Public Impact Hub. Additional features of actions include shift sign-ups, donations or ticket sales and can be shared publicly or shared only internally with your team or company. Actions can be assigned tags, linked to custom KPIs and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Social
The social module is where the you can can collect and track company social data like diversity (at the board, employee & management level), health and wellness & safety (employee compensation, employee wellness & safety, employee turnover, workers by type), policies and training documents.
Survey
In the survey module, you can build dynamic, custom surveys (or use one of the Brightest templates) to engage with suppliers, community partners, and employees.
Survey questions can be connected with specific metrics or KPIs, actions, or fields. Survey responses are stored in your Brightest account and can be linked to partner records.
You can send surveys directly to partners or suppliers in your Brightest account, embed the survey in your website or share the survey link.
Partners
Brightest is designed as a collaborative software. Users can engage and collaborate directly with their partners, suppliers and stakeholders by inviting them to Brightest. The partners module is where you can view their partner directory, manage their partner / supplier data, store and track related documents and partner surveys and view data analytics.
Sustainability
The sustainability module is where the majority of the carbon accounting occurs. It is where you can measure and track your environmental footprint of company assets, transit activity, products and spend items.
Use the add tools or csv file importer to upload company data. See the breakdown of your emissions by scope and comparisons to historical data or set targets in the GHG and Insights tabs.
ESG & Sustainability Reporting
In the ESG reporting section is where users can access ESG and sustainability international standards and frameworks. You can create, manage, edit and collaborate on their ESG reports. The report section offers fill-in templates that allows the user to upload relevant documents, lock answers to control editing permissions and additionally has auditing features.
Also, try out the AI-generate feature which uses AI to fill in suggested answers to report questions. Note, this is still in the beta phase. We recommend you still review the AI-generated responses and edit as needed.
Analytics
The analytics section shows a more in depth breakdown of specific data like any actions the user has created, custom KPIs, income as well as responses to surveys and assessments.
Engagement
The engagement section is another way to engage with colleagues and stakeholders. You can keep track of contact details and monitor stakeholder engagement with your organization. For example, if you attend a conference and collect a list of contacts, you can keep that list of contacts here and even tag them so you can remember where you met them.
For example, create a tag called "London Sustainability Conference 2023" and add this tag your new contacts from that conference. Or keep notes about the contact in the notes section.
Settings
Account settings is where you can customize your Brightest account to match your company's needs and preferences.
Add and edit company information. Select default settings for your ESG & Sustainability data like measurement units, ESG & Sustainability reporting standards and frameworks, edit and view your emissions factors library. Create custom KPIs or custom fields for supplier and partner surveys. Create tags. View billing and payment information (for Administrators).
Manage Teams (for Administrators)
Administrators can invite colleagues to join Brightest, and there are many ways to do this, such as sharing a survey or signup page, or using our team invite tool.
Once your team members join, they will be able to collaborate on your account and you can track their activity in your activity history log in account settings.
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