Climate solutions provider Watershed announced the launch of Watershed agents, providing new AI tools to enable sustainability teams to significantly accelerate data cleaning and analysis.
According to Watershed, the new AI tools are being introduced to address a key challenge facing sustainability teams, with data management requiring substantial time investment to collect, clean, aggregate, analyze and report on data.
Founded in 2019, Watershed initially focused on providing an enterprise sustainability platform to enable companies to measure, report, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, and over time expanded its capabilities to include areas such as waste, water, land-use change, and social and governance metrics. Over the past year, the company has been launching Ai-powered solutions, including a product footprint solution, and sustainability reporting capabilities covering a broad range of ESG metrics and reporting requirements.
According to the company, the new agents can execute complex workflows to produce disclosure-ready data and strategic insights, with the ability to handle unit conversions, date formats, country codes, duplicates, missing values, and broken formulas, providing teams with the ability to upload and process utility bills, identify emissions hotspots and see suggested decarbonization actions, automatically reformat “messy data” into structured files, as well as to ask questions about their data, produce a first draft for ESG reporting, and analyze the footprint of products.
In addition to the new agents, Watershed also announced the launch of the Watershed AI Fellowship, a new 8-week sustainability AI-focused support and training program, offering small-group briefings with the company’s climate science and policy experts, early access to new features, and direct feedback channels with Watershed’s product team.
Watershed co-founder Taylor Francis said:
“The goal is simple: help sustainability teams spend less time on data and more time driving decarbonization. Watershed agents give teams more leverage, so they can move faster on the work that matters most. The Watershed AI Fellowship helps leaders build the skills to put these tools to work.”
