Asuene Enhances AI CDP Scoring to Achieve 90% Efficiency

Asuene Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Founder & CEO: Kohei Nishiwada; hereinafter 'the Company') has significantly enhanced its 'AI CDP Scoring' service, which combines AI with professional consulting, based on insights accumulated from supporting CDP responses for a total of 440 companies—one of the largest track records in Japan. By integrating AI-driven automated response generation and gap analysis against the previous year's questionnaires with expert consultant reviews, the service improves work efficiency in CDP reporting by up to 90%.

This service aims to improve the accuracy of responses based on CDP evaluation criteria, enabling the creation of draft responses aimed at achieving high scores. Through these efforts, the Company has achieved a customer satisfaction rate of over 90% in its 2025 fiscal year CDP response support.

[Advancement of CDP Reporting and Corporate Requirements] In recent years, global demands for environmental information disclosure have been rising. CDP is widely used by investors, financial institutions, and business partners as an international framework for evaluating corporate climate change initiatives. Currently, over 20,000 companies globally are required to respond to CDP, making it a key evaluation metric in corporate management.

However, CDP questionnaires are becoming more sophisticated year by year. In 2024, the climate change, water, and forest questionnaires were integrated, creating a more comprehensive evaluation mechanism. Furthermore, companies are required to provide more advanced information organization and explanations, such as ensuring consistency with new disclosure standards like TNFD and ISSB.

Against this backdrop, it is crucial for companies to understand the intent of the questions and accurately convey their initiatives. However, the increasing number and complexity of questions have led to a heavier workload for corporate staff. Therefore, the importance of mechanisms that streamline response creation, in addition to professional expertise, is growing.

[About 'ASUENE' CDP Response Support Consulting] The Company supports corporate sustainability information disclosure, centered on 'ASUENE,' a cloud service for visualizing, reducing, and reporting CO2 emissions, which boasts the highest number of domestic adoptions. Through all its services, the Company has supported the decarbonization and ESG management of over 30,000 companies in Japan and overseas.

With this industry-leading track record, the Company has been involved in supporting CDP responses for a total of 440 companies. Through handling diverse industries and company sizes, it has accumulated knowledge regarding CDP scores, including response structures based on evaluation criteria and the organization of disclosure content. This includes not only public information but also non-public data and professional insights from consultants accumulated through practical experience.

In this CDP response support, the Company provides an environment where companies can efficiently proceed with response creation while understanding the intent of the questions by incorporating AI-driven automated response generation and gap analysis. It also supports the creation of responses that cross-sectionally organize environmental information, including the integrated climate change, water, and forest questionnaires. By combining AI-based scoring with reviews by professional consultants, the Company aims to improve the accuracy of responses and enable the creation of high-scoring drafts based on its extensive experience.

By combining AI-driven efficiency with professional consulting, the Company reduces work time for CDP response creation by up to 90% while enhancing the completeness of the content.

[About 'ASUENE'] 'ASUENE' is a cloud service for visualizing, reducing, and reporting CO2 emissions. In addition to visualizing Scope 1-3 emissions using AI and reporting/information disclosure, it provides advanced consulting services corresponding to domestic and international regulations and initiatives such as CFP/LCA calculation, CDP, SBTi, CSRD, TCFD, TNFD, and SSBJ. It holds the No. 1 position in the number of domestic adoptions for CO2 visualization services (as of July 2025, according to Tokyo Shoko Research).