Sustainable Square upgrades its sustainability reporting platform Squarely

Sustainable Square, a sustainability advisory and technology firm, has upgraded its Squarely platform to its next edition – branding the evolution as Squarely 2.0.

Launched in mid-2023, Squarely is a platform that enables organisations to automate, streamline and enhance sustainability reporting. With regulatory sustainability requirements increasing in recent years and growing calls for greater ESG transparency, this task has nowadays become a core activity for organisations and their ESG departments.

However, “producing ESG reports is a time-consuming and labour-intensive process,” said Monaem Ben Lellahom, CEO of Sustainable Square. Having helped produce hundreds of ESG reports, Sustainable Square set out to make the process simpler and more efficient – the foundation on which the inaugural Squarely platform was built.

Now, the UAE-headquartered business has leveraged three years of experience, client feedback, and technological progress to take its platform to the next level.

Squarely 2.0

The upgraded Squarely 2.0 introduces enhanced automation, improved data visibility, and AI-enabled workflows that allow organisations to centralise ESG data, strengthen internal controls, and produce audit-ready sustainability disclosures aligned with evolving market and regulatory expectations.

Ben Lellahom stated: “Over the past few years, we’ve seen sustainability reporting shift from a compliance exercise to a strategic, decision-driven function. Squarely 2.0 is our response to that shift. It’s not just about interpreting where the market is today; it’s about building the digital infrastructure organisations need for where sustainability reporting, regulation, and data expectations are heading.”

Houssem Hajlaoui, Chief Technology Officer of Sustainable Square, added: “The real challenges in ESG reporting are data structure, consistency, and control. Squarely 2.0 uses AI as an enabler to automate workflows, strengthen data traceability, extract valuable insights, and support reporting processes that are scalable, auditable, and aligned with evolving disclosure requirements.”

The number of organisations that have adopted Squarely is not disclosed, although the firm showcases credentials on its website, including testimonials with Tabreed and Petromin.

With a team of around 50 staff, Sustainable Square is one of the GCC’s larger homegrown consultancies dedicated to the sustainability landscape. Over the years, the firm has bagged several awards for its impact.