The Methodology
ClearSight™
Transition intelligence for long-term value.
Most risk frameworks measure one dimension. Report quality. Carbon footprint. Supply chain certifications. They matter. But they are not the system.
The risks that destroy long-term value sit in the dimensions you are not measuring. They compound in the connections between dimensions that conventional tools treat as separate.
ClearSight™ was built to see the whole picture.
Three Lenses
The Three-Lens Framework
Every organisation faces risk from three directions. Most frameworks see one. Some manage two.
What is coming at you.
Planetary systems, regulatory shifts, market transitions, resource constraints. The forces no single company controls but every company must navigate.
What is happening within you.
Workforce readiness, cultural resilience, capability gaps. The slow erosion that shows up in the distance between what your technology can do and what your people are equipped to use.
What you are doing to others.
Impact on communities, ecosystems, supply chains, future generations. The dimension that operates on a different timescale: slow to build, sudden to crystallise, and extremely difficult to reverse.
The risks live in the lenses you are not looking through.
Six Channels
Six Channels of Transition Risk
Risk costs money through six channels. Each one hits your financials: P&L, balance sheet, or both. Most organisations measure one or two.
Cost of Capital
What you pay more to borrow.
Performance Premium
What you are leaving on the table.
Hidden Erosion
When transformation bleeds slow.
Catastrophic Event
Cyclones, droughts, insurance withdrawal.
Human Capital
When your people, technology and culture are out of sync.
Regulatory Compliance
Divergent regulation when you are not ready.
All six are measured in dollars. The channels compound. That's why single-risk models underestimate.
Built for climate. Tested against geopolitical shock. The transmission mechanism works the same regardless of the trigger.
Three Instruments
Three Instruments, One Picture
When the three instruments diverge on the same company, that is where the diagnostic value lives.
The Calculator
answers: what are you exposed to?
Dollar-denominated risk across six channels. Over 1,000 companies assessed across 20 stock exchanges, with deep intelligence on hundreds, and growing.
The Rubric
answers: how ready are you?
A readiness assessment that reveals what ESG ratings miss. Our finding: zero correlation between ESG ratings and actual transition readiness.
The Value Creation Index
answers: what are you building?
Five dimensions of value creation that show whether a company is heading toward transition leadership or coasting through inaction.
ReadyScore: five dimensions of transition readiness. ESG Institute / ClearSight™
Each instrument delivers insight on its own. Together, they see what no single lens can.
Findings
What We Have Found
Companies with identical ESG scores carrying completely different risk profiles. Beautiful reports hiding unfunded plans. Sector leaders and sector laggards wearing the same label, separated not by what they disclose, but by whether they are actually ready.
Approximately 10% of annual revenue exposed to transition risk across the companies assessed, in dimensions conventional frameworks do not measure.
Zero correlation between ESG ratings and actual transition readiness.
The instrument you use determines what you see.
Developed With
Both Sides of the Table
S&P · Merrill Lynch · Marsh McLennan · Standard Chartered · Maersk · CBRE · Unilever · Olam · Accor · Stolt Nielsen · LinkedIn · Ecolabs · Witteveen+Bos · Johnson Controls
The people who price risk. The people who live it. In the same room.
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Where does your organisation stand?
If you are sitting with questions about what this means for your portfolio, your board, or your organisation, that conversation exists.
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