Non financial reporting, as a resource for managing sustainibiliy
Centralize all your non-financial data and produce regulatory and voluntary ESG reports from a single, consistent, reliable and auditable database.
With ;Harnest;, you can focus on what's important: managing your action plans to reduce ESG risks and sustainably improve your performance.

An approach in 3 key steps

Understand its materiality
Structure your CSR approach with clarity and method
- Identify the sustainability issues relevant to you and your value chain
- Map and engage your stakeholders
- Define your material topics through the evaluation of impacts, risks and opportunities
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Pilot your ;sustainability; several steps ahead
At Ascend, we haven't just designed an extra-financial reporting tool. With ;Harnest;, we've created a strategic ESG platform, designed to anticipate regulatory requirements, facilitate sustainability management and generate real competitive advantage.
Thanks to our intelligent data-accelerating tools, combining proprietary sector repositories, sovereign AI and secure architecture, you will save time and create more value at every stage of your CSR approach.

ESG issues library
Thanks to our library of sectoral issues, you have access to a personalized mapping of your ESG challenges, aligned with your activities and your NACE codes.
With more than 70,000 items identified, Harnest's proprietary knowledge base accelerates your approach while strengthening its quality.

Sovereign AI 🇫🇷
More productivity, in complete confidentiality.; Harnest integrates; Mistral's AI.
This technology allows you to generate contextualized ESG content, consistent and documented, using your own data, Without Compromising on Safety.

Security and interoperability
; Harnest; relies on a robust, sovereign cloud infrastructure that complies with the highest security standards. Whether it's synchronizing data, automating your processes or enriching your uses via third-party applications, everything is designed for fluid, scalable and perfectly secure interoperability.
Harnest, the all-in-one platform ;to manage, automate and publish your sustainability strategy;
Sustainability has become a strategic imperative. Yet for many companies, steering a rigorous ESG approach remains complex: multiple standards, scattered data, unsuitable tools, lack of time or expertise.
At Ascend, we've supported dozens of organizations facing these challenges.
That's why we've designed ;Harnest;: a robust, scalable platform that helps you structure, track and add value to your ESG strategy, at every stage of its lifecycle.

Understand your materiality and structure your approach
- Intelligent company mapping
Identify your sites, business lines or subsidiaries and visualize your value chains and stakeholders for a complete analysis of your business model.
- Integrated materiality library
Rely on thousands of sector issues, key indicators and benchmarks to guide your analyses.
- Automated analysis of your sustainability
Let Harnest analyze your sustainability elements and help you identify priority areas for improvement.

Manage your sustainability effectively
- Detailed definition of action plan
Identify the policies and actions implemented by the company for regular monitoring.
- Action roadmap
Visualize your action schedule in a Gantt-type view to facilitate communication on current and upcoming actions.
- Task kanban
Involve people from different departments and easily track the progress of their tasks.

Collect, centralize and manage your non-financial data
- Collection of indicators and multi-subsidiary support
Gather ESG data from all your entities, with the desired level of granularity.
- Collaborative management
Assign tasks, track deadlines, measure progress with our integrated project management tools.
- Open API
Connect ;Harnest; to your internal tools (Excel, ERP, CRM, BI...) to automate data flows.

Produce your reports in full compliance
- AI-enhanced editing
Produce contextualized content faster, based on your internal data and policies.
- Collaborative report writing
Work with several people on the same report, with differentiated roles and rights.
- DOCX and XLSX exports
Generate reports in office format, ready for distribution
- Multi-standard native
Manage multiple standards simultaneously without re-typing. Choose from our library of repositories, or create your own templates according to your needs or those of your stakeholders.
Discover Harnest in just a few clics
Ensure full compliance without the hassle of Word and Excel, with Harnest, the all-in-one Sustainability Lifecycle Management (SLM) solution, enhanced by ASCEND's industry-specific knowledge bases.
Some client testimonies

We greatly appreciate your facilitation of the work of the CSR Commission, where our members can hear you clearly and constructively on the issues of implementing the CSRD and CS3D.
Célia Besnier
Head of Policy & Publications at AmCham France

We have made excellent progress with a higher Ecovadis rating and significantly strengthened processes and governance. Ascend has proven to be a reliable and supportive partner throughout our journey.
Dominique Legros
CEO Echosens

Thank you again for the remarkable work that led to the Policy Flash on CS3D distributed to members of Amcham France and to our entire network.
Eglé de Richemont
MD, Amcham France

Working on Renaissance Textile's strategy and helping shareholders make the right decisions in a project that had been underway for several years was essential. The help of ASCEND was decisive.
Quiterie de Montclos
Shareholder representative

It is with great satisfaction that I share with you the result of our annual Ecovadis evaluation: gold medal with 74/100 and 97th percentile. Thanks to the ASCEND team for the work done and the commitment at our side!
Sophie Ribes
Legal and CSR Director