About
Who is Ascend? Why Harnest?
We are entering a new era of corporate management.
We are entering a new era of corporate management.
For decades, executives have learned to govern what they could measure in monetary terms. Finance provided a robust, structured, industrialised framework. It enabled comparison, decision-making, investment and arbitration.
But the value of a company is not limited to its income statement and balance sheet.
- It also plays out off the balance sheet.
- In resilience against shocks.
- In the ability to deliver, adapt and secure its value chain.In risk management, reputation and trust.And in the company's real impact on the climate, natural resources and human rights.
This data is frozen in reporting, rather than managed over time. Under-exploited, even though it concentrates an essential share of value and risk.
We are changing that.
What we do.
Ascend is the first European extra-financial ERP.
What we call "extra-financial" is in reality a matter of operational performance, governance and sustainable value creation. For the company, its shareholders and its stakeholders.
This is why this data must be treated with the same rigour as finance: a clear reference system, strong governance, structured processes, a robust audit trail, a common, reliable and governed data core.
Ascend constitutes this source of truth on what companies were not truly managing until now. Around this foundation, business modules transform data into action: risk management, action plans, climate trajectories, value chain, regulatory compliance, resource allocation.
Like a financial ERP, Ascend is a system for aligning execution. But applied to extra-financial performance.
Our vision
We make invisible data visible.
A company does not need more data. It needs to make better use of the data it already has.
An indicator only has value if it lives over time.
If it is clearly defined.
Regularly collected.
Compared.
Linked to a risk.
Connected to an action.
And capable of triggering a decision.
The report is a delivrable. Management is a system.
Managing means detecting a deviation, understanding its cause, deciding, acting, monitoring, adjusting. It means having a signal before the crisis, not after. It means turning data into a trajectory.
Our direction is clear: making extra-financial data an asset.
- A reliable asset.
- A governed asset.
- An exploitable asset.
- An asset that transforms the way a company makes decisions.
Our values
Permanent excellence.
Refusing the statu quo. Améliorer en continu. Improving continuously. Applying the same level of rigour to the extra-financial as to finance. No approximations, no box-ticking, data that is defined, traced and auditable.
Creating client delight.
Going beyond satisfaction. A system is only useful if it creates value at every level. For operational teams, whose effort becomes visible and recognised; for executives, who manage on complete and reliable information; for investors and partners, who no longer want to decide blindly. Our clients are our best ambassadors.
Making a positive difference
Impacting human rights, the environment and the competitiveness of companies. Not one or the other. All three together. Because sustainable performance is not a compromise. It is our ambition.
Sovereignty by design.
A European infrastructure, reliable, traceable and controlled. Because strategic management cannot depend on opaque systems. Because trust is a prerequisite for decision-making.
"Ascending with you"
Sustainability Advisory + Technology
Backed by the experience of its partners, all former managers and entrepreneurs, ASCEND supports business managers on the sometimes difficult paths of CSR and ESG.
Our mission is to make you autonomous in managing your sustainability. We share our in-depth know-how and provide you with efficient and economical software.
Together, we maximize our positive impact on human rights and the environment, while preparing your business model for future challenges. We aim to guarantee nothing less than sustainable development for your business.
Team
Sabine Lochmann
President
Patrice Hiddinga
Operations
Fabien Herelle
Product and Technology
Stéphane Jotic
Sales
Ahmad Bidawi
Sales
Maxime Mathon
Sustainability and data
Lucie Pourquier
Projects
Boubékeur Boukerma
Business developer
Sophie Petitjean
CMO
Harnest
Magician
Sabine Lochmann
President
Patrice Hiddinga
Operations
Maxime Mathon
Sustainability and data
Fabien Herelle
Product and Technology
Ahmad Bidawi
Sales
Harnest
Magician
Stéphane Jotic
Sales
Lucie Pourquier
Projects
Sophie Petitjean
CMO
Boubékeur Boukerma
Business developer
Join us
Ascend is building the first European extra-financial ERP. A platform that transforms the way companies manage what truly matters.
Our team is around fifteen people convinced that rigour and impact can go hand in hand. We work with around ten partner companies who share this ambition.
We are open to individual and institutional applications.
If you refuse the status quo.
If you want your work to make a real difference.
If you believe extra-financial data is the next great governance challenge for companies.
Let's talk.
