Our mission
Gaia’s mission is to be the world’s leading provider of green technology. The work starts with a practical job: closing the gap between government legislation and the businesses that have to meet it.
The rules changed faster than the tools
Two sets of rules changed what UK organisations have to do about their environmental impact. Reporting frameworks such as Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) in the UK and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in the EU require businesses to measure and disclose their emissions. And the Environment Act 2021 made a 10% biodiversity net gain mandatory for most new developments in England from February 2024.
Meeting those rules is another matter. A finance team asked to report emissions inherits a year of invoices and spreadsheets. A developer who needs off-site biodiversity units has to find a landowner with registered units to sell; the landowner with the habitat bank has the same problem in reverse.
That is the gap Gaia exists to close. We build software for both sides of it.
Carbon accounting without the spreadsheets
A company’s carbon footprint hides in fuel receipts, energy bills and supplier invoices. Gaia Carbon Accounting pulls it out. The software measures Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and produces audit-ready reports in SECR, CSRD and B Corp formats at the click of a button. It follows the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) and uses the annual UK conversion factors published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).
The G.AI tools take on the slowest part of the job, which is collecting the data. Drop in PDFs, spreadsheets and CSVs and the figures are extracted for you. Anomalies are flagged before they reach a report, and gaps are filled with estimates so reporting isn’t held up. From there, the decarbonisation strategy builder turns the numbers into a reduction plan.
A working market for biodiversity units
The Gaia BNG Marketplace is the UK’s largest marketplace for Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) units. Developers who need off-site units to meet the 10% requirement can search listings that are pre-qualified, formally registered and ready to purchase. Landowners who have created habitat banks can put their units in front of the buyers who need them. Over 50,000 BNG units from more than 150 sellers are listed today, worth nearly £1.5 billion.
People from both sides of the gap
Gaia is a UK-based software company, and the team behind it has worked in government, marketing, software and environmental tech. That mix matters for a product built around legislation. We are Cyber Essentials Plus certified.
The same team builds Gaia Enterprise for councils and land managers, and Gaia Plus for landowners.
Gaia software is beautifully flexible and I would recommend it to any local authority or council looking to manage and market their environmental and green efforts.
You’re in good company
Start closing the gap
Tell us what your organisation has to meet and we’ll show you how Gaia handles it.