ESG-as-a-Service · Saudi Arabia
Lower cost of capital. Financing eligibility. A clean answer when Aramco, SABIC or your lender sends the questionnaire. Rational runs the whole function for you — on a monthly subscription, not a project fee.
Built for Tadawul-listed, IPO-track and large private Saudi companies. Aligned to Tadawul ESG Guidelines, IFRS S1 & S2, CSRD and the GHG Protocol.
Chief Sustainability Officer
Full-time · senior hire
ESG reporting manager
Full-time
Carbon & GHG analyst
Full-time
Data & supplier coordinator
Full-time
Reporting software licences
Annual
External consultants, gap fills
Project fees
Recruitment, onboarding, attrition
6–9 months to first output
Four salaries, a licence stack and a consultant line — before the first report is published.
Figures are illustrative.
Why boards actually sign this off
No one approves a budget line for sustainability on its own merits. They approve it because it unlocks something the business already needs.
Green and sustainability-linked facilities price below conventional debt. Getting there needs an assured GHG inventory and defensible targets — the two things lenders ask for first.
Development banks, export credit agencies and sustainability-linked lenders screen on ESG data before they screen on the business case. Fail the screen and the term sheet never arrives.
Tadawul ESG disclosure, IFRS S1 & S2 alignment and a two-year data trail take time to build. Starting them in the year of the listing is starting late.
Aramco, SABIC, Ma'aden and European buyers now send ESG questionnaires with the RFQ. A weak response quietly costs you the tender.
Vision 2030, the Saudi Green Initiative and ministry reporting expectations move fast. Being early is cheap. Being late is a remediation project.
Your audit committee needs numbers that survive assurance and a chair who can answer the question in the room. That's a capability, not a PDF.
What the subscription staffs
One team, one retainer, one point of accountability. We sit inside your operating rhythm — your board pack, your month-end, your tender responses.
Fractional Chief Sustainability Officer
A named senior lead who owns your strategy, sits in management meetings and fronts the topic with your board and investors.
Board and investor reporting
Quarterly board packs, audit committee briefings, and answers ready before the questions come.
Training and capability building
Working sessions for finance, procurement, HSE and operations so your own people can hold the line.
GHG inventory
Scope 1, 2 and 3 built to the GHG Protocol, with the calculation files and evidence trail an assurer will accept.
Carbon accounting
Ongoing emissions accounting tied to your actual meters, fleet and invoices — not a once-a-year reconstruction.
Supplier assessments
Screening, data collection and scoring across your supply base, and the responses you send to your own customers.
IFRS S1 & S2 and CSRD readiness
Gap assessment, roadmap and the disclosures themselves, sequenced to your listing or reporting deadline.
Annual sustainability report
Written, designed and defensible. Tadawul and GRI aligned, drafted from your data rather than around it.
Assurance and audit support
We prepare the evidence pack and sit with your assurance provider through the process.
Regulatory monitoring
Saudi and international requirements tracked continuously, with a plain note on what changed and what you need to do.
AI sustainability assistant
Your team asks questions of your own ESG data and gets answers in seconds, with the source cited.
Included advisory
The lender's questionnaire, the customer's audit, the journalist's email. You call us; there is no scope change.
Plans
Annual agreements, billed monthly. Pricing scales with entity count, sites and reporting obligations — not with hours.
Private companies building the baseline before lenders or customers ask.
From SAR 18,000 / month
Listed and IPO-track companies with a reporting obligation and a board that asks.
From SAR 33,000 / month
Groups facing external assurance, CSRD exposure or a live financing process.
Scoped per group
Getting started
Meters, invoices, fleet records, HR data, existing disclosures. Most companies hold 60% of what they need and don't know it. You get a written gap list and a fixed scope.
Your fractional CSO is named and in your meetings. Data collection runs on a schedule. Questionnaires stop landing on someone's desk with no owner.
A defensible baseline inventory, your regulatory position, and a targets recommendation your audit committee can approve. Then it repeats, every quarter, on subscription.
Thirty minutes, no deck. Tell us who is asking you for what — a lender, a customer, the exchange, the board — and we'll tell you plainly whether a subscription makes sense for you.