Impact Scan: Benchmarking and Gap Analysis

Most businesses have a sense that they should be doing more on sustainability. Very few have a clear, structured picture of where they actually stand across every dimension of their business, benchmarked against their industry, and translated into concrete priorities for action. The Impact Scan gives you exactly that.

Quest Impact Scan

What the Impact Scan covers

The Impact Scan is an ESG reporting tool that assesses your organisation across five dimensions, giving you a 360° view of your sustainability performance in a single, intuitive visual. A digital sustainability reporting solution that will open your eyes and set the path for more positive impact.

  • Governance How sustainability is embedded in your leadership, strategy, and decision-making — and how transparent and accountable your organisation is about its commitments and progress.
  • Environment Your organisation’s environmental footprint across energy, emissions, water, waste, and land use — and where the most significant opportunities for reduction and improvement lie.
  • Employees How your organisation treats its people — covering fair compensation, working conditions, diversity and inclusion, health and wellbeing, and opportunities for development.
  • Suppliers The sustainability practices embedded in your supply chain — how you select, engage, and hold your suppliers accountable on environmental and social criteria.
  • Community Your organisation’s relationship with the communities in which it operates — through local economic impact, social initiatives, and broader contributions to society.

Our sustainability management platform is grounded in leading frameworks including the B Impact Assessment, the Sustainable Development Goals, the SAM corporate sustainability assessment, and the GRI framework, and is attuned to the reporting requirements of CSRD and TCFD.

How it works

Most sustainability journeys stall not because of a lack of ambition, but because of a lack of clarity. Organisations spend months debating where to focus, what to report, and how to prioritise without ever establishing a reliable baseline to work from.
The Impact Scan cuts through that. It gives you the honest picture you need to make decisions and start moving.

  • Score your organisation: Working across all five dimensions, we assess your current performance using the Impact Scan methodology, scoring each area and producing a clear visual output that shows your strengths, gaps, and position relative to your industry average.
  • Benchmark against your sector: Your scores are compared against your industry average, giving you a referenced, contextualised picture of your performance. Not just an internal assessment, but a competitive one. Are you genuinely ahead/behind, and where closing the gap would create the most competitive advantage?
  • Identify priorities and quick wins: We analyse your results to identify where you are leaving the most value on the table, highlighting the quick wins that can build momentum, the medium-term priorities that will define your roadmap, and the longer-term ambitions worth planning toward.
  • Engage your team in the findings: The Impact Scan process is deliberately designed to involve people across your organisation, creating shared ownership of both the findings and the actions that follow, so that the insights land internally, not just in a report.
  • Translate results into a sustainability roadmap:The output is not just a score but a structured starting point for your sustainability roadmap. We work with you to turn your scan results into a concrete action plan with prioritised initiatives, allocated ownership, and a clear direction for your sustainability journey from this point forward.

Key outcomes

A clear, honest baseline

A structured, scored assessment of your sustainability performance across all five dimensions benchmarked against your industry and presented in a single intuitive visual that leadership and teams can actually use.

Prioritised gaps and opportunities

A ranked view of where your most significant improvement opportunities lie — so your next sustainability decisions are driven by evidence, not assumption or internal politics.

Internal alignment and momentum

A process that brings your team along, building the shared understanding and ownership that turns a scan into a starting point for future action.

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