Vendor profile · in Sami’s and SGS’s own words
The Sami platform: an EU-built toolkit, now sold in the UK
The Sami platform is a French carbon and ESG product with two hubs — carbon accounting, and an ESG toolkit built on the EU’s European Sustainability Reporting Standards.
SGS took a majority stake on 21 November 2025 and launched Sami in the UK on 10 April 2026, so the question for a UK reader is which of its EU-shaped outputs a UK company actually needs.
This profile uses only Sami’s and SGS’s own pages, read on 1 October 2026; this site has tested no carbon software.
About the Sami platform
Two hubs and a consulting arm, as Sami lists them
Sami’s English site opens with a promise to “measure smarter, act faster, reduce for real”, and then splits the product in two.
The Carbon Hub is a carbon accounting tool: data collection, an emission-factor database Sami puts at more than 300,000 factors, AI-assisted consolidation, reports, action plans and reduction trajectories.
Several of those features are described in terms of “your clients” — a data collection platform “to collaborate with your clients”, trajectories you “propose” to them — which tells you Sami is also built for consultancies running inventories for others.
The ESG Hub is an ESRS toolkit: issues are defined from the ESRS, impacts, risks and opportunities are scored on the EFRAG framework, and a double materiality matrix is produced automatically.
Alongside the software sit sector consultants for carbon footprints, CSRD and VSME reports, eco-design, product footprints and climate strategy.
Sami’s site carries customer counts and review scores; this profile does not repeat them, because a vendor’s own count is not something this site can check.
| Hub | What Sami’s English site lists |
|---|---|
| Carbon Hub | Collaborative data collection; a database of more than 300,000 emission factors; AI-assisted consolidation and audit; reports and deliverables; action plans; reduction trajectories |
| ESG Hub | Issues defined from the ESRS; stakeholder questionnaires; IRO scoring on the EFRAG framework; an automatic double materiality matrix; data entry; reporting status |
| Premium support | Sector consultants for carbon footprints, ESG strategy (CSRD and VSME reports), eco-design, product footprints (PCF, carbon LCA, ISO LCA) and climate strategy |
Ownership and the UK launch
SGS took control, then brought Sami to the UK
On 21 November 2025 SGS announced that it had acquired a majority stake in Sami, which it described as a French start-up based in Paris offering an all-in-one climate change and carbon accounting platform.
SGS says Sami was founded in 2020 and operates across France and the UK, with offices in Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lyon and London.
The stake places Sami inside SGS’s sustainability services, which SGS markets under the name IMPACT NOW.
On 10 April 2026 SGS United Kingdom announced that SGS and Sami had officially launched the platform in the UK.
SGS says the UK offer combines Sami’s software with its own sustainability expertise, from diagnostic assessments and action planning through to tracking progress and certification.
SGS is a testing, inspection and certification group, and its UK announcement runs from diagnosis to certification.
Where one group supplies the software, the advice and a certification, ask in writing which entity does each, so the independence of any certification is clear.
- 2020Sami founded
Per SGS’s announcement of the stake.
- 21 Nov 2025SGS acquires a majority stake
SGS describes Sami as a Paris-based start-up with an all-in-one climate and carbon accounting platform.
- 10 Apr 2026UK launch
SGS United Kingdom announces that SGS and Sami have officially launched the platform in the UK.
- 1 Oct 2026This profile read
Sami and SGS pages as quoted here.
CSRD, VSME and a UK company
Sami reports for the EU — does the EU ask your group for anything?
The reports Sami names are CSRD and VSME reports, both EU instruments.
A UK company is rarely in CSRD directly.
After Directive (EU) 2026/470, CSRD applies to undertakings that exceed both an average of 1,000 employees and €450 million net turnover, for financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2027.
A UK group meets it through an EU subsidiary or parent that is in scope, an EU-listed security, or the non-EU parent route in Article 40a of the Accounting Directive.
Far more UK companies meet CSRD as suppliers, asked for data by an EU customer that reports.
That is where the VSME matters: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/1560, in force since 24 September 2026, sets the voluntary standard and the value-chain cap, which applies from financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2027.
The cap protects undertakings with an average of up to 1,000 employees, and it consists only of the datapoints in Annex II of that Regulation, not the whole voluntary standard.
The checker beside this walks through the four routes and says who files.
The UK routes into CSRD are set out on CSRD reporting in the UK, and the voluntary standard on VSME.
CSRD · which route are you in?
Pick the position that fits.
A UK group can stand in more than one: test each EU subsidiary on its own figures and the whole group under Article 40a.
Rules: Directive 2013/34/EU Arts 19a, 29a and 40a and Directive (EU) 2022/2464 Art 5, as amended by Directive (EU) 2026/470.
“Exceed” is strict and both limbs are needed.
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A provisional reading, not advice on your group perimeter.
Two kinds of materiality
A double materiality matrix is not a UK SRS input
Sami’s ESG Hub produces a double materiality matrix, scoring impacts as well as financial effects, which is what the ESRS require of a CSRD reporter.
UK SRS takes the other approach.
UK SRS S1 and S2, published by the Department for Business and Trade on 25 February 2026, follow the ISSB standards in asking for sustainability-related financial information for investors and lenders, with no separate impact-materiality test.
Listed companies in UKLR 6, 14, 15, 16 and 22 report against them on a comply-or-explain basis for periods from 1 January 2027, under the FCA’s PS26/19, which replaced the CP26/5 proposal.
The ESRS’s financial materiality definition is aligned with IFRS S1’s, so the financial half of a double materiality assessment can feed a UK SRS assessment; the impact half has no UK SRS home.
A UK group with an EU reporting entity may need both, which is what our double materiality guide works through.
Sami and UK carbon reporting
SECR and the UK factors — what to see from the Carbon Hub
SECR is not named on the Sami pages read for this profile, and SGS’s UK announcement speaks of emissions visibility, reporting and SBTi-aligned targets without naming it.
A large unquoted company in SECR reports, in its directors’ report, energy in kWh, emissions from gas, purchased electricity and transport fuel, an intensity ratio, a methodology, the principal efficiency measures and last year’s figures, under Schedule 7 Part 7A.
The government’s guidance on each line is in the Environmental Reporting Guidelines; our reading is on SECR requirements.
A database of 300,000 factors still has to pick the right UK one.
The UK factors are published by DESNZ as a yearly collection, and each set is for activity data falling entirely or mostly within its year.
The inventory itself sits on the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, with the value chain divided into the fifteen categories of the Scope 3 Standard.
Your regimes
Sami’s claims, regime by regime
The checklist beside this lists what each regime requires a platform to produce, cited to the provision, and shows what Sami’s own pages say for the regimes you tick.
Where Sami names nothing, that is a question for Sami and SGS, not a finding about the product.
Other platforms profiled here on the same method include Greenly and Sweep; the full register is on carbon reporting software.
Step 1 · which regimes apply to you?
Step 2 · 12 outputs to see on a demo · 0 confirmed
What Sami says on its own site
- SECR (unquoted / LLP): no claim found on the pages we read
- CSRD / ESRS: CSRD and VSME reports
Vendor pages read 30 September–1 October 2026; re-read 11 October 2026.
A missing claim is a question to ask, not evidence of a missing feature.
Outputs are the duties in the cited provisions; the demo tests are our reading of them.
Nothing you tick is stored or sent.
Demo questions
Six questions to put to Sami and SGS
Each question tests a feature Sami lists against the UK or EU provision it touches.
Run them on your own data, with the UK entity you actually report for.
The tests that sit underneath any platform are on carbon accounting software.
Demo questions · tick the ones you need
The pass tests are our reading of the cited provisions.
Nothing you tick is stored or sent.
Frequently asked
The Sami platform, answered from its own pages
What is the Sami platform?
Sami is a French carbon and ESG software company.
Its English site describes a Carbon Hub (data collection, an emission-factor database, AI-assisted consolidation, reports, action plans and reduction trajectories) and an ESG Hub built on the EU’s ESRS, alongside consulting services on carbon footprints, ESG strategy, eco-design and product footprints.
Who owns Sami?
SGS, the testing, inspection and certification group, announced on 21 November 2025 that it had acquired a majority stake in Sami.
SGS describes Sami as a Paris-based company founded in 2020 with offices in France and London.
Is Sami available in the UK?
Yes.
SGS United Kingdom announced on 10 April 2026 that SGS and Sami had officially launched the platform in the UK, combining Sami’s software with SGS’s sustainability services from diagnostic assessment to certification.
What are the benefits of the Sami platform?
This site does not assess benefits.
On its own account, Sami pairs software with consultants who specialise in a client’s sector, and its data-collection tools are written to be shared with clients, which suits consultancies as well as companies.
Whether that fits depends on the regimes you report under.
What are the Sami platform’s features?
Sami lists, for carbon: collaborative data collection, a database of more than 300,000 emission factors, AI-assisted consolidation and audit, customisable reports, action plans and reduction trajectories.
For ESG: definition of issues based on the ESRS, stakeholder questionnaires, IRO scoring on the EFRAG framework, an automatic double materiality matrix, data entry and reporting status.
Is Sami better than Greenly?
This site does not rank or score vendors and has tested neither.
Both are profiled here from their own pages; the facts that differ are corporate — SGS holds a majority stake in Sami, while Greenly and Normative announced a merger in September 2026.
Does Sami produce SECR or UK SRS reports?
Neither is named on the Sami pages read for this profile; the reports it names are CSRD and VSME.
A UK company in SECR needs energy in kWh, its emissions limbs, a ratio, the methodology and comparatives in the directors’ report, so ask to see those from your own data.
Does a UK company need a CSRD or VSME report?
Usually not directly.
After Directive (EU) 2026/470, CSRD reaches EU undertakings that exceed both 1,000 employees and €450 million turnover for years from 2027, EU-listed issuers, and certain non-EU groups under Article 40a; a UK supplier is more often asked for data, and the voluntary VSME standard caps what a protected undertaking can be asked for.
Has this site tested Sami?
No. This site has tested no carbon software.
This page reports what Sami and SGS publish, dated, beside the UK and EU provisions it touches.
Sources
Primary sources
Sami’s and SGS’s pages are cited only for what each says about itself, read 1 October 2026.
Every regulatory statement traces to the instrument’s owner.
- SamiSami — Carbon Hub, ESG Hub and premium support (English site)
The feature list and services quoted on this page. Vendor’s own material.
- SGSSGS strengthens its carbon solutions with the acquisition of Sami (21 November 2025)
The majority stake, Sami’s founding year and its offices. Acquirer’s own announcement.
- SGS United KingdomSGS and Sami officially launch decarbonisation platform in the UK (10 April 2026)
The UK launch and what SGS says the offer combines.
- EUR-LexDirective (EU) 2026/470 (Omnibus I)
CSRD scope from 2027: more than 1,000 employees and €450 million net turnover.
- EUR-LexAccounting Directive 2013/34/EU, consolidated text, Arts 19a, 29a and 40a
The CSRD duties and the value-chain cap.
- EUR-LexCommission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/1560 — the voluntary standard (VSME)
In force 24 September 2026; the value-chain cap applies from financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2027.
- EFRAGEuropean Sustainability Reporting Standards
The standards Sami’s ESG Hub is built around.
- legislation.gov.ukSI 2008/410, Schedule 7 Part 7A — SECR for large unquoted companies
The UK directors’-report energy and carbon lines.
- GOV.UK (DESNZ, Defra)Environmental Reporting Guidelines, including SECR requirements
The government SECR guidance.
- Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGovernment conversion factors for company reporting
The UK factor sets, one per activity year.
- Department for Business and TradeUK Sustainability Reporting Standards S1 and S2
Published 25 February 2026 for voluntary use.
- Financial Conduct AuthorityPS26/19 — final rules on UK SRS reporting by listed companies
Comply or explain for periods from 1 January 2027.
- Financial Conduct AuthorityCP26/5 — the consultation
The proposal the final rules changed.
- GHG Protocol (WRI, WBCSD)Corporate Standard
The inventory basis.
- GHG ProtocolScope 3 Standard
The fifteen value-chain categories.