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The API for Risk and ESG Data
Enrich your insights with access to data at scale
Open the door to unrestricted insight. Polecat’s API delivers an unparalleled pool of stakeholder, risk and ESG data into your hands.
You no longer need to be limited to an internal or a narrow view of the market. Polecat accesses billions of articles across the internet and social media and integrates with your own datasets. From competitor performance and market trends to stakeholder sentiment and public perception, open up a world of data to augment and enrich your intelligence with valuable external context.
Enrich your ESG reporting software with environmental intelligence in context.
Gartner predicts that the ESG software market will reach maturity in 2027-2029. This is a significant time of growth and evolution for sustainability and ESG solutions, and Polecat can empower you to lead the way in the marketplace.
Polecat’s responsible business intelligenceTM platform offers unparalleled access to reputational and ESG insight. Contextualising data from across the internet, stakeholder and social media sources, we enable public companies to expertly manage reputational risk and adapt their ESG profile against market and stakeholder concerns.
Polecat’s responsible business intelligence™ platform offers unparalleled speed and access to ESG insight. Contextualising data from across the internet and social media, you can expertly analyse the ESG metrics that matter to your stakeholders and create ESG strategies that build competitive advantage.
Polecat’s responsible business intelligence platform offers unparalleled speed and access to reputational insight. Contextualising data from across the internet and social media, you can expertly analyse the performance metrics that matter to your stakeholders and create communication strategies that build competitive advantage.
Build a more resilient business with intelligence in context.
Today, customers, employees and investors are more driven to engage with purpose-driven companies that are taking action to overcome economic, social and environmental challenges.
Polecat’s responsible business intelligence platform offers unparalleled access to reputational ESG insight. Contextualising data from across the internet and social media, we enable global companies to expertly manage reputational risk and create ESG strategies that build competitive advantage.
Download Polecat's COP26 insights published ahead of the summit
Between 1st and 12th of November 2021, thousands of the public and delegates from global businesses and international organizations will descend on Glasgow and join online one of the most significant climate summits, COP26.
The key goal of the summit is to slow down climate change and this report examines the topics, themes and stakeholders that drove impact ahead of the summit.
A subsequent report will be published post the 12th November to analyse the full summit.
Right now, more than ever, companies are being judged for how they respond to some of the world’s most pressing issues, from COVID-19 to climate, diversity and waste plastics, to name a few. Leading companies are being assessed for resilience and for the moral and social commitment to doing what’s right.
In 3 steps today - and complimentary for 2 weeks - we can give you access to real time intelligence on key issues of your choice for your business and reputation. Looking across mainstream and social media, we deliver insight to the role of peer companies, competitors, regulators, investors, NGOs, grassroots organisations, consumer bodies, international institutions, academia, governments, think-tanks, professional associations, trade unions and many others to inform your strategy and engagement.
Using our RepVault product, you will be able to make informed decisions on where and how an issue is trending to take fast, efficient action.
This summer, we are offering a 2 week free trial, providing access to your intelligence within one working day. So why wait - click now for intelligence to shape the future.
At a click, RepVault enables you to:
* Instantly see, track, measure and manage the trajectory of key issues * Benchmark your performance against peers to assess best practice * Understand the presence of diverse stakeholders to inform engagement * Keep your organisation informed of key stories * Use clear metrics to demonstrate performance and guide decision
Use the form to tell us who you are, choose an issue and enter the companies you'd like to benchmark against.
Download our new report which navigates three years (2016-19) of public discourse about the UN SDGs, the significance for Global Corporations and priorities for actions
Download our new SDG Report, produced in collaboration with advocacy and communications consultancy, Leidar, and launched at January’s World Economic Forum in Davos. For the first time, our SDG study looks at the evolution of SDG discourse over recent years to appraise the impact of different stakeholder groups, sectors and markets. The results reveal a tipping point at the end of the last decade as concerns about climate action and life on land escalate to new heights and the need for partnership, effective global governance and systemic solutions comes to the fore. With heightened concerns about inequality, employment and economic growth, the report provides essential foresight and insight to risks and opportunities for businesses seeking to be part of the solution.
Broadcast media is as relevant and important to monitor as online and social media data. Take a look at our infographic to understand why its an important data type to consider when assessing your brand or organisation's reputation.
Take a look at Polecat's video on which major corporate topics were being driven by Activism in 2018. What was the response some of the most visible global CEOs were making to position their organisations against these topics.
Who were the NGO players driving Social Activism and the emerging issues in 2018? What we're key investor concerns across sectors? Which CEOs were using their voice to enhance the reputation of their organisations around these issues?
What IMPACT do the key issues your business face have on it's reputation? Impact is Polecat's primary metric in the measurement of corporate reputation and reputation risk. View our video to get an insight into how this works for you.
Mapping the Influence of Reputation across the Organisation
A Polecat Report
In early 2019, Polecat interviewed global reputation professionals to gain a better understanding of how they are applying their efforts to get ahead and tackle the obstacles they face when managing corporate reputation.
Read our in-depth report on just what challenges these professionals are facing and what they think are the most important initiatives that can help them to achieve Reputation Management success.
Tracking CEO Performance in today's Reputation Economy
The current system for executive pay is largely tied to corporate financial metrics based on incentives, shareholder linked returns and board discretion.This outmoded industry measure of pay-to-performance is a reflection of a C-suite culture of reward, that now fuels social debate around overcompensation and fairness of pay. Remuneration, however, is not an indicator of corporate performance.
In this report, we examine alternative indicators of performance and a more holistic understanding of what underscores the true value of leadership based on the reputation impact CEOs deliver on behalf of their respective companies.
Data Dive: Global Discourse on Plastic Waste – Infographic Video
The plastic waste crisis now touches every corner of the planet. It has inspired a global response from civil society, business and governments. This two-minute infographic video highlights some of the key issues and stakeholders shaping the conversation around plastic waste as well as the corporate response.
An analysis of retailers winning the conversation for Black Friday Sales and the lead up to Christmas. Analyst reports indicate that the retail sector continues to be impacted by poor performance in the last 6 months due to several factors that include economic uncertainty around Brexit, high-street performance and the consumer shift to online shopping.
How corporates and society can come together to tackle a six billion tonne problem
The global plastics crisis and the environmental damage it has caused has forced us to take a global perspective. Of the 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste generated in the last century, 79% of it currently resides in landfill or in the natural environment.
When companies leverage their resources and global market positions to tackle the defining challenges of our society they gain reputational capital that strengthens their market position and ensures their future survival and relevance. But these benefits cannot be realised through hollow gestures.
4 Steps to better reputation management through technology.
Society’s expectations of your business are changing… fast.
Recent events have signalled the beginnings of a monumental shift in the way some businesses see their position in society, with an increasing number of CEOs being drawn into socially and politically contentious public debates.
A society that embraces the moral imperative of social progress is hungry for evidence that commercial organisations are prepared to act on issues with wider scope than their own business interests. People before profits.
The necessity for businesses to engage in ever more wide-ranging issues is growing, but involvement in these antagonistic issues can be dangerous territory for increasingly tenuous corporate reputations.
Our FS team are used to working with data. But when Polecat asked cxpartners to help them better understand the unmet reputation management needs of their current and future customers, the nature of that data became even more fluid transient and multi-source than usual.
Polecat wanted help developing a customer-centred product roadmap that could be prioritised according to customer demand, business value and technical feasibility.
Their clients are largely focused on managing the opinions of influencers – such as investors and the City – who's views can impact the immediate and long-term reputation, and therefore value of a company.
To better understand our customers, we recently interviewed fifteen corporate-reputation professionals about who they are, what they do, and the tools they use. This report summarises what we discovered.
