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Impaakt is a crowdsourced sustainability platform (online publishing platform) that rates companies’ impact on the world and society. The platform was launched in July 2018. It is owned by the social venture Impaakt S.A. It was created by Bertrand Gacon, Sébastien Allard, and Sylvain Massot along with a community of individuals specialized in sustainable finance, impact investing and sustainable development. It is an open collaboration project, freely accessible to all and based on collective intelligence where a community of volunteers publishes succinct analysis evaluating businesses’ socio-environmental impact.

Business model
Most of the data that the sustainable finance industry uses is standardized and non-representative. The company aims to fill a gap in the available data about sustainability. As well as providing corporate social responsibility (CSR) data, Impaakt includes the tangible impact that businesses have on the environment and society in their companies' assessments. In order to do so, a community of so called Impaakters regularly submit impact ratings to the platform such that any new information about a company's impact will be internalized in its impact score. Impact notes are the core of Impaakt’s platform. They are succinct analyses ($2,000 characters$ max.) exploring one specific socioenvironmental impact of a company. The impact analyzed can be positive or negative. Each impact note is assigned to a specific Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). Members also rate the published analysis quality from 0 to 5 and the impact of the company for the specific SDG along two measures: the value – from very negative to very positive – and the scope – from very small to very big. These ratings are aggregated and result in the company's score. According to Impaakt's website:

Impaakt finances itself by producing complex and deep reports of this data for important asset managers, mainly to guide sustainable investments, but also serving everyday citizens seeking data regarding companies sustainability positioning. Impaakt’s ultimate mission is to enable consumers, suppliers, investors, employees and managers to pressure businesses and drive them to change their behaviour’s for the better by displaying freely the impact scores on its website.

Since August 2019, Impaakt offers a free training (Certified Impact Analyst training or CIAt) to its members. The training takes place in webinar sessions or in-person lectures and allow members to gain valuable expertise in measuring the impact of businesses. Moreover, the CIAt enables Impaakt’s members to contribute to the high quality of the platforms’ content.

Donations
Since October 2019, members earn points for all their contributions on the platform (both writing and rating impact notes). These points are turned into monthly donations to notable causes aligned with the SDGs.