What is a Double Materiality Assessment (DMA)?

A Double Materiality Assessment identifies and prioritizes an organization's most significant sustainability impacts, risks, and opportunities from both a financial and impact perspective, forming the foundation for CSRD and other ESG disclosures.

How long does a DMA take with Novisto compared to a traditional approach?

A traditional, consultant-led DMA typically takes four or more months. With Novisto, the same process runs continuously in-platform, without starting from scratch each cycle.

Do we lose stakeholder input by automating the scoring?

No—stakeholder engagement is built into the workflow. You invite stakeholders per topic, track responses, and see where their input agrees or disagrees with the data-driven score before finalizing your decision.

What frameworks does Novisto's DMA methodology align with?

The methodology maps to all 89 ESRS sub-sub-topics and is built for CSRD compliance, with scores benchmarked against a peer universe of 18,500+ companies.

Can our DMA data feed into broader ESG and risk reporting?

Yes. Because the DMA runs on the same platform as Novisto ESG and Novisto Risk, your finalized assessment connects directly to disclosure and risk management workflows—no re-entering data.

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From a 4-month exercise to an always-on process

Timeline
The old way
4+ months, every cycle
With Novisto
Continuous, always current
Who runs it
The old way
Consultant-led interviews
With Novisto
Your team, in-platform
Data
The old way
Fragmented spreadsheets, email chains
With Novisto
Centralized, standardized inputs
Scoring
The old way
Subjective, reconciled manually
With Novisto
AI-generated, science-backed
Output
The old way
Static PDF, outdated on arrival
With Novisto
Living record, always audit-ready
Audit trail
The old way
Built from scratch, after the fact
With Novisto
Built in, from day one

Digital DMA automation in four steps

One streamlined workflow—from raw data to a defensible decision

1. COLLECT PRIMARY DATA

Gather standardized inputs from across your organization into one centralized place, eliminating fragmented spreadsheets and files.

2. GENERATE MATERIALITY SCORES

AI-generated impact and financial scores for every topic and IRO in seconds, powered by a methodology that catalogues, quantifies, scores, and aggregates your data through four sequential engines.

3. RUN STAKEHOLDER SURVEYS

Invite internal and external stakeholders to validate the results. Track what's pending versus submitted, and see where stakeholders agree or disagree with the score.

4. MAKE YOUR MATERIALITY DECISIONS

Review, refine, and record your rationale—you always make the final call, with a complete digital audit trail behind every decision.

The Methodology Behind the Score

Catalogues impacts, risks, and opportunities from company and external sources.
Turns sustainability data into measured impacts, benchmarked against 18,500+ peers.
Standardizes inputs into one score for each of the 89 ESRS sub-sub-topics.
Rolls scores up to topic, group, and value-chain level.

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