EmpCo Audit

Sustainability that holds up under scrutiny.

The automated audit that protects you from EmpCo violations on your website. Within a few hours you know which sustainability claims are defensible — and which are becoming a risk.

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Sustainability marketing is becoming a legal obligation.

The EU Green Claims Directive and the Empowering Consumers Directive (EmpCo) are changing what companies are allowed to communicate about sustainability. From September 2026, terms such as "climate-neutral", "sustainable" or "environmentally friendly" must be substantiated. Without proof, companies face cease-and-desist letters under unfair-competition law, fines, and reputational damage.

At the same time, the CSRD is tightening the requirements for non-financial reporting. Statements on your website have to match your ESG reporting. Anyone with gaps stands out — internally, externally, in court.

The problem: most companies don't know exactly what is written on their own website. Marketing, sustainability, and legal work in separate tools. Texts have grown over the years. Nobody has the capacity to review hundreds of pages line by line.

This is exactly where the EmpCo Audit comes in.

The groundwork that usually takes months. Done in hours.

A complete EmpCo or unfair-competition audit is costly and resource-intensive for most companies. Multiple departments read through their own website page by page for weeks, collect statements, match them with evidence, and hand the result over to the legal department or an external law firm. Industry-typical total costs sit in the mid- to high five-figure range depending on company size, and significantly higher for large corporations.

The EmpCo Audit does not replace your lawyers. It replaces the work that comes before them. Instead of reading through the entire website, your team gets a pre-prioritized list on the table — with every critical statement, every source location, every regulatory reference. The legal review then runs only on the passages that actually require legal judgment.

EmpCo Audit Tool

Not a screenshot in ChatGPT. An audit tool with built-in quality assurance.

Most AI checks on the market work on one principle: one prompt, one run, one result that gets taken at face value. That isn't reliable. The same page can produce a different finding on every run. What gets flagged once is missed the next time.

We do the opposite. For us, an AI result is never the finished finding. It is a hypothesis that has to be proven. Every statement runs through several stages: analysis, a critical counter-check, and a comparison across multiple runs. Text and the page's visual rendering are evaluated together. The result is an audit that is reproducible and complete. Something a single AI call cannot deliver by design.

See what the audit finds. Before you pay.

The perfect lead-in for your legal team: the EmpCo Audit surfaces greenwashing risks up front and prepares your claims optimally for the legal review.

Request your free sample audit

Tell us which page we should audit. We will get back to you with a sample report within a few business days.

Note: the EmpCo Audit is an initial technical assessment and does not replace qualified legal advice. We accept no liability for the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of the results. For the final legal evaluation of your claims, please discuss the audit results with your legal department or a qualified lawyer.

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EmpCo explained

Frequently asked questions about the EmpCo Directive