BOULDER, CO, June 24, 2025 – The corporate sustainability world is evolving. New regulations, shifting market expectations, and increased demands for business relevancy have ushered in a new era that requires agility, clarity, and action. At Optera, we’ve built our latest emissions management product to meet this moment.
We’re proud to announce the launch of Operator, the next generation of our comprehensive scope 1-3 emissions management platform. Operator is built around three core principles: automation, adaptability, and actionability. These are more than buzzwords. They define how companies can build climate programs that deliver meaningful business outcomes.
“Advancements in AI and machine learning have fundamentally changed the software landscape,” shares Tim Weiss, CEO and Co-Founder of Optera. “Our release of Operator brings the full power of these advancements to sustainability practitioners, resulting in deeper insights, greater impact, and substantial business value with a fraction of the effort.”
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The amount of data organizations need to consolidate for comprehensive Scope 1, 2, and 3 accounting is immense. Once the data is compiled, it needs to be deciphered, transformed, and normalized before emissions calculations can even begin. With Operator’s new AI-powered data ingestion, this work can happen in seconds while maintaining traceability and auditability.
Now, in addition to accepting API data feeds, Operator can easily ingest a wide range of files – from images to spreadsheets – that contain consumption or activity data and automatically translate them into emissions using our global emissions factor database. The platform parses the information in the file or image, finds the relevant details, and translates them into consumption, activity, and emissions figures in the platform. These figures are viewable and editable alongside the original file, maintaining auditability and ease of QA.
Built for adaptability
“With Operator, we’re delivering the flexibility and depth our clients need to keep pace with a fast-moving sustainability landscape. No two companies’ value chains and operations are identical, and the patchwork of regulations across the globe impacts companies differently. Operator is specifically designed to adapt to the exact needs of your business, which unlocks better insights, decision making, and return on investment for our customers.” — Tim Weiss, CEO and Co-Founder of Optera
Organizations evolve, and sustainability teams are no different. Priorities shift, team and business structures change, and compliance requirements continue to evolve. Operator helps sustainability teams respond quickly to these changes, without sacrificing ease or auditability.
Promoting that flexibility, Operator’s data structure system includes custom groups, a new way of tagging emitting activities with unlimited customization potential. Clients use custom groups to organize their emissions data by the variables that matter most to their business, from region to project status, to product line, data owners, regulatory boundary, and anything in between.
Flexibility doesn’t come at the expense of trackability. The platform contains transparent calculations that help users (and auditors) easily understand the underlying emission factors and data sources at a granular level on any calculated value. And error flagging alerts data owners to missing or anomalous data that needs attention in the platform.
Designed for actionability
It’s one thing to calculate emissions — it’s another to drive organizational change. Businesses need data that unlocks better decisions. Operator is designed to deliver actionable insights that inform everything from operational efficiency to long-term decarbonization strategy. Key features include:
- One-click insights across custom groups, to find and act on your highest-emitting activities across a fully customized set of business priorities
- Advanced scope 3 insights that support visibility across your entire value chain
- Renewables tracking to manage complex renewable energy contracts, including EACs, GPPs, PPAs, and vPPAs across facility- and region-levels
- Renewables project identification and implementation through partnerships with leading players VECKTA and Green Project
“We reimagined Operator to deliver the insights sustainability teams need in one click — whether they’re engaging executives or collaborating with procurement. It’s built to adapt to your structure and drive action across the business.” — Alekhya Reddy, VP of Product at Optera
Operator also integrates Optera’s proven One Team approach: our unique combination of powerful emissions management software and expert support that helps clients drive progress faster.
A central emissions management platform, a stronger impact
This step forward builds on Optera’s Supply Chain product relaunch last fall, bringing both solutions into a unified platform experience. Whether you’re working to meet global compliance requirements, strengthen supply chain resilience, or gain a competitive edge through sustainability, Optera delivers the flexible, strategic tools to support your goals.
And now, with Operator, it takes just one click to get the insights that matter.
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