Evidence and proof

The proof behind the story you tell

KinopiQ is an evidence library for certification and reporting. Most organisations doing this work end up writing an impact report, and the awkward part is rarely the writing. It is finding the document that backs each sentence, months after the fact.

The same work, twice over

Your impact report is already sitting in your assessment

Working through a standard means writing down what you committed to, what you did, and what proves it. That is not preparation for the report — that is the report. KinopiQ keeps the three together, so nobody has to reconstruct them from a shared drive each spring.

61%

of the B Corp requirements that apply to us are met

48

documents standing as evidence across four topics

7

requirements we recorded as not applicable, each with a reason

  • The claim

    The requirement itself, in the standard’s own words, with its code so anyone can look it up.

  • The narrative

    The note you wrote against it — what you did, in your own words. This is the paragraph that ends up in the report.

  • The proof

    The documents you linked. A reader who wants to check a line can, and one who does not never has to.

KinopiQ does not write your report or design it for you. What it does is make sure that when you sit down to write, every claim already has its evidence attached and its wording agreed.

Impact snapshot

Workers

B Corp · V2.1 · reporting year 2026

What we said we would do

What we did

Pay every worker at or above a living wage.

Accredited as a living wage employer in March. Lowest hourly rate now sits 8% above the living wage rate.

MetAccreditation certificatePayroll summary

Measure our operational emissions for the first time.

Scope 1 and 2 measured across the year; Scope 3 partially mapped, with supplier data still to come.

In progressEmissions inventory
Illustrative. Every line here is something KinopiQ already stores — the requirement, the note you wrote against it, its status and the documents you linked as proof.

Who this is for

An assessor is one reader, and rarely the important one

Certification is a milestone, not the goal. The reason to keep a clean record is that several different audiences ask you the same question in different words — and only one of them is asking for compliance.

Your customers

More of them ask what you stand for before they buy, and increasingly ask you to prove it rather than assert it.

Funders and investors

A grant application or a diligence pack goes faster when the claim, the number and the document behind it already sit together.

Your board

Direction of travel, not just a snapshot. What moved since last year, what did not, and what is blocking the next milestone.

The people who work for you

The clearest signal that a commitment was real is being able to show what came of it. That is a hiring and retention story as much as a compliance one.

An assessor or auditor

They can read the whole record without you assembling anything. That matters — it is just not the only reason to keep it.

One record, written once, that all of them can read — at the level of detail each one needs.

Upload once

One document can prove several things at once

An employee handbook is evidence for a fair work requirement, an inclusion requirement and a human rights requirement at once. Upload it once: KinopiQ reads it and proposes the requirements it is evidence for, and you confirm or reject what it finds.

  • Link it, do not duplicate it. Attach a document to as many requirements as it proves.
  • Counted where it matters. Every requirement shows how much evidence stands behind it, so thin spots are visible before someone else finds them.
  • Kept private. Documents are held privately, and only members of your workspace can reach them.

A language model reads a document you upload and proposes the requirements it is evidence for. You confirm or reject what it finds, and nothing is counted until you do. Where AKdev uses a model.

The evidence library, showing documents and the requirements each is linked to

Worth being clear about

KinopiQ holds the material. You still tell the story

KinopiQ does not design or publish an impact report, and it is not a certification body — it does not submit anything on your behalf. What it gives you is the record underneath: what applies to you, what you have done about it, what proves it, and what is still outstanding.

One document, several requirements

Attach it once

Your employee handbook can prove a fair work requirement, an inclusion requirement and a human rights requirement at the same time. Upload it once; KinopiQ reads it and proposes the requirements it is evidence for, and you confirm or reject what it finds.

Your team, and whoever needs to check

On Full Catalogue and Advisor

Invite colleagues as editors, and give an assessor or auditor a viewer seat: they read the whole record and change none of it. Roles and assessor access are part of the Full Catalogue and Advisor plans.

Do the work once, and have something to show for it

Bring your policies, reports and board minutes, link them to what they already prove, and stop rebuilding the same evidence pack every year.