We walked the walk, now we are scaling the solution

Pagitsas Advisors just earned Gold status from EcoVadis—placing us in the top 5% of firms in our category.

It’s a proud moment, but for me, this was less about the score and more about the learning. I led this reporting for our firm because I wanted to get closer to our customers—large multinationals in complex industries facing the challenge of scaling Scope 3 carbon emissions reductions across vast, global supplier networks.

Here’s the thing: Up to 90% of suppliers in most of our customers’ supply chains are small and medium-sized enterprises. These SMEs are often under-resourced, overwhelmed, and moving fast just to keep up. When their most influential customers make mandates like report their ESG activity on EcoVadis in order to do business with them, they need all the help they can get to not just comply to the survey requirements but also realize material benefits for their investments related to score improvements. That means more deals won, better margins, increased operational efficiency…in addition to environmental and social wins.

By going through EcoVadis ourselves—as a small firm—I got to feel those constraints firsthand. It surfaced real pain points, but also very real solutions. And those solutions? We’re already building them into how we help our clients engage suppliers of all sizes and accelerate impact across their value chains.

This is what progress looks like. Onward.