A webinar given on Thursday, 22 July by Luc van de Boom, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, covering upcoming AI and analytic features.

The headline feature is our new set of AI capabilities—designed to make ESG intelligence faster, smarter, and more accessible. At the heart of this is AI-powered analytics, which automatically scans your portfolio for risks and opportunities, highlights anomalies, and offers actionable insights. It’s like having an ESG analyst working in the background at all times.

A new AI dataset query tool allows users to type natural language questions like “Which Dutch office assets have the highest energy spend?” and get instant answers. That same functionality powers the Scaler Chatbot, a contextual assistant trained on your data, which can explain metrics, locate regulatory references, and even answer portfolio-specific performance questions.

To support more advanced planning, AI-based forecasting and estimation tools help project future energy and emissions outcomes. And with AI-driven peer benchmarking, you can see how your assets compare against a global dataset based on type, location, and vintage.

In parallel with these AI tools, we’ve rolled out an overhaul of the analytics dashboards. Highlights include physical climate risk analytics, offering insights for heat, drought, flooding and other physical climate hazards, essential for aligning with SFDR and TCFD expectations.

We’ve also introduced a new KPI—energy spend intensity to help bridge the gap between operational data and financial performance. Clients can track how energy costs map to consumption across assets or tenant types, offering insights for lease negotiations or retrofit ROI analysis.

One of the most requested features, company-wide analytics, now allows clients to view data consolidated across portfolios and legal structures. Combined with redesigned portfolio and asset dashboards, users can now compare assets, spot underperformers, and track trends more intuitively.

For more tailored needs, clients can build custom dashboards and generate custom graphs using a new visual editor—ideal for investor updates or internal sustainability reporting. Our Roadmap Tool has also been upgraded with new visuals, tables, and stranding risk analysis to make portfolio decarbonization progress easier to monitor and communicate.

We’ve also expanded Scaler’s reporting capabilities to include new exports aligned with a range of global ESG frameworks. In addition to our existing GRESB, INREV ESG SDDS, GRI and other report, users can now generate reports aligned with SFDR PAI statements at company level, the European ESG Template (EET), UN PRI, SASB, and the EPRA sBPR-aligned report.

Notably, many of these reports can now be generated monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually, making it easier to provide consistent, up-to-date ESG reporting to stakeholders. Whether you’re managing listed assets, private funds, or development portfolios, these reports support a wide range of regulatory and voluntary disclosures—automatically mapped from your Scaler data.

Taken together, these features are more than just product updates—they represent a shift in how real estate ESG performance can be managed. From AI insights to custom dashboards to cross-framework reporting, the new tools help teams move from reactive data handling to proactive, insight-led decision-making.