Meet Verity, the always-on assurance layer that keeps you audit-ready | Credibl
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Meet Verity, the always-on assurance layer that keeps you audit-ready
Trust, but verify, before your auditor does. Verity continuously monitors your data, calculations and draft reports across 4 dimensions: evidence, confidence, audit trail and readiness.
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Pre-assurance checks calibrated from BRSR limited through ESRS reasonable assurance, with evidence linkage on every number.
By the Credibl team · · 7 min read · The Extended Sustainability Team series
Every number in an ESG report eventually faces the same question: can you defend this in front of an external assurance provider? Verity is the agent inside Incredibl Agents, Credibl's team of 5 AI agents, whose entire job is making sure the answer is yes, long before anyone asks.
Verity is rigorous, skeptical and evidence-driven. She asks "where's the supporting document?" She is polite but firm, and she does not get talked out of a concern. She is the colleague you want in the room before an external assurance review.
Audit-ready as a continuous state
Most teams treat audit readiness as a season: a frantic few weeks of chasing evidence before the assurance provider arrives. Verity turns it into a state. She runs continuously in the background, watching 4 things, and can produce a full audit report on demand at any point in the year.
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All agent work flows through 4 checks: evidence, confidence, audit trail and readiness.
Assurance stops being a deadline you sprint toward. It becomes a state you are already in.
What Verity actually does for you
Watches the evidence
She maintains the evidence-to-measurement link graph and flags every number that lacks a supporting document, inline, where you work.
Scores defensibility
Every measurement, calculation and disclosure carries a confidence score with a rationale: factor vintage, evidence backing, trail integrity.
Reconstructs any history
“Why did this number change between Q1 and Q2?” Verity rebuilds the full audit trail of any value, on demand.
Runs the mock audit
Framework-specific pre-assurance checks, BRSR limited through ESRS reasonable, with every issue prioritized by impact, likelihood and visibility, and a fix path attached.
Independent by design
Here is the detail that matters most: Verity has no write access to measurements, calculations or disclosure drafts. She flags; the owning agent acts. Her independence from the work she audits is itself a defensibility property, the same separation of duties an assurance provider would expect from your human team.
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The clean division of labor across Incredibl Agents. Verity audits the work she never touches.
At the submission gate
Verity is in-module primary in the Audit and Validation views, and she shows up exactly where it matters most, the moment someone hits submit:
ESG Reports · Submit for approval
BRSR FY26 · Final review · requested by Admin
Verity is holding this submission
12 cited datapoints lack evidence backing, and 1 boundary change in March still needs a documented rationale in the audit trail. 89% of the report is already assurance-ready.
View remediation planRequest evidence via ArgusSee issue list
Everywhere your numbers go
Verity's home turf is the Audit and Validation views, but her checks travel with your data. Each calculation carries a defensibility badge. Every disclosure passes a pre-submission gate before it can be marked final. If a configuration change threatens the audit trail, a boundary shift, a factor-library swap, a reporting-period change, she flags it the moment it happens.
Verity owns
Evidence completeness and linkage
Confidence and defensibility scoring
Audit trail reconstruction
Pre-assurance and mock audits
Verity never does
Edit measurements or calculations
Rewrite disclosure drafts
Choose methodologies
Get talked out of a concern
Verity runs the heaviest background workload of all 5 agents, monitoring every measurement, calculation and disclosure around the clock. She is the only agent with the standing to block a submission, and the only one whose word an external assurance provider will effectively be retracing.
What flows in, what flows out
No agent works alone. Here is exactly what Verity receives, from you, the platform and the other agents, and what she hands off once the work is done:
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Flows in
Argus’ uploads and the evidence-to-measurement links behind them
Quill’s drafts, with every cited datapoint to trace
Framework assurance requirements, BRSR limited through ESRS reasonable
Flows out
Flags to the owning agent, never edits: Argus, Cira or Quill act
Defensibility scores on every measurement, calculation and disclosure
Readiness and remediation reports, on demand
Assurance-readiness tasks in My Tasks, ahead of every deadline
Verity, module by module
The full map of where Verity shows up across the Credibl platform and what she does there:
Audit & Validation views
Home turf. The pre-assurance workflow, defensibility dashboard, mock-audit runner and evidence-gap reports all live here.
Data Engine & DMS
Adds an assurance lens to every upload, and maintains the evidence-to-measurement link graph. Any measurement without a supporting document gets surfaced inline.
Emissions modules
Attaches a defensibility badge to every calculation: factor vintage, confidence, evidence backing. Runs a pre-write gate before a calculation locks into a submission.
Water, Waste, Air
Validates the reconciliations that assurance providers check first: withdrawal vs discharge plus consumption, waste generated vs diverted plus directed.
Partners with Quill. Quill validates framework compliance; Verity validates traceability, evidence and assurance-grade backing, and holds the pre-submission gate before any disclosure goes final.
Supplier Assessments & Custom KPI
Scores supplier-provided primary data for completeness, plausibility and evidence, and validates KPI definitions for auditability.
Facility & My Tasks
Surfaces a clear warning on the facility page when a facility’s data is at risk in assurance, with reasons, and auto-creates assurance-readiness tasks ahead of every reporting deadline.
Configuration Engine
Watches for the changes that quietly break audit trails: boundary changes, factor-library swaps, reporting-period shifts. Flags them the moment they happen.
Ask Verity anything
Real prompts Verity handles today, straight from the platform:
“Run a pre-assurance check on our Scope 2 numbers for FY26”
“Show me the audit trail for Mumbai water data, last 90 days”
“Which Scope 3 categories are below assurance-grade confidence?”
“What evidence backs the Mumbai facility’s Q2 electricity reading?”
“Find any double-counting between Scope 1 fuel and Scope 3 Category 4”
“Are we ready for limited assurance on our ESRS submission?”
“Run a mock audit on the BRSR Principle 6 section we just drafted”
“Why did this number change between the Q1 and Q2 submissions?”
5 specialist AI agents. 1 extended sustainability team. AI agents that clean, calculate, report and audit, with you in control. Verity is live inside the Credibl platform today.
