Indicator-level analysis
Relevant criteria, current and planned disclosures, overlooked practices and remaining gaps.
An indicator-level review of your ratings, benchmarked against leading peers and translated into disclosure, policy and rating-agency recommendations.
Book a CallA detailed improvement plan. Hands-on delivery.
Fruuit’s flagship service examines your ESG rating indicator by indicator. We compare disclosures and practices with each rater’s assessment criteria and leading peers, identify what is being overlooked, and recommend specific changes to reporting, policies and implementation.
- Review every material ratings indicator.
- Benchmark your company against leading peers.
- Identify gaps in disclosures and ESG performance.
- Develop the policies and reporting language you need.
- Support your team with implementation.
- Engage directly with rating agencies.
Our four-step process
Review. Analyze. Discuss. Deliver.
About the approach
At Fruuit Consulting, we use a disciplined, insider-informed process to help companies move from average to leadership in ESG performance.
Our methodology is grounded in firsthand experience at MSCI and Sustainalytics, and is designed to deliver measurable rating improvements across the systems we cover.
A recommendation report your team can use.
The analysis connects each material ratings issue to the evidence, gap and action behind it. Your team can see what is disclosed, what is planned, which existing practices need to be explained more clearly, and where a policy or practice still needs to change.
Leading peer examples
Specific wording, metrics and source references showing how stronger-rated companies explain comparable policies, controls and results.
Disclosure recommendations
Precise edits, additions, disclosure checklists and templates, grounded in evidence and tailored to what the relevant rater assesses.
Policy and practice recommendations
Guidance for addressing documented gaps and formalizing activities not yet reflected in policies or reporting.
Implementation roadmap
Priorities and practical next steps connecting the analysis to the work your reporting and operating teams need to carry out.
Ratings communication strategy
Content priorities, supporting explanations and an agency engagement schedule, including where clarification or a documented challenge is warranted.
From recommendations to agency engagement.
A recommendation needs to carry through to the next draft, the portal submission and the analyst’s review. We review revised disclosures for remaining misalignment, verifies information in rater portals and prepares supporting explanations.
Where the evidence identifies an error or misunderstanding, we prepare a documented challenge, examine the agency’s response and follow up on unresolved points. Agency work can include direct correspondence, response drafts for your team, questionnaire support and a clear engagement schedule, according to the agreed scope.
Specialist knowledge, applied to your business.
Our team includes former MSCI and Sustainalytics professionals with first-hand experience of the methodologies and sector research behind ESG assessments.
Banking
Customer protection, complaints oversight, debt collection, privacy and data security, financing practices and climate exposure. David Frazer developed MSCI’s Consumer Financial Protection key issue.
Mining
Water, tailings, land use, biodiversity, worker safety, community relations and Indigenous rights. Michelle McCulloch, former Sustainalytics mining industry manager, brings 26+ years of ESG ratings and methodology experience.
A track record of improvement.
Rating agencies retain final decision-making authority. A specific upgrade is not guaranteed.
The right support. For your team.
Two ways to get ESG ratings support
Our flagship
ESG Ratings
Optimization
Your team + FruuitHands-on implementation support
Intensive, hands-on support across every material ratings indicator.
- Peer benchmarking and gap analysis
- Policies, reporting language and implementation support
- Direct rating agency engagement
End-to-end ratings support
ESG Ratings
on Autopilot
Fruuit leads the deliveryFocused input from your team
End-to-end ratings delivery with very limited time required from your team.
- Ratings review and gap assessment
- Disclosure work, evidence uploads and portal submissions
- Agency communications handled by Fruuit