We started ESGen in 2025 at Birmingham City University. The three of us, Kunj, Janvi and Lalit, were students there and shared the same view of sustainability: it should reach the small firms that make things, not only the large companies that buy from them.
Together we worked on projects with manufacturing companies in the UK. On each one we saw the same pattern. Smaller firms were being asked for carbon and ESG figures, and the large ESG providers charged them a lot while giving them little of their attention.
That gap became ESGen. Before building anything, we studied what small and medium-sized firms are actually asked for, by customers, tenders, lenders and regulators, and built the platform and our service around those requests. We want local manufacturers to grow, and reporting should help them do it rather than hold them back.