Our sustainability policy.

Why we wrote this

We’re a fintech and regulatory technology development agency. We don’t hold customer money. We don’t run a building or a fleet. Most of our team works remotely, on infrastructure run by third parties. By any measure, our direct environmental footprint is small.

That’s both the easiest excuse not to write a sustainability policy and the easiest reason to write one well. We’d rather pick the second one — say what we’ll do, measure it, publish the numbers, and be held accountable for them. This document is the result.

Two specific commitments shape the rest of the page. First, we’d rather under-promise and update than over-claim and back-track. Where we don’t yet measure something, we say so — and give a date by which we will. Second, the largest lever we have isn’t our own footprint; it’s who we work for and how we help them build. The Social and Governance sections take that seriously.

Scope & ownership

This policy is owned by Pametan’s Founder. It applies to anyone working for us or on our behalf — employees, contractors, sub-contractors, interns and Board members where appointed. It also informs what we ask of our suppliers and what we expect of the clients we work for (more in §Minimum standards).

We review this policy annually, on or before the anniversary of its last revision. We’ll publish a short note alongside each review describing what changed and why.

Our principles

Five commitments that shape the rest of the document. Most of these are ideas Pametan didn’t invent — we’ve borrowed deliberately from peers we respect.

• Walk before we talk.We establish credibility through action first, statements second. If we haven’t measured something yet, we don’t claim to have improved it.
• Progress, not perfection.We’d rather ship a small change that lands than analyse a big one we never make.
• Transparency.We publish the numbers. We name the gaps. We don’t use phrases like “carbon neutral” as a cover for partial measurement.
• Do no harm.A working baseline. Don’t take work, suppliers or actions that materially damage people or the environment.
• Scale through our clients, not just our office. The biggest lever for a software consultancy is the software we help others ship. That’s where the most of our impact comes from — for good and ill.

Environmental commitments

What we will do this year (FY2026):

• Measure our Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissionsfor the financial year, using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol methodology. We expect Scope 3 to dominate (business travel, professional services, hardware and software) — we won’t hide it behind a Scope 1 + 2 headline.
• Publish the resulting carbon footprint on this page within 90 days of the financial year-end, as a single number with the breakdown that produced it. The first publication is due by 31 January 2027.
• Prefer cloud regions powered by renewable energy for client work where the client’s regulatory and data-residency requirements allow it.
• Default to rail over short-haul flights for client travel within the UK and to mainland Europe. Where flights are unavoidable, log them.
• Procure renewable-electricity tariffs for any office we run or co-working space we sustain as a primary location.
• Engage our top three suppliers on their own sustainability commitments and report back here what we learn.

What we are not yet committing to:

• A specific net-zero date. We’ll set one once we have two years of measured data and can back it up.
• Purchasing carbon offsets to claim “carbon neutral” status. We’d rather reduce than offset, and we don’t want to use offsets as a substitute for measurement.
• Specific Scope 3 reduction targets for FY2026, before we have a measured baseline to reduce from.

Social commitments

Most of Pametan’s social impact comes from how we treat our people and the clients we choose to work with.

Our team

• Pay above the Real Living Wage for everyone (including non-permanent staff and interns). We’ll publish a confirmation each financial year alongside the carbon footprint.
• Genuine flexible working: remote-first by default, with quarterly in-person UK meetups. No expectation of fixed hours outside the contracted ones.
• A clear written commitment to reasonable adjustments and disability inclusion in recruitment and day-to-day work.
• An annual anonymous employee experience review, results published in summary on this page.
• A whistleblowing procedure that gives every reporter the right to bypass internal channels and report a concern directly to a prescribed external regulator under PIDA 1998. See our published Whistleblowing procedure.

Our clients

We don’t take on work that funds the production of fossil-fuel extraction, weapons, tobacco, gambling-led products, or projects that are predominantly designed to circumvent consumer-protection regulation. That’s a published commitment, not a private preference.

We will work with clients whose products or operations we disagree with politically, provided they meet the bar above. We’d rather state that openly than pretend otherwise.

Our suppliers

• Where two suppliers are comparable on cost and quality, we prefer the one with a published sustainability policy and / or a B Corp certification.
• We pay supplier invoices within 30 days of receipt as default. We track on-time payment and report the percentage in our annual review.
• We commit to the principles of the UK Government’s Prompt Payment Code in spirit if not yet by formal signature.

Governance commitments

• Annual review. This policy is reviewed each May. The Founder owns the review; a named non-Founder reviewer signs it off (currently our external Company Secretary).
• Annual impact note. By 30 June of each year, we publish a short note on progress against the previous year’s commitments. We expect the first one to be short. We expect each subsequent one to be longer.
• Modern Slavery. Our Modern Slavery statement (linked here) is published, reviewed annually, and signed by the Founder.
• Anti-bribery and corruption. Our policy is published in full, written to the UK Bribery Act 2010 and the Ministry of Justice’s six adequate-procedures principles. Reviewed annually.
• B Corp pathway.We intend to begin B Corp assessment within 24 months and to be certified within 36. We’ll publish the assessment score whether or not we pass on first submission.

Minimum standards

The non-negotiable floor for us, our suppliers and our clients:

• Compliance with UK and other applicable law on human rights, labour, anti-bribery, sanctions and data protection.
• No knowing use of forced labour, child labour or modern slavery anywhere in the supply chain.
• Do no significant harm to the environment — recognising that all economic activity has some impact.
• Pay people fairly for honest work.

If we discover a supplier or client materially breaches any of the above and won’t remediate, we end the relationship. We don’t have a “we’ll work on it next quarter” position on the floor.

Metrics & reporting

What we commit to measure and publish each year. The first publication will appear on this page by 31 January 2027.

Environmental

• Total Greenhouse Gas emissions in tCO₂e (Scope 1 + 2 + 3), absolute.
• Intensity: tCO₂e per full-time-equivalent and tCO₂e per £1m of revenue.
• Year-on-year change in each, from FY2027 onwards (we need two data points first).
• Methodology used (GHG Protocol) and any external verifier engaged.

Social

• Headcount and headcount mix (with reasonable privacy protections for small numbers).
• Gender pay gap (published voluntarily — we are below the legal threshold).
• Supplier invoices paid on time, as a percentage.
• Real Living Wage compliance confirmation.

Governance

• Number of material policy changes in the year.
• Whistleblowing reports received (count only, content remains confidential).
• Status of the B Corp assessment pathway.
• Date of next review.

Related policies

Other Pametan policies that interact with this one. Each is published, reviewed annually, and accessible from this site:

• Anti-bribery and corruption policy
• Whistleblowing procedure
• Supplier Code of Conduct
• Modern Slavery statement
• Privacy Policy
• Cookie Policy
• Terms of Use

Tell us when we’re wrong

Sustainability claims are the easiest place in a company website to get caught greenwashing. If you’ve read this and think we’re overstating something, missing something obvious or making an unsupportable claim, please write to us at hello@pametan.co. We’ll respond — and if you’re right, we’ll update this page and credit you publicly in the next annual review unless you ask us not to.

Pametan Ltd · Companies House No. 16023621 · Registered office: 20 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU. This policy is published in plain English; if you need it in an alternative format (large print, screen-reader-friendly, plain-text email), write to hello@pametan.coand we’ll get it to you within five working days.