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About ESG Navigator

Built from governance outward.

ESG Navigator is the client-facing surface of IntelliMat — TIS Holdings' enterprise governance intelligence platform. Every page, every agent output, every score exists because it first passed through a governance architecture designed to make it traceable, auditable, and defensible.

From the Development Team

We built this with our hands.

ESG Navigator did not emerge from a product roadmap or a VC pitch. It was built iteratively, in response to a real problem: South African and African organisations facing genuine regulatory complexity with no tools built for their specific context. ISSB, TNFD, King IV, GISTM, B-BBEE — these are not interchangeable. They have different instruments, different criteria, different evidence requirements. Generic global ESG tools miss all of this.

The IntelliMat platform that powers ESG Navigator is built on Neon PostgreSQL with pgvector for the regulatory catchment, Anthropic Claude for agent reasoning, IBM watsonx Orchestrate for multi-agent coordination, and IBM Envizi for environmental data. Every component was chosen for a reason: not convenience, but defensibility.

The development principle we hold ourselves to is the same one we sell to clients: No Data Without Lineage. Every output from this platform answers who created it, what it serves, when it changed, where it lives, why it exists, and how it was derived. If it cannot answer those six questions, it does not leave the platform.

Technology Stack
Reasoning — Anthropic Claude (citations, confidence)
Orchestration — IBM watsonx Orchestrate
Environment — IBM Envizi (carbon, baselines)
Catchment — Neon PostgreSQL + pgvector
Compliance — DRATA (continuous SOC 2)
Edge — Vercel, AWS Lambda, Cloudflare
Doctrine

No Data Without Lineage — every record answers who, what, when, where, why, and how before it is used in any output. Single Assessment, Multiple Frameworks — one intake process delivers coverage across every applicable framework.


Product Portfolio

Five products. One architecture.

Every product connects through the same regulatory intelligence substrate.

Enterprise Platform
IntelliMat

Assess, score, trace, and report across 14+ frameworks. Specialised AI agents. Every output audit-defensible with full data lineage.

Entry-Level Assessment
ESG Navigator

ESG maturity, gap analysis, and multi-framework benchmarking — purpose-built for the African regulatory context.

Reporting Engine
SDART

Sustainability Data & Reporting Tool. From raw client data to disclosure-ready output across every required framework.

AI Governance Engine
SAIGE

Coordinates agents, manages citations, scores confidence, and creates audit trails. The intelligence layer behind every output.

Capability & Training
TIS Academy Africa

Three tiers: SDART Practitioner, Framework Specialist, and SAIGE Executive Governance Programme for boards and C-suite.

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Site Navigation Guide

Find what you need.

This site is structured around who you are and what you need from governance intelligence.

CFO / ESG
Sector-specific use cases, what IntelliMat produces for your reporting cycle, and a path to a Discovery Session.
Practitioner
Tier 1 SDART Practitioner Certification is the entry point — structured, scalable, deployable across Southern and East Africa.
Partner
Start at Partnerships
IBM ecosystem integration, the Combined Reference Architecture, and how to embed governance intelligence into your offering.
Auditor
Start at Governance
POPIA compliance, SOC 2 progression, lineage architecture, and Information Officer structure are all documented there.
Technical
Platform mechanics and the IP layer — the regulatory catchment architecture that powers every agent output.
Engage
Go to Contact
Three paths: Discovery Session, Practitioner Application, or Partnership enquiry.

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