Supplier due diligence for CSRD, without the coordination overhead
Your CSRD disclosure cycle runs on the regulator’s annual schedule, not your team’s availability. As a compliance lead, you already understand your obligations. Athian helps you execute: collecting, verifying, and attesting to supplier evidence at scale, in time, in a format auditors can actually use.
Where CSRD due diligence breaks down
CSRD require evidence from Tier 1 and, where reasonably available, Tier 2 suppliers. For organizations managing hundreds of relationships across those tiers, the manual model creates a specific, predictable failure.
Your team spends most of its time on logistics
Following up on incomplete submissions, logging what arrived and what didn't, and reformatting documents into something reviewable. The actual compliance work—the review, the judgment, the attestation—gets compressed into whatever time is left.
Every supplier submits differently
CSRD requires a signed, timestamped chain of responsibility—who submitted what, who reviewed it, who attested. Email and shared folders produce none of that. When regulators ask, there’s no defensible answer.
Email threads aren’t audit trails
PDFs, spreadsheets, portal links, scanned certificates… there’s no consistent structure for your team to work from, and nothing an auditor can navigate without your team’s help.
Scale multiplies the problem
Each additional supplier tier added to scope adds the full coordination cost again. Organizations who want to expand their due diligence to Tier 2 or beyond find the manual model doesn’t scale. It breaks.
How Athian handles it
Athian gives compliance leads a five-step workflow configured to your CSRD obligations, not a generic evidence collection tool your team has to adopt.
Step 1 | Define
Set your evidence types, supplier tiers, thresholds, and disclosure-period windows. Every supplier clearly sees what’s required of them.
Step 2 | Collect
Suppliers submit through a structured portal on your schedule. Progress is visible in real time. The chasing stops.
Step 3 | Review
AI agents run a first-pass gap analysis against your configured CSRD criteria before a human reviewer sees the file. Missing documents, expired certifications, and threshold gaps are flagged automatically.
Step 4 | Attest
Suppliers attest to the accuracy of their submission. Your team attests that the reviewed file meets your program standard. The chain is named, and timestamped—neither party can attest on behalf of the other.
Step 5 | Handoff
When the cycle closes, Athian produces a structured evidence package organized by CSRD criterion. Every document is linked to the requirement it satisfies. Ready for an auditor.
What you hand to the regulator
Athian outputs a structured evidence package, not a folder of uploaded files. It’s organized by CSRD criterion. Every document is linked to the requirement it satisfies. Ready for an auditor.
- AI gap analysis results for each evidence item, with specific flags and gap descriptions
- Named supplier attestations with timestamps — traceable to the individual who submitted and attested
- Named compliance team attestations, with any reviewer overrides and notes logged
- Pass/fail status against your configured CSRD protocol thresholds
- Submission metadata: received date, format, period covered, and source
See how this works for your CSRD program
The best way to evaluate Athian for CSRD is to walk through one disclosure cycle with your actual supplier tier structure.