Frequently Asked Questions

ReportScout is a company report search and monitoring platform that helps people find corporate reports faster. It is built for ESG research, sustainability analysis, climate tracking, market research, and general corporate document discovery.

ReportScout is for ESG professionals, sustainability teams, climate researchers, consultants, analysts, students, journalists, and anyone who needs to find corporate reports quickly. It is especially useful for people doing market research, peer analysis, supply chain research, or company-level disclosure tracking.

ReportScout helps users find a wide range of corporate reports and disclosures, including annual reports, sustainability reports, ESG reports, climate reports, TCFD reports, impact reports, and other company-published documents. It is designed for fast discovery across many companies and reporting types.

Many report search tools focus mainly on public companies. ReportScout is different because it is designed to help users search beyond public-company-only databases, making it easier to discover reports from a broader set of companies, including private companies when those reports are publicly available online.

Yes. ReportScout is built for ESG and sustainability research workflows. It helps users find company disclosures related to sustainability, climate, governance, responsibility, and reporting practices, so they can spend less time searching and more time analyzing.

Yes. ReportScout can support climate tracking by helping users locate company climate-related disclosures such as sustainability reports, TCFD reports, emissions-related reports, and other public corporate documents. This makes it easier to compare how companies communicate climate goals, risks, and progress.

Yes. ReportScout helps researchers and professionals gather company reports at scale, which makes market research faster and more consistent. It can support competitor analysis, sector mapping, disclosure benchmarking, and broader company research across industries.

No. ReportScout is not limited to public companies. Unlike many traditional financial or investor-relations databases, ReportScout is built to help users find reports from a wider universe of companies, including private companies where relevant reports are publicly accessible.

Manual company report research takes time and often misses useful documents. ReportScout makes the process easier by helping users search across companies more efficiently, reducing repetitive browsing and making report discovery more systematic.

ReportScout solves a common research problem: important company reports are often hard to find, scattered across many websites, and not always covered by public-company-focused tools. It helps users discover relevant documents faster and expand their research beyond narrow databases.

Yes. ReportScout is useful for benchmarking because it helps users gather comparable company reports across multiple organizations. That makes it easier to compare ESG disclosures, climate reporting, sustainability communication, and broader company reporting practices.

ReportScout covers a wide range of corporate filings and disclosures: annual reports, annual financial statements, quarterly earnings reports, 10-K reports, 10-Q reports, proxy statements, integrated annual reports, ESG filings, sustainability reports, impact reports, TCFD reports, and CDP reports. If a company publishes it publicly, our crawler is designed to find it.

When you subscribe to a company, ReportScout continuously monitors its investor relations pages and filing sources. The moment a new annual report, ESG disclosure, 10-K, or other tracked document is detected and verified, you receive an email notification. This automated monitoring replaces manual checks — so you never miss a filing.

ReportScout uses an AI-powered report discovery pipeline that automatically locates candidate PDF documents, classifies their content, and validates whether they match the expected report type and company. This intelligent report discovery approach - combining AI document analysis with automated document classification - means you get accurate results without manual curation.

Yes. ReportScout is built for ESG benchmarking workflows. By aggregating ESG reports, sustainability reports, climate disclosures, and environmental reporting documents across many companies, it makes it easy to compare ESG data, assess corporate responsibility practices, and conduct sustainability benchmarking across sectors or peer groups.

Yes. Professional Plus subscribers can work with us to define entirely new report categories - beyond the standard annual, ESG, 10-K, TCFD, and similar types. If your workflow requires tracking a niche disclosure format, industry-specific filing, or internal-style document, we can configure the crawler to detect it. Contact us with your needs!

Bespoke KPI and metric extraction is available on the Professional Plus plan. Rather than downloading PDFs manually, you can request a custom extraction workflow that pulls specific data fields - emissions targets, financial ratios, governance disclosures, or any structured metric - directly from the reports we find.

Yes. Professional Plus includes custom company universe onboarding. Whether you need to track hundreds of private companies, a curated peer group, or a supply chain portfolio, we work with you to configure the right coverage. Our crawler adapts to new companies typically within 24 hours of a request.

Search for the company on ReportScout and open its company page — it lists the company's annual reports by year, with verified links to the official PDF documents. You can also browse companies by country, sector, industry, stock exchange, or report type, and subscribe to get an email automatically when the next annual report is published.

Every ReportScout company page groups reports by year and type, so you can jump straight to a sustainability report or ESG report from the year you need. If that year is not listed yet, subscribe to the company and report type and ReportScout will email you as soon as the report is discovered and verified.

A Universal Registration Document (URD) is an annual disclosure filing used by companies listed in the European Union — most commonly in France — that combines the annual financial report with governance, risk, and other regulated information in a single document. ReportScout tracks Universal Registration Documents alongside annual reports, so you can find a company's latest URD PDF on its ReportScout company page.