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Every metric carries its chain back to the source — signal, emission factor, version and who touched it.
Reconciliation across sources, with every adjustment explained — no black boxes.
Audit-grade evidence for every report — GHG Protocol, ISSB, CSRD/ESRS — without the last-minute scramble.
Straight answers about Proof Engine, the CarbonOS evidence layer for emissions audits. To see it work on your own data, book a demo.
Proof Engine is the evidence layer of CarbonOS. It keeps the lineage of every emissions figure, from source data to final report, with the emission factor and version used, the transformations applied and who made each adjustment. It also reconciles sources and explains every metric, in line with the ISO 14064-3 verification standard.
It avoids the year-end scramble in which teams rebuild where each number came from for the verifier. It serves sustainability managers, finance, internal audit and compliance teams at companies whose inventories are verified by third parties, whether for emissions trading systems, CBAM, ISSB-aligned disclosures or customer and lender requests.
Every data point that arrives through Signal Ingest is stamped with its source and time. For each calculation, Proof Engine records the inputs, the emission factor and its version, the formula and the assumptions. It then cross-checks sources such as ERP, invoices, meters, SCADA and production records and flags discrepancies before they reach a report.
ISO 14064-3:2019, which sets principles and requirements for verifying and validating greenhouse gas statements for organisations, projects and products. For assurance by auditors, the IAASB’s ISAE 3410 is withdrawn from 15 December 2026, when ISSA 5000 takes effect; ISSA 5000 applies to all sustainability information, including greenhouse gas emissions (IAASB, 2025).
Proof Engine sits underneath the other agents. It receives stamped data from Signal Ingest, records every calculation made by Carbon Intelligence and Supply Chain, and gives Compliance Hub reports in which every number can be opened down to its evidence. Governance uses the same trail to document policies and procedures, and Asset Graph tells it which asset each data point belongs to.
No. Verification or assurance is still carried out by an independent verifier or auditor, who issues their own opinion. Proof Engine prepares the ground: it hands over the full trail behind every number, with sources, factors, versions and adjustments, and lets anyone rerun any calculation. Carbonova does not verify, assure or certify inventories.