The 30-day baseline
You do not need a consulting engagement to start. You need last year's utility bills, fuel invoices, three supplier POs, and a laptop. In 30 days, a competent CFO with the right structure can produce a GHG-Protocol-aligned Scope 1 and 2 inventory, a working Scope 3 estimate for the top five upstream and downstream categories, and a first-pass CBAM dossier for any European-bound product.
- — Week 1 · Boundary setting. What entities, what geographies, what reporting year.
- — Week 2 · Scope 1 and 2 data pull. Fuel receipts, DISCOM bills, captive genset logs.
- — Week 3 · Priority Scope 3. Top five suppliers, top three logistics partners, downstream distribution.
- — Week 4 · CBAM dossier draft. Product-level emissions, verification-ready formatting.
"The MSME that measures first, wins the buyer. The MSME that measures third, loses the order."
Where the abatement lives
The abatement cost curve for a mid-tier Indian MSME is shallower than it is for a listed conglomerate. Load management, thermal recovery, and fuel-switching typically deliver 20–40% reductions at negative or marginal cost. Solar PPAs, structured around the MSME's cash-flow calendar (not the buyer's ESG report deadline), can add another 15–25%. The trap is not the cost. It is the sequencing.
The overlay, not another consultant
Carbonis is designed for the reality of an Indian MSME — data-light, cash-flow-sensitive, and time-poor. We produce baseline inventories in weeks, not quarters; a confidence-weighted Carbonis Score that buyers and lenders can read; and an abatement roadmap ranked by marginal cost, not by consultant preference. The score is portable — one number, one dossier — accepted by buyers, banks, and the frameworks that matter.