Why CarbonCut
The next time someone asks for your carbon numbers, you answer in an afternoon.
With a number that survives their procurement reviewer, built from the bills you already have. That is the whole product.
The ask has changed
A tender with an emissions section. A big customer's supplier questionnaire. A board member who read something. The carbon question used to be ignorable, and now it decides whether you stay on the shortlist.
The problem is not that the number is hard to calculate. It's that the number has to hold up when someone who does this for a living checks it, and it has to be ready again next year, and the year after. CarbonCut is built for that: not measuring emissions as a project, but staying permanently ready to answer.
What you're really comparing
Not other software, usually. CarbonCut is the middle path between a spreadsheet nobody trusts and a consulting engagement nobody budgeted for. Here is the honest version, including where the alternatives win.
| A consultant | A spreadsheet or your accountant | Most tools in this market | CarbonCut | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | A report, delivered once | A number nobody outside can verify | Usually an estimate: dollars spent × an industry average | A baseline from your actual bills, and the report to hand back |
| What it costs | Five figures to start, four figures for every refresh | Cheap in cash, expensive in a week of someone's time | Usually a demo to find out | From $249 a month or $2,490 a year, published: a year of Starter is about one consultant refresh |
| When it goes stale | The day it lands; every new ask is a new engagement | Immediately; rebuilt from scratch next year | Refreshes with your accounting feed | It doesn't: the reporting cycle rolls each year forward and reminds you |
| Can their reviewer check it? | If they show their working. Many do | Rarely: the factors and sources are wherever the last person left them | Not against a bill: a spend-based figure has no meter reading behind it | Yes: every figure traces to a bill, every factor is printed with its source |
| Price visible before a call? | No, it's a quote | — | Usually not | Yes, the whole ladder |
| How the bills get in | You send a folder and wait weeks | Re-keyed by hand, every time | Through the accounting system, as spend | Upload the bill; confirm the figures it reads |
| Where they win | Assurance-grade or regulated (NGER) reporting. If that is your obligation, hire one. | You were asked once and will never be asked again. | Mandatory ASRS and AASB S2 reporting for larger companies. That is where most of them have gone; if that is your obligation, follow them. | Everything above the line. |
Consultant costs are given in words on purpose: quotes vary widely with scope. "Most tools" describes the direct Australian SMB carbon accounting tools we benchmarked in 2026, most of which now sell ASRS and AASB S2 compliance to larger companies; the spend-based method and demo-gated pricing are the norm, not universal.
Why the number holds up
Published factors, named on the report
Every emission factor comes from a published government set: the Australian National Greenhouse Accounts for energy, fuel and waste, and the UK Government and US EPA sets where Australia publishes none. Each is versioned with its source and printed on the report itself, so a reviewer checks the source, not our word.
Your working, shown
Every figure traces back to a bill, a fuel record, a staff survey or a spend line you entered. The report prints the factors it applied and the assumptions it made, and it labels an estimate as an estimate. When someone checks, it checks out.
Upload the bill. You confirm every figure
Drop in the PDF or a photo and the AI reads the printed kWh, megajoules or litres off it, along with the billing period and state. It never estimates, never turns a dollar amount into a tonne, and returns a blank rather than a guess. Nothing enters your baseline until you've checked it against the original: the AI does the reading, you do the signing.
Honest about its edges
Where a factor isn't published, the report says so instead of inventing one. Where two years don't cover the same categories, it says the comparison isn't like-for-like. The edges are printed because a reviewer will find them anyway.
Priced for a business your size
Starter is $249 a month or $2,490 a year (two months free), the whole ladder is published, and a year of it costs about what one consultant refresh does. The Australian tools that started where we are now sell ASRS and AASB S2 compliance to larger companies, and most ask you to book a call to learn the price. CarbonCut is built and priced for a 20 to 500 person business answering a customer, not a regulator.
Australian data, Australian workflow
Hosted in Sydney. Reporting years that run 1 July to 30 June. State grid factors, not a national average. Built for the asks Australian businesses of 20 to 500 people actually get.
The standard behind the number
Every figure CarbonCut produces is built on the GHG Protocol, the greenhouse gas accounting framework used by the large platforms and by the auditors who check them. We did not invent a methodology. The point of a standard is that the person reviewing your submission already knows it: scope 1 for what you burn, scope 2 for the electricity you buy, scope 3 for your value chain, by category.
The emission factors are the Australian National Greenhouse Accounts, published by the federal department each year, for energy, fuel and waste. Where Australia publishes no factor, the report names the government set that was used instead (the UK Government's for distance-based travel and commuting, the US EPA's for spend-based purchases). Each factor is stored with its source and its vintage, so any number in your report traces back to the exact published figure that produced it. The electricity, gas and fuel factors were checked line by line against the 2025 workbook, and every factor value is pinned as an automated test that runs whenever the code changes.
Electricity uses state-based grid factors, because a kilowatt hour in Victoria and a kilowatt hour in Tasmania are not the same number, and a report that treats them as the same will not survive scrutiny.
What we do not do is certify you. There is no CarbonCut badge and no seal for your website. Independent assurance is a separate service performed by accredited auditors, priced for large organisations, and if you need it you will engage one of them. What you get from us is an inventory built to a recognised framework with the workings attached, so whoever asked the question can check it themselves. If you do later engage an auditor, the accounting basis that ISO 14064-1 builds on is the GHG Protocol, so you are handing them an inventory already organised the way they expect to read it, not starting again.
Coverage today: electricity, natural gas, fleet fuel, business travel, employee commuting, waste to landfill, and purchased goods and services (the last as a spend-based estimate, labelled as one). Refrigerants and water are not yet covered, and the report says so.
What we won't do
Sell you offsets, badges or a certification
CarbonCut produces measured, documented numbers. What you claim with them is your call, made on solid ground. Nothing in the product nudges you to buy something on top.
Dress an estimate up as a measurement
Spend-based figures exist in the product for the categories no meter reaches, and the report labels them as estimates every time. Your electricity, gas and fuel come from bills, never from your bank feed.
Hide the working behind an AI
The AI reads documents. It doesn't decide anything, and it doesn't get to put a number in your baseline. The calculation is the same published-factor arithmetic whether the figure was typed or read.
Lock your data in
Every entry, with its computed emissions and the factor vintage, exports to CSV in one click. The version you keep is yours whether or not you keep paying.
On the roadmap
Nothing here is live yet, and the order follows what customers are actually asked for. It is listed so you can see the direction, not so you can count on a date.
Xero and MYOB
A read-only connection that pulls your supplier bills, with their PDFs, into the same review queue. You still confirm every entry.
Questionnaire answers
Structured support for the forms the asks arrive on: Commonwealth procurement first, customer scorecards after.
Supplier data requests
Ask the suppliers behind your scope 3 for their figures, straight into your baseline, so the next scorecard question already has an answer.
Under a live ask right now?
Put two of your own bills in and see your baseline today, free. The report opens when you subscribe: $249 a month or $2,490 a year, plus GST.