Close-up of the veins of a backlit green leaf
Platforms, frameworks and books

My work does not end with a recommendation

Advisory keeps producing the same need: a way to make the frameworks usable after the engagement ends. So I build the systems, tools and frameworks that make better decisions repeatable.

Built

Platforms in production use.

The Vela Intelligence platform: due-diligence findings, each linked to the contract clause it came from
Founder & CEO Vela Intelligence

From documents to decisions

Critical decisions are still trapped inside documents. In investing, governance, regulation and strategy, leaders are expected to make high-stakes calls on the back of hundreds of pages of filings, reports, contracts and disclosures.

Vela is a decision-intelligence platform for environments where traceability, consistency and trust matter. Rather than relying on fragile autonomous agents, it uses controlled workflows that extract evidence, assess it against structured dimensions, and generate outputs that can be audited and explained. Every finding links to source material; every conclusion follows a clear logic.

It supports due diligence, investment committee preparation, governance reviews, sustainability analysis and regulatory-facing assessments — turning messy documentation into structured insight.

In the worked example shown, a buy-side due diligence file of 312 documents becomes 4,918 evidence spans and 47 findings, each linked to the clause it came from, with coverage gaps reported rather than inferred.

velaintelligence.com →
The Sustainability Compass mark: a green half-compass with five icons around it
Creator Sustainability Compass

Know what a company can actually prove

For companies, the Sustainability Compass is a diagnostic. For investors and lenders, it is an evidence assessment of what a company can prove. Unlike traditional ESG ratings, it does not stop at compliance — it reveals how sustainability is embedded, or missing, in core business decisions, and how that links directly to growth, risk and value creation.

The Seven Principles define what good looks like; the Compass tests the evidence. Refined with senior executives worldwide, its initial version was sponsored by CEDEP, rooting its foundations in world-class executive education and practical boardroom impact.

It is now the spine of the Sustainable Value Creation programme, where each participant uses it to read their own organisation’s maturity before deciding where to act.

sustainabilitycompass.ai →

Created

The framework the platforms are built on.

The Seven Principles Playbook for Sustainable Companies — Arnaud Blandin, Palgrave Macmillan
Author The book

Sustainability is not a constraint. It is how strategy gets redefined.

The Seven Principles Playbook for Sustainable Companies: Purpose, Planetary Boundaries, and Durable Value Creation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) is a systems-based playbook that moves beyond ESG checklists — a practical, repeatable diagnostic for building a sustainable company, grounded in real leaders, real companies and real trade-offs.

The seven principles are not a checklist. They are a system: each one reinforces the others. Purpose without a measured footprint stays aspirational. Resilience without stakeholder alignment stays brittle. Impact without holistic value measurement stays unverifiable. Together they form an operating system for how an organisation interprets reality, makes decisions, allocates capital and evolves.

The framework underneath the Sustainability Compass. A free 15-minute diagnostic and eight downloadable canvases sit alongside the book. 252 pages, ISBN 978-3-032-26659-0.

  • P1 · Purpose aligned with impact
  • P2 · Growth within planetary boundaries
  • P3 · Stakeholder alignment
  • P4 · Environmental footprint
  • P5 · Value beyond metrics
  • P6 · Resilience & adaptability
  • P7 · True impact
7principlessustainability.com → Springer →

Founded

The institution behind the teaching.

IRIS — Beyond Sustainability
Founder IRIS

Institute for Responsible Innovation and Sustainability

CEDEP, INSEAD, SMU, SKEMA and IUM are institutions where I teach. IRIS is the one I founded — to experiment with new forms of executive education at the intersection of AI, sustainability and business transformation.

It cultivates leaders who integrate environmental, social and governance principles into core business strategy, through data-driven education and collaboration that fosters critical thinking, creativity and ethical decision-making.

Next class: AI & Sustainability — navigating complexity with intelligence. 2027 dates to be announced. Join the waiting list.

Earlier and contributed work

Also on the shelf

ESG in the Age of AI, book cover Contributing author

ESG in the Age of AI

Authored by Ann Molin for Packt Publishing, with Arnaud contributing the two opening chapters. From Harvard to the University of Tokyo, it gathers perspectives from those shaping the field as it forms.

The AI Revolution, book cover Contributing expert

The AI Revolution

Created by Erik Severson with 34 global AI experts. Arnaud’s contribution addresses the environmental reckoning the industry has been slow to price in — the terawatt-hours, the water, and the land.

Next step

Want to put one of these to work?

The platforms and diagnostics are deployed inside engagements, licensed directly, or taught as part of an executive programme. Tell me which fits.

Request a consultation → See the engagements