About ESGAgent.ai | AI-Native Compliance, Built in Brisbane
Who we are

The compliance platform
heavy industry runs on.

The AI-native compliance platform for Australia's most regulated industries. Built in Brisbane, deployed with forward deployed engineers.

30+
frameworks live on the platform, including CMSHA, WHS, NGER, AASB S2, GRESB, ISO 45001 and more
$1.7M
raised, backed by DNX Ventures (Tokyo · Silicon Valley) and Advance Queensland
Months → hours
reporting timelines cut on live client work
In the field
with tier-one miners, national food manufacturers and global engineering consultancies
The founding story

Built by someone who did the work by hand.

After more than a decade in ESG and sustainability consulting at Strategy& (PwC), Stantec, Cardno and Caterpillar, Shan Vahora watched Australian industry pay consultants millions for work that was mostly document reading, evidence chasing and formatting, while the judgment that mattered got squeezed into whatever hours were left.

The conviction: compliance should work like software: continuous, evidenced, auditable, and a fraction of the cost, with human experts doing only what humans must.

So ESGAgent was built AI-native from day one, in Brisbane, for the industries with the heaviest obligations, and deployed the way heavy industry adopts technology: engineers on site, workflows built in situ, proven in parallel before anything is switched over.

“Sustainability teams are drowning in compliance rather than driving actual ESG initiatives. They're spending countless hours chasing data, completing repetitive questionnaires, and trying to stay current with regulatory changes.”
Shan Vahora — Founder & CEO
Shan Vahora, founder of ESGAgent.ai
Shan Vahora
Founder & CEO
A decade-plus across Strategy& (PwC), Stantec, Cardno and Caterpillar. Masters, University of Cambridge; engineering background.

The people behind the platform.

Operating leadership
Shan Vahora
Founder & CEO
Strategy& (PwC), Stantec/Cardno and Caterpillar before building the platform he wished his clients had.
Mike Duggan
EGM, ESG Reporting
Ex Ashurst Risk Advisory and Deloitte. Leads reporting delivery with practitioner rigour.
Aditya Rashiya
Principal Engineer
Leads the engineering behind the agents: the regulatory graph, validation and evidence chain.
Sizzan Vahora
ESG Consultant
Board & advisors
Wayne Gerard
Chair
Brisbane tech founder and former Queensland Chief Entrepreneur.
Greg Steele
Director & investor
Former Global Chief Commercial Officer, Arcadis. Invested and joined the board.
Jamie Merrick
Director
Former QLD mining safety prosecutor who has enforced the regulations ESGAgent automates.
Christine Hayward
Director & Secretary
Helps with financial management and governance.
Yurika Imuta
DNX Ventures · Board observer
Led DNX's investment, its second in Australia.
What we believe

Three things, plainly held.

Compliance should be light.
The obligation is heavy; carrying it shouldn't be.
Machines absorb the volume. People own the judgment.
Nothing becomes a validated record without human sign-off.
Evidence over claims.
Every number traces to a source document, because in our industries an unsupported claim is a liability.
Backed by

Investors who know the category.

DNX led the seed round backing ESGAgent to become the “default single system of record” for compliance. Read the coverage →

DNX Ventures
Enterprise VC, Tokyo · Silicon Valley. Led the seed round
Lead investor
Advance Queensland
Queensland Government, Ignite Ideas program
Grant backer
As featured in SBS Australian Financial Review SmartCompany Business News Australia IT Brief Dynamic Business See the coverage →
Peer-reviewed: the climate risk methodology behind the platform is published by Springer Nature: Assessing Physical Climate Risks: An AI-Powered Tool for Businesses.
Download the paper (PDF) →
ESGAgent on site
Proof, in the field

Running where the obligations are heaviest.

The CMSHA safety framework runs live at operating QLD coal mines. CarbonAgent counts emissions across 9 assets at a national food manufacturer. A funded compliance pilot runs on one of Australia's largest transmission projects.

Read the case studies →See it in your industry →

The obligation is heavy.
Carrying it shouldn't be.

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