VSME, from template to report.
The voluntary SME standard, ready to use — as published, shaped to your company, or combined with ESRS as VSME+.
Why VSME
The standard your customers and banks already speak.
EFRAG wrote VSME as the voluntary standard for SMEs, and the European Commission recommends it for companies outside CSRD scope. Banks, insurers and large customers are aligning their ESG questionnaires to it — so one VSME report answers most of them at once.
One report, many askers
Value-chain questionnaires from large customers and banks increasingly map to VSME datapoints. Report once, and answer them from the same set instead of retyping it per portal.
Right-sized by design
A Basic Module for the essentials, a Comprehensive Module when counterparties ask for more. You disclose what applies to you and record why the rest doesn't.
A base that grows
If CSRD comes into scope later, or a customer wants ESRS-level answers now, the work carries over. Nothing gets redone.
How it works
Start from the template, not a blank page.
If you're running VSME in spreadsheets today, this is the same work with the manual parts removed.
Pick up the VSME template
Basic and Comprehensive Modules ready to use, every datapoint with its guidance attached. What applies and what doesn't is a recorded decision, not a lost footnote.
Collect without the chasing
Colleagues fill exactly their datapoints through the contributor portal. Evidence goes into the vault once and gets reused everywhere. AI drafts answers where your documents already hold them.
Report and hand it over
Progress is visible per module and per entity. Export the finished report, with the trail of who answered what and on which evidence.
Beyond the standard
VSME as published — or shaped to your company.
The template is the floor, not the ceiling. Our clients bend it three ways:
VSME
The standard, as published
The full VSME template, maintained against EFRAG's text. Start reporting the day you get access.
Tailored
Your topics on top
Add entity-specific topics the standard doesn't cover — the things your board, your sector or your certification actually asks about — inside the same report.
VSME+
VSME plus ESRS
Combine the template with ESRS datapoints where customers or banks want more depth. Our clients call it VSME+: the SME standard as the base, CSRD-grade answers where it counts.
When the standard moves, the template moves.
EFRAG guidance and EU requirements keep shifting. We track the changes and update the template, so a revision shows up as updated datapoints in your workspace — not as news you were supposed to catch.
In use today
Teams report on VSME in Palau right now.
Companies run the standard template, company-specific versions and VSME+ in production today. Eduardo Seisdedos Arribas of Cuatro Tercios on why the flexibility matters:
See VSME on your own data
A pilot starts from the template and your documents. Most of the first answers are already sitting in them.