CSRD Chat: The passion-project AI bot helping companies analyze ESG regulation

By day, Alex Annaev is a sustainability manager at Shell. By night, he creates AI chatbots designed to help companies untangle their responsibilities around the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). His CSRD Chat tool – which he stresses is entirely his own work and completely separate from his role at Shell – is trained on hundreds of pages from the regulator, hours of official guidance published in video format and any additional documentation that comes from the European