Sustainability Engagement Platform Driving Workplace Behavioural Change

Offer Deadline:

Monday 15 December 2025, 12pm GMT



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Project Ember

Hilco is pleased to present the opportunity to acquire an established UK sustainability-engagement and behavioural-change SaaS platform (the “Company”). Designed to help mid-to-large employers reduce carbon emissions and drive internal ESG participation, the platform combines employee engagement tools, educational content, reporting dashboards, and emissions-reduction challenges into a single digital ecosystem.

Built over six years with over £2m in investment in the technology, content and customer acquisition, the platform has been adopted by well-known UK corporates and financial institutions. The product offering includes web and mobile applications, an extensive content library, carbon-tracking frameworks, and engagement features that promote measurable sustainability outcomes.

This opportunity enables a purchaser to accelerate their ESG product roadmap, bolt on a proven engagement layer, or acquire an established brand and technology base at a fraction of development cost.

Business Highlights

  • Proven Sustainability Engagement Platform: A mature SaaS solution focused on enterprise ESG engagement, featuring carbon challenge journeys, behaviour-change engines, educational campaigns, reporting tools, content delivery, leaderboards, and organisation-wide carbon reduction tracking.
  • Reputable Corporate Client Base: Historically supported 30-40 blue-chip and mid-market organisations, including names within financial services, hospitality, professional services and FMCG. The platform has demonstrated appetite from ESG-driven businesses seeking employee engagement capability.
  • Significant Historical Investment: Developed over c. 6.5 years with a peak team of c. 35 full-time employees. Total development and scaling costs materially exceed replacement cost, providing an accelerated market entry for a buyer.
  • Engagement and Content Library: Extensive catalogue of sustainability content, campaigns and educational modules. The behavioural-change design encourages employee participation, with proven capability to run organisation-wide climate engagement programmes.
  • Scalable Architecture: Web and mobile applications built using modern frameworks (PHP/Symfony backend, React frontend) and structured to support multi-tenant enterprise deployment. Strong data infrastructure suitable for integration into broader ESG tooling.
  • Multiple Strategic Use Cases: Suitable for acquirers seeking to integrate sustainability engagement functionality into an existing platform, onboard existing clients as a cross-sell channel, re-launch the platform under new ownership, or leverage content/IP within broader ESG, HR, wellbeing or corporate learning offerings.
  • Impact-Led Brand with Proven Adoption: The platform has attracted over 30,000 registered users and facilitated the reduction of more than 4.5m kg CO₂e, alongside charitable contributions via its rewards programme. A contemporary, user-centric design combined with strong content has positioned the brand as a credible leader in corporate sustainability engagement.

Available Assets

  • Platform and Codebase: Complete source code for the sustainability engagement platform including mobile and web applications, backend infrastructure, reporting engine, database structure, UX, challenges, carbon-tracking logic and integration modules.
  • Brand and Digital Assets: Including registered trade marks, domains, website content, social media accounts and marketing collateral, and a strong brand with historical reach and goodwill in the sustainability sector.
  • Content and Knowledge Base: Extensive sustainability content library, behavioural frameworks, workshop material, challenge packs, carbon-impact education and user communication assets.
  • Customer and Pipeline Data: CRM database, key contacts, historic enterprise users, contracted/pipeline information (where transferable), and insights on adoption and engagement metrics.
  • Data and Reporting Tools: Carbon-tracking logic, analytics dashboards and data structures for reporting on behavioural change and emissions reduction.
  • Organisational Knowledge and Know-How: Internal documentation, product specifications, system workflows, process knowledge and operational structure developed during peak scale.

This represents a rare opportunity to acquire a fully built sustainability engagement platform combining proven enterprise SaaS technology, proprietary methodologies, rich behavioural and emissions data, and a recognisable brand well positioned to scale rapidly to meet growing demand for credible, employee-led climate action.

Sale Process and Further Information

Please note the deadline for offers is Monday 15 December 2025 at 12pm GMT

Offers are invited for the Company’s entire share capital, the business and assets or select assets.

All expressions of interest and bids are to be directed to Hilco in writing. On receipt of a signed non-disclosure agreement (NDA) access will be provided to a virtual data room housing additional information. To access the NDA please click the link, sign and return via email to the below Hilco representatives.

Key Terms and Conditions

Hilco is acting as exclusive agent to the Company in connection with the proposed sale of the Company’s entire share capital, the business and assets or select assets.

All sales are made strictly on an “as seen, where lying” basis. Only such right, title and interest (if any) as the Company may have in the assets will be transferred to a purchaser. No warranties, guarantees, or representations (express or implied) are provided by the Company or Hilco in respect of the assets or any information supplied. All parties must rely on their own enquiries and due diligence. Any information provided is for convenience only and has not been independently verified.

All offers are subject to the addition of VAT at the prevailing rate, where applicable. A non-refundable deposit equal to 20% of the agreed purchase price must be paid by the successful purchaser within 48 hours of offer acceptance. Payment of the deposit grants the purchaser the exclusive right to proceed with the acquisition of the relevant assets for a limited period and on the terms agreed. A Buyer’s Premium of 10% of the final purchase price is payable by the successful purchaser in addition to the agreed purchase price, is non-negotiable and is payable at the same time and in the same manner as the purchase price and forms a condition of sale.

Legal completion shall occur as soon as reasonably practicable following offer acceptance, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Company and Hilco. Failure to complete within this period may result in forfeiture of the deposit and termination of the transaction.

Hilco’s full Terms and Conditions apply.

Contacts

Yasmin Saadi

Senior Analyst

London Office

+44 (0) 7766 075798

[email protected]

Alexander Muir

Associate Director

Manchester Office

+44 (0) 7593 562917

[email protected]