Reporting Methodology

Heliolytics 2021 Materiality Assessment Results:

Planet People Governance The Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Guidelines have served to guide the creation of Heliolytics’ inaugural 2021 Sustainability Report. Developing this report as a GRI-referenced document has allowed us to objectively assess our performance in the areas of environmental, social, and governance sustainability. While Heliolytics does not have directly appointed executive-level staff for economic, environmental, or social topics, we do have equivalencies in human resources, finance, and senior leadership.

The contents of this report were driven by the GRI Standards and our materiality assessment, which was completed internally for our first reporting year. This process involved engaging client-facing staff and senior management to qualitatively assess which material topics were relevant to Heliolytics and its stakeholders in 2021. Our materiality assessment process will be developed further in future years to intentionally involve client feedback through targeted listening programs and internal staff surveys. Heliolytics’ sustainability reports will continue to be expanded upon in future years as our capacity for more robust reporting grows.

As a scaling company, we utilize an adaptive and iterative approach to stakeholder engagement, constantly building and improving upon our stakeholder outreach both internally and externally. Our stakeholder engagement takes on many forms, including but not limited to casual conversations, targeted listening programs, annual meetings, performance reviews, and anonymous surveys. The stakeholders we considered in developing this report include current and future clients, as well as current and future staff members.