Numbers are easy to claim. These are verified outcomes from real engagements with UK regulated businesses. Each figure reflects an obligation met, a penalty avoided or a regulator satisfied.
The details have been anonymised at client request, but the numbers are real. Every figure below came out of an actual engagement.
Property
No documented Vulnerable Customer Programme. Social sustainability claims in fund factsheets without a substantiation file. Anti-Greenwashing Rule exposure confirmed across three product lines. The board had no visibility of the liability they were carrying.
"We did not know the extent of our exposure until WAJIBU showed us. That report changed how the board thought about compliance."
Head of Compliance, UK Asset Manager
Financial Services
EU subsidiaries triggering ESRS S1 to S4 mandatory social disclosure obligations. No double materiality assessment completed. D&I data held in HR systems entirely disconnected from the ESG disclosure framework. Board had no idea the obligation existed.
"We had the EU subsidiary exposure and no idea how to address it. WAJIBU built everything we needed, on schedule, and the board could finally see the full picture."
Group General Counsel, Listed UK Multinational
Manufacturing
FCA supervisory letter received. Board required documented evidence of Consumer Duty compliance and substantiated ESG claims across all client-facing materials within 60 days. The firm had frameworks on paper but nothing that would survive regulatory scrutiny.
"The FCA letter arrived on a Friday. WAJIBU had a plan on Monday and delivered everything the regulator needed, on time and without gaps."
Chief Compliance Officer, Financial Services GroupMid-cap financial services firm, 320 staff
Property developer, £400M portfolio
Manufacturing business, 150 staff
Measured across all active clients over a 12-month engagement period
Distribution of active and completed engagements across sectors
WAJIBU changed how we talk about ESG internally. Before them it was the compliance team's headache — something that landed in someone's inbox on a Friday afternoon and got dealt with on Monday morning without much thought. Three months in, it was on every board agenda and people actually had something to say. That shift has stuck.
We came to Samuel with a problem — our investors were asking ESG questions we had no answers to. We left with a framework, a team that understood it, and a report we were genuinely proud of. Nobody was pretending. The numbers were real and the impact showed up in how our lenders treated us.
Three consultancies quoted us for CSRD readiness work. WAJIBU was the only one that told us what the job actually involved, including the parts that would be difficult and the parts where we were already doing well. That honesty is why we hired them. And why we are still working with them two years later.
I will be straight with you — I was sceptical going in. We make things. ESG felt like something for banks and big corporates. But when two of our biggest customers started asking questions we could not answer, we had to do something. WAJIBU turned it around in twelve weeks and we kept every contract.
The quality of the work was exceptional. Our GHG baseline had never been independently verified before — we had been quoting a number we honestly were not sure about. WAJIBU fixed that, and when our lead investor challenged it in a due diligence call, we had the evidence to back every figure.
Samuel sat in our Series C prep meeting and told our leadership team things about ESG that our existing advisors had never flagged. He was direct, not particularly diplomatic about it, and completely right. We adjusted the pitch. The round closed. I have recommended him to three other founders since.
Greenwashing risk was keeping me up at night. We had marketing claims in the market that I was not confident we could defend if regulators came knocking. WAJIBU audited everything, gave us a clear view of what was defensible and what needed changing, and helped us get it right before it became a problem.
We were losing tenders on social value scoring and genuinely did not understand why. WAJIBU spent time with our delivery teams, not just the bid writers, and rebuilt our social value approach from the ground up. The next three tenders we submitted, we scored in the top quartile on social value. One we won outright.
Our DEI data was a mess — different departments measuring different things, no consistent baseline, nothing that told a coherent story to the outside world. WAJIBU brought order to it without making people feel like they were being audited. The process was thoughtful and the report we ended up with actually said something.
Our fund manager had given us twelve months to improve our ESG score or it would affect our carry. That is the kind of deadline that concentrates the mind. WAJIBU delivered a credible programme inside six months. The score moved from the bottom quartile to mid-range. The relationship with our fund manager changed overnight.
Everything we do maps back to the SDGs — not because it looks good in a report, but because the goals give our work a clear reference point against global priorities.
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