End-to-end management of your B Corp application under the new 2026 standards — from gap analysis to legal amendment to B Lab review. We've helped many organisations through this process.
B Corp certification is an independent assessment that an organisation balances purpose and profit — meeting verified standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
It's run by B Lab, a global non-profit, and applies the same framework whether you're a 5-person studio or a 5,000-person corporate. Certification requires you to meet a minimum standard across seven impact topics, amend your governing documents to require consideration of stakeholders beyond shareholders, and submit to recertification every three years.
As of 2026 it's the most rigorous, third-party-verified standard available to private companies in the UK — and the only one whose framework changes are publicly debated by its members.
B Lab's new framework lands March 2026 — and it's the biggest change to the certification since it launched in 2007.
The 80-point system is gone. In its place: seven impact topics, each with mandatory minimum requirements. No more compensating a weak governance score with a strong worker score. Every topic must clear its own bar.
Embedded in articles of association. Mandatory legal amendment.
Verified baseline, science-aligned target, public disclosure.
Policy, risk assessment, supply-chain due diligence.
Living wage, worker voice, parity in promotion & pay.
Justice, equity, diversity, inclusion — documented commitments.
Beyond carbon: water, waste, circularity, biodiversity.
Public-policy positions, lobbying transparency, sector collaboration. New for v2.
If you certified before 2026, you'll recertify under v2 at your next cycle. We can run a free gap analysis against the new standards to tell you where you'd stand today.
Every B Corp engagement we run includes the following deliverables. No add-ons, no surprise scope creep.
A B Corp engagement runs over four phases. We move at the pace your business can absorb, not faster.
Working with Laura made the whole process easy & much much quicker. We certified on first attempt.David Houston · CEO @ Genfit
We have a 100% pass rate across all of our client certifications.
Yes — arguably more than before. The new standards are harder, which means certification is more credible, and recent research shows certified B Corps now command meaningful talent and capital premiums. The bar is higher; so is the value.
If you certified under v1, you'll recertify under v2 at your next three-year cycle. We run a v2 gap analysis against your existing assessment and plan the work needed to clear the new minimums. Most v1 B Corps need 4–9 months of work to recertify.
Under v2, evidence is verified by an independent third party rather than self-attested. This means tighter documentation, clearer audit trails, and assessments that survive external scrutiny. There are also interviews with your team to ensure it isn't one person in the organisation involved in the process. We build to that standard from day one.
Fair questions, mostly. The previous standards let large companies offset weak topics with strong ones — that's gone. There's been valid criticism of which companies were admitted; the new standards tighten that. We think B Corp is the most rigorous private-sector standard available, but we'd tell you if we didn't.
Yes. If the company is 75% majority owned by one shareholder, we can advise without legal support. If it's more complicated, I work with your lawyer, who drafts the articles amendment alongside your company secretary or lawyer. It's a board-approval matter — we make sure you have the right wording, in the right place, with the right resolutions.
Expect 1 hour per week from the senior person owning this, plus a few hours each from heads of HR, finance and operations during the build phase. We try very hard not to waste your team's time.
A free 15-minute call. We'll ask the right questions, give you an honest readiness rating, and tell you what the next twelve months would look like.