It started with a classroom assignment. I was sitting in my Environmental Science and Sustainability for Business class when our professor, Dr. Nazia Nazeer, gave us a task: research and write a paper on carbon reporting — specifically Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. The goal was to understand how businesses measure their direct and indirect emissions, and then propose an idea for a startup that could solve a real-world problem.
I dove into the research. For three or four days straight, I read case studies, methodologies, and regulatory updates. The deeper I went, the more one thing became impossible to ignore: textile factories — the backbone of our export economy — were still calculating carbon reports the old way.
In a world of AI and automation, these factories were stuck with tools from a decade ago. I kept coming back to one question:
Why does something so critical — the data that determines whether a factory keeps its contracts — still rely on error-prone, time-consuming manual work?
I took my findings to Dr. Nazia. She didn't just encourage me; she challenged me to think bigger. "You've identified the problem," she said. "Now build the solution." Her guidance turned a classroom assignment into a mission.
That's when CarbonReport Pro was born.
What started as a research paper is now a tool that helps textile exporters protect their revenue, meet compliance deadlines, and finally move beyond spreadsheets. Every report we generate is a manufacturer keeping their contract, a factory avoiding a penalty, and a supply chain that can prove its numbers to any auditor in the world.