Case Study: a Fortune 500 media & entertainment company achieves audit-ready ESG reporting with Watershed

a Fortune 500 media & entertainment company eliminates 3-week data corrections with Watershed

A leading Fortune 500 media and entertainment company faced significant challenges with its previous big tech ESG platform. The solution was a manual, IT-dependent black box that required weeks-long ticket cycles for any data correction and offered no transparency into its calculations. This created serious audit-readiness concerns for the company's finance team, which had minimal time dedicated to climate work. They turned to Watershed's climate platform for a better solution.

Watershed implemented its transparent, audit-ready ESG platform, which automated data extraction with AI agents for PDF bill scanning and provided direct platform access. This eliminated the IT bottleneck, allowing data corrections to happen instantly instead of taking weeks. The results included full visibility into calculations and automatic emission factor updates, which gave the team confidence to meet California disclosure requirements. Watershed's solution also freed up capacity, enabling the company to plan for scope 3 measurement expansion.