Sustainability Audit
A structured review across energy, waste, water and travel — with a prioritised, costed action list.
Built for SMEs · UK-wide
Sustainability that moves your business forward.
Practical, affordable sustainability work for UK SMEs. Audits, carbon reports, action plans and ongoing advisory — fixed fees, fixed timelines.
Services
Five services. Built for SMEs.
Every engagement is fixed-fee, scoped upfront, and delivered to deadline.
Carbon Footprint Report
A defensible Scope 1, 2 and material Scope 3 calculation — investor and procurement ready.
Sustainability Action Plan
A 12-month roadmap with specific actions, owners, costs, deadlines and projected savings.
Annual Sustainability Report
A professionally written, publication-ready ESG report for tenders, investors or stakeholders.
Most popular
Retainer Advisory
Ongoing monthly support at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire. Direct access to a named advisor, monthly progress reviews, inbound client and tender request handling, and no long-term tie-in.
How It Works
From first call to finished report.
A predictable four-step process. No 40-page proposals.
01
Discovery Call
30 minutes, free, no pitch. We listen, you ask, we agree if we can help.
02
Scoped Proposal
Within 48 hours: deliverables, timeline, fixed fee. One page, no padding.
03
Delivery
Two to six weeks of focused work. Single point of contact, weekly updates.
04
Handover
Polished report and a 60-minute handover. Your call whether we continue.
The People Behind the Work
Advisors who've been there
We're not a faceless agency. Greenlane is built by two practitioners with hands-on experience across sectors — so when we advise, it comes from lived knowledge, not theory.
Jamie Macleod
Founder & Advisor
Studying MSc Environmental Consultancy · University of Plymouth (2026)
Sustainability consultant specialising in carbon reporting and SME advisory. Delivered cost-reduction sustainability strategies for UK businesses with zero capital investment required.
Daniel Jones
Advisor
Studying MSc Environmental Consultancy · University of Plymouth (2026)
Environmental consultant with a focus on action planning and ESG reporting. Brings rigorous methodology and practical delivery to businesses navigating sustainability for the first time.
About
Built for the SMEs the big firms won't return calls to.
Sustainability stopped being optional. Customers ask for it, procurement teams require it, investors weight it. But the consultancy market hasn't caught up — quoting six-figure engagements for work SMEs don't need at that scale.
Greenlane delivers the same methodologies the big firms use — packaged into fixed-fee, fixed-timeline engagements an SME can actually buy and run.
100%
SME-focused
Fixed
Fee, no hourly
UK
Wide coverage
Case Study
What this looks like in practice.
Manufacturing · MidlandsA carbon report we could put in front of our largest customer's procurement team and a 12-month plan we could actually execute. It paid for itself before we'd finished reading it.
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Manufacturing client
Operations Director · 90 employees
14%
Year-one energy cost reduction
3 wks
From kickoff to final report
£0
Capex for first six actions
01
Major tender retained
FAQ
Common questions, answered honestly.
The things SME owners ask before booking a call.
How is Greenlane different from a freelance consultant?
Same technical rigour (GHG Protocol, SECR-aligned, recognised frameworks) plus the structured engagement, professional deliverables and transparent pricing of a small firm. You get the speed of a freelancer with the presentation a corporate buyer expects.
How much does a typical engagement cost?
Scope-dependent — but always a fixed fee, quoted within 48 hours of our discovery call, with no hidden hours or scope creep. As a benchmark: a fraction of what established consultancies quote for the same deliverable.
How long does it take to get a carbon footprint report?
Typically two to four weeks from kickoff, depending on data availability. Most of that time is on our side — we'll usually need a couple of focused sessions with your finance or operations lead, then we do the heavy lifting.
Is sustainability work really worth it for a small business?
Increasingly, yes — and the trigger is rarely the climate itself. It's a procurement questionnaire, a tender that asks for a carbon number, a lender wanting ESG data. SMEs that have the work done win contracts they'd otherwise have lost.
Do we have to commit to a long contract?
No. Project work is one-off, fixed-fee and ends at delivery. Retainer advisory is rolling month-to-month — cancel any month-end with no penalty.
What's the discovery call actually like?
30 minutes, no pressure. We'll ask what's prompting you to look at sustainability now, what data you have, and what outcome you need. Then we'll tell you honestly whether we can help and roughly what it costs.
Contact
Let's see if we're a good fit.
Book a free 30-minute discovery call, or send us a message.
Two ways to start.
Discovery call gives you immediate clarity. The form is here if you'd rather write something first.
Email
jamie@greenlaneadvisory.co.uk
LinkedIn
/company/greenlane-advisory
Response
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Sustainability that earns its place on your balance sheet.
Thirty minutes to find out whether the numbers work for your business.
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