Physical safety review · SMEs & mid-caps
What holds your business together is not in your balance sheet.
Noria measures the physical safety of your business, what comes in, what you produce, what goes out, from your supply and energy invoices. A first filter in ten minutes, not a six-month audit.
27 equally weighted indicators · 3 pillars · simple, accessible data · no data published
Illustrative simulation, using the data of one real anonymised company.
Noria in 3 minutes
What the compass measures, how to read it, and what it changes for your business, in three minutes.
Where do you start?
Four situations, four ways of using Noria. Pick yours: you will land directly on what concerns you.
Three pillars, a single reading
Every company runs the same process: take in resources, turn them into value, produce consequences. Noria measures the safety of those three moments, and translates each figure into a risk rather than leaving it as a raw number.
Circularity
Recycling, supply, fluidity. The financial weight of what comes in, its tension, where it comes from, and how much material is already available locally, in short, how much confidence you can place in your inputs.
Profitability
Margin, recurrence, revenue. Not growth to be optimised, but your ability to absorb a shock: margin level, how your revenue is spread, and how sensitive it is to a changing climate.
Externality
End of life, impacts, emissions. The more the mill puts back into the river, the more likely it is to jam its own wheel: pollution produced, how repairable what you sell is, and nuisance that could reach your reputation.
We are the compass, you are the captain. The rule that holds all the others: Noria does not decide your course.
You upload your invoices
Supply invoices and energy invoices: that is what the platform consumes. No dedicated data collection, no consultant to commission.
Most indicators follow from them
Materials, energy, carbon intensity, sector benchmarks: Noria works them out from those invoices. For the rest, a guided assistant asks you the questions, one at a time.
You decide
You build transition scenarios and compare them. No hidden weighting: all 27 indicators carry the same weight, and the action paths are readable.
What the platform does for you
- Access to your compasses, organisation by organisation
- Transition scenarios built as decision support
- Comparison with similar compasses, anonymised
- Sharing with your teams and your suppliers
- Confidential management of multiple clients, for advisory firms
Connection to your management tools and introductions to specialists: currently in development.
They already use it to decide
Three real situations, anonymised. What changed were the decisions, not the scores.
Aluminium joinery
Moving beyond carbon compliance to find new outlets by reusing material that used to be treated as waste.
Decision: a new reuse channel for offcuts Read the case Digital services · SME · ParisWeb & 3D design studio
Cutting running costs and exposure to planned obsolescence by training the team to get more out of their machines.
Decision: a staggered hardware renewal plan Read the case Hospitality · micro-business · BrittanyCountry restaurant
Working with local producers and making better use of the premises outside service hours.
Decision: a second use for the venue Read the caseThe three case studies are written in French: browse the use cases.
What Noria is, and what it is not
| Noria | Audit | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Ten minutes to two hours of input | Two to six months |
| Data | Your supply and energy invoices | Dedicated collection exercise |
| Output | 27 equally weighted indicators, action paths | A detailed report |
| Use | Continuous steering, compared scenarios | A one-off exercise |
| What it is not | No label, no compliance, no bank recognition | May aim at regulatory compliance |
Noria is a first filter, not an audit. It tells you where to look; it does not replace regulatory expertise where that is required.
See the documents to gather, and where to find them
When to commission an audit, and on what: our reading of the figures
A subscription, not a project
No one is too small to benefit from all our features. Solo and Firm are the same offer: you only pay for the spaces you use, to share compasses with your teams or clients in full confidentiality.
€49 / month
For small structures: business owners, independents.
- Access to your compass
- Transition scenarios
- Anonymised comparison
- Confidential spaces: teams and clients
- Role management
- Introductions to specialists
€300 / month
For firms and networks.
- Access to your compass
- Transition scenarios
- Anonymised comparison
- Confidential spaces: teams and clients
- Role management
- Introductions to specialists
Tailored
Unlimited offer, large accounts
- Unlimited organisations
- White labelling available
- SSO setup
- API connection
- Tailored services catalogue
Each space lets you create 10 compasses, to prevent malicious use. If you need more, send us a message.
Transition players: privileged access until the end of 2026 by joining our testing programmes.
What we are asked most
Is this an audit, or a compliance exercise?
Neither, and we will never claim otherwise. Noria is a first physical-safety filter: it points out where your business is fragile so you can decide what to look at next. No label, no bank or regulatory recognition is issued.
I have no environmental data. Does that block me?
No. We start from your invoices, supply and energy. They feed most of the 27 indicators; for the rest, a guided assistant asks you the questions, one at a time. Nothing environmental to produce in order to begin.
My data is sensitive.
Your compasses remain yours and are not published. Comparisons between companies are anonymised, and organisations let you ring-fence each client. Sharing with your teams or suppliers stays under your control.
We already have a carbon partner.
That is complementary. Carbon covers part of what goes out, whereas Noria also looks at what comes in and what you produce. A well-executed carbon assessment can hide a critical supplier dependency.
Why do you say physical safety rather than sustainability?
Because the word sustainability now serves as an alibi for a great deal of talk. What we measure is more concrete and less comfortable: what could stop your business from continuing. We call that physical safety, and we stick to it.
What if I disagree with the result?
That is expected: we do not sit in judgement on a company. Noria is a compass, not a pilot. The transition scenarios exist precisely so you can test your own decisions, including the ones that contradict the first reading.
Ten minutes to strengthen your resilience.
You leave with your three pillars, your weak points and one action path, whether or not you continue with us. Ten minutes for a sole trader, up to two hours for a larger SME.
Next step
Run Noria on your own figures
We build your first compass with you in one session. You leave with your three pillars, your points of fragility and one action path.
No data is published. The compasses remain yours.