As 2026 kicks off, I want to take a moment to reflect on the year we’ve just closed. 2025 was an important year for SESAMm, marked by both significant milestones and quieter, foundational progress. We launched new AI-powered reports, welcomed major clients, expanded our coverage, and saw our technology move deeper into real decision-making workflows.
None of this would have been possible without the trust and engagement of our clients, partners, advisors, and team. Your willingness to challenge us, work with us, and build alongside us continues to shape what SESAMm becomes.
Below, I’ve shared a few moments from 2025 that helped move us forward, along with what we’re looking ahead to in 2026.
Growing Through Strong Partnerships
In practice, SESAMm’s data is used in very different ways. It supports large-scale monitoring across thousands of suppliers and assets, while also enabling in-depth analysis of individual companies and local markets.
In 2025, collaborations with organizations such as Sayari, BNP Paribas, Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes, ENGIE, Clarity AI, and Inrate reinforced something we have believed from the beginning: understanding risk today requires data that is both scalable and usable within real decision-making workflows.
More importantly, these partnerships reflect the confidence placed in the quality of SESAMm’s data and its breadth of use. In one case, a financial institution used supplier monitoring to identify early signals of forced labor risk in a supply chain that had previously passed traditional audits. That insight did not replace existing processes, but it changed the questions being asked and the actions that followed.
Welcoming New Advisors
We were also proud to welcome Guy Gresham and Magnus Billing as advisors this year. Their experience, perspective, and intellectual rigor have already challenged us in the best possible way.
As we continue to build SESAMm for the long term, their guidance helps ensure that our technology remains both ambitious and grounded in how risk is actually understood, assessed, and managed in the real world. In a market that is evolving quickly and sometimes unpredictably, that discipline matters.
From AI Promises to AI in Practice
AI dominated conversations again this year. What changed in 2025 was less the technology itself, and more how our clients engage with it.
Initially, the question was whether AI could reliably identify risks. Today, that question has been answered and the conversation has shifted. Clients are asking which risks are most important, which require action, and how to prioritize limited time and resources.
At SESAMm, this translated into concrete product evolution, all with the same objective: supporting both large-scale monitoring and deeper, decision-level analysis. We launched and expanded AI-powered reports, introduced UN Global Compact violation screenings, and significantly increased the number of companies and infrastructure projects we cover globally.
AI is no longer treated as an experimental layer. Our clients are using it as a core component for identifying and tracking risks over time. The question they now face is not whether AI can surface risk, but how to decide which signals deserve attention.
ESG Is Changing, Whether We Like the Term or Not
AI The ESG landscape itself is going through a transformation. Regulatory pressure is uneven. In some regions, expectations are tightening while in others, frameworks are being diluted or politicized. At the same time, the term “ESG” is itself losing ground; it means too much and therefore explains too little.
That has not changed, however, is the nature of the underlying risks. Human rights, forced labor, biodiversity loss, governance failures, and reputational exposure are becoming increasingly visible and material to investors, companies, and regulators alike. The conversation is shifting from broad labels to specific facts, with greater attention paid to the events and the evidence that inform both scores and decisions. This shift from labels to evidence is where SESAMm’s approach is particularly relevant.
Looking Forward
As we move further into 2026, our focus remains clear. We will continue to invest in signal quality over noise, depth over surface-level insight, and tools that help our clients act, not just observe. We will keep expanding coverage where risk is hardest to see, particularly in private markets, and will continue to develop cutting-edge AI agents to support client workflows.
The question for 2026 is not simply how much risk data organizations have, but how effectively they interpret and prioritize it in practice.
Above all, we remain committed to building technology that supports our customers and partners with clear, reliable insight into risk, grounded in reality as it is.
Thank you again to our clients, partners, advisors, and team for your trust and engagement over the past year. We look forward to continuing this journey together!
Wishing you a wonderful and successful year ahead,
Sylvain Forté
CEO, SESAMm
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