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ESGAUGE Insight

Benchmark Corporate Disclosure with Precision

Real-time, auditable data across governance, compensation, sustainability, and shareholder activity.

Insight codes what public companies actually disclose — proxy statements, annual reports, sustainability reports, N-PX filings — into structured fields you can screen, compare and cite. Every value carries a link back to the document it came from.

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§ 01

What the platform does

Four capabilities, framed for the way legal and advisory teams actually work: benchmark, monitor, screen, and prove.

Identify gaps

Pinpoint disclosure weaknesses against peers and market benchmarks, field by field.

Track trends

Monitor emerging governance and ESG practices as they move across industries.

Accelerate analysis

Replace manual document review with structured data and screening tools.

Verify sources

Direct links to SEC filings, reports and company documents, for full auditability.

§ 02

Two exhibits

How a benchmarking question is answered on the platform — and how the answer is sourced. Both exhibits use illustrative values.

Figure 1

Board gender diversity, 2020–2024

Share of board seats held by women. A subject company set against its industry peer group and the Russell 3000 average.

  • Subject company
  • Industry peer group
  • Russell 3000 average
Line chart: board gender diversity, 2020 to 2024 Illustrative values. The subject company rises from 19.5 per cent of board seats held by women in 2020 to 34.0 per cent in 2024, overtaking both its industry peer group, which reaches 30.6 per cent, and the Russell 3000 average, which reaches 26.4 per cent. Full values are given in the table view beneath the chart. 2020 — Subject company 19.5%, Industry peer group 23.5%, Russell 3000 21.0% 2021 — Subject company 23.9%, Industry peer group 25.1%, Russell 3000 22.3% 2022 — Subject company 27.6%, Industry peer group 26.6%, Russell 3000 23.6% 2023 — Subject company 30.8%, Industry peer group 28.4%, Russell 3000 25.0% 2024 — Subject company 34.0%, Industry peer group 30.6%, Russell 3000 26.4%
Table view — Figure 1 values
Share of board seats held by women, per cent. Illustrative values.
Year Subject company Industry peer group Russell 3000
202019.5%23.5%21.0%
202123.9%25.1%22.3%
202227.6%26.6%23.6%
202330.8%28.4%25.0%
202434.0%30.6%26.4%

Note. Illustrative values, shown to demonstrate the three-way benchmark view — subject company, named peer group, and index universe — on a single measure. Not published research findings. Vertical axis begins at 18%, not zero.

Table 1

Selected coded fields, FY2024

A benchmarking cut assembled from fields across three libraries. The right-hand column is what makes the row defensible.

Numeric rows show the peer and index median; yes/no rows show prevalence across the group. Illustrative values.
Field Library Subject company Industry peer group Russell 3000 Source document
Board size 01 · I 11109 DEF 14A · Board Organization
Standing committees 01 · I 443 DEF 14A · Board Organization
Women on board 01 · III 34.0%30.6%26.4% DEF 14A · Board Composition
Independent directors 01 · III 82%85%84% DEF 14A · Board Composition
Average director tenure 01 · III 6.4 yrs7.8 yrs8.1 yrs DEF 14A · Board Composition
Proxy access adopted 01 · V Yes — 201961% of peers21% of index Amended bylaws · exhibit
Proxy access ownership terms 01 · V 3% held 3 yrs3% held 3 yrs3% held 3 yrs Amended bylaws · exhibit
Poison pill in force 01 · VII No4% of peers5% of index Rights agreement · exhibit
Total CEO compensation 03 · I $14.8M$12.9M$6.1M DEF 14A · Summary Comp. Table
CEO pay ratio 03 · VII 186:1214:1118:1 DEF 14A · Pay Ratio disclosure
Say-on-pay approval 03 · VIII 93.4%91.2%90.1% 8-K · Item 5.07
Scope 1 emissions disclosed 07 · II Yes74% of peers41% of index Sustainability report · 2024
Scope 3 emissions disclosed 07 · II Partial38% of peers17% of index Sustainability report · 2024

Note. Illustrative values, assembled to show how fields from separate libraries combine into one benchmarking view, and how each row carries its source. On the platform, every value in a row like this links through to the filing it was coded from.

§ 03

Nine data libraries

Structured, auditable disclosure data across governance, compensation, sustainability, and shareholder activity. Each library preserves its full chapter and section structure.

  1. 01

    Board Composition and Corporate Governance

    Organization, leadership, composition, elections, and anti-takeover policy.

    Eight parts
  2. 02

    Director Compensation

    Pay elements, equity, ownership, limits, and deferred compensation.

    Six parts
  3. 03

    CEO and Executive Compensation

    CEO and NEO pay, incentive design, pay versus performance, say-on-pay.

    Eight parts
  4. 04

    IPO Compensation and Stock Plan Design

    Equity dilution, ESPP, executive pay, and pre/post-IPO board compensation.

    Six parts
  5. 05

    Executive Employment Termination & CIC Provisions

    Termination terms, cash severance, and treatment of equity awards.

    Three parts
  6. 06

    CEO and Executive Demographics and Succession

    Succession rates, CEO profiles, departing and incoming CEOs, placement.

    Five parts
  7. 07

    Corporate Environmental Disclosures

    Climate, emissions, energy, waste, water, biodiversity, and assurance.

    Ten parts
  8. 08

    Human Capital Management (HCM) and Social Disclosures

    Diversity, pay equity, health & safety, ethics, labor, and giving.

    Ten parts
  9. 09

    Shareholder Voting and Activism

    Shareholder and management proposals, say-on-pay, proxy contests, N-PX.

    Eight parts

§ 04

Coverage universe

Thousands of companies across seven index universes and three geographies, available as ready-made peer sets.

Benchmark a company against a named peer group and against a broad market index in the same view, without assembling either by hand.

  • Russell 3000United States
  • S&P 500United States
  • S&P MidCap 400United States
  • S&P SmallCap 600United States
  • S&P/TSX CompositeCanada
  • FTSE 350United Kingdom
  • S&P Europe 350Europe
On depth Coverage is field-level, not headline-level. Available detail includes board size and committee structure, director tenure and independence, proxy access terms, poison-pill triggers, say-on-pay approval rates, CEO pay ratio, and Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
On silence In the environmental and human-capital libraries, most metrics are paired with a matching disclosure-rate field — so what a company has not reported is coded too, and can be benchmarked like anything else.

§ 05

Trusted data, verifiable insights

The point of a benchmark is that it survives being questioned. Three things make a figure from Insight defensible in front of a board or a client.

Provenance

Primary sources only

Data is sourced directly from company filings and reports — SEC filings, company reports, and other company documents.

Auditability

Citation-linked disclosures

Every coded value carries a direct link to the document it was taken from, so any figure can be traced back and defended line by line.

Currency

Updated continuously

The dataset is updated continuously as new filings are released, so a benchmark reflects the current proxy season rather than last year's snapshot.

§ 06 — Access

Complimentary trial access is available for legal teams.

Request access and tell us which practice area you work in. Insight is a hosted platform — nothing to install, and every figure in it links back to the filing it came from.

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Libraries
Nine data libraries
Universes
Seven indices, three regions