B Impact

How companies interact with our standards

  • Why is it important?

    Everyone at B Lab should understand our work, regardless of role. Going through B Impact will give you a better perspective of what companies experience when they engage with our tools, processes, and standards.

  • What is B Impact?

    B Impact is a digital tool that can help measure, manage, and improve positive impact performance for environment, communities, customers, suppliers, employees, and shareholders.

  • How does it work?

    B Impact evaluates a company's social, environmental, and governance practices. To achieve certification, companies must meet performance requirements across seven Impact Topic areas. These requirements are tailored by size, sector, and industry.

Get Ready

Be prepared to take the assessment as if you were a company applying for certification. You will answer questions from the perspective of that company.

  • Think about a company you know well or make one up; it helps to pick a small company.

  • It is recommended that you spend 45-60 min. on this activity.

  • Don't plan to finish. Pick the areas you are most interested in to see what kind of questions are asked.

  • You can jump around to different sections and answer questions in any order.

Take the B Impact

Before you begin:


Next, get started!

  • Here's the link to B Impact using our staging site. This is where we do our testing before we make changes to our public site so feel free to play around; your data won't be kept long-term.  
  • Use your B Lab email to access the site.
  • Look for the section about the new standards and click the Start Now button.
  • The staging site may be unavailable for certain periods while new features are tested.  If you can't access the site, don't worry - just try the link later.  

B Lab's New Standards

After your experience, learn about B Lab's new standards by taking the Essential Series.

Essential Series