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name: disclosure-and-assurance-readiness
description: "Draft the sustainability disclosure with its evidence trail, build the data controls, assess readiness for the target assurance level (limited vs reasonable), run a gap assessment against what an assurer will test, strip greenwashing, and prepare the auditor-liaison pack."
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# Disclosure & Assurance Readiness

## Know the assurance level first
Limited assurance (negative-form conclusion, lower evidence depth, analytics + inquiry-weighted) and reasonable assurance (positive-form, substantive testing, controls reliance) demand different work. Fix the target before drafting so the evidence trail is built to the right bar, not retrofitted.

## Draft against the cited clauses
Draft narrative and quantitative disclosures against the specific framework requirements the architect fixed (ESRS / IFRS S1·S2 / GRI / SEC). Each material disclosure names the clause it satisfies.

## Design the evidence trail in
Per figure: activity data, emission factor (source + vintage), method, and preparer/reviewer sign-off — authored alongside the number, not after. A figure with no trail is a finding by construction.

## Build testable data controls
Completeness, accuracy, cutoff, and the consolidation control — each evidenced, because an assurer tests the control and the number. A control asserted with nothing behind it is decorative.

## Strip greenwashing
Map each sustainability claim ("carbon neutral", "net zero aligned", "X% reduction") to its substantiation reference. Report gross emissions and offsets separately — an offset booked as a reduction is a misstatement. Flag a cherry-picked boundary. A claim the evidence can't carry is removed or rewritten.

## Gap assessment & auditor liaison
Map each material disclosure to the evidence a limited- vs reasonable-assurance engagement will request; rank gaps by exposure; sequence remediation. Prepare the auditor-liaison pack: the evidence index, the methodology memo, and the management assertions.

## Output
A drafted disclosure with its evidence trail, the data controls, a readiness/gap assessment to the target assurance level, a claim-substantiation review, and the auditor-liaison pack. The audit opinion belongs to the assurance provider; the filing's legal sufficiency to `regulatory-compliance` / counsel — name that seam.