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Created in 2010, Greenspector is a French pioneer in responsible digital technology. Greenspector responds to the ecological challenges of digital technology and provides solutions to make digital companies more sober, ecological, inclusive and efficient.

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from the beginning to now

2010

Creation of Kaliterre

Creation of Kaliterre, ancestor of Greenspector

2015

Kaliterre becomes Greenspector

Kaliterre gives way to Greenspector

2016

Greenspector raises €300,000

Greenspector succeeds in raising €300,000 to develop its activity

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Reward won

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2024

Greenspector Studio released

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Our values

Aware of requiring efforts from everyone to change the world, we are committed to respecting the following values in our daily activities and beyond our products:

Innovation

Greenspector has placed at the heart of its challenge on digital sobriety the ambition to measure digital services as accurately as possible and to develop robust, reliable methodologies with scientific rigor.

Team spirit

Beyond the expertise developed by each person in their profession, the strength of the collective is important, enabling mutual assistance, motivation and the collective enrichment of knowledge within Greenspector.

Know-how

Our expertise in eco-design and energy efficiency of digital applications allows us to innovate to help our customers reduce their carbon footprint and optimize their products. We firmly believe in a sustainable digital future thanks to our know-how.

How does Greenspector
contribute to the common good?

This question is legitimate, how does Greenspector contribute to the common good?
See for yourself the actions we undertake.

Helping to reduce the impact of our customers

At Greenspector, our mission is to help our customers reduce the environmental impact of their digital services. We work on this every day, in a way that offsets our own impacts. To anchor this approach, we have included this in our statutes and are a mission-driven company.

Raising awareness of the impact of digital technology

Reducing the impact of digital technology requires awareness among all stakeholders in the sector. Raising awareness among as many stakeholders as possible also helps to accelerate the movement.

To do this, we regularly participate in interventions in schools or as part of meetups, conferences or Brown Bag Lunches, to present the subject to all digital profiles (PO, designer, etc.).

We are particularly keen to raise awareness among future stakeholders through courses in schools. This is why, several years ago, we co-founded one of the first eco-design competitions, the Green Code Lab Challenge, which was aimed primarily at students in higher education schools.

We have also chosen to raise awareness through articles on our blog and working groups or associations such as the Green Code Lab and the Green Lab Center.

Improving industry methodologies

We also participate in the common good by sharing part of our R&D.
Through this action, we want to improve the maturity of the sector and professionalize the field of measurement.

Our sharing is also done by integrating different actors in the reflections on our methodology.

To do this, we are part of the AFNOR working group, the group of experts on the eco-design of digital services of ISO/IEC, we also publish our methodology for more transparency.

We carry out public studies, in particular benchmarks of solutions or measurement of applications. Thus, we highlight the emission factors of certain uses.
Example 1: The impact of our uses in videoconferencing
Example 2: The impact of one hour of Netflix viewing

Identify and disseminate good sobriety practices

Measuring our clients’ applications and websites leads us to identify and recommend best practices. We contribute to and use existing reference documents (GR491, RGESN, 115 good web ecodesign practices, Designers Ethiques). In addition, our experience (particularly through measurement) allows us to support these recommendations with concrete feedback, or even to explore new avenues. We of course share them with our customers and integrate them into our benchmarks, our awareness campaigns and our blog articles.

Provide a measuring tool for some special structures

We can make the tool available for certain special structures (non-profit associations or certain scientific projects (VU Amsterdam)) In this context, we have the strategy of providing more limited but free versions of the tool. This is the aim, among others, of our tool Mobile Efficiency Index.

Rethinking corporate governance and its place in the common good

All these contributions to the common good are made in a context of reflection and action to improve the company’s place in the common good: financial and strategic transparency towards employees, integration into the shareholding… The company as a private common good.

Participate in external publications

Each employee is allocated time every week to monitor or participate in external projects related to Greenspector’s missions.

This is how we were able to contribute to the Web Almanac 2022 with the introduction of the Sustainability chapter.

We also participate in a W3C working group aimed at producing recommendations on digital sobriety applied to the web.

What about opening the source code?

When Greenspector was created, we made the choice not to open our source code. As an innovative publisher, our source code is the result of several years of R&D. With the talents that make up our teams, it is our main asset. Its valorization through our license sales allows us to finance all the actions mentioned above and this for all these years. Without this, our activity would be neither sustainable nor viable, our contribution to the common good would therefore be much more limited. Software whose code is not open-source is not “proprietary” in itself, it is the way in which it is used and managed that will lead to a deprivation of rights and a non-participation in the common good.Our positioning is not the only one existing, however, we believe that the diversity of approaches will help to resolve the current environmental problem.There are indeed many ways to participate in the common good, we try to work on it, in a concrete, transparent way, every day and we are proud of our approach and its results.

Our 100% committed team

Our team is 100% committed and dedicated to meeting your needs

Their opinion of Greenspector Studio

With Greenspector Studio we measure the energy efficiency of our application, used by 7 million customers every month, after each Build. This enables us to reduce our carbon footprint, improve our performance and strengthen our brand image.

François LANKAR

Applications Manager, Bouygues Telecom

Working on sobriety clearly makes for a better performing application.

Julien AZRIA

Digital Front Chapter Leader, Crédit Agricole Technologie & Services

With Greenspector Studio, testers can guide developers by identifying regressions or undesirable effects of a modification.

Florence GUERLAIS

Manager, Test & QA Center of Expertise, Air France