Vizibli at Reset Connect North: turning sustainability from a burden into a business advantage

Royal Armouries, Leeds

Earlier this month, Vizibli made its debut at Reset Connect North — and it's fair to say the conversations we had confirmed everything we already believed about the scale of the opportunity in front of us.

Held on 3–4 March 2026 at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, Reset Connect North brought together leaders, investors and innovators from across the UK's green economy.

With KPMG as headline sponsor, the event was a serious gathering of people who understand that sustainability is no longer a nice-to-have — it's a commercial imperative. The energy in the room reflected that. These were people looking for practical solutions, not theoretical frameworks. Which made it the perfect place for Vizibli to be.

Why Reset Connect North matters

Reset Connect North has established itself as the leading sustainability event for the north of England — a region that punches well above its weight in manufacturing, construction, healthcare and supply chain industries. These are precisely the sectors where sustainability requirements are hitting hardest and fastest.

For Vizibli, it was a chance to meet the SMEs, advisors and consultants who are living this challenge every day — the businesses being asked by their largest customers to submit carbon data, the accountants fielding ESG questions they weren't trained for, the consultants trying to serve more clients with the same number of hours. The conversations were honest, the problems were real, and the appetite for a better solution was clear.

A powerful partnership: Vizibli and Ltt Group

Vizibli exhibited at Reset Connect North in partnership with Ltt Group — and it's a partnership that makes complete sense.

Ltt Group is a specialist sustainability consultancy focused on helping corporates get their supply chains compliant so they can hit their net zero targets. Their team brings over 20 years of combined experience across carbon accounting, tender support, certifications and net zero strategy. They work across construction, healthcare, pharma, manufacturing and automotive — the sectors where ESG requirements are most demanding and where the consequences of falling behind are most acute.

At the event, Ltt Group's team presented their offering as "A specialist sustainability team when you need one. Not a full-time hire you can't justify", positioning Vizibli as their exclusive technology partner and demonstrating how the combination of Vizibli's AI platform and Ltt's expert consultancy delivers something neither could offer alone: the speed and scale of software, with the judgement and experience of specialists who have been doing this work for two decades.

Ltt's Founder and MD, Jon Wragg was a key speaker at Reset Connect and explained that Vizibli can help with carbon tracking from a purchase ledger - delivering Scope 3 reporting in hours, not weeks. He also highlighted that Vizibli reduces manual spreadsheet-heavy reporting.

That's exactly what Vizibli does — and seeing it articulated by a trusted partner in front of a room full of potential customers was a strong moment for us.

What Vizibli does for SMEs

The core problem for SMEs right now is a mismatch between what they're being asked to do and the tools available to help them do it. Customers up the supply chain are demanding carbon data. Lenders are factoring ESG performance into credit decisions. The Public Procurement Act means that sustainability is now a core criterion in public sector tenders — and non-compliant suppliers face automatic exclusion.

This isn't a future risk. It's happening now.

Yet most SMEs are trying to respond to these demands using spreadsheets, estimates and goodwill. It's slow, error-prone and ultimately unsatisfying for everyone involved — including the customers asking the questions.

Vizibli solves this by connecting to the operational data a business already holds — invoices, purchase ledgers, utility records, logistics data — and converting it into accurate, real-time carbon insight. No manual data entry. No specialist knowledge required. The platform handles the complexity so business owners don't have to.

1. Win more business

Convert more proposals by responding to ESG questions with verified data, not estimates.

2. Protect margins

Real-time identification of cost and carbon savings — the same actions improve both.

3. Stay compliant

Automatically generate reports that meet legislative and customer requirements.

For the SME owner who has been putting sustainability in the "too hard" pile, Vizibli makes it manageable. For the one who has already started but is drowning in spreadsheets, it's a way out. And for the business that sees sustainability as a genuine commercial opportunity — a way to win tenders, retain customers and demonstrate they're a serious long-term supplier — Vizibli is the platform that makes that ambition operational.

What Vizibli does for accountants, consultants and advisors

The sustainability challenge for SMEs doesn't just create a problem for those businesses — it creates a significant opportunity for the advisors who serve them. Accountants, management consultants and business advisors are increasingly being asked sustainability questions by clients who trust them. Most don't yet have a structured way to answer those questions, let alone a platform to do it efficiently at scale.

Vizibli changes the economics of sustainability advisory entirely. Instead of managing each client through a bespoke, manually intensive process — gathering data by email, running calculations in spreadsheets, producing reports one at a time — advisors can manage their entire client portfolio in a single platform. The data collection that used to take weeks takes hours. The reporting that took days takes minutes.

That last point is particularly important. Sustainability isn't a one-off project — it's an ongoing programme of measurement, improvement and reporting. Businesses that commit to it need support every year, not just once. For advisors, this creates a natural recurring revenue stream from clients who are already engaged, already trust you, and have a genuine long-term need for the service.

Vizibli makes delivering that service efficient enough to be genuinely profitable.

The Virtual Impact Team: expert sustainability support on demand

One of the most compelling conversations at Reset Connect North was around a question we hear constantly: what do SMEs do when they need expert advice but can't justify a full-time sustainability hire?

It's a genuine dilemma.

77% of UK SME manufacturers receive ESG requirements from customers, yet 52% lack the resources to meet them — and only a fraction receive meaningful support.

The sustainability work itself comes in waves: some weeks there's a tender to respond to, an accreditation to renew, or a customer asking difficult questions. Other weeks, things are quieter. Hiring a full-time specialist for work that fluctuates this much is hard to justify. Engaging a traditional consultant at day rates that can reach £700–£1,200 is often unaffordable.

The Virtual Impact Team (VIT) solves this neatly. VIT works like solicitors do — you put hours in the bank, and the team is on call 24/7. You can call for an hour or use the full ten. A highly trained team with 20+ years combined experience, ready when you need them. At £1,300 for a ten-hour bank, it's a fraction of the cost of a traditional consulting engagement — and infinitely more flexible than a full-time hire.

The practical use cases are exactly the situations SMEs find themselves in: a tender lands on Friday that requires a carbon reduction plan. A customer asks an awkward ESG question the sales team can't answer. A marketing team wants to make a sustainability claim and needs it reviewed before it goes out. A Scope 3 carbon footprint needs updating. You call, they handle it.

VIT compared to the alternatives:

When combined with Vizibli's platform — which handles the data collection, carbon calculation and reporting — the VIT model becomes even more powerful. The platform does the systematic, repeatable work. The VIT team handles the judgement calls, the difficult questions, and the strategic challenges that require human expertise. Together, they give SMEs something that was previously out of reach: a complete sustainability capability, available on demand, at a cost that makes sense.

The bigger picture

Reset Connect North was a reminder of how much momentum is building in this space — and how much of the market is still underserved. The large corporates have sustainability teams, software budgets and external advisors. Their SME suppliers, who make up the vast majority of the UK economy, mostly don't. And yet those SMEs are increasingly being held to the same standards.

The Vizibli and Ltt Group partnership is a direct response to that gap. Practical technology. Expert human support. Flexible, affordable access. No requirement to hire a full-time team or engage an expensive consultancy on a long retainer.

We left Leeds energised. The problem is real, the demand is growing, and the solution is ready. If you're an SME trying to navigate this landscape, or an advisor looking to build a sustainability practice that actually scales, we'd love to talk.