Use cases · Due diligence

Know what you're buying. Before the data room closes.

Transaction timelines leave little room to read decades of environmental files. Statvis reads every document in the data room, lays out the site's key events, areas of concern and exceedances with citations, and answers your diligence questions from the full record.

The deal has a date. The files don't care.

Environmental liability is often the least understood line in an acquisition or divestiture, because the evidence is spread across thousands of pages nobody on the deal team wrote.

Too many files, too little time. A data room can hold decades of assessments, monitoring reports and regulator letters for every asset in the package.
Sampling the record misses things. Reading the latest Phase I and skimming the rest is how an old release, an unclosed order or a missing certificate slips through.
Inconsistent files. Different owners, consultants and naming conventions make it hard to tell what's there and what's missing.
Findings that can't be traced. A diligence memo that says "historical impacts" without the page behind it is hard to price and harder to negotiate on.

What the deal team gets, from the files already in the room.

Key events, dated and cited

Releases, investigations, remedial work and regulator correspondence on one timeline, each cited to its page.

Site history →

Data room questions answered

Ask about open orders, past spills or missing certificates and get answers from the full record, cited to the passage.

Research →

APECs and receptors

Every area of potential environmental concern found in the reports and drawn on the map, with distances to surface water and water wells.

Site assessment →

Exceedances by location

Historical lab results turned into data and screened against the guideline for their depth, media and land use.

Guideline screening →

Public registry records

Certificates and other records from public registries, matched against the site's own identifiers and sorted for review.

Registry records →

Every asset ranked

For a package of sites, a ranking built from each site's own record shows where the liability concentrates.

Portfolio ranking →

See it on a data room.

The site's history on one timeline.

Statvis reads every document and places each event on the date it happened. Filter to a tank, an incident or a period of ownership and see what the record says, with the sources attached.

Ask the question the buyer will ask.

Was the 1990s release ever closed? Is there an outstanding order? Statvis searches every page in the room, not a sample, and answers with the passage boxed on its page. Where reports disagree, it shows both.

Every area of concern, on the map.

Statvis finds each APEC mentioned across the reports, cites where it was described, and helps you outline it on the site, so the areas that drive liability are visible at a glance.

A package of sites, ranked.

When a deal includes many sites, each one is scored from its own record, so the team can see where the liability sits and spend diligence time on the sites that need it.

A breakdown behind every score
Gaps in the record flagged, not hidden
Re-run when documents or guidelines change

Where Statvis fits in Phase I and Phase II work.

Environmental due diligence usually rests on a Phase I environmental site assessment, followed by a Phase II where sampling is needed. A large part of a Phase I is reviewing records. That is the part Statvis speeds up.

Canada

CSA Z768 and Z769

CSA Z768-01 sets out principles and practices for Phase I assessments. CAN/CSA-Z769-00 covers Phase II, designing and carrying out sampling and reporting the results, and is intended as a follow-up to Z768.

Source: CSA Group standard listings.

United States

All Appropriate Inquiries

The EPA's All Appropriate Inquiries rule recognizes ASTM E1527-21 for Phase I assessments. The inquiry includes reviewing government and historical records, a site reconnaissance, and interviews with past and present owners, operators and occupants.

Source: U.S. EPA, Brownfields All Appropriate Inquiries.

Statvis supports the evidence behind a diligence finding. It does not replace the site visit, the interviews or the judgement of the qualified professional who signs the assessment, and it does not provide legal advice. The summaries above are general information, not regulatory or legal advice.

Case study · Records program · a multinational energy company

78,000 documents, named to one standard.

Inconsistent file names make it hard to see what a site's record holds and what's missing. Statvis renamed every document in the portfolio to a corporate naming standard, reading each one rather than guessing from its old name.

13%

fewer naming errors than people, in a blind test

300

sites in the portfolio

Read the case study →