Built inside a UK manufacturer. For UK manufacturers.

Why this exists.

Every year the same thing happens at manufacturing and engineering companies across the UK. Someone — usually in finance, operations, or compliance — receives 200 to 300 rows of travel data from across the business. It arrives in their inbox as a spreadsheet. Sometimes as several spreadsheets. Sometimes as email chains.

They spend two weeks manually looking up DEFRA factors, estimating distances, running calculations in Excel, and producing a number that goes into the annual SECR report or a PPN 06/21 Carbon Reduction Plan. The number is as accurate as the person doing it. The methodology is as defensible as their notes in a column labelled "workings".

I watched this happen during my placement at a major UK manufacturer. The security and admin team were logging travel in a spreadsheet. Nobody was sure who was responsible for the DEFRA calculations. The person who did it last year had left.

That is not an edge case. That is standard operating procedure for most companies in this size bracket. And when SECR reporting is a legal requirement and PPN 06/21 compliance is the difference between winning or losing a government contract — "we did our best with a spreadsheet" is not a defensible position.

CarbonTrack fixes this. Employees log trips as they happen. The platform does the DEFRA calculation, stores the formula permanently, and generates the compliance document when you need it. The Finance Director signs a document they can actually defend.