Finance-led. AI-augmented. Independent of the audit firms.
We are not a Big 4 sustainability practice. We are not a software vendor. We are not an ESG consultancy. We are a finance-led transformation business that uses agentic AI to deliver compliance outcomes.
Built by a CFO who has sat in the seat.
AASB S2 is a financial reporting standard. The disclosures sit in the same annual report as the financial statements. They are signed by the same directors. They are audited by the same firm. They are reviewed by the same regulator. Treating climate disclosure as a sustainability project — and not as a finance and governance project — is the single most common reason first reports fail assurance. Paula Kensington was a CFO before she advised them. Every regulatory judgement call, every board paper, every auditor conversation in an Authentyx engagement is led by someone who has held the pen.
Paula Kensington
Co-CEO, Authentyx
Award-winning former CFO. Advisor to CFOs and audit committees across ASX-listed, government-owned, and large private organisations. TCFD-aligned disclosure preparation across Australian and New Zealand reporters before AASB S2 was mandatory.
"AASB S2 compliance your CFO can defend to ASIC."
Big 4-quality output. Mid-market timelines. AWS Sydney.
The Authentyx AI platform — hosted on AWS Sydney, built around our proprietary diagnostic and scoring engine — generates the first 80% of every engagement. The advisor team provides the regulatory judgement, the defensibility assessment, and the auditor relationship.
The standing to advise on assurer selection — including the choice not to default to your Big 4 incumbent.
Authentyx has no audit-firm affiliation. We do not bid for assurance engagements. We do not have a commercial interest in any particular assurer. That independence is what gives us the standing to advise on assurer selection, brief the chosen firm at the start of Phase 2, and manage the assurer relationship across the engagement. Where a client wants to move away from the Big 4 for climate assurance — as several already have — we have a network of ASSA 5000-ready mid-tier and specialist firms ready to engage.
Our standard engagement begins with introducing your auditor to our methodology, not introducing you to our auditor.
We steer. We train. We review. We unblock. The client team carries the work forward.
The most common consulting failure pattern in climate compliance is the consultant who writes the report and walks away with no transfer of capability. By Year 2 the client is back at the start. We are not set up that way. Phase 2 is built around the steering consultant model paired with mandated climate training, sized to your team. By Year 2 your finance team is leading the work, with Authentyx as the adviser, not the other way around.
Authentyx delivers, client team observes and learns alongside.
Client team co-delivers. Authentyx steers, reviews, unblocks.
Client team owns the work. Authentyx is the trusted advisor for the regulatory-judgement calls and the auditor relationship.
A 30-minute conversation with someone who has sat in the CFO's chair.
Paula Kensington leads every executive briefing. The call is a regulatory reality check, not a sales pitch. You leave with a clear understanding of your obligations, your exposure, and what your first 60 days should look like. If we are not a fit, she will tell you that too.
Or email paula@futurevalue.global directly.