Question 1

What can I do without an account?

Accepted Answer

You can scope a project and prepare impact, stakeholder, evidence and action registers without an account. Guest drafts recover on this browser for 30 days when device storage is available. Sign-in enables private account autosave and versioned Word, PDF and CSV reports. Working drafts are separate from report revisions.

Question 2

Does Salient One certify IFC compliance or ISO conformity?

Accepted Answer

No. Salient One provides original prompts structured around the IFC Performance Standards (2012) and links to public guidance. It does not certify compliance, establish IFC endorsement or replace a specialist assessment. ISO 31000 and ISO 26000 provide guidance; ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management-system certification requires independent assessment.

Question 3

How are IFC categories A, B and C recorded?

Accepted Answer

A named assessor records a provisional category with a date, rationale and unresolved gaps. Salient One does not assign a category automatically. Undetermined remains available, and gaps remain visible even for category C. Financial-intermediary portfolio categorisation is outside this workflow.

Question 4

Is livelihood loss covered when nobody needs to move?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Economic displacement is assessed separately from physical displacement. Scoping includes changes in income, access to livelihoods and informal land or resource use, including impacts on people without formal title.

Question 5

Can country indicators prove project impacts?

Accepted Answer

No. Country and sourcing observations provide regional context for investigation. Project impacts require site-specific evidence, consultation and appropriate specialist studies. Missing evidence remains unknown; low evidence confidence does not reduce impact severity.

Question 6

How does the responsible business conduct review help?

Accepted Answer

It connects the project registers to six areas of OECD due diligence: policy, impact assessment, prevention, tracking, communication and remedy. Record actual or potential harm, whether the business causes, contributes to or is directly linked to it, and the evidence for that judgement. Salient One highlights missing information and response prompts; it does not verify implementation, determine legal responsibility or assess full OECD alignment.

Question 7

Can AI assistants use the scoping tool?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The public reference JSON provides versioned questions, IFC mappings and source links. The OpenAPI description documents the anonymous POST scoping endpoint, input schema, response meanings and rate limits. It returns scoping guidance and qualified regional context; it does not save a project, assign a category or expose private assessments.

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