ABOUT US
How does Fimmer work?
Fimmer ranks companies with a focus on sustainability practices that affect companies, communities, and markets. Every story and signal is scored for significance, sentiment, and ESG impact, then rolled into an impact score that updates as coverage changes.
Each news cluster carries five scores. Significance sits on a 0–10 scale. Sentiment and the three ESG pillars sit on a −10 to +10 scale, where negative is adverse, positive is favorable, and 0 is neutral.
- Significance: how large the real-world effect is, regardless of tone.
- Sentiment: the net tone of the development for the company.
- Environment: emissions, pollution, resources, biodiversity, climate, and environmental compliance.
- Social Score: workers, customers, communities, safety, rights, privacy, and access.
- Governance: oversight, ethics, transparency, controls, fraud, legal exposure, and shareholder rights.
We then factor in these scores to produce impact scores. Impact scores are not a simple average of every headline. Each related story is weighted by its significance, so larger events move the needle more. Older coverage fades with a time decay, so recent material news matters more than stale noise.
From there we combine the pieces:
- Sustainability: blends Environment, Social, and Governance scores.
- Impact Score: blends Sentiment and Sustainability scores.
SIGNIFICANCE
How significance is determined
Significance measures scale and reach, not how dramatic the headline sounds. Emotional language alone does not raise the score: only demonstrated consequences do.
We weigh five factors:
- People and assets: who or what is affected, and by how much;
- Geographic scope: local, national, cross-border, or systemic;
- Duration: how lasting or reversible the effects are;
- Legal force: whether binding regulatory or court action is involved;
- Knock-on risk: financial or systemic spillover beyond the company itself.
In practice, the distribution usually looks like this:
- Below 2: routine or isolated issues with little material consequence.
- 2–5: documented external impact or meaningful institutional consequences.
- 5–8: major multi-stakeholder, national, or sector-wide effects.
- 8+: cross-border, multi-sector, or generation-defining impact. These are rare by design.
OBJECTIVITY
Isn't significance subjective?
We separate significance from personal relevance. News that matters to one investor or one employee can still be insignificant at company or market scale.
Significance asks a narrower question: given the facts in the article, how large is the demonstrated effect? Speculative or future claims move scores only modestly. Confirmed present effects carry more weight.
ESG SCORES
Why score ESG at all?
Market news often collapses everything into “good for the stock” or “bad for the stock.” That loses the texture of what actually changed: a labor dispute, a pollution fine, and a governance failure can share similar sentiment while pointing at very different risks.
Scoring Environment, Social, and Governance separately makes those differences visible, and keeps the impact score from treating every negative headline as the same kind of problem.
OUR VALUES
What matters to us
- Signal over volume: A quiet day should stay quiet. We rank stories by material impact so your feed and company scores reflect what changed, not what got the most clicks.
- Context over headlines: One story rarely tells the full picture. We cluster related coverage and score the development as a whole, so you see what actually changed.
- Important news stays free: Essential coverage should not sit behind a paywall. Core stories, links, and scores stay accessible so anyone can follow what changed, not only those who can pay for a feed.
- Independent by design: No ads, no sponsored placements, no pay-to-rank coverage. Your watchlist is a research tool, not someone else's distribution channel.
- Privacy isn't optional: Your saved articles, watchlist, and account data belong to you. We collect only what's needed to run the product, and we will never sell it.
OUR STORY
The story of Fimmer
We created Fimmer because big companies make decisions that affect billions of people, and too often their sustainability practices stay hidden behind generic headlines. We built a platform to bring that coverage into focus: scoring every story for significance, sentiment, and ESG impact so you can see the effects of actions in real time.
Our mission is to make the sustainability performance of public companies visible, comparable, and accessible. Whether it is a labor dispute, a pollution fine, or a governance milestone, we want that signal to stand out instead of disappearing in market noise.
We are independent and bootstrapped, based in Sydney, Australia. No investors, no board meetings, and no incentive to bury important stories under sponsored content. We build what we want to use ourselves, and we ship based on what our users tell us they need.
If you have any suggestions for improvement or have an idea that we have not thought of yet, you can contact us at contact@fimmer.com. We would love to hear from you.
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Company news, sentiment, and sustainability ratings for public companies.
Meet Fimmer, the easiest way to follow company news, sentiment, and sustainability ratings that rank what actually matters.
Fimmer is a platform built to surface the sustainability practices of public companies that too often disappear behind generic market headlines. It scores every news story for significance, sentiment, and ESG impact, then combines those signals into a live view of what changed, who it affects, and how material it is.
The result is a searchable record of company news, climate and environmental events, labor and community issues, governance milestones, and financial exposure - ranked and clustered so signals don't get lost in the noise. Investors, analysts, journalists, and teams use Fimmer to track public companies and follow crucial developments.
Founded in 2026 in Sydney, Australia, Fimmer is a small, independent, bootstrapped company. The company is completely self-funded and there are no sponsored placements, and no incentive to prioritize one story over another. Fimmer is designed to be a research tool, and most features remain free so key coverage is accessible to anyone who needs it.
