Now Assist for Operational Sustainability (formerly ESG)

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Now Assist for Operational Sustainability (formerly ESG)

    The Now Assist for Operational Sustainability application empowers sustainability teams with Generative AI capabilities to automate data collection and ensure accurate, auditable reporting at an enterprise level. This application is designed to streamline sustainability efforts and improve operational efficiency.

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    Key Features

    • Generative AI Integration: Leverage AI-powered skills to automate the extraction of operational sustainability metrics from utility bill documents.
    • Agentic AI Workflows: Utilize agents within workflows or as standalone agents to achieve specific automated outcomes.
    • Administrative Configuration: Admins can configure the application to allow users to access generative AI skills in the Operational Sustainability Workspace.
    • Data Processing and Collection: Data is transferred to a centralized ServiceNow environment for processing, adhering to internal policies. Customers can opt out of data collection if desired.

    Key Outcomes

    By implementing Now Assist for Operational Sustainability, customers can expect improved accuracy in data collection, enhanced reporting capabilities, and streamlined operational processes, all while ensuring compliance with ServiceNow’s AI Acceptable Use Policy. Users are encouraged to evaluate AI outputs critically and maintain oversight during decision-making, particularly in sensitive areas.

    Use the Now Assist for Operational Sustainability application to empower your sustainability teams with Generative AI-powered capabilities to automate and streamline data collection, and confirm accurate, auditable reporting at enterprise scale.

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    AI limitations

    This application uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, which are rapidly evolving fields of study that generate predictions based on patterns in data. As a result, this application may not always produce accurate, complete, or appropriate information. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that this application has been fully trained or tested for your use case. To mitigate these issues, it is your responsibility to test and evaluate your use of this application for accuracy, harm, and appropriateness for your use case, employ human oversight of output, and refrain from relying solely on AI-generated outputs for decision-making purposes. This is especially important if you choose to deploy this application in areas with consequential impacts such as healthcare, finance, legal, employment, security, or infrastructure. You agree to abide by ServiceNow’s AI Acceptable Use Policy, which may be updated by ServiceNow.

    Data processing

    This application requires data to be transferred from ServiceNow customers' individual instances to a centralized ServiceNow environment, which may be located in a different data center region from the one where your instance is, and potentially to a third-party cloud provider, such as Microsoft Azure. This data is handled per ServiceNow's internal policies and procedures, including our policies available through our CORE Compliance Portal.

    Data collection

    ServiceNow collects and uses the inputs, outputs, and edits to outputs of this application to develop and improve ServiceNow technologies including ServiceNow models and AI products. In addition, this application will collect incident data (for Incident Assist and Knowledge Assist) and chat transcripts (for Chat Assist). Customers can opt out of future data collection at any time, as described in the Now Assist Opt-Out page.

    For more information, see the Now Assist documentation.