Smart Support, Real Impact
From your first call to final results, our approach keeps things strategic and sustainable.
How We Integrate with Your Needs
We keep it simple, strategic, and aligned with your business goals. Here’s how we get started:
Discover
Book a quick call with our Partnership Lead. We’ll identify where you need support and which of our pillars—Navigate, Implement, or Leverage—are the best fit.
Define
We’ll determine the right engagement model: On Point (project-based support) or In Parallel (ongoing partnership).
Align
You get a flexible agreement that matches our value to your budget—no bloated retainers, no surprises.
Deliver
Then we get to work. With flexibility, grit, and deep expertise, we’ll help turn your sustainability investment into real business results.
Expert Sustainability Support—Without Adding Headcount
Sustainability stretches across every part of your organization—but most teams are under-resourced and overwhelmed. Whether you're a party of one or wearing sustainability as yet another hat, Parallel gives you immediate, integrated support.
With hundreds of years of experience across our team, in various positions in the industry, we have the personal experience and understanding of what it means to execute a successful sustainability program, team and department.
Think of us as your fractional team: strategists, doers, communicators, and connectors who already speak your language and understand your goals. We offer the horsepower of a full internal team—without the ramp-up time, recruiter fees, or overhead.
One person can’t do it all. Not when sustainability touches every function—from product and supply chain to marketing and compliance. Our fractional model gives you on-demand capacity to scale up fast, avoid burnout, and keep progress moving—whether you need 10 hours a week or a full-scale push to meet deadlines. We're here for the long haul, providing innumerous organizations redundancy and institutional knowledge as internal teammates evolve.
Our team has helped shape the very frameworks and standards we guide clients through. From leading ILFI LP 50 efforts as well as staffing USGBC to accelerate the LEED v4.1 material credits to founding, staffing and accelerating mindful MATERIALS and co-creating the Common Materials Framework—we’ve been in the rooms where the decisions are made, all with the vision to ensure the systems are in place to ensure impact reduction can be rewarded through ROI. We know how to bridge strategy and execution, and we bring that depth to every engagement.
We come with a built-in network across the entire built environment. Whether it’s certifiers, specifiers, A&D, technology providers, owners, contractors, or fellow change-makers—you get access to the relationships, platforms, and insight it takes to move faster and make smarter decisions. We know the players, we know the tools, and we know how to get it done, and can put you in the right place at the right time to enhance your network overnight.
We Don’t Just Work in the Industry—We Work With It
We believe radical collaboration drives impact. That’s why we partner with organizations leading the charge in sustainable materials and market transformation.
Acelab
Acelab is the next-gen platform empowering A&D firms and owners to seamlessly research, select and document material decisions. Together, we’re advancing manufacturer sustainability programs (Parallel) to scale specification opportunities and accelerate ROI (Acelab).
Bergmeyer
Bergmeyer and Parallel are transforming the way brands align consumer-facing experiences to their sustainability goals. Sustainability isn’t just a checkbox—it’s an interdependent ecosystem, in which your “spaces” play an outsized role. Our work together ensures that every space authentically reflects your brand’s sustainability goals and action.
BuildingEase
Parallel and BuildingEase are partnering to accelerate sustainable action across the built environment by combining strategic sustainability support (Parallel) with advanced digital data management, workflow specification, and procurement tools (BuildingEase). Together, we aim to create a more integrated and accessible path for manufacturers to navigate the growing digital data landscape, meet evolving market demands, and more easily connect sustainability investment to return on investment.
Brightworks
Brightworks x Parallel brings together two consulting firms with complementary expertise across the built environment value chain. Together, we scale vertically integrated materials strategies—from supporting Owners and A&D teams (Brightworks) to accelerating manufacturers’ sustainability efforts and market impact (Parallel). It’s a partnership built to drive holistic, actionable change up and down the value chain.
Green Commons
Green Commons is an outgrowth of BuildingGreen, Inc.—the company that has provided trusted guidance and information to the North American building industry since 1992. Green Commons houses the Peer Networks and bespoke consulting services that were formerly part of BuildingGreen. Parallel and Green Commons can collaborate to facilitate any meeting, workshop, or major industry initiative. Our common goal is to accelerate market alignment to scale a sustainable, equitable future.
Metropolis
Metropolis is a leading media voice and consultant in the interior design industry. Metropolis x Parallel combines accelerated marketing, messaging and campaign programs from Metropolis alongside Parallel’s end-to-end sustainability strategy, implementation and leveraging chops, we can help any manufacturer successfully execute and expand brand awareness & ROI opportunity in collaboration.
PROWL Studio
PROWL x Parallel supports manufacturers ready to embed sustainability into every layer of their business—through product design, internal systems, and impact-driven storytelling. Together, we help you turn strategic intentions into tangible, scalable results that resonate in the market and drive long-term growth.
True North Collective
TNC is a leading provider & expert of life cycle assessment (and all associated like PCR development, EPDs, Embodied Carbon Optimization, etc.). Parallel and TNC have partnered to provide seamless execution of the life cycle assessment process through a subcontracting model.