Driving Global Sustainability Transformation Through Support, Expertise, and Trust
At SMS Collaborative (SMSC), we drive sustainability transformation by building trust, ensuring transparency, and delivering expertise. Through our integrated consulting and independent verification services, we empower businesses to navigate complexity with confidence, credibility, and lasting impact.
Founded by Annie Bevan in 2017, SMSC serves as the parent organization of Parallel Sustainability and Verico.
Parallel
Parallel isn’t just another sustainability consulting firm. It’s a philosophy that, as a team, side by side, we can take on our toughest shared challenges. Parallel delivers business-tailored and industry-wide solutions to accelerate sustainability in the built environment and life sciences industries. Through a unique, integrated staffing model ramping up company sustainability capacity overnight and building groundbreaking new services and standards in partnership with aligned changemakers, Parallel is here to break the mold — so we can all shape a better future, together.
Verico
Verico is a third-party auditing, verifying, and certifying body (AVCB) dedicated to ensuring trust, transparency, and accountability in sustainability certifications. Verico provides independent, rigorous verification of claims to in compliance with various sustainability standards, helping businesses and manufacturers eliminate misinformation, build credibility, and mitigate risk associated with their sustainability and environmental claims. Verico’s operation depends upon independence and integrity, as well as on the impartiality and competence of its auditing teams. Verico operates in compliance with ISO/IEC 17065 standard requirements. At Vercio, accuracy meets accountability as we ensure that what’s claimed is achieved.