GETTING READY TO MEET THE NEW STANDARDS
Transitioning to the new standards starts with understanding what’s required for your company. Whether you’re already certified or pursuing certification for the first time, now is the time to familiarize yourself with the updated requirements.
B Lab’s new standards are here—and we’re ready to raise the bar, together. Meeting these standards starts with understanding what’s expected of your company. Whether you’re already certified or pursuing B Corp Certification for the first time, now’s the time to get familiar with the updated requirements. Taking proactive steps today will set you up for success tomorrow—and we’ve built a tool to help you get started.
Log into B Impact—a simpler way to measure and manage your company’s impact across key social, environmental, and governance areas in B Lab’s new standards. This project management tool helps you plan your transition, stay organized, and keep your B Corp journey on track.
Start with your personalized homepage: assess your company’s strengths and weaknesses, get real-time progress updates, and access resources to help you improve. Recertifying? No worries—your existing company details will carry over, so you can dive straight into your current assessment or revisit past ones to see how far you’ve come.
Head to ‘Self Assessment > Requirements’ to explore the new standards as they apply to your specific company context and understand your company's Year 0 requirements —your starting point under the new system.
In the new standards, every business will be required to demonstrate improvement year over year with initial requirements set for Year 0 with further requirements after 3 and 5 years. Learn how companies will gradually adopt the new standards here. You can also download the requirements in their entirety (Year 0, 3 and 5 as they apply to all companies) here.
If your company has previously certified or created a B Impact Assessment account for Version 6 of the standards, the Year 0 requirements shown in B Impact are likely to be determined by this data. This means that before you verify on the new standards, your requirements may need to be updated to reflect any recent changes at your company. A company's applicable requirements will also be determined by the company scope. Based on valuable feedback from companies, B Lab continues to refine scoping, determining exactly which subsidiaries, sites, and entities fall within a company's B Corp certification. B Lab will be in touch with further updates about what this means for your company later in 2025.
Once you’ve reviewed the standards, start your self assessment. For each sub-requirement, you’ll indicate your company’s current status: do you already meet it, or is improvement needed? Your responses will feed into a dashboard that shows your biggest gaps, how many requirements you meet, and where to focus next.
Completing the self-assessment isn’t the final step in certification. It’s a tool to help you identify gaps and manage your impact. When it’s time for verification, you may be asked to provide additional documentation. B Lab will share more details on this soon.
As companies begin self assessments and verification processes are established, we’ll continue refining our standards and processes based on what we learn. We’ll give you plenty of notice before any major updates take effect, and any new versions of the standards will be clearly indicated.
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With certification on the new standards beginning in 2026, now’s the time to rise to the challenge and get started. Explore the new standards in B Impact as they apply to your business, or download the standards in full.