Sustainability Magazine May 2026 | Page 115

SALEH ELHATTAB
AI IN SUSTAINABILITY an agent can handle effectively doubles every seven months, and that’ s showing up directly in what we build.
The question for sustainability teams isn’ t whether to use AI for a specific task – it’ s how to delegate progressively larger workflows to agents that can process data, do complex analysis, and produce outputs that used to require a full team. That’ s the direction we’ re building toward, and it’ s moving faster than most people expect.
Q. HOW DO YOU SEE AUTOMATION CHANGING THE DAY-TO-DAY REALITY FOR THE MANY SUSTAINABILITY TEAMS STILL RELYING ON SPREADSHEETS AND PDFS?

» Saleh: The spreadsheet and PDF situation is really a symptom of a bigger problem. Teams are spending most of their time collecting data instead of doing anything with it.

When you automate ingestion, you don’ t just save hours; you fundamentally change

SALEH ELHATTAB

TITLE: CO-FOUNDER AND CEO COMPANY: GRAVITY
Saleh leads enterprise carbon and energy management innovation. Formerly at Salesforce IoT and Samsara, he scaled global tech teams and flagship products.