From obligation to impact - total visibility
CSR leaders manage crores of funds, multiple NGO partners, and a Board that wants answers, while staying Section 135 compliant. Light makes it easy. Utilization tracking, KPI progress, partner management, and Intuitive dashboards, one place, always ready.
15 Days
Go Live
Entities, obligations, projects, and partners configured and live in days
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Complete Traceability
Track every rupee from CSR obligation through disbursement to ground-level utilisation
Sec. 135
Compliance Built-In
Multi-entity, multi-year tracking built natively for India’s CSR regulatory framework
zero
Spreadsheets
Replace every budget sheet, utilisation tracker, and email updates with live reports
THE PROBLEM
Your work is
meaningful.
Your tools should
match it.
Most CSR teams are managing multi-crore portfolios across several NGO partners, multiple legal entities, and 3–5 financial years, all through a tangle of spreadsheets, email chains, and quarterly scrambles for data. Every board presentation takes a week to build. Every utilisation submission is a chase. Every financial year-end surfaces the same unspent fund panic.
It isn’t a bandwidth problem. It’s a system problem. And the consequence is real: funds go untracked, compliance gaps appear, and the actual impact your portfolio creates goes unrecognised.
Light is the system that was always missing.
Utilisation Report — Q3 FY24.xlsx
Modified by 4 people. Version 11 of 11. Numbers don't reconcile.
Re: Re: Re: Utilisation Certificates Pending
3 NGO partners yet to submit. Board review is in 4 days.
Board Deck — Draft 8 (Final Final v2).pptx
Schedule VII activity-wise breakdowns still need manual update.
Unspent CSR: Transfer Deadline in 6 Days
Cannot reconcile FY 22-23 unspent across three legal entities.
Light replaces all of this.
One platform. Single source of truth.
Our Services
Built for the complexity
of Indian CSR
Purpose-Built
Designed for CSR teams,
not IT teams
No training manuals needed
Light is structured around how CSR programmes actually work, budgets by financial year, disbursements by obligation, KPI actuals by quarter. Every screen maps to a workflow your team already knows. New members are productive within hours.
Regulation-Native
Section 135 compliant, without the effort
Multi-entity. Multi-year. Zero spreadsheets.
India’s CSR law introduced multi-year unspent fund tracking across legal entities, a compliance requirement most platforms still can’t handle. Light was built from the ground up for exactly this. Obligation tracking, unspent calculations, and activity-wise reporting are all built in.
Board-Ready
Your impact story, always ready to tell
No last-minute deck scrambles
Power BI dashboards embedded directly in Light give you real-time financial summaries, project-wise KPI progress, and activity-wise Schedule VII breakdowns — interactive, filterable, and ready to present the moment your board walks in.
CAPABILITES
The full lifecycle of
CSR management.
From setting up your annual CSR obligation to approving quarterly KPI data submitted by your NGO partners — Light covers every step of how corporate CSR actually operates in India.
Annual Action Plan & CSR Obligation
Set up legal entities, enter your Schedule VII obligation, and track unspent amounts across financial years. Light handles multi-entity structures and automatically carries forward unspent balances — exactly as the 2021 CSR law requires.
Fund Allocation & Budget Management
Allocate funds from specific obligation years and entities to projects, manage detailed budgets with draft and published states, and track the complete flow — allocated → disbursed → utilised — in real time. No over-allocation possible; the system validates every entry.
Project & Partner Management
Create projects mapped to thematic areas, SDGs, and geographies. Onboard NGO partners, manage documents, and maintain a complete record of every programme your organisation funds — organised, searchable, and always current.
KPI & Impact
Tracking
Track both qualitative and quantitative impact with KPI targets, disaggregation, and real-time progress updates from NGO partners. Capture stories of change, testimonials, and ground images alongside measurable outcomes. Store MOUs, compliance documents, FUCs, reports, and project files in one searchable repository.
Power BI Dashboards
Interactive dashboards give leadership real-time visibility into budgets, utilisation, and KPI progress across projects, partners, financial years, and SDGs. Built on Microsoft Power BI, a platform used globally by 97% of Fortune 500 companies.
Workflows, Tasks & Notifications
Automate follow-ups for utilisation submissions, approvals, KPI reviews, and compliance checks through structured workflows and task assignments. Multi-level approvals, notifications, and audit trails help ensure accountability, data integrity, and nothing slipping through the cracks.
SEE LIGHT IN ACTION
This is what it looks like when your CSR portfolio runs itself.
Every screen in Light maps to a workflow your team runs today, manually. Here’s what it looks like when the system handles it.
PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW
Your entire mandate. One screen.
Light is structured around how CSR programmes actually work, budgets by financial year, disbursements by obligation, KPI actuals by quarter. Every screen maps to a workflow your team already knows. New members are productive within hours.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Every rupee. From obligation
to ground.
Track the full financial journey, what’s been allocated from each obligation year, what’s been disbursed to each NGO, and what’s been utilised on the ground, by project, by entity, by financial year. Hover any bar in the dashboard and the number is right there. No formula. No pivot table.
CSR OBLIGATION & COMPLIANCE
Section 135 compliance.
Always current.
For organisations with multiple legal entities, tracking unspent CSR funds across financial years is a compliance obligation that most platforms can’t handle. Light does it natively. Your CSR obligation, unspent amounts, and utilisation progress, broken down by entity and financial year, calculated automatically and always audit-ready.
TASKS & APPROVALS
No follow-ups. No missed
deadlines.
Every action that needs to happen, submitting Q1 utilisation, approving KPI actuals, publishing a budget, becomes a task in Light, assigned to the right person, with daily email reminders until it’s done. Your NGO partners know what to submit. Your finance approvers know what’s waiting. And you can see exactly where things stand without sending a single follow-up email.
SEE LIGHT IN ACTION
This is what it looks like when your CSR portfolio runs itself.
Every screen in Light maps to a workflow your team runs today — manually. Here’s what it looks like when the system handles it.
PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW
Your entire mandate. One screen.
Light is structured around how CSR programmes actually work — budgets by financial year, disbursements by obligation, KPI actuals by quarter. Every screen maps to a workflow your team already knows. New members are productive within hours.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Every rupee. From obligation
to ground.
Track the full financial journey — what’s been allocated from each obligation year, what’s been disbursed to each NGO, and what’s been utilised on the ground — by project, by entity, by financial year. Hover any bar in the dashboard and the number is right there. No formula. No pivot table.
CSR OBLIGATION & COMPLIANCE
Schedule VII compliance.
Always current.
For organisations with multiple legal entities, tracking unspent CSR funds across financial years is a compliance obligation that most platforms can’t handle. Light does it natively. Your CSR obligation, unspent amounts, and utilisation progress — broken down by entity and financial year — calculated automatically and always audit-ready.
TASKS & APPROVALS
No follow-ups. No missed
deadlines.
Every action that needs to happen — submitting Q1 utilisation, approving KPI actuals, publishing a budget — becomes a task in Light, assigned to the right person, with daily email reminders until it’s done. Your NGO partners know what to submit. Your finance approvers know what’s waiting. And you can see exactly where things stand without sending a single follow-up email.
ONBOARDING
From demo to fully live, in days not months
No months-long implementations. No IT dependency. No data migration consultants. We’ve built Light’s onboarding to match its simplicity, your first project is live and trackable within days of your first call.
Discovery Call
We map your mandate, legal entities, obligation years, project structure, NGO partners, and the financial year you want to start tracking from.
Platform Configuration
We set up your entities, CSR obligation values, annual action plan, and project hierarchy. Your fund allocation structure is configured and validated.
NGO Partner Onboarding
Your implementation partners are added to the platform with the right roles, submission access for NGOs, approval rights for your team.
Data Migration & KPI Setup
Existing budgets, historical allocations, and project KPIs are migrated into Light. Dashboards are connected and validated against your data.
You're Live
Your team logs in. Partners start submitting. Dashboards are live. The spreadsheets are retired for good.
TECHNOLOGY
Enterprise-grade.
India CSR-native.
Light is built on Microsoft’s enterprise technology stack, which means it carries the security, reliability, and scalability that large corporates require. And it’s the only platform in this space built from scratch for India’s CSR regulatory framework.
- Microsoft Authentication (SSO)
- Power BI Embedded Dashboards
- Role-Based Access Control
- Full Audit Trail
- SOC 2 Compliant Infrastructure
Microsoft SSO
Log in with your existing Microsoft credentials. No new passwords. No separate identity management. Works with your corporate IT setup from day one.
Power BI Embedded
Industry-leading dashboards embedded directly in Light. Real-time, interactive, and filterable — your CSR data visualised at a standard your board will notice.
Role-Based Access
Precise access control by role — CSR team, NGO partner, finance approver. Each user sees exactly what they need and nothing they shouldn't.
Complete Audit Trail
Every fund allocation, approval, and data submission is logged with timestamps and user identity. Your auditors and CSR committee will have everything they need.
TRUSTED BY
Trusted by CSR teams
across India
Your CSR portfolio deserves
better than a spreadsheet.
Light is built on Microsoft’s enterprise technology stack — which means it carries the security, reliability, and scalability that large corporates require. And it’s the only platform in this space built from scratch for India’s CSR regulatory framework.
30 minutes. See your own mandate — entities, projects, and obligations — come to life in Light.
Your CSR portfolio deserves
better than a spreadsheet.
Light is built on Microsoft’s enterprise technology stack — which means it carries the security, reliability, and scalability that large corporates require. And it’s the only platform in this space built from scratch for India’s CSR regulatory framework.
30 minutes. See your own mandate — entities, projects, and obligations — come to life in Light.
