From Promise to Proof: Compliance‑Grade Indigenous Impact Disclosure
Pehta turns Indigenous impact reporting into defensible disclosure. Built on canonical accounting and payroll records, structured under the Pehta Framework (Indigenous Community Benefit Disclosure Standard), and designed to withstand rights‑holder, client, and institutional scrutiny.
Credible by standard. Defensible by evidence. Governed by Indigenous rights‑holders. Security controls aligned to SOC 2 Type I (via our underlying platform), with role‑based access and full audit trails.
The Pehta Project Statement is the standardized disclosure format for project‑based Indigenous impact.
Built on the Pehta Framework — the Indigenous Community Benefit Disclosure Standard governed at arm’s length by the Pehta Foundation.
Produced from canonical source records (ERP/accounting/payroll), not secondary spreadsheets.
Structured to preserve community attribution while enabling roll‑ups across tiers, vendors, and time.
Includes methodology, definitions, and controls so stakeholders can understand how the numbers were produced — and stand behind them.
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Discover Pehta Integrity
Pehta Integrity is the data, evidence, and governance layer that operationalizes the Pehta Framework across your full supply chain. It standardizes how participants submit data, validates it before aggregation, and produces audit‑ready project statements without losing community context.
Standardized submissions across every contractor and tier (one method, one format, one control set).
Built‑in validation and reconciliation to catch issues at the source, before they become reporting risk.
Contiguous supply chain visibility (Direct / Tier 1 vs Indirect / Tier 2+) to prevent “missing tier” reporting.
Observer access for authorized funders, owner‑reps, and oversight partners — aggregated and controlled, not raw vendor records.
Compliance grade disclosure, shaped by Indigenous governance
A Pehta Statement is not a marketing report. It is a controlled disclosure artifact designed to support contractual, regulatory, and institutional review of Indigenous outcomes.
When you publish a Pehta Statement, it means:
Your metrics are standardized under a rights‑holder‑defined disclosure standard (the Pehta Framework), governed independently of corporate preferences.
Your outcomes are produced from canonical source records — and remain traceable through roll‑ups to their origin.
Indigenous employment identity data is handled using consent‑based approaches aligned to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), with clear options to withdraw consent.
Indigenous procurement is disclosed with evidentiary differentiation (e.g., certification‑based, community‑owned, relationship‑based, self‑declared) so stakeholders can understand the strength of the claim.
Community benefits are attributed to the communities where impact occurs, then aggregated without erasing that community anchor.
The disclosure includes methodology, definitions, validation controls, and audit trails — so your organization can stand behind it when it matters.
If you need Indigenous impact disclosure that is credible to Nations and decision‑useful to institutional stakeholders, this is the path.
Are you prepared to stand behind your Indigenous impact disclosures — with evidence and governance?
Create an account in the Pehta Portal to start standardized submissions and generate audit‑ready statements. Here
Projects
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Kehewin Cree Nation Water Line Project
Option Excavating
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Beaver First Nation Boyer River Reservoir
Dechant Construction Ltd.
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Wolf Midstream WRF2 Site Civil Earthwork
Shott Earthworks Inc.
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River Cree Resort Expansion
EllisDon
Why Pehta - and why now?
Indigenous impact reporting is increasingly treated as a compliance function: it informs procurement decisions, project approvals, benefit agreement governance, investor scrutiny, and reputational risk. But most Indigenous impact reports are not comparable, not traceable to source systems, and not built to withstand review.
That gap creates real risk:
inconsistent definitions across projects and vendors
unverifiable claims and “reporting-by-story”
privacy exposure when identity data is handled ad hoc
inability to compare outcomes across time, projects, and proponents
loss of credibility with rights‑holders and institutional stakeholders
Pehta changes the operating model. We don’t ask you to “report better.” We give you a standardized disclosure standard (the Pehta Framework), a controlled data pipeline (Pehta Integrity), and an audit‑ready disclosure artifact (the Pehta Project Statement). The result is less friction, less interpretation risk, and disclosures that can be relied on when the stakes are high.
Pehta Framework Principles
Governance & Evidence
The Pehta Framework is a disclosure standard — not a set of optional metrics. It defines categories, minimum disclosure expectations, and the evidentiary differentiation needed to make Indigenous impact data credible and comparable. The Pehta Foundation stewards this standard at arm’s length, so disclosure expectations are set by rights‑holders, not by individual corporate preferences.
Employment
Employment disclosure must reflect both scale and quality of opportunity. The Pehta Framework prioritizes wages paid, hours, and headcount, attributed to Indigenous communities and disclosed in context of total payroll — so the outcomes are legible to rights‑holders and decision‑makers.
Because identity data is sensitive, the Framework emphasizes consent-based collection aligned to FPIC, privacy, and the ability to withdraw consent. This strengthens integrity while reducing privacy and reputational risk.
Procurement
Procurement disclosure must distinguish between the strength of Indigenous business claims. The Pehta Framework requires clear categorization (e.g., certified, community‑owned, relationship‑based, self‑declared) and transparency about certifying/validating bodies where applicable.
Disclosures preserve vendor lineage and supply chain tiering (Direct / Tier 1 vs Indirect / Tier 2+), so procurement outcomes cannot be inflated by obscuring tiers or losing traceability.
Community Benefits
Community benefits must be disclosed as outcomes attributed to the communities where impact occurs. The Framework supports reporting of both financial and non-financial contributions (e.g., services, training investments, in‑kind support), structured to be comparable across projects and periods.
Disclosure expectations emphasize clarity of category, description, and community attribution — so benefits can be governed, not just announced.
Indirect Impact
Indirect impacts are disclosed to prevent “missing-tier” reporting. The Framework separates direct and indirect outcomes and makes downstream contributions visible, enabling stakeholders to understand how value flows through the supply chain and where Indigenous participation is actually occurring.
Learn more about the Pehta Framework (Indigenous Community Benefit Disclosure Standard) and its governance at the Pehta Foundation.: Link