Acembee
Acembee is a Danish AI platform for construction sites that turns invoices, delivery notes and weighing slips into LCA A4 and A5 documentation, tracking CO₂ and site energy in real time for contractors, advisors and property developers.
What is Acembee?
Acembee is an AI-powered web platform for construction sites, published by Acembee ApS in Copenhagen and described in its own structured data as a Copenhagen-based ConTech company. Its scope is deliberately narrow: modules A4 (transport of materials to the site) and A5 (construction-site activities) of a building's life-cycle assessment — the part of the footprint that happens at the delivery gate rather than in the factory behind it.
The driver is Danish regulation. From 1 July 2025, every new building must document the climate impact of transport and site activities, and the site quotes a threshold of 1.5 kg CO₂-eq./m²/year for A4 plus A5. In practice that documentation sits scattered between mailboxes and shared folders, spread across several tools and formats, exposed to missing or wrong figures, and expensive in hours lost to admin and chasing.
Acembee attacks the problem at the intake. The AI reads invoices, delivery notes, weighing slips and technical data sheets, pulls out quantities, suppliers, transport, energy and waste, then attaches each item to the right project. Emissions are calculated from the quantities and the transport type using emission factors the publisher keeps updated. Real-time dashboards break consumption down by electricity, fuel, transport, heating and waste, month by month; early warnings fire when a limit value looks likely to be exceeded, and the platform marks what is complete and ready to export. The output is a submission-ready report for the building regulations, plus a ZIP holding a CSV of everything and a folder of the underlying documents sorted by date and type.
Five assistants share that same data set: an energy-saving tool, the A4 + A5 LCA reporting assistant, a DGNB documentation assistant, an ESG Scope 3 reporting assistant and an EU Taxonomy compliance assistant. Three audiences are named explicitly — contractors (entreprenører), advisors (rådgivere) and developers.
The product traces back to a plain observation: a crane lighting an apartment day and night. The first tool switched lights and heating off through sensors and cut energy waste by 40 %. The publisher is just as direct about the limits of the current one: the positioning is human in the loop, responsibility stays with the project parties, and the platform supplies structure and transparency rather than a transfer of liability. Delivery is web-only, with two login hosts exposed, app.acembee.com and hive.acembee.com.
What it does
- Take in site paperwork by email to a project-specific address, by photo upload, or through an API, an ERP system or sensors.
- Read invoices, delivery notes, weighing slips and technical data sheets, and extract quantities, suppliers, transport, energy and waste.
- Match every incoming document to the right project without manual filing.
- Calculate CO₂ emissions from the quantities and the transport type, using emission factors kept up to date.
- Show live consumption split by electricity, waste, fuel, heating and transport.
- Raise early warnings when a limit value is on course to be exceeded.
- Export a submission-ready A4 + A5 report, plus a ZIP holding a CSV of all project data and the underlying documents sorted by date and type.
When to use Acembee / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Acembee is the right fit.
When to use Acembee
- Contractors on Danish new-build sites subject to the BR18 building regulations, where documenting modules A4 and A5 is mandatory for new builds from 1 July 2025.
- Advisors and auditors who need every assumption, default value and CO₂ figure to stay traceable back to the source document.
- Developers and asset owners running several projects at once and wanting a consolidated portfolio view without stepping into day-to-day execution.
- Project teams pursuing a DGNB certification during the construction phase, or an EU Taxonomy alignment where the financing terms depend on it.
- Site teams buried in mixed-format paperwork — late delivery notes, photographed invoices, weighing slips — and looking to cut out-of-hours electricity use in cabins and tool containers.
When not to use Acembee
- Teams that need a full cradle-to-grave life-cycle assessment: the published scope is A4 and A5 only, leaving modules A1-A3 (material production) and B/C out.
- Anyone expecting to sign up and get started alone — there is no self-service registration, and every route into the product runs through a sales demo.
- Buyers who need a published price before a first call: no rate card, no price range and no stated free tier exist anywhere on the site.
- Development teams wanting to build on a documented public API — integration is claimed as a data-entry route, but no API documentation is published.
- Field crews expecting a native mobile app, and organisations working outside the Danish BR18, DGNB and EU Taxonomy frames of reference, for whom the fit is much looser.
How to use Acembee
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Book a demo: there is no self-service sign-up, so the sales demo is the only way in.
- Create the project by registering the construction site in the platform.
- Send the data in the simple way — forward invoices and delivery notes to an email address dedicated to the project, or upload a photo taken on site.
- Add the more technical routes if you need them: API integration, a connection to an ERP system, or sensors.
- Share access with contractors, subcontractors and consultants, and let suppliers forward their documents straight to the project address.
- Let the AI parse the documents, extract the information and calculate CO₂ emissions from the quantities and the transport type.
- Follow the real-time overview, broken down by electricity, waste, fuel and heating.
- Act on early warnings before a limit value is exceeded, rather than discovering the overshoot at the end of the project.
- For DGNB, upload material data sheets, review the flagged risks, build the approved-materials list and let delivery notes reconcile against it; for the EU Taxonomy, run the DNSH screening for restricted substances and threshold breaches before approval.
- Export the ready-made LCA report for the A4 + A5 requirements, or the ZIP with the CSV and the supporting documents.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- A precise and unusual scope: A4 + A5, the construction-site half of the life-cycle assessment, rather than another material-production calculator.
- Data entry bends to the site instead of the other way round — email, photo, API, ERP or sensors — and the product is explicitly designed for incomplete data, late documents and mixed formats.
- Traceability is claimed all the way from the CO₂ figure back to the source document, and the export ships the evidence rather than the totals alone (a CSV plus the documents themselves).
- One data set serves four purposes: LCA A4 + A5, DGNB, ESG Scope 3 and EU Taxonomy, which spares the usual re-keying between frameworks.
- Early warnings during the project rather than a verdict once the limit value has already been passed.
- Named customer references at identifiable companies — Einar Kornerup A/S, ZÜBLIN A/S and KT Erhvervsbyg A/S, plus MT Højgaard Danmark on the energy tool.
- Three awards on display (DTU Startup of the Year, Danish Entrepreneur Award, Winner of UrbanTech Pitch), a fully bilingual Danish/English site, and a claimed 15 minutes to be operational — 10 to install the energy tool.
Cons
- No public pricing whatsoever: no pricing page, no range, and no announced free plan or trial, so the budget is unknowable without a sales conversation.
- No privacy policy, no terms of service and no legal notice are published — every usual URL returns a 404 — and GDPR is never mentioned anywhere on the site, from a European publisher whose product ingests corporate paperwork.
- Nothing is said about where the data is hosted, how long it is kept, which subprocessors are involved, or whether customer documents are used to train the models.
- Several links in the main navigation are dead: /contact and /en/contact, the case-studies and success-stories pages and the help-centre link all return 404.
- The editorial collections are empty — 'No team members found' on the About page, 'No success stories found' and 'No artilces found' (the site's own typo) on the home page — and localisation leftovers remain, with the English statistics card still reading 'minutter' and two testimonial roles left in Danish.
- No mobile app, although photographing a delivery note on site is a headline use case, and no documented public API, although API integration is claimed as a data-entry route.
- Two different login hosts (app.acembee.com and hive.acembee.com) are linked from the same page without explanation; no competitor or comparison is offered, and the tool is heavily shaped by the Danish regulatory context.
Pricing & Plans
No price is published. Acembee operates no pricing page, states no rate card or price range, and no monetary amount appears in the web application bundle; neither a free plan nor a free trial is announced. The only commercial call to action is Book a demo, so an entry price can be obtained from the publisher alone. Two figures visible on the site must not be mistaken for one: the 50,000 DKK presented as a minimum saving per project is a claimed benefit, not a fee, and the free A4 + A5 guide is a document downloadable against a form, not an offer on the product. The remaining headline figures — 15 minutes to get started, 200 hours saved per project — are not monetary either.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Acembee.
- No privacy policy and no terms of service exist publicly, so nothing frames what happens to the documents you send in — and those documents carry supplier prices, contract references and site data that belong to third parties as much as to you.
- GDPR is never mentioned, no DPA or subprocessor list is published, and nothing states where the data is hosted, how long it is kept, or whether customer documents are used to train the models — while the site itself loads third-party services such as Cookiebot, HubSpot, Google Tag Manager and Webflow.
- Automation of this kind quietly erodes the habit of checking: once emission figures arrive pre-calculated on a dashboard, a project team can stop reading the delivery notes it signs off on. The publisher's own human-in-the-loop framing puts that responsibility back on the project parties, and it is not a formality.
- The headline numbers — 200 hours saved per project, a 50,000 DKK minimum saving, up to 40 % less electricity, 55 % of power wasted outside working hours — are the publisher's own claims, with no published methodology, and the case-study pages meant to back them return 404.
- Several navigation links are dead, the Contact page among them: the only reliable channel is support@acembee.com.
- The phone number shown in the site footer, +45 302 442 13, is wrong — it does not have the right number of digits for Denmark. The real one, consistent across the tel: link, the structured data and the Cookie Policy footer, is +45 5153 1632.
- The company's incorporation date is undetermined, and two separate application hosts are linked from the same page without any indication of which is the current portal — small signals on their own, but worth clarifying before entrusting a project's compliance evidence to the platform.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low on the software side, gated on the commercial side. The publisher claims 15 minutes to log in, explore your data and generate reports, and lists 'easy setup, minimal technical knowledge required' among its key features. The first action is registering the site as a project; the simplest data route is forwarding invoices to a project-specific email address or uploading a photo. API integration, an ERP connection or sensors are optional and more technical. The energy-saving tool is pre-configured and claimed installable in 10 minutes, but implies hardware on site. There is no self-service sign-up: access runs through a demo.
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Behind Acembee
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Frequently asked questions
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Should you pick Acembee?
Acembee answers a real and recent regulatory need in Denmark: documenting the transport and site-activity share of a building's carbon footprint, mandatory for new builds from 1 July 2025. The value proposition — turning invoices, delivery notes and weighing slips into usable LCA data — holds together from one product page to the next, and the reuse of that same data set for DGNB, ESG Scope 3 and EU Taxonomy work is the strongest argument the site makes. Named customer references at identifiable Danish contractors, plus three local awards, lend credibility to the adoption story.
The counterweight is severe, and it is not functional. The publisher operates in total legal and commercial opacity: no privacy policy, no terms of service, no hosting information, no retention period, no word on whether customer documents train the models, and no price of any kind. For a European vendor whose product ingests supplier invoices and contract documents, that silence is the point a buyer should press hardest on.
The site is also visibly still under construction: dead navigation links including Contact, three empty editorial collections, a Danish word left in the English statistics card, and two different login hosts offered on the same page without explanation. None of that is fatal, but together it means the public material cannot carry an evaluation on its own.
In short: a sharply targeted tool for a narrow and genuinely painful compliance problem, whose real assessment is impossible without going through a sales demo — and whose legal terms will have to be requested in writing.
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