Cody Solutions has officially become a participant of the UN Global Compact — the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative, uniting thousands of responsible companies across more than 160 countries.
In joining, we commit to aligning our operations and strategy with the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption, and to reporting on our progress transparently.
Sustainability statements are easy to write and hard to live up to, so instead of a list of intentions this article sets out the five Sustainable Development Goals we have chosen and the work that already stands behind each one.
"For us, responsibility is not a separate ESG track — it is the foundation of how we build our team and our business. AI should give people back the ability to work on interesting problems by freeing them from the routine that leads to burnout. As a Ukrainian company operating on the global market in spite of every challenge, we know the price of resilience. Joining the UN Global Compact is our public commitment to building a business that creates real value: for our clients, our team and society."
— Max Gontar, CEO, Cody Solutions
"Technology has a profound impact on how business manages resources, builds processes and creates long-term value. At the same time, innovation must develop together with a responsible attitude towards people, society and the environment. We are glad to welcome Cody Solutions to the UN Global Compact and to build a culture of responsible tech business together."
— Tetiana Sakharuk, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Network Ukraine
The five goals we work on
We did not pick our SDGs from a list. We picked the five that describe work we are already doing — in one case for eight years — and that we intend to continue at a greater scale.
SDG 3 — Good Health and Well-being
Eight years in the Chornobyl-affected communities of Zhytomyr region
Since 2018, Cody Solutions and our CEO Max Gontar have maintained a continuous charitable partnership with the Zhytomyr Regional International Charitable Foundation "Help for the Children of Chornobyl", supporting communities in the Narodychi and Ovruch districts — territory that lives with the consequences of the Chornobyl disaster and, since 2022, with the consequences of war on top of them.
These are not one-off donations but systematic support, given in response to what the communities actually need:
- Reconstruction of a community sports hall, so that local children can train in safe conditions
- Support in purchasing a vehicle for delivering goods and medicines to those in need
- Ovruch Hospital — bed linen, hygiene supplies and other essentials for the ward
- A generator and two electric heaters, so that a local institution could keep operating through blackouts and winter
- Kindergartens — tableware and everyday equipment needed to keep the facilities running
- Large families — targeted financial assistance matched to each family's individual needs
- Clothing for children travelling to a summer recovery camp in Germany
Because the partnership is long-term, the communities can come to us with any urgent need and get an answer quickly.
"Every project addressed a concrete need: improving facilities, creating proper conditions for children, supporting large families and helping people in difficult life circumstances. Thanks to partners who care, this help is systematic and long-term rather than one-off."
— Charitable Foundation "Help for the Children of Chornobyl", from its report on our cooperation
SDG 4 — Quality Education
"Naimenshe Zerniatko": giving children of fallen soldiers a profession
Together with the Good Samaritan Charitable Foundation, we fund and support the Talent School "Naimenshe Zerniatko" ("The Smallest Grain") in Odesa — a programme for the children of fallen and serving Ukrainian soldiers, children with disabilities and internally displaced children.
The programme covers three age groups and is built as a complete educational pathway:
- Private kindergartens with extended-day care — so that mothers can work full-time while their children receive a high standard of early education
- School — studies at the private kindergarten and school "Tvorennia Osobystosti"
- University — across a range of disciplines, from IT to psychology; the company covers tuition from the first year through to a bachelor's degree
- Private group and one-to-one classes — music, singing, dance, sports, and contemporary professions
Every participant works first with psychologists, teachers and analysts to identify their real abilities and interests, and only then begins training — with real teachers, real assignments and real standards.
Today more than 50 children and teenagers receive funding and grants through the programme, and it continues to grow.
Several graduates have already found work, including at IT companies: they completed their studies and passed hiring processes on their own merit. For a child who lost a parent in the war, that is not a certificate on a wall — it is independence, an income, and a future they chose for themselves.
"These children will be the ones rebuilding Ukraine. Supporting the children of Odesa means supporting the country's future."
— Good Samaritan Charitable Foundation
SDG 8 — Decent Work and Economic Growth
Obrii: the engineering behind Ukraine's national labour market
On 8 June 2026, Ukraine launched Obrii — the country's first unified digital ecosystem for the national labour market. Cody Solutions acted as the technical partner responsible for the engineering implementation of the entire platform.
Obrii brings labour market data, vacancies and training together in a single environment and accompanies a person throughout their working life: from interest profiling at school age through to employment, reskilling and professional growth.
Every working-age person receives an Obrii ID — a digital profile of their competencies mapped to the European ESCO standard, compatible with European systems and the EURES network. AI matches people to jobs and training, identifies the gap in their skills and recommends how to close it.
The scale of the task:
- 12.5 million economically inactive Ukrainians — veterans, displaced people, people with disabilities, young people, parents, and people over 50
- 100,000 people to find work through the platform by the end of 2026
- 4.5 million people to be returned to economic activity by 2030
Our team delivered the architecture of the digital career journey, the Obrii ID profile system, the AI matching mechanisms and the first services integrated into Diia.
This is what SDG 8 looks like when it is not a slogan: national infrastructure built by a Ukrainian engineering team during a war.
SDG 10 — Reduced Inequalities
Four decisions we take repeatedly
Inside the company. Women make up more than 34% of the Cody Solutions team, including in engineering and leadership roles. For a company in the technology sector we consider this a good starting point: across the global IT industry, women hold roughly a quarter of technical roles. We intend to keep narrowing that gap, and we factor it into how we hire and promote.
Access regardless of geography. Talent from a small town counts for as much with us as talent from Kyiv or Warsaw — both in our own hiring and in the products we build. Obrii exists precisely so that opportunity does not depend on where a person happens to live.
Support for those with the least. Our assistance to low-income and large families in the Chornobyl-affected communities is the same commitment seen from the other side: help reaches the families with the fewest options, not the loudest voices.
Company culture. Every December, each Cody employee personally chooses a child and gives them the gift that child actually asked for. Not a corporate donation — one named person for one named child.
SDG 13 — Climate Action
Our own operations. Cody Solutions is certified to ISO 14001 (environmental management), as well as ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 20000 and ISO 42001 (AI management).
The work we do for clients. Automation and process mining are, in practice, a decarbonisation tool: by removing duplicated processes, paper-based approvals and unnecessary logistics, a client's operations consume less energy, less material and less transport. We measure this as efficiency — but it is also emissions avoided.
Where we are going next. Ukraine is building a National Carbon Registry — the infrastructure for issuing, tracking and internationally transferring carbon units under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement (Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 766). We have begun work on this project pro bono, in order to accelerate its rollout in Ukraine — a step that will deliver environmental and economic benefit to the country at the same time.
Once the registry is in place, Ukrainian businesses will be able to generate carbon certificates, the state will be able to monitor emissions transparently, and unallocated certificates can be sold under the agreements already signed with Japan and Switzerland.
The registry is built on the open-source UNDP codebase, adapted to Ukrainian legislation. This is exactly the kind of work we believe our engineering should be directed at: climate infrastructure at national scale.
Governance, data and anti-corruption
The Ten Principles include anti-corruption, and for us that is an operational obligation rather than a declaration.
Our team is completing the UN Global Compact Academy course on anti-corruption, and we are building it into the onboarding of new employees; completion is reported to the UN Global Compact Network Ukraine.
Alongside this sit ISO 27001 for information security, ISO 42001 for AI management, and solutions designed to strengthen people rather than to substitute for accountability.
Trust is the currency of our business.
What comes next
Membership of the UN Global Compact opens a new chapter: integrating sustainability principles more deeply into our business and product decisions, developing a responsible approach to AI, and exchanging experience with a global community. We will report on our progress openly, beginning with our first Communication on Progress.
To our clients and partners: this is the standard you can hold us to. If something in how we work does not meet it, we want to hear about it.
Cody Solutions is a Ukrainian IT consulting company specialising in AI implementation and business process automation. We help mid-size and large enterprises across North and South America and Europe improve process efficiency through AI and digital solutions. Cody Solutions is one of the developers of services in the Diia app; our clients and partners include UniCredit, Arab Bank Switzerland, PwC, UNICEF, UNESCO and government institutions in several countries.
The announcement by the UN Global Compact Network Ukraine is here.
