Your organization is going to keep using AI, and it also wants to take AI's environmental cost seriously. Until now the choices were to ignore that cost or to overclaim about addressing it. R3CKON is the third option: an honest estimate of your usage-phase footprint with stated error bars, environmental certificates retired in response every month, and a record that says exactly what you can claim.
R3CKON is pre-launch: checkout is not yet open, and the console below runs on demonstration data. Footprint figures are modeled estimates with stated 90 percent ranges, not measurements. Claims are activity claims: certificates record the restoration, reduction, and renewable generation you funded, identified by project and vintage. They never assert a neutrality status, and the certificate says exactly what statements it supports.
We count your AI usage from metadata alone: which models, how many tokens, which regions. Your prompts and outputs never reach us; anything content-shaped is rejected at the API boundary.
No one outside the providers can know AI's environmental cost exactly, so we estimate it honestly: a public, versioned methodology turns your usage into water, carbon, and energy figures, each shown with its full range of uncertainty.
Every month, real money goes to work against the conservative end of that estimate (P90): third-party-issued certificates for water restoration, carbon reduction, and renewable energy are retired for your benefit, whole units only.
You receive a certificate naming exactly what was funded and retired (projects, vintages, supplier references), the estimate that sized it, and the precise statements you can publish on the strength of it.
On the left, our best estimate of what your AI usage consumed, stated with its uncertainty because no one can know it exactly. On the right, the projects your subscription funded in response. Two columns, related but never equated, and never blended into one score.
LEFT SIDE OF THE LEDGER
Providers do not disclose enough for anyone to know this exactly. This column is our best estimate of it, built from your token counts, with the error bars kept visible.
Usage-phase footprint estimate
solid to P50 · lighter to P90, the accrual basis · whiskers span the 90% range
A ledger, not an equation. The right side responds to the left. It never equals it, and no claim we support says it does.
RIGHT SIDE OF THE LEDGER
Real money into projects that restore water, reduce carbon, and add renewable generation. The work happens where those projects are, which may be far from your compute, and the certificate says where.
Whole registry instruments, identified by project and vintage on every certificate. Categories never mix: no combined score, no cross-category totals, and RECs are never presented as carbon credits.
The longer answer, and where we intend to take it: our mission and vision.
Next: how every number on this page is produced
Read the methodology