Certificates

Each monthly close issues one certificate per account: a PDF for humans and an equivalent JSON document (schema 2.1.0) for systems. Personal plans receive a contribution certificate per category instead, stating the account's share of a pooled retirement. It is an activity record with exactly four sections, and it is engineered so the strong assertion (what was retired) is never blurred with the modeled one (what was estimated).

Section A: Retirements

Confirmed retirements only, grouped by category, each with the approved statement, project attribution as the supplier presents it (project name, registry code, vintage), and the supplier reference. Water, carbon, and renewable energy never share a block, no cross-category totals exist, and RECs are never presented as carbon credits.

A funded order awaiting supplier confirmation appears in the console as pending but never on a certificate. When it confirms, the period's certificate regenerates to include it.

Section B: Footprint estimate (informational)

The period's footprint estimate, shown for information. It did not determine the quantities retired, which are the plan's fixed basket. The section carries the methodology version (pinned), billable tokens by model class, and the three estimates with their central values and 90 percent ranges. The estimate disclaimer and the usage-phase scope note are required adjacencies: the software cannot render a figure without them, and CI fails if it could. Methodology notices (unclassified model share over 15 percent, hidden-reasoning multiplier) appear here when they fired.

Section C: Required disclosures

Standing disclosures the record depends on, rendered from the same configuration the software enforces:

• Water geography: restoration occurs in the project watershed identified in Section A, which may differ from the watersheds where AI infrastructure consumes water.
• REC resource type and the supplier's certification disclosure status, and that a REC is not a statement about the electricity that served your usage.
• Holder of record: R3CKON LLC retires in its own name for your benefit.
• Carbon project type: both basket projects are emission reductions, not removals.
• That restored water gallons and water footprint gallons are different quantities and are not compared or netted.
• The FTC two-year timing disclosure, when a funded reduction occurs two or more years after purchase.
• The retirement basket line: the fixed monthly basket the plan retires, which is not derived from the estimate. (Certificates issued under prior pricing models carry the disclosure line of the model they were issued under.) See Billing.
• That the certificate is not an audit and not a verification of the footprint estimate.

Section D: Permitted use

A plain statement of what the record supports: activity claims using the approved language in Schedule A of the Terms, with filled examples. Statements outside the schedule are outside the license. See the claims playbook.

Verifying a retirement

1. Take the supplier reference from Section A.
2. Contact the supplier (Bonneville Environmental Foundation) or, for carbon credits, look the project up on the registry linked from the disclosures page. The retirement is recorded in R3CKON LLC's name, for platform users; your name does not appear.
3. Compare the project attribution and vintage on the certificate against the registry record.

Customers do not take title to instruments; R3CKON LLC purchases and retires in its own name for the customer's benefit.

The JSON document

The JSON mirrors the PDF field for field: schemaVersion, issuer, accountName, periodStart, periodEnd, and the four sections (sectionA_retirements with per-category entries and supplier references, sectionB_basisOfQuantity with figures, disclaimers, token classes and notes, sectionC_requiredDisclosures as a string list, and sectionD_permittedUse). Fetch it from the console or via GET /api/admin/overview (the certificates array), and the PDF via GET /api/admin/certificates/{id}/pdf.