Our Carbon Commitment

Measuring our footprint and purchasing carbon credits

Last updated: July 2026

Our Commitment

Letter AI is committed to understanding and mitigating our environmental impact. We are currently partnering with Aclymate, a leading climate management platform, to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our carbon footprint.

While this evaluation is underway, we have proactively initiated emissions offsetting. Through CNaught, a science-backed carbon credit procurement platform, we are funding high-integrity climate projects. Transparency is central to our sustainability goals; you can track our ongoing contributions on our verified impact page.

OUR PRINCIPLES

Four principles guide our approach

01

Full-scope accountability

Our footprint covers all three scopes of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol (Scopes 1, 2, and 3), including upstream and downstream activities.

02

Reduce first, then buy credits

Credits don't replace cutting emissions. We reduce what we can (efficient cloud regions, sustainable vendors, less travel) and buy credits to supplement what we cannot change through our own actions.

03

High-integrity, diversified credits

We buy carbon credits from a provider that vets its projects and diversifies them across a range of project types. We avoid unverified credits.

04

Transparency

Our purchases are publicly documented on our impact page.

How We Measure Our Footprint

We are actively calculating our precise carbon footprint with Aclymate, a carbon-accounting platform that combines software with help from their team to track Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. The majority of our emissions are indirect, which is normal for a software company with a distributed team: cloud and AI compute, software vendors, travel, and people's home offices. Our measurement covers all of these. Here's how each scope is handled:

Emissions Scope
What It Covers for Us
How It Will Be Counted
Scope 1 — Direct
Direct emissions from sources we own or control. We own no facilities or vehicles, so this is small or zero.
Where it applies. Likely small or zero, since we own no facilities or vehicles.
Scope 2 — Purchased energy
Indirect emissions from the electricity we buy, including energy used by infrastructure we manage.
Counted in full. We pick cloud regions and providers with strong sustainability programs to keep this low.
Scope 3 — Other indirect
Emissions in the goods and services we buy: cloud and AI compute, software vendors, business travel, and the like.
Counted in full, and the biggest part of our footprint. Estimated from accounting and vendor records where we don't have direct data.
Upstream / downstream
Lifecycle emissions not always captured under Scope 3, such as our team's home offices and work travel.
Estimated and counted. Where a vendor's own program doesn't cover all its emissions, we count the rest as ours.

Where We Are Today

The measurement of our exact carbon footprint with Aclymate is still underway. In the meantime, we have purchased a preliminary round of credits through CNaught to partially offset our footprint, which you can see on our impact page. Once we have calculated our exact carbon footprint, we will purchase the correct amount to offset it, and reset that number each year.

The Carbon Credits We Purchase

We buy our credits through CNaught. Instead of putting everything into one project, we fund a mix of projects that CNaught picks and manages for us.

Why a Mix of Projects

CNaught builds the portfolio around the Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon Offsetting, a 2024 framework that's become a common reference for credible offsetting. Spreading money across projects helps in a few ways:

Lower risk: If one project underdelivers, the others still count.

Broader impact: Projects in different places and of different kinds, with benefits for local communities and ecosystems.

Reasonable cost: Mixing cheaper and pricier project types keeps the average price per tonne sensible.

More removals over time: The mix shifts toward long-term carbon removal as those projects become more available.

Our current portfolio mix

Technology-based Reductions

60%

Nature-based Reductions

29%

Nature-based Removals

10%

Technology-based Removals

1%

As of our most recent (preliminary) purchase; the live impact page is always the most current source.

Project Categories

The Oxford Principles sort projects into five categories. Ours currently span four of them: I, II, IV, and V. Category III isn't widely available yet, so we'll add it as that changes.

I

Technology-based Reductions

Reducing or avoiding emissions through technology, such as landfill gas capture, refrigerant destruction, and natural-gas leak repair.

In portfolio

II

Nature-based Reductions

Protecting natural carbon stores that are at risk, such as avoided deforestation and peatland conservation.

In portfolio

III

Capture and Storage

Capturing carbon at an industrial source and storing it long-term. Few credits exist today.

Added as it scales

IV

Nature-based Removals

Pulling carbon out of the air through nature, such as reforestation and tidal-wetland restoration.

In portfolio

V

Technology-based Removals

Pulling carbon out of the air through engineered methods, such as biochar, direct air capture, and bio-oil sequestration.

In portfolio

Quality and Verification

Before a project goes into the portfolio, CNaught runs it through a seven-step review that pairs its own assessment with independent outside ratings. The review follows the Offset Guide from the Stockholm Environment Institute and the GHG Management Institute. In practice, CNaught:

Checks each project against the four main rating agencies: BeZero, Calyx Global, Renoster, and Sylvera.

Looks at the four things that drive quality: additionality, over-crediting, durability, and double counting.

Monitors each project after purchase and follows standards bodies like the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM), adjusting the portfolio as guidance changes.

Stands behind every purchase with the CNaught Guarantee: if a project is canceled or suspended for over a year within three years of purchase, the affected credits are replaced from another high-integrity portfolio at no additional cost.

Our Commitment Each Year

Measure

Measure our footprint with Aclymate and report the result on our impact page, at least once a year.

Reduce

Cut emissions first where we can: cloud usage, vendor choices, and travel.

Offset

Purchase credits through CNaught to offset what's left of our footprint.

Remove

Move toward removals by shifting more of our credits to long-term removal as those projects grow.

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Reach out to Letter AI or view our impact page.