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I had actually been looking at things like Climeworks recently, and your service looks like an interesting portfolio. Although it is heavily weighted towards pl

I had actually been looking at things like Climeworks recently, and your service looks like an interesting portfolio. Although it is heavily weighted towards planting trees, and I think that turned me off to it initially. Do you plan to offer any larger subscription plans as self service? Your Gold subscription is only 6 tons of the average 16 ton footprint. And then a family being multiples of that. While you could make one time purchases over time, it would be nice to have more options. Even a 'make you own' plan of sorts. Specify what you want to offset annually and pay in monthly installments. Are you getting a lot of subscribers? I think one other thing that had me hesitant was only having removed 121 tons so far. Seemed pretty new and unused, and was not sure how sustainable the model was. If that makes sense. Although now I realize the numbers in my head are probably off because you are calculating the trees over time, and its only been about a year since you started, so they have a lot of time left in them. FYI the first two links in your Transparency sheet are bad, one asks for a login and one seems dead.

kisamoto 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'm actually both happy and sad that the weighting of trees puts you off a little. Happy because it shows you know and value the active carbon removal, sad that you're a little deterred from using the product. We did initially start with a much higher weighting towards Climeworks & Charm however the high costs were not gratefully received hence why we do add a stronger weighting to cheaper forestation. To give you an idea, without forestation (and an equal split between Climeworks, Charm and Greensand) the 500kg/month plan would be $500-600/month... Our subscriber base is growing 1-5 subscribers each month and we're seeing a growing interest as people look for alternatives to carbon credits. At the moment neither founder takes a salary as all money is reinvested into developing the product, educating on carbon removal and spreading the word. Thank you for the heads up on the transparency sheet. We recently shuffled things about and I had not noticed them, I shall fix them today. If you are interested in purchasing a custom plan please feel free to email me your requirements and I shall get back to you with a price.
- curl-up 6y ago
  Sorry if I'm missing something obvious here. You say that, without forestation, cost would be ~$1k per tonne. From the article, Stripe paid $600 per tonne. Where is this difference coming from? Did they get a 40% discount from Charm?
  - Bedon292 6y ago
    I believe that is averaged across the other three methods? If you get the subscription from Climeworks its $1200 for 1100kg. And I do assume Stripe got a first mover / bulk discount. Although greensand looks like its only $50 per ton, so maybe that is not included in the the average.

kisamoto 6y ago

Thanks for the feedback. I'm actually both happy and sad that the weighting of trees puts you off a little. Happy because it shows you know and value the active carbon removal, sad that you're a little deterred from using the product. We did initially start with a much higher weighting towards Climeworks & Charm however the high costs were not gratefully received hence why we do add a stronger weighting to cheaper forestation. To give you an idea, without forestation (and an equal split between Climeworks, Charm and Greensand) the 500kg/month plan would be $500-600/month... Our subscriber base is growing 1-5 subscribers each month and we're seeing a growing interest as people look for alternatives to carbon credits. At the moment neither founder takes a salary as all money is reinvested into developing the product, educating on carbon removal and spreading the word. Thank you for the heads up on the transparency sheet. We recently shuffled things about and I had not noticed them, I shall fix them today. If you are interested in purchasing a custom plan please feel free to email me your requirements and I shall get back to you with a price.

curl-up 6y ago
Sorry if I'm missing something obvious here. You say that, without forestation, cost would be ~$1k per tonne. From the article, Stripe paid $600 per tonne. Where is this difference coming from? Did they get a 40% discount from Charm?
- Bedon292 6y ago
  I believe that is averaged across the other three methods? If you get the subscription from Climeworks its $1200 for 1100kg. And I do assume Stripe got a first mover / bulk discount. Although greensand looks like its only $50 per ton, so maybe that is not included in the the average.