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comitas (n., Latin) — the Roman civic virtue of grace, goodwill, and approachability. The quality that enabled powerful citizens to remain answerable to those they served, and that made frank discussion possible between parties of unequal standing.
— Cicero, De Officiis
Sustainable AI that benefits the public and the environment before benefiting founders or VCs.
Today, AI companies mint billionaires without paying their way environmentally or socially. We're not here to call that out. We're here to be the active, positive alternative: a place where people who care can vote with their dollars for AI that pays its own way, starting now.
AI is here to stay. Its costs are real. Someone has to pay them.
We believe AI is staying, and that its negative effects, on the environment and on people's livelihoods, are real. Comitas launches pledging, from day one, to offset its environmental impact and take those societal effects seriously.
Someone needs to address these problems head-on while still giving people an AI option that more than pays its way. 105% means every user becomes an environmental net positive.
Flat $20/month AI plans are loss-leaders. The companies offering them aren't currently covering their full environmental impact, and prices built that way won't last. We think people are ready for a change for the better.
AI run at public-utility rates should cost pennies for real work.
No base fee. No seat licenses. You pay for what you actually use, plus a transparent platform fee we actively tune over time as we gain more understanding of offsets and become more operationally efficient.
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Let's find something to create real value for you right now: a free, guided experiment on your own work. When it's done, you'll see exactly what it cost, what it would have cost you to do yourself, and how much that saved you in terms of the value of your time.
A real example of what this looks like: we recently ran a semester of law school lecture materials, 15 decks and 489 slides, through an accessibility remediation workflow. The exact cost is still being verified end-to-end.
Exact unit-cost transparency: coming soon, tracked publicly.
Curious how the ongoing rate works, and why we think this is the responsible way to bootstrap a company? Read our full pricing philosophy →
Every workload leaves the planet better off.
We commit to offsetting 105% of your usage's environmental impact, on whatever infrastructure it runs on. We do the best accounting the public data allows, and offset the rest. Today, that means AWS's published carbon and water data for our own infrastructure. As we grow, we extend the same discipline to every provider we use.
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Comitas is here for three reasons.
Vote with your dollars
For people who care about AI's environmental and social impact, a sustainable alternative to choose, on purpose.
A sustainably bootstrapped company
Conservative, disciplined, with public benefit in view from day one, not funded by investors expecting a payout.
Collective empowerment
A way for people to back a positive first mover in the industry, together.
Comitas is a Public Benefit Corporation, deliberately not venture-backed. This is not designed to mint new billionaires: rates are set as affordably as possible from day one, and the platform fee itself is tuned over time for sustainable growth and continued public value, not to maximize what gets extracted from it.
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Comitas is starting with small private cohorts and scaling up deliberately. Access right now is by invite, but you can request access below and we'll reach out as we open up.
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