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For this, we need all companies, organizations and individuals to measure, track and budget carbon in their operations and lifestyles.The business case for decarbonization is clear: the vast majority of consumers want companies to increase their efforts to improve (lower) environment impacts. Consumers are not only making greener purchases, but many are willingly paying a price premium of up to 34% for sustainable products. These claims, however, need to be backed by data and standard-compliant assessments, to validate their value and to avoid greenwashing.This $12.5\u0026nbsp;billion market size is one percent (1%) the size of the entire global financial accounting services market (all accountants, tax filings, etc.), which stood at $1.2 trillion last year. The market size and opportunity for carbon accounting solutions\u0026nbsp;will only\u0026nbsp;grow faster as consumer pressure and regulatory mandates escalate.Decarbonization enables substantial increases in revenue and, often, cost reductions as well. The market\u0026nbsp;segment of 'sustainably marketed' products\u0026nbsp;is growing more the twice the rate of conventional products.\u0026nbsp;So why not implement decaronization now? On a regulatory level, carbon will soon be priced regionally, and emissions present a liability not currently accounted for in companies' books. Both in the US and the EU, regulation is being written and passed to mandate disclosures, apply carbon import taxes, apply regional carbon taxes, and more, all of which makes the adoption of tools like Carbon Calories' inevitable.Most companies can’t measure their carbon footprint, which leaves them unable to plan effective and realistic decarbonization. This problem is especially acute for SMBs, which also account for more than 95% of all businesses and 50% of the GHG emissions globally. Why is carbon accounting still so out of reach?Existing carbon accounting software products in the market require extensive knowledge of the matter to be used. This complexity necessitates consultants who make these tools accessible to companies, but this intermediation is expensive (ranging from tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars per product) and is not affordable for nearly all SMBs. Further, most tools currently available only offer enterprise-level assessment but not product-level assessments, producing results that can be misleading for final, individual consumers and authorities alike.The lack of a uniform reporting framework for products means that we can’t reliably cross-compare products to assess which are low- versus high-carbon. In this report, the WRI details the, \"absence of a generally accepted framework for estimating and publicly reporting comparative impacts.\" This also means that there isn’t (yet) a level playing field for low-carbon products and businesses to differentiate their products, which is the opportunity that Carbon Calories wants to catalyze with our SaaS platform. What is Carbon Calories proposing? Here is our Sampler for Carbon Statements. Our transparent, patent-pending assessment methodology and disclosure framework will empower brands to differentiate their products and consumer to buy low-carbon. We will become the industry standard carbon accounting, reporting and public disclosure.It currently costs no less than\u0026nbsp;$5,000 per\u0026nbsp;product-level assessment in the market\u0026nbsp;(sometimes up to $50,000 or even $100,000 for complex products). At this price-point, assessing all 500+ million products sold on Amazon would cost $2.5 trillion or 3% of global GDP. This cost-problem is acute for SMBs.We have developed a simple SaaS based UX/UI that vertically integrates data management and sharing B2B as well as B2B2C; automating\u0026nbsp;standard-compliance;\u0026nbsp;and are developing bots/algorithms to automate verification steps and audibility. This is\u0026nbsp;to ensure that all small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) perform high-quality\u0026nbsp;carbon accounting with a reasonable monthly subscription plan. Like they already do, for example, with QuickBooks, Xero, and FreshBooks. We are developing\u0026nbsp;seamless vertical\u0026nbsp;integrations for\u0026nbsp;our clients to receive data from vendors and employees alike, increasing the granularity and accuracy of their results and distributing workloads.After getting brands started, we will expand Carbon Calories' SaaS feature-set to help brands optimize and decarbonize their products and business activities. With reliable, brand-specific product-level disclosures, companies will be able to understand their emissions and you, the consumer, will get dynamic disclosures to easily buy from exclusively low-carbon businesses. We also have plans to develop a personal app, the ‘MyCarbonCalories’, which will make it possible for you to track your lifestyle carbon footprint and manage your consumption habits using product level assessments.Our dedication to accuracy, as determined by the Laws of Nature, informs our disclosure framework, i.e.,\u0026nbsp;the Carbon Statement, our Daily Carbon Quota (DCQ) measures and our decision to not sell carbon offsets. Learn more\u0026nbsp;in Carbon Calories' Glossary of terms.A snapshot of our current operations: Carbon Calories has worked with ten (10x) paying clients, give (5x) of which are publicly disclosing their carbon assessments, and four (4x) using our Carbon Statements. Check out our collaborations here! We have been using proprietary solutions developed in-house, and we are launching our minimum viable product (MVP) online platform in November (2022), followed by a six-month core feature rollout schedule,\u0026nbsp;which will simplify carbon accounting for both businesses (monthly paid subscriptions) and the\u0026nbsp;public broadly\u0026nbsp;(for\u0026nbsp;free!).We have active contacts with channel partners (sustainable business networks, sustainable product retailers, and more) that allow us to reach a large pool of potential clients while keeping the Client Acquisition Cost low. Our marketing efforts will be focused on businesses that sell products with sustainability claims, but we project our growth to be largely organic: from one business to another, we want to become pervasive along supply systems, leveraging the network effect. As more and more brands subscribe and generate product-level assessments using Carbon Calories SaaS platform, our database of anonymized, brand-specific market benchmarks will become more and more valuable to current and future subscribers, strengthening our value proposition.Alexander has devoted his personal and professional life to decarbonization since 2001. He has built Energyweneed.com in 2012, the Great Transformation, a mitigation and economic redistribution model, in 2015, WikiCarbon.org in 2019 and Carbon Calories' proprietary solutions, in 2021-Present. Ray has spent nearly thirty\u0026nbsp;(30)\u0026nbsp;years architecting and developing SaaS for three startup companies; as employee number\u0026nbsp;twenty-fifth (25)\u0026nbsp;for an\u0026nbsp;energy data management system/SaaS, Uplight, which become a\u0026nbsp;unicorn during Ray's employment there. We are both determined to support decarbonization.We can’t wait to receive your feedback and see you play an active role in your personal and all our global decarbonization process! 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I'll answer them in separate posts below, and may include them in our FAQ, which has more questions and answers: wefunder.com/carboncalories/faq."}],"recent_posts":[],"provenance":{"source":"wefunder_public_company_profile","as_of":"2026-06-12T03:40:01Z","claims":{"total_amount_raised":{"source":"FrontCompanySummary#amount_raised","last_verified_at":"2026-06-11T23:53:58Z","as_of":"2026-06-12T03:40:01Z","confidence":"high"},"total_investors":{"source":"FrontCompanySummary#number_of_investors","last_verified_at":"2026-06-11T23:53:58Z","as_of":"2026-06-12T03:40:01Z","confidence":"high"},"active_raise_states":{"source":"Fundraise.visible(nil, nil)","last_verified_at":"2025-02-06T01:17:55Z","as_of":"2026-06-12T03:40:01Z","confidence":"high"},"latest_fundraise_state":{"source":"Fundraise.visible(nil, nil).order(funding_started_at)","last_verified_at":"2025-02-06T01:17:55Z","as_of":"2026-06-12T03:40:01Z","confidence":"medium"}}}}}}