How we intend to sustainably bootstrap this.

Comitas is self-funded. VC dilution compresses what a company can allocate to public-benefit obligations, since investor returns compete directly with that allocation. The VC-funded plan is usually to extract as much profit as possible. We don't like billionaires and profitable companies paying no taxes any more than you do, and we're building toward a better economic model instead.

We leave value in the company: rates as low as possible, above-market wages, and funding our environmental and social mission. We stay lean, using AI to multiply our effectiveness, then hire and share what we learn with customers over time. The goal is utilitarian: the most good for the most people.

Rates are affordable from day one. We need a real operating buffer to thrive, but profit gets redirected to lower rates and reinvestment, not extracted.

The same logic funds our 110% climate pledge from day one. Offsets turned out to be inexpensive, so the pledge costs us little to keep.

<trigger_warning> Founders will take a salary and pay taxes like anyone else. </trigger_warning>

No base fee. We tag and bill for all actual usage.

That base rate, before our platform fee, is priced near cost across four categories:

• Tokens: running your prompts through whatever model handles them, wherever it runs.
• Compute: the processing behind workflows and orchestration.
• Storage: where your data and results live.
• Network: moving data in and out.

We continually optimize for the best value among the providers listed as our external partners in our Terms of Service.

Everyone knows what a gallon of gas costs. Almost nobody knows what their AI subscription actually costs to run. Pricing near cost makes that visible: you see what you're actually getting for what you pay.

On top of that, Comitas takes a platform fee (a percentage of usage, not a flat fee) that we actively tune over time as we get more efficient. Early adopters help us tune it through real usage data.

How do rate changes work?

• Funds you deposit lock in the platform rate as of the deposit date.
• If the rate goes up later, your balance is unaffected: you keep the rate you locked in until those funds are spent.
• If the rate goes down, deposited balances shift to the new, lower rate automatically.
• There's no downside to loading up early, only upside.

Onboarding consists of one or more free, guided experiments on work you decide will deliver value. We show you the real cost, so you can weigh it against the quality and time saved you actually got back.