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CGA Creative

One dollar of AI. Ten to charity.


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Public Impact Ledger · Live from production logs

Every drop of water, kilowatt of energy, and gram of carbon my AI consumes is tracked from production data, published here, and pledged for offset ten times over through verified charities. The figures below are live totals computed from every logged API call, converted with deliberately high factors so this page overstates my footprint rather than understating it.

Period
Showing: All time · live since Apr 15, 2026

Water

Recipient: Charity:Water
Consumed
28.9L
Funded ×10
289L

What this means: About 58 standard water bottles consumed in cooling AI infrastructure. The pledge funds 10× as much clean water access.

Energy

Recipient: Stripe Climate
Consumed
16.1kWh
Funded ×10
161kWh

What this means: A microwave running for 13 hours. The pledge funds 10× as much verified renewable generation.

Carbon

Recipient: Frontier
Emitted
6.42kg CO₂e
Removed ×10
64.2kg

What this means: 16 miles in an average car. The pledge funds 10× as much permanent carbon removal.

A note on the numbers

If the numbers look small, that's the point.

The CGA OS is built from a kit of single-purpose AI capabilities. Every tool, every workflow, every line of code is composed from the smallest set of capabilities that gets the job done. Nothing wastes. Nothing duplicates. Nothing runs unless something needs it.

The result is a studio that produces real work on a fraction of the compute most AI operations consume. A small footprint is not a beginner's apology. It is the design choice. The fact that I can publish these numbers and they remain modest at scale is the proof that custom-composed beats one-size-fits-all.

Watch the numbers grow as the work grows. Watch them stay smaller than you would expect.

The ledger

The donations, line by line.

Sep 30, 2026
Charity:WaterClean water access · 289 L equivalent
Scheduled
$68.91
Sep 30, 2026
Stripe ClimateRenewable generation · 161 kWh
Scheduled
$68.91
Sep 30, 2026
FrontierPermanent carbon removal · 64.2 kg
Scheduled
$68.91
Accrued to date · first batch posts at quarter close
$206.73
Methodology

How the numbers are calculated.

2 Whper 1,000 tokens
1.8 Lof water per kWh
0.4 kgCO₂e per kWh

Every Anthropic API call through CGA's AI analysis layer is logged with token counts and tool source in my Supabase database, and this page computes its totals from that log on load. Tokens convert to water, energy, and carbon using factors deliberately chosen on the high side, informed by Shaolei Ren (UC Riverside) and How Hungry is AI?: 2 Wh per 1,000 tokens, 1.8 L of water per kWh, and 0.4 kg CO2e per kWh, each chosen on the high side so the ledger overstates my footprint rather than understating it. Calls outside the analysis layer join the same log as they ship. Quarterly, the total gets the 10× multiplier and donations post to the recipients listed above.

Every conversion factor is public, on this page. Every token log is queryable. Every donation receipt gets linked here when it posts. If a number ever looks wrong, tell me.