/// CLIMATE · TRANSPARENCY
5% of every purchase
removes CO₂.
We don't sell a course and donate. Every purchase automatically triggers a contribution to the most serious permanent carbon removal portfolio that exists today. Here's exactly how, how much, and where.
Commitment
5%
of every sale
Per purchase
$0.39
to removal
Projects
65
vetted
Pathways
5
technologies
Countries
15
represented
/// HOW IT WORKS
Black Swan is enrolled in Stripe Climate. For every transaction processed, Stripe deducts the percentage we committed (5%, one of the highest in their program) and automatically allocates it to Frontier — the carbon removal purchasing consortium founded by Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, and McKinsey, channeling nearly a billion dollars toward permanent removal technologies between 2022 and 2030.
We don't pick the individual projects. Frontier's in-house science and commercial team selects them, verifies them, and purchases the carbon that will be permanently removed. Our job is to generate the sales that fund them.
/// THE FIVE REMOVAL PATHWAYS
Frontier doesn't bet on a single technology. Their thesis is to build the market for five different approaches — each with its own profile of cost, scalability, verifiability, and co-benefits — so carbon removal is robust regardless of which technology ultimately wins.
Direct air capture
Separates CO₂ out of ambient air via cycling a sorbent or solvent repeatedly through capture and release. The resulting CO₂ stream can then be paired with any type of permanent storage.
BENEFITS
PRICE
$400 – $2,000 / ton
Marine carbon removal
A range of approaches that involve the ocean to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere — including alkalinity enhancement, kelp cultivation, and biomass sinking.
BENEFITS
PRICE
$400 – $2,200 / ton
Biomass carbon removal & storage
Permanently stores CO₂ from waste biomass — which naturally captures CO₂ from the atmosphere via photosynthesis. Examples include pyrolysis, gasification, and biomass burial.
BENEFITS
PRICE
$300 – $1,000 / ton
Mineralization
The reaction of alkaline minerals, CO₂, and water to form solid carbonate minerals — which present a durable carbon storage with effectively permanent timescales.
BENEFITS
PRICE
$100 – $300 / ton
Field weathering
Speeds up the natural weathering of alkaline materials with CO₂ and rainwater. The resulting reaction leads to durable storage of CO₂ as bicarbonate, often within agricultural soil systems.
BENEFITS
PRICE
$200 – $1,600 / ton
/// WHAT YOUR PURCHASE DOES
PER "MOLD REALITY" PURCHASE ($7.77)
$0.39 is allocated to permanent carbon removal.
$0.39 sounds small. And it is, individually. But Frontier's portfolio spans projects at $100 / ton (mineralization at scale) up to $2,200 / ton (direct air capture in its first commercial years). The current weighted-average portfolio price is on the order of ~$700 / ton, trending down as technologies scale.
Which means: every ~1,800 Mold Reality purchases funds, approximately, 1 metric ton of CO₂ permanently removed from the atmosphere. One metric ton of CO₂ is what an average car emits driving ~2,400 miles.
This is aggregate portfolio math, not individual per-ton accounting. No single purchase physically removes one ton — the model is to aggregate committed capital and deliver removal at scale.
Read the report. Fund the removal.
Inner work and planetary work happening in the same transaction.
This page will be updated when we publish the annual impact report and as Frontier allocates funds to specific projects on our behalf.