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One invoice, two lines: the certification fee at cost, and a water commitment at ten liters for every liter.

Six steps

  1. ApplyYour revenue band and your AI providers set the tier.
  2. Connect usageA billing export, a gateway key, or the signed collector.
  3. Receive your footprintTokens become liters under the Standard, derivation attached.
  4. CommitThe fee, plus ten times your footprint at the water price or the tier minimum, whichever is greater.
  5. We fund and proveRegranted to the best-evidence programs, confirmed from outside, retired once.
  6. Display the badgeYour registry entry goes live with a verification ID. One year.

Tiers and fees

Attested

Under $5M revenue

$1,000minimum a year

$250 to be checked. Water: 10x your footprint at the water price, or $750.

API-verified

$5M to $100M

$6,000minimum a year

$1,500 to be checked. Water: 10x your footprint, or $4,500.

Audited

Over $100M

$20,000minimum a year

$5,000 plus your own auditor. Water: 10x your footprint, or $15,000.

The water price is set each year from the actual cost of the prior year's grants, $1 per 1,000 liters as the version 1 placeholder. Every tier's water floor is three times its fee, so at least 75 cents of every dollar is water. Exact figures lock after the pilot cohort. A 100x tier is available.

Worked example

A company spending about $100,000 a year on a frontier API has a footprint near 150,000 liters. It pays $1,500 to be checked and $4,500 for water: 4.5 million liters, about 2,250 person-years of safe water, about 6% of its AI spend.

The badge

Dropmatch Certified
Dropmatch 10x

Funded 4.5M liters of safe drinking water (India, 2026, verified)

Verification ID DM-2026-00001. Example badge.

Against a live entryWith its verification ID, for one year, proof of usage within 120 days of year end.
Pre-approved wordingWhat was funded, where, which year, verified.
A fact about the companyThe claim describes the company and its verified year, in the registry's words.
Public enforcementSuspension and revocation are listed in the registry.

The pilot cohort

Five to ten AI companies certify first and shape version 1 through its comment period.

Apply for the pilot cohort