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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "co2-impact",
 "name": "CO2 Impact",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "co2impact.co.uk",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": "Something else",
 "summary": "UK carbon reporting software for small and mid-sized businesses: emissions from bills and uploads across Scope 1, 2 and 3, a carbon reduction plan, SECR reports and optional automated meter data.",
 "best_for": "UK small and mid-sized businesses that need a first carbon footprint, Scope 1-3 reporting or a carbon reduction plan for customers and tenders, without hiring a consultant",
 "skip_if": "you want to try the software before committing for a year, you need multi-country group reporting, or you already work with a sustainability consultancy that supplies its own tools",
 "honest_knock": "Every licence is a 12-month commitment, and automated electricity and gas data is billed extra per meter per year. The public table does not show in text which plan includes advanced or SECR reports. A separate /pricing page on the site still shows placeholder dollar plans and lorem-ipsum text, so use the table on the homepage. No free trial is mentioned. We have not used CO2 Impact ourselves.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "£468",
  "entry_price_terms": "per year (£39/mo) for 1 user and 1 site",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-09 in a browser render of the pricing table on co2impact.co.uk's homepage, GBP, all prices exclude VAT) Every licence has a 12-month commitment, with an option to pay monthly. Basic is £468 a year (£39.00 a month) for 1 user and 1 operational site. Professional is £599 a year (£49.92 a month) for 3 users and 3 sites. Premium is £729 a year (£60.75 a month) for 5 users and 5 sites. Platinum is £1,199 a year (£99.92 a month) for 10 users and 10 sites. On every plan an additional user costs £60 a year and an additional site £80 a year, and consultancy support is £75 an hour. Automated meter data is an add-on priced per meter per year and gets cheaper on bigger plans: electricity £36, £33, £30 and £24, gas £15.60, £14.40, £13.20 and £12 (Basic to Platinum). The table lists Scope 1 and 2, all 15 Scope 3 categories, a mobile data-collection app, a carbon reduction plan, standard and advanced reports, SECR reporting, an AI data check, bill uploads and Excel/CSV bulk uploads, but the plain-text render does not show which of these each plan includes. The toggle says paying annually saves up to 20%, yet the page shows no higher monthly price. No free trial or free plan is mentioned. A separate /pricing page on the same site shows placeholder dollar plans ($9, $19, $49 with 'API access') and lorem-ipsum text; it is a template leftover, not the real price list.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-09",
  "source_url": "https://www.co2impact.co.uk/"
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "Automated meter data is an add-on priced per meter per year and gets cheaper on bigger plans: electricity £36, £33, £30 and £24, gas £15.60, £14.40, £13.20 and £12 (Basic to Platinum).",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-09",
   "source_url": "https://www.co2impact.co.uk/"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "a carbon consultancy",
  "why": "a consultancy delivers the footprint and reduction plan for you at day rates; CO2 Impact is software you fill yourself from bills and uploads, at a fixed yearly price per user and site, with consultancy at £75 an hour if you need help"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/co2-impact.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/co2-impact-review.html",
  "marketplace": null,
  "vendor_site": "https://co2impact.co.uk"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=129203&awinaffid=2880219",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "co2-impact:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "co2-impact:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "co2-impact:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "co2-impact:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}