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Impact

Built for the planet, the people who use the buildings, and the people who keep them running.

Four public commitments tied directly to what we build. Each comes with a measurable annual report. Small numbers honestly published beat big numbers we cannot defend.

Impact at a glance

Four commitments. Measurable annually.

2–3×

Carbon premium on emergency replacements

≥1%

Of revenue to clean-water and conservation non-profits, annually

4+

Pro-bono / discounted pilots per year through Rivolq Civic

2+

Paid summer internships per year for technical-college students

Industrial chiller — the highest-impact asset class for carbon avoidance when replaced on a planned cadence instead of in an emergency
Pillar 01
2–3×

Carbon premium on emergency replacements

Carbon avoidance

Every emergency replacement carries a hidden carbon premium. Rush manufacturing, expedited shipping, temporary diesel-powered systems, oversized swap-in equipment chosen for speed instead of efficiency. Our risk engine helps facility teams replace assets on a planned cadence, which means less wasted carbon. We publish an annual Impact Report measuring carbon avoided across pilot deployments.

  • Publish an annual carbon-avoided estimate across customer pilots, using a documented methodology open to peer review.

  • Surface a per-asset carbon line item alongside dollar exposure in the platform itself — so the climate trade-off is visible at the point of decision.

  • Refuse to sell the platform into expansions that increase emissions without an offsetting plan from the customer.

Bayou and water — the systems we commit to protecting through our annual giving
Pillar 02
≥1%

Of revenue to clean-water and conservation non-profits, annually

Clean water & the green earth

Facilities are some of the largest consumers of water and the largest sources of inefficiency in the built environment. We partner with non-profits working on watershed protection, urban tree canopy, and ecological restoration. Directly, with a meaningful percentage of company revenue, and we publish where it went each year.

  • Donate at least 1% of annual revenue to vetted clean-water and conservation non-profits, beginning the first profitable year.

  • Match employee donations to environmental and conservation non-profits dollar for dollar, up to a published cap.

  • Publish an annual giving report naming every recipient organization and the amount donated.

Public-serving institutional building — the kind of facility Rivolq Civic supports through discounted pilots
Pillar 03
4+

Pro-bono / discounted pilots per year through Rivolq Civic

Public infrastructure equity

Hospitals, schools, and municipal facilities in under-resourced communities are the ones most exposed to deferred-maintenance failure, and the ones least likely to afford modern risk intelligence. Rivolq Civic is a discounted-or-free pilot program for public infrastructure that serves those communities.

  • Offer at least 4 pro-bono or heavily discounted pilots per year through Rivolq Civic — rural hospitals, Title I school districts, tribal facilities, public housing authorities, small municipalities.

  • Selection by application, reviewed by independent advisors with backgrounds in public infrastructure and equity work.

  • Publish anonymized pilot summaries so peer organizations can learn from the methodology.

Facility worker logging condition data in the field — the workforce we invest in through paid internships, scholarships, and open methodology
Pillar 04
2+

Paid summer internships per year for technical-college students

Workforce development

Facilities engineering has a labor problem. The workforce is aging, fewer technical-school students are entering the field, and the result is the deferred-maintenance crisis our platform exists to address. We help close that gap. Directly, through paid internships and scholarships, and through open methodology that lets the next generation learn how this work is done.

  • Fund a scholarship and apprenticeship program for facility-engineering students at technical colleges and HBCUs, starting the first full year of operations.

  • Offer at least 2 paid summer internships per year for technical-college students, with structured mentorship from the engineering team.

  • Publish core methodology documentation openly (risk model logic, Weibull calibration, evidence modifiers) so students and academic researchers can learn from it without paying for access.

How we hold ourselves to it

Three principles that keep these commitments honest.

Measured, not declared.

Every commitment on this page is paired with an annual public number. If a pillar is real, we can show what changed. If we cannot, we should not claim it.

Tied to the product, not bolted on.

These pillars exist because they connect to what we build. Carbon avoidance is a property of better capital planning. Public infrastructure equity is a property of who can afford the platform. Workforce development is a property of who will operate the platform in 10 years. Greenwashing fails because it has no operational anchor.

Honest about scale.

Rivolq is an early-stage company. The numbers in our first Impact Report will be small. We would rather publish a small honest number than a large one we cannot defend. The commitment is to grow the numbers as the company grows.

First annual report

The first Rivolq Impact Report publishes in Q1 of the first profitable year.

Until then, these are public commitments without numbers attached. That's honest about where the company is and where it's going. Sign up below if you want the report when it lands.

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