# Commons

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/commons/  
**Website:** https://www.thecommons.earth/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Commons is an Oakland, California consumer climate-fintech company founded in 2018 by Sanchali Seth Pal and operated under the name Joro until its March 2023 rebrand. Its free iOS and Android app connects a user's bank accounts and credit cards through Plaid and runs every transaction through a proprietary carbon-estimation engine, the Carbonizer, which translates dollars spent into an estimate of kilograms of CO2e, alongside budgeting, savings goals, expert-reviewed sustainable brand ratings, a rewards program, monthly community challenges and an optional paid offset membership. The company has raised roughly USD 13.9 million across three rounds from investors including Sequoia Capital and Amasia. Commons is a direct-to-consumer mobile product rather than an API vendor: thecommons.earth is a Webflow marketing site with no developer portal, no API reference and no machine-readable contract, its brand directory and member exchange run on Next.js and Softr respectively, and its only public GitHub organization, CommonsTech, holds a single 2023 repository publishing carbon-offset provider evaluations rather than code.

## Kin Score — 11.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 6.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Security (1)

- **Commons Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Climate Tech, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Offsets, Personal Finance, Consumer Fintech, Sustainability, Mobile Application, Consumer Application, California

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/commons/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.