1. Our Commitment

MissionOpsAI Ltd (company registration number 14437210) recognises that its operations, whilst primarily digital, have an environmental footprint through energy consumption, hardware procurement, and business travel. We are committed to understanding, managing, and progressively reducing our environmental impact, and to operating our business in a manner consistent with sustainable development principles.

This Environmental Policy sets out our current commitments and approach. As an early-stage technology company, our environmental programme will mature alongside the business. We commit to annual review of this policy and to publishing updated statements as our practices develop.

2. Infrastructure and Hosting

A significant component of our environmental impact relates to the compute infrastructure underpinning the MissionOpsAI Platform. We have made deliberate choices to minimise this impact:

European data centres: All primary platform infrastructure is hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH in data centres in Germany and Finland. European data centres generally operate with lower carbon intensity than their US equivalents, benefiting from a higher proportion of renewable energy in the regional electricity grid mix. Finland in particular benefits from a high proportion of hydroelectric and nuclear generation.

Efficient single-server architecture: The MissionOpsAI Platform is currently engineered as an efficient single-server deployment rather than a distributed multi-region architecture. This approach minimises redundant compute resource consumption during our early stage of growth. Resources are provisioned to match actual demand rather than being over-provisioned for peak capacity.

Hetzner's environmental commitments: Hetzner operates its data centres with a power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating among the best in the industry and is actively working towards carbon-neutral operations. Our infrastructure provider's environmental commitments form part of our own environmental performance.

3. Business Operations

Remote-first operations: MissionOpsAI Ltd operates as a primarily remote organisation. This significantly reduces commuting-related emissions for our team and eliminates the need for large, energy-intensive office premises during our current growth stage.

Business travel: Where business travel is necessary, we prefer rail over aviation for domestic and near-European journeys where practicable. We conduct client meetings via video conference where this meets the client's requirements, reducing travel-related emissions.

Procurement: We give preference to suppliers with demonstrated environmental commitments. We minimise physical hardware procurement, using hosted infrastructure over on-premise equipment wherever possible.

4. AI and Energy Consumption

We acknowledge that AI workloads are energy-intensive, and we take this seriously as part of our environmental responsibility. Our approach includes:

Selecting AI model sizes and architectures appropriate to each task, avoiding unnecessarily large models where smaller, efficient models suffice.
Implementing caching and response deduplication to avoid redundant inference requests.
Monitoring AI API consumption and setting usage policies that discourage unnecessary or frivolous use of compute-intensive features.
Favouring AI providers that have published renewable energy commitments and are working to reduce the carbon intensity of AI inference.

5. ESG Reporting and Governance

We recognise that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are increasingly important to institutional investors, enterprise procurement teams, and regulated clients. This Environmental Policy forms part of our broader ESG framework alongside our Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy, Modern Slavery Statement, and Accessibility Statement.

We intend to develop a more comprehensive ESG report as the business scales, including quantitative data on our carbon footprint and targets aligned with the UK Government's net zero commitments. We are mindful of the requirements of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and will work towards relevant disclosure as we grow.

6. Compliance

We comply with all applicable environmental legislation in England and Wales, including the Environment Act 2021, the Climate Change Act 2008 (as amended), and regulations made thereunder. We will keep this policy under review as the regulatory landscape develops, including any developments relating to the mandatory climate-related disclosure regime for UK companies.

7. Continuous Improvement

We commit to continuous improvement of our environmental performance. Our near-term priorities include: establishing a baseline measurement of our Scope 1, 2, and material Scope 3 emissions; identifying opportunities to reduce energy consumption within the platform architecture; and exploring offsetting mechanisms as a complement (not a substitute) to emissions reduction.

We welcome feedback from clients, investors, and stakeholders on our environmental approach. Please contact us at legal@missionopsai.com.

8. Responsibility

The Chief Executive Officer has overall responsibility for this Environmental Policy. Day-to-day responsibility for environmental matters rests with our operations function. This policy is reviewed annually and updated as our operations and the regulatory environment evolve.

MissionOpsAI Ltd, registered in England and Wales. Company registration number: 14437210.