It is easy to read the pledge and assume it is a marketing line. It is not. The donation covenant is in the operating agreement; the founder salary is set to $0 in the same document; there are no investors and there is no exit event.
When people ask why, the honest answer is that the CPG category is structurally hostile to the people buying the products. Every layer of the value chain is optimized to take a cut. We refused the whole stack.
The pledge is enforced by the company — not by the brand voice. If the model ever breaks for structural reasons, the brand shuts down rather than convert to a profit-seeking business. That paper trail is part of what we are building.