Most supplement brands ask for faith: trust the label, trust the blend, trust the price won't creep. We'd rather show the arithmetic. The Ledger is one page where every promise ARC makes is written down and checkable — the doses and the math behind them, what we deliberately left out, the price lock for the founding thousand, and the lab report for every batch we've ever made.
A brand's real character isn't in what it claims — it's in what it's willing to be caught on. This page exists so we can be caught. If a dose is short, the math below won't add up. If an ingredient is fairy-dusted, the COA will say so. If the price ever moves for a founder, the promise here is dated and public. Nothing on this page requires you to take our word for anything.
Here is the trick the industry runs, and how to catch it. Magnesium glycinate is a compound: magnesium bound to the amino acid glycine. Only about 14% of a fully-reacted magnesium glycinate powder is elemental magnesium — the part your body actually uses. The rest is the glycine carrier.
So a label can say "Magnesium Glycinate 400 mg" and be telling the truth about the powder while delivering only ~56 mg of usable magnesium — roughly one-seventh of a real dose. That gap is where fairy-dusting hides. To actually deliver 400 mg of elemental magnesium, you have to put in about 2,800 mg of glycinate powder. We do. Here's the whole stick, shown the honest way:
Figures reflect the target formula and are finalized against each batch's Certificate of Analysis below. Elemental-magnesium percentage varies slightly by supplier and reaction completeness; the COA is the source of truth, not this table.
A long ingredient list is a marketing decision, not a formulation one. Every extra name on a label is either at a real dose — which costs real money and real fill weight — or it's a token amount there to look impressive. We chose a short formula at full doses over a long one at trace amounts. Here's what we deliberately kept out, and the honest reason for each.
Effective for shifting the clock, but easy to overdose and easy to build tolerance to at the megadoses sold retail. It belongs to a specific problem, not a nightly ritual. Out on purpose.
A "blend" is a legal way to hide how little of each ingredient is inside. Every dose in ARC is disclosed to the milligram. There is no blend to hide behind.
No GABA, no valerian, no 5-HTP filler at token amounts. If we can't dose it where the research does, it doesn't earn a place on the label.
The founders' guarantee
The first 1,000 people to reserve a spot pay their founding price for as long as they stay subscribed. Not a launch discount that expires — a rate that never moves, even when the public price does.
We're capping the founding group at 1,000 because a formula this expensive to make honestly cannot survive being scaled to ten thousand without cutting the doses you just read above. Keeping the group small isn't humility — it's how we protect the formula from ourselves.
Recorded here so it can be held against us. Last updated at launch · Founding cohort: 1 of 1,000.
The math above is a promise; the Certificate of Analysis is the receipt. Every production batch goes to an independent, accredited lab and is measured for potency, heavy metals, and microbiology — then posted by batch number for anyone to read. Founders see each new report first. Find the batch number on the bottom of your box and look it up.
Everything a supplement brand normally hides — the real doses, the subtractions, the pricing, the lab results — lives on this one page instead. It's slower and more expensive to run a company this way, which is exactly why so few do, and exactly why the people who care can tell the difference. If we ever break a promise, this is where you'll catch us.