About Aristotle
Aristotle is WattCarbon’s built-in assistant. It’s a read-only data analyst and platform guide, scoped to your own account: ask it about your assets, methodologies, and measurements in plain language, and it answers using your real data and the platform documentation.
What Aristotle can do
Section titled “What Aristotle can do”- Answer questions about your account — your assets, the methodologies applied to them, and their measurement results.
- Render tables and charts built from your account’s actual measurement data, so you can see a figure rather than read about it.
- Explain platform how-tos — onboarding meter data, configuring methodologies, and using the WEATS API — drawn from this documentation.
What Aristotle can’t do
Section titled “What Aristotle can’t do”Aristotle is strictly read-only. It cannot:
- create or edit assets, configure methodologies, or upload files;
- change anything in your account or anyone else’s;
- compare your data against other customers’ — it only ever sees your account;
- answer off-topic questions. It declines requests outside WattCarbon’s domain (political advocacy, competitor analysis, regulatory or legal advice) and steers you back to your data.
If you need to change something, use the platform’s normal screens and workflows — Aristotle can tell you how, but it can’t do it for you.
Where the numbers come from
Section titled “Where the numbers come from”The figures in Aristotle’s tables and charts are computed from your account’s actual measurement data, then referenced by the assistant — they are not invented or estimated by the language model. Charts are built from the same query results that back the numbers in the narrative.
That said, Aristotle is an AI assistant and its responses can contain mistakes, especially in how it explains or frames a result. Always verify important figures against your dashboard and reports before acting on them.
Privacy and data handling
Section titled “Privacy and data handling”- Where it runs — your conversations are processed through AWS Bedrock using Anthropic’s Claude models.
- Retention — chat history is kept for 30 days, then automatically deleted. In the chat history panel each session shows when it expires, so you always know how long a conversation will stick around.
- What’s logged — each turn records per-turn metadata and the read-only tool calls Aristotle made on your behalf to answer you. This supports the product, lets us audit answers, and helps prevent abuse.
Usage limits
Section titled “Usage limits”Your account may have limits on Aristotle usage: a cap on messages per chat session, on new sessions per day, and on tokens per month. By default these are unlimited; an administrator sets them per account when needed.
When you reach a limit, Aristotle tells you which one was hit — for example, that the per-session message limit or the monthly token limit has been reached. The per-day and per-month allowances reset automatically at the day and month boundary; the per-session limit resets when you start a new chat. If chat has been turned off for your account entirely, the panel says so.
Connect your own client
Section titled “Connect your own client”Aristotle’s chat is one way to use your data. You can also point your own MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, and others) directly at WattCarbon’s read-only endpoint and use your own LLM token budget — see Connect your own client.