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We're organizing as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. As revenue-generating work matures, we plan to roll some operational activity into a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary -- keeping the nonprofit's mission and governance intact while giving the operational side room to grow sustainably.
Funding
In our early stage, we're pursuing grants from foundations and organizations aligned with our mission and specific advocacy positions. As the for-profit subsidiary matures, we intend to shift toward self-sustaining revenue from that subsidiary, reducing long-term reliance on grant funding.
We anticipate two major revenue drivers for the subsidiary:
- Consulting, built around our expertise in AI-native software delivery and 'lights out' spec-to-code workflows.
- Application sales on the Google Workspace Marketplace, leveraging our Google Apps Script (GAS) expertise. Specific revenue projections aren't published here, but are available on request for prospective funders.
Compensation Philosophy
This isn't a VC-funded startup chasing a lucrative exit, but we don't expect our colleagues to work for free. We plan to pay at the low-to-mid end of the tech labor market, calibrated to whatever region we're hiring in.
Salaries will be set against public, formula-based bands -- not manager discretion or negotiating leverage -- drawing on open compensation data and published pay studies. This isn't a novel idea: companies like Buffer and GitLab have run fully transparent, formula-driven compensation for years, on the premise that a public formula is fairer than private negotiation, and harder to quietly bias.