career-ops is permanently free, MIT-licensed, and community-funded.

career-ops is free software, MIT-licensed forever. The 14 modes, 45+ portal scrapers, the six-dimension rubric, the Block A–G evaluation prompt — they cost nothing to install, and they never will. But sustained craft costs time. Time to read 250 community issues and write thoughtful responses. Time to investigate the edge case in /scan that surfaces in 1 of 200 listings. Time to refuse the next “auto-apply” pull request with an explanation rather than silence. If career-ops saved you hours of spreadsheet work, surfaced a job interview, or just clarified what AI-augmented work looks like — and you have spare income — sustaining the maintainer is how you keep that work moving. Same five-star rubric. Same anti-spray-and-pray philosophy. Same MIT license. Just more depth.

How to sustain

Become a sponsor on GitHub. Nine tiers from $1 to $1,000 per month. The seven individual tiers ($1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $250) are identical statements of support — no perks gated. The two corporate tiers ($500 and $1,000) add logo placement on the README and this page as public acknowledgment; nothing else changes.

Sponsor on GitHub →

What sponsorship doesn’t get you

• No private support. Technical questions get answered in the open community, where the next person searching the same problem can find the answer.
• No early access. Release windows are the same for everyone.
• No priority support. The triage queue is the triage queue.
• No premium docs. Everything is at career-ops.org/docs, MIT-licensed, free.
• No roadmap influence. Direction is set by the maintainer in conversation with the community. Money cannot buy a feature.
• No data ownership. Your data never leaves your machine, sponsor or not.

What corporate tiers get

• $500 Corporate Supporter. Logo placement on the README and this page. Acknowledgment in major release notes.
• $1,000 Ecosystem Partner. Prominent logo placement on the README and this page. Acknowledgment in major releases. Invitation to private architectural discussions on protocol design — input welcome, no roadmap influence.

The only differentiation between individual and corporate tiers is acknowledgment. No premium features. No roadmap influence. The same MIT license, the same anti-spray-and-pray philosophy, the same open community.

Ecosystem partners

Two corporate sponsorship tiers exist on GitHub Sponsors. The $500 Corporate Supporter tier and the $1,000 Ecosystem Partner tier each grant logo placement on the project README and this page as public acknowledgment.

If you represent a mission-aligned organization — an open-source program office, a developer-tooling company, or a hiring-side product that respects the data contract — the easiest path is the GitHub Sponsors self-serve tier. For custom enterprise arrangements or larger commitments, reach out via hi@career-ops.org.

Logos appear here only when real sponsors back the project. We don’t render placeholders to look bigger than we are.