how it's funded
Free forever, and honest about why.
docolin has no paid tier, no private docs, and nothing to sell about you. It runs on lean infrastructure and is funded by sponsors, so the question every reader should ask, what's the catch, has a straight answer.
the model
Sponsorship, not user fees or data deals.
The money comes from infrastructure companies, not from charging readers or contributors, and not from licensing anyone's work to AI labs. That's a deliberate contrast to the platforms that paywalled their docs and the Q&A site that sold its contributors' answers. The same platform and the same content are free for a solo writer and a Fortune 500 alike.
What sponsorship does not buy.
Sponsors get visible thanks and our gratitude. They do not get ranking influence, editorial say, special verification, or a back door to the data. The trust signals only mean something if they can't be bought, so they aren't for sale.
who we're looking for
Infrastructure that wins when the commons does.
If your tooling benefits from being part of the substrate AI agents ground against, databases, hosting, search, developer tools, then sponsoring docolin keeps that substrate open and growing. If that sounds like you, we'd love to talk.
Want to keep the commons open?
Reach out and we'll find a fit that works. No pitch decks required.