# Open source royalty — Hanzo AI

> A verified author earns 20% of the metered spend of every org that deploys a project built from their repository.

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# Your repository runs, and you are paid

Verify that you own a repository. Every org that deploys a project built from it pays you 20% of its metered spend, accrued each period, with the record behind every number.

## How it works

- Connect your GitHub account with POST /v1/author/connect.
- Prove you own a repository, or a whole owner, with POST /v1/author/repos/verify: through a linked GitHub account that can push to it, or a hanzo.json on its default branch carrying your verify code.
- When an org deploys a project built from that repository, the deploy is recorded against it.
- Each period, you accrue 20% of that org’s metered spend — once per org per period, and never from your own org.
- Payouts are recorded against what has accrued, and settled by a person.

Repositories Hanzo maintains earn the same 20% when other orgs deploy them, recorded to Hanzo’s own account.

## What you can read

`GET /v1/author` answers your verified repositories, the deploys recorded against them, and what has accrued, is pending and has been paid. `GET /v1/author/basis` is the audit trail: every ledger row, the spend it was computed from and the share applied.

Referring customers is a separate programme, paid on Hanzo’s margin: see [affiliates](https://hanzo.ai/affiliate). Open issues scoped for an outside fix are the [bounties](https://hanzo.ai/bounty). Everything Hanzo publishes is on [the open source page](https://hanzo.ai/open-source).

## Ecosystem activity

Commits, past year

618,978

150,979 by our people

Merges, past year

54,194

Commits, past 7 days

2,271

Original public repositories

1,62072 organizations checked · non-fork repositories

GitHub stars

127as GitHub counts them

GitHub forks

143as GitHub counts them

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Latest commits

- hanzoai/appApp 0.2.63: a new organization reloads where the person is; the face on the bar's gutterOct 30, 16:42 UTC
- hanzoai/appApp: the rail's marks scroll inside a short window; a new organization reloads where the person is; Oct 30, 16:38 UTC
- hanzoai/uicomposer: the mic's chevron is an 8px mark at 1x, not a smudge; 8.29.42Oct 30, 16:30 UTC
- hanzoai/buildlanding: the question sits on the composer again, not at the pane's top (v0.2.92)Oct 30, 16:28 UTC
- hanzoai/uicomposer 0.2.1: the ring turns on the compositor, the halo is still, and both rest off screenOct 30, 16:26 UTC
- hanzoai/uifooter: the legal row and the wordmark shrink to the row, so a phone wraps them; 8.29.41Oct 30, 16:25 UTC
- hanzoai/insightsRecording API blocks are asked for by start_byte and end_byteOct 30, 15:44 UTC
- hanzoai/appApp 0.2.62: Private is the composer's dashed frame and the ghost; usage a word under the boxOct 30, 15:31 UTC

Forge listing · read Oct 30, 16:44

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