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We write am plain, because reader wey dey decide whether to trust project get right to know how e dey survive and wetin dat money dey push am to want do.
We dey charge for di work wey we do. We no dey charge for access to di heritage. Everything for di revenue side of dis page dey outside di corpus text, and di corpus text go remain free to individual pipo forever.
For order of intended weight. All four na intention, no be record: none of dem dey generate revenue today.
Grants
Di main support wey we intend, and di honest reason na say dis work get real public value and no get natural consumer market. Di programmes wey we target dey fund oral-literature collection, African language technology, and digital scholarship wey centre on communities wey history push aside. Di named programmes dey listed for di foot of dis page.
Institutional access
Di recurring revenue wey we intend. We dey ask universities, libraries and cultural institutions to pay for institutional-grade access: durable citation, usage reporting, catalogue records, accessibility compliance, and continuity commitment. Individual pipo dey get di same text free. Dis na di standard arrangement for scholarly resources and e dey fund free public access instead of competing with am.
Software licensing
Di platform wey dey under dis corpus no be Yorùbá-specific. Other language and heritage communities get di same problem and almost none of dem get di engineering. To license dat platform na di project main commercial line, and e dey completely outside di heritage material.
Teaching, work wey dem pay us do and voluntary support
Di remainder. None of am involve selling anything devotional, initiatory or ritual.
No grant don dey awarded and no institutional agreement dey ground. Di project dey self-funded for now. Di programmes wey we name below na targets, no be funders of dis work, and nothing for dis page suppose read as claim say dem dey support am.
Di list na di point. Reader wey dey decide whether to trust di project dey decide based on di refusals.
Put di corpus behind paywall
Di heritage text go remain free to individual pipo, forever, without any account.
Sell divination or spiritual service dem
No readings, no initiations, no Odù interpretations, no spiritual service of any kind.
Sell ancestry or lineage tracing
Di records no support am, and to sell reconstructed heritage to pipo wey badly want am na di most extractive option wey dey.
Put òrìṣà imagery or Odù signatures on merchandise
Sacred iconography no be product surface.
Give license make dem use Ifá verse content take train generative AI
Di downstream harm wey person fit already see pass any money wey e go bring, and di decision no even close.
Collect investment wey demand growth wey di material no fit produce ethically
Funding structure wey need di corpus to scale faster than we fit source am go break every other commitment for dis pages.
Dis na small operation and e intend to remain small. E no be venture-funded and e no dey try become big.
Realistic funding dey support very small team wey dey do dis work carefully over long period, wey na di only shape wey di work worth doing at all.