bernstein is the apache 2.0 reference implementation of an HMAC-chained audit log for parallel CLI coding agents. every scheduling decision is plain python, every agent action is tamper-evidently logged. the audit chain maps cleanly to EU AI Act Article 12 automatic event-logging and DORA Article 8-15 ICT-incident-reporting evidence.
no sponsors yet. first three sponsors get listed by name on the homepage.
what your sponsorship actually funds. one human running an audit-grade orchestrator. tokens going through the docs bot. infrastructure that keeps the audit-chain reference alive while the project waits for production users. the bet is that tamper-evident logging becomes table-stakes for regulated AI coding pipelines in the next 24 months, and that an apache-licensed reference implementation is useful to have around when it does.
stage honesty. 295 stars. ~3,769 pypi downloads/day, mostly bots. one maintainer. no production reference customer. no SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / FedRAMP. tiers below are picked by who you are, not how much we are worth. nothing here gets diverted into growth marketing or paid distribution. it goes into code and audit-chain reference work.
you work somewhere DORA, NIS2, EU AI Act Article 12, SR 11-7, or ISO 42001 lands on your plate. the audit chain is the primitive your compliance team actually needs from an AI coding pipeline. back the reference implementation so it stays around when procurement asks for one.
$100/mo tier fits, see below.
you study agent behaviour and need a deterministic substrate that does not change the experiment when you re-run it. bernstein is plain python on the coordination path, zero LLM tokens on scheduling, every decision is in the HMAC chain. replayable end to end.
$25/mo tier fits.
you compete on a different axis (TUI, swarm, kanban, hosted SaaS). the audit-grade column is empty in every one of the bigger projects' readmes. backing this means the column stays in the public commons rather than getting absorbed into a closed-source vendor.
$100/mo tier fits.
bernstein saved you a few claude bills, or you starred it and want it to keep shipping. $5 or $25 a month covers a meaningful slice of openrouter tokens. lowercase voice. no growth-hack ladder.
$5/mo or $25 one-time tier fits.
first three sponsors get listed by name on the homepage.
| tier | label | benefits |
|---|---|---|
| $5/mo | “you starred bernstein” | name in BACKERS.md, sponsor-only monthly changelog with breaking-change advisories. |
| $25/mo | “you ship at a small company” | above, plus a private sponsors discussion in the github repo. |
| $100/mo | “your team runs bernstein in CI” | above, plus small avatar in README and bernstein.run/sponsors. |
| $500/mo | “your company depends on bernstein” | above, plus monthly 30-min office hours, logo + tagline on bernstein.run, security pre-disclosure for breaking changes. |
| $25 one-time | “say thanks for the audit-trail bug i logged” | name in BACKERS.md. |
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