Sponsor us
Effective 2026-08-22. Operated by ShowStone.
ShowStone keeps a public record of what the world knows and where each piece of it came from. Sponsoring helps pay for that: it is a gift to the mission, not a purchase.
Who you would be sponsoring
ShowStone is built and run by ShowStone. Sponsorship money goes to ShowStone and is spent on running the engine.
Why it needs paying for
Reading the open sources of the world, keeping the evidence behind every statement, and holding all of it where anyone can check it costs real money every day, whether or not anybody pays us that day. Sponsorship is what lets the public half stay public.
What sponsoring is
A voluntary contribution, once or every month, that pays to keep the engine running. That is the whole of it. You get our thanks, and your name on the supporters list if you want it there.
Sponsoring is not subscribing
A subscription buys you access: a plan, a quota, a private space, an agreement. A sponsorship buys you nothing at all and is not a purchase of any service. If you want access, take a plan. If you want to support the mission, sponsor it. Neither one implies the other, and you may do either, both, or neither.
Where the money goes
Servers and bandwidth, the storage that holds the evidence, the models that read and connect what we find, and the people who keep it honest. None of it is spent on advertising.
What sponsoring does not buy
It does not buy coverage, placement, ranking, or any say in what the record says about anyone, sponsors included. No sponsor may have a statement changed, hidden or removed because it is inconvenient. If we are ever asked to trade that away, we will refuse the money instead.
How to sponsor
Write to [email protected] and say how you would like to give. Card and UPI payments open the moment our payment provider activates the account; until then we arrange it directly with you. We will tell you plainly which of those two is true on the day you write.
Receipts and tax
Every sponsorship gets a receipt from ShowStone showing the amount, the date, and what it was for. ShowStone is not a registered charity, so a sponsorship is not a tax-deductible donation in India or anywhere else. We would rather say that plainly than let you assume otherwise.
Changing your mind
A recurring sponsorship can be stopped whenever you like and the next payment simply does not happen. A payment made by mistake is refunded in full if you write to [email protected] within 7 days of it. The refund and cancellation policy carries the detail.
Contact
Sponsorship questions go to [email protected], or by post to ShowStone, PLACEHOLDER - postal address not yet set.