Sustainable open source economics start with automated ownership. Merit adds rich attribution information to software version control systems like Github. It allows capital sources to route funds to codebases and incentivize builders directly. Tying this capital to impact creates a dynamic market where innovation thrives and builders flourish.

As corporate hierarchies direct resources with nested layers of middle management, Merit distributes capital to builders in a distributed ecosystem programatically. Over time clear merit-based incentives will attract the best builders to projects where they can maximize their agency and impact.

We at Merit Systems are life-long builders. We've done our time in big tech and venture capital and are intimately familiar with the latent potential of individuals trapped in corporate hierarchies. We want open source to flourish because of the tremendous gifts it has provided us. Merit is for the builders, those who build because they want to improve mankind's lever over nature, to increase human abundance.

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