Back the forge
Smedjan is one engineer's engine — MIT-licensed, with no company and no venture money behind it. Sponsorship buys GPU hours and the time to keep building open infrastructure that lets anyone own their own language models.
Why it matters
Owning a language model shouldn't require a Python stack, a cloud account, or somebody else's API. Smedjan exists so a person, a lab, or a company can train, run, and own a model end to end — on their own hardware, disconnected from the world if they want. Independent infrastructure only stays independent if it's funded independently.
What your money buys
GPU and Apple-Silicon hardware hours for development and benchmarking, kernel and backend work, documentation, and the maintainer's time — kept free of any framework or vendor you don't control.
What you get back
A stack you can read end to end, no lock-in, portable checkpoints, and a maintainer who answers. Sponsors shape what gets forged next.
Sponsorship tiers
Spark $5 / mo
A place on the sponsors wall and the warm glow of keeping independent infrastructure alive.
Ember $25 / mo
Everything in Spark, plus your handle credited in the repo and a vote in monthly roadmap polls.
Forge $100 / mo
Your logo on smedjan.dev and the repo, priority on issues you open, and early access to release candidates.
Foundry $500 / mo
For companies: logo placement, a direct line for questions, and real influence over the roadmap — ideal if Smedjan is in your stack.
Tiers and amounts are a starting point and may change. One-time sponsorships are welcome too.
Partner with Smedjan
Building private, on-prem, or air-gapped language models for your product or your team? Smedjan is a natural fit — pure Rust, two GPU backends, no Python runtime to ship. I take on a small number of collaborations: custom features, integration support, and sponsored development. Especially keen to work with teams in the Swedish market.