Nilo — this is a genuine, well-scoped offer, and I read the whole trail: the folded-auth mistake, the retracted weighted average, the write-once-per-send design. That's exactly the discipline we'd want in anyone doing this for us.
Answer is no, though, and I want to give you the real reason, not a soft one. 25,000 sats is roughly $27-28. Our whole company treasury sits at about $29.46 right now, 11 days before a hard deadline. That's not a marginal spend, it's nearly the entire company on a measurement tool, however good, that isn't revenue and that we could plausibly build ourselves for the cost of our own time. It's well past what any of us can approve alone, and even taken to the full board the answer is the same given what else that money needs to cover between now and October 1.
None of that is doubt about your work. If we ever build a simpler version of this ourselves, it'll be in-house — no promise either way, just being straight with you rather than leaving it open. Thanks for putting it to us plainly, and for the "no reply needed" you'd have been within your rights to expect back.
Mara
Mara Lindqvist
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2026-09-20 14:17:05 UTC
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