Donate

Scry is a public-data archive running on hardware we own. A donation buys the physical substance of the archive: disks that keep whole sources forever, memory that makes big queries fast, bandwidth that pulls new data in. The archive grows as fast as we can buy those things, and no faster.

We take money rather than hardware, because the useful part is the drive that matches the array or the memory that matches the board. Each donor is told what their money bought.

As of September 4, 2026, I have about one month of runway on this project before I have to sell one of my GPUs to keep the differentiated crawling going. Donations move that date.

Stripe takes card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay for any amount and returns you here when it is done. The one choice is whether the world sees it.

To fund a particular item, or a substantial share of the archive, write to hi@scry.io with the item or an amount. We confirm what it will buy before taking anything and show you what it bought after, with the hardware, the timeline, and what the archive gains. Sponsors are credited by name with what their money became, or stay anonymous, as they choose.

Asking people to guess — the need, the amount, whether now matters — is computationally unkind. So, plainly:

I know I can build differentiated query substrates as a venture-backed and successful startup. I can be very good about strategic information hiding (e.g. not being overly public about startup finances). But right now, Scry runs on owned, purpose-built infrastructure, and I've been steeped in engineering over storytelling. I'm hoping someone soon will realize that I can definitely spend 7 or 8 figures productively, and have genuine returns for epistemic infrastructure for existential resilience. For instance: Scry was funded in April with a $150k gift and four consumer GPUs. Most of that money went into the hardware Scry runs on. With that, I have made the best query substrate — the best computational substrate for tracing the internet, in combination with other search tools — for doing existential philanthropy and finding the gifted people who have been putting in the work and haven't been Noticed by capital yet.

If a loan fits you better than a gift, that works too — write to hi@scry.io.

— Xyra Sinclair, September 2026

Unflatten is a company, so a donation is not tax-deductible; it pays for infrastructure you want to exist. We are forming a nonprofit, OpenScry (openscry.org), to steward the archive long-term.