Strategic Open Source Consulting
Navigate the complexities of open governance, contribution models, and community building. We help you align commercial goals with open principles, creating strategies that benefit both your organization and the broader ecosystem.
This engagement typically spans six to eight weeks. We conduct stakeholder interviews, analyze your current relationship with open source, identify strategic opportunities, and deliver a comprehensive roadmap. You'll understand which projects to support, how to structure contributions, and how to measure success beyond traditional ROI metrics.
€3,240 per engagement
Code Quality & Security Audit
Before releasing your project to the world, ensure it meets the standards communities expect. We conduct thorough reviews focusing on security vulnerabilities, maintainability, and architectural soundness.
Our audits examine not just the code itself but also documentation completeness, test coverage, and contribution guidelines. We provide a detailed report with prioritized recommendations, distinguishing between critical issues that block release and improvements that can come later.
Many organizations use this service before making a formerly internal project public, or before proposing a major feature to an upstream project.
€2,850 per audit
Community Cultivation
A thriving project needs more than code. We establish contribution guidelines, moderation frameworks, and engagement channels that attract diverse contributors while maintaining project health.
On a monthly retainer, we monitor your project's community health, facilitate discussions that prevent conflict escalation, recognize and encourage promising contributors, and help you establish governance structures that scale.
This service works particularly well for projects transitioning from small internal teams to larger public communities, or for established projects experiencing growing pains.
€4,100 monthly retainer
Documentation Architecture
Great documentation converts curious visitors into active contributors. We craft comprehensive guides, API references, and tutorials that lower the barrier to participation.
We don't just write documentation. We create information architecture that serves different user personas: end users who want to accomplish tasks quickly, developers who need API details, and potential contributors who want to understand project structure.
Deliverables typically include a documentation site structure, contribution guide, quickstart tutorial, comprehensive reference documentation, and a style guide for future documentation work.
€2,475 per project
License Compliance Analysis
Using open source software comes with legal obligations. We audit your dependencies, identify license conflicts, and recommend compliant alternatives that keep your projects legally sound.
This analysis involves scanning your codebase and all transitive dependencies, identifying licenses, checking for conflicts with your project's license, and flagging any obligations you must fulfill such as attribution requirements or source code availability.
We also provide guidance on choosing appropriate licenses for new projects, considering both your business needs and community expectations.
€1,920 per analysis
Custom Open Source Development
Need a specific tool that doesn't exist yet? We build open source solutions tailored to your requirements, then release them for others to benefit from and improve upon.
This service suits organizations that need custom functionality but recognize the strategic value of making it publicly available. By developing in the open from day one, you benefit from community feedback during development and attract early adopters who become contributors.
We handle project setup, initial development, documentation, and the first wave of community support to establish momentum. Pricing varies based on scope, with this figure representing a typical medium-complexity project.
€7,650 per project
