Funding

How Decision Labs is funded

Decision Labs is independently funded by its operators, out of pocket. We take no money from campaigns, parties, PACs, advertisers, sponsors, or data buyers. No outside funder has any say over what we publish.

What we will never do

• No ads or ad-tracking
• No sponsorships or sponsored content
• No paywalls — everything we publish is free to everyone
• No selling of data, ever — reader data or electoral data (it's all freely exportable anyway)

These aren't aspirations contingent on budget; they are constraints the site is built around. The reader is not the product here — see our privacy note.

What it costs

Running costs are modest: web hosting and the daily data pipeline that collects and validates polls. The codebase is open source under the MIT license, and the heaviest inputs — election results, census data, polling — come from public, freely licensed sources (listed on the about page). That keeps the site cheap enough to fund independently, which is the point: a platform that doesn't need to monetize its readers has no incentive to.

Donations

We do not currently accept donations. If we ever open a support channel, it will be announced on this page first, with the terms stated plainly.

If any of this changes

This page is the source of truth for how Decision Labs is funded. If our funding model ever changes, this page changes first — before any new revenue arrives, not after. Questions about funding or independence are welcome via contact.