What if Truto shuts down?

Truto plays a critical role in our customers' technology infrastructure, often serving as the foundation of their operations. We fully recognize concerns regarding Truto's longevity and are addressing them in the following ways:

1. Financial Stability
   
   Truto is both bootstrapped and profitable. We are dedicated to this path because it allows us the freedom to develop our product and grow at our own pace, without external funding pressures. Truto is resilient to market conditions or stagnating growth metrics.
   
2. Customer Base and Longevity
   
   Our stability is reinforced by our expanding customer base. We're proud to support incredible companies, from startups like Claira and Senja to those with significant backing, such as Sprinto and Spendflo. Their trust not only solidifies Truto but also enhances its value for our broader ecosystem.
   
3. Continuity Assurance
   
   For certain clients, we have made contractual commitments to deploy Truto within their infrastructure in the unlikely event of a shutdown, ensuring continuous service and access to the intellectual property as required.
   
4. Flexible deployment options
   
   Truto offers various deployment choices to best suit your needs —
    
   Truto Cloud: Hosted by us, ensuring ease of use and reliability.
   
   Truto On-prem: Hosted by you, with infrastructure management provided by us for optimal performance.
   
   Truto Self-host: This option allows you to fully host and manage the solution, giving you the utmost control. Additionally, we offer access to Truto's source code, empowering your engineering team to build upon and customize our foundational technology according to your specific needs.
   
5. Open-Source Commitment
   
   We are contemplating an open-source commitment. In the event that Truto ceases operations, we intend to open-source our entire codebase to guarantee ongoing access for everyone. Further updates will be provided in this blog post once we finalize our approach.

Why not open-source now?: Our pre-built unified models demand significant time and attention to detail. Open-sourcing would require us to broadly distribute our intellectual property, and dedicate resources to building and managing a community — resources we wish to allocate judiciously. Maintaining our competitive advantage in creating superior unified models is also paramount.

Staying true to the open-source movement: We believe that partially open-sourcing our product merely to label ourselves as 'open-source' contradicts the core principles of the open-source community. We are strong believers in the open-source movement and understand the importance of contributing to it with a perspective that extends beyond mere nomenclature.

If you have suggestions on what approach you think works great for core infrastructure products like Truto, we're all ears. Please write to us at [email protected]