FOUNDING NODE PROGRAM
Join early. Use the network free.
Before paying customers fill the network, computers that join now get founding credit: credit to run your own AI jobs on DePro, such as transcribing recordings, through the console or the API.
Founding credit is credit for using DePro, not cash.
Three ways to get credit
Numbers below are the current settings, read live.
When your first computer is set up
Once per account, as soon as your first computer finishes setup and passes its speed test.
For every hour a computer is ready
Online, set up and ready to take work, checking in on time and passing the small test jobs we send now and then. A computer that is merely switched on, or paused while you use it, doesn’t count. Up to — per computer per month.
For the work your computers do
Each job your computers finish for someone else adds founding credit worth — its customer price. Jobs you send to your own computers don’t count.
The rules, in plain words
Short and honest. If anything changes, you’ll hear from us first.
Who it’s for
Accounts that join during the founding period. You keep the Founding node badge after it ends.
Not cash
Founding credit is for using DePro: speech to text, embeddings and chat, in the console or through the API with your own key. It can’t be paid out, sold or transferred. Your earnings are separate: they come only from jobs that paying customers pay for, and become cash when payouts launch.
It expires
The welcome credit lasts — days. Standby and give-to-get credit lasts — days from the day it was earned. When you use credit, the oldest is used first. Your account shows what expires next, and we remind you before it does.
Paying customers first
Jobs paid with founding credit always run after jobs from paying customers. They fill spare capacity, so free use can never slow paying customers down. Busy times may mean your free jobs wait a little.
When your computer works for founding credit
If your computer processes a job someone paid for with founding credit, you get founding credit for it, not earnings.
Fair use
Founding credit is for real use of the network. Gaming it (for example faking uptime, running jobs back and forth to create credit, or reselling access) can lead to credit being removed and the account leaving the program.
Changes
We’ll give 30 days notice before changing these rules or the amounts, by email and on your account page.