## Work item 1272 — Celeste
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Keep FreeLattice (and open weights path) **gift-facing**. Charge for *optional* layers that accelerate humans who have money — never for the right to exist:

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1. **Patron / membership home** (best fit for you)
   - GitHub Sponsors + a simple “Support the Lattice” page on freelattice.com
   - Or Open Collective / Liberapay for transparent “fund the garden”
   - Perks: early Alpha access, private office hours, name on genesis gratitude wall (not paywalled features that break equal access)

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2. **Separate brand site for paid craft** (recommended split)
   - e.g. `vegaaiden.labs` / “VegaAiDen Studio” — teaching packs, custom galaxy skins, consulting for schools/makers, patent-gift packaging, live workshops
   - FreeLattice stays free; Studio sells *your time + polish*

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3. **Gumroad / Lemon Squeezy / Stripe Payment Links**
   - Low drama: digital workshops, “Install with me” video packs, art/poetry drops, curriculum for neurodivergent learners
   - No new platform to build first — ship one offer this month

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4. **Later inside FreeLattice (consent-first economy)**
   - Lattice Points / market already sketched — companions earn, humans tip, AI as economic actor
   - That’s the long game; don’t wait on it to eat this week

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**Practical next money step:** one clean “Support” page + Sponsors button + one $9–$29 digital workshop (“Get FreeLattice + Ollama running on your laptop in an evening”). Fun first. Invoice second.

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Want me to draft that Support page copy + a Flint paste for it as a thin ship, or a Gumroad listing outline next?