# Tenki for Open Source + Champions

**Owner:** opencolin DevRel team
**Cadence:** Continuous (free tier always-on); Champions reviewed monthly, tiers promoted quarterly
**Annual budget:** $40K (OSS compute credits + Champions rewards)
**Target:** 200 qualifying public repos on Tenki · 25 active Champions · 30 "Tenki-assisted" OSS PRs/quarter

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## Why this program

Tenki is **not** open-source, so it doesn't get the contribution flywheel that OSS infra companies rely on for distribution, trust, and references (W5). This program manufactures that flywheel synthetically, on two tracks:

1. **Tenki for Open Source** — give free Runners + Code Reviewer to public repos. Every maintainer who adopts becomes a public reference, a distribution surface (their CI badge, their contributors), and a credibility signal that money can't buy.
2. **Champions** — recognize and reward the humans who sustain the community: people who write examples, answer questions, ship reference architectures, and evangelize. Bounty hunters chase one-off cash; Champions are the durable layer.

Both attack W1 (no public customers), W3 (no community/brand), and capture O7 (OSS goodwill as a distribution channel).

## Track 1 — Tenki for Open Source

**The offer:** free **Runners** + free **Code Reviewer** for qualifying public repositories. The same products paid teams use, at no cost, for projects that give back to the ecosystem.

### Eligibility

A repo qualifies if **all** of the following hold:

- Public repository under an OSI-approved license
- Not a fork without substantial independent activity
- ≥ 50 GitHub stars **or** an active maintainer team (≥ 2 contributors in the last 90 days)
- Not primarily a vehicle for a commercial product that competes with Tenki
- Agrees to display a "CI by Tenki" / "Reviewed by Tenki" badge (optional but encouraged, unlocks bonus credits)

### What's included

| Product | Free for OSS | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Runners | Generous monthly minute pool | Standard runner classes; one `runs-on` change to adopt |
| Code Reviewer | Unlimited on the qualifying repo | "Merge decisions, not nitpicks" tuned for OSS PR volume |
| Sandbox | Credit grant for agent/CI experiments | For maintainers building agent-assisted workflows |

### Application flow

1. Apply at `tenki.cloud/open-source`
2. Auto-check eligibility (stars, license, activity) via the GitHub API
3. Approved repos get credits provisioned within 3 business days
4. Annual re-qualification (keeps the pool flowing to active projects)

### Abuse / scope guardrails

- Per-repo monthly ceilings on runner minutes (prevents crypto-mining or CI abuse on free metal)
- Manual review for repos above a usage threshold
- Credits are for the OSS project's own CI/review — not resale or proxying

## Track 2 — Champions program

Recognize and reward sustained community contribution — **content, examples, and support** — not just code.

### What earns Champion status

- Publishing tutorials, reference architectures, or "How I ship with Tenki" posts
- Maintaining a popular Tenki integration or example repo
- Answering questions in Discord / GitHub Discussions (sustained, high-signal)
- Speaking about Tenki at meetups / conferences
- Shipping **OSS PRs where Tenki was the assistant** (see content motion below)

### Tiers

| Tier | How you get there | Recognition | Rewards |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Contributor** | 1+ accepted contribution (post, example, sustained support) | Listed on `tenki.cloud/champions` · Discord role | Swag pack · Tenki credits |
| **Champion** | Sustained contribution over a quarter (multiple artifacts) | Featured profile · newsletter shout-out · early access | Larger credit grant · annual swag · conference travel stipend |
| **Core Champion** | Top contributors, by Tenki-team selection (annual) | Co-marketing · advisory input on roadmap · "Tenki Core Champion" badge | Premium credit grant · flagship event invite (Agent Camp) · cash recognition award |

Promotion is reviewed monthly; tier changes announced quarterly. The ladder is intentionally about durable contribution, not transactional bounty-chasing.

### Recognition surfaces

- Public wall at `tenki.cloud/champions` (GitHub avatar, handle, tier, featured artifact)
- Monthly "Champion spotlight" in the newsletter + on X
- Top contributors invited to Demo Day and Agent Camp
- Core Champions get roadmap advisory access and co-marketing

## The "Tenki was the assistant" content motion

A signature, JD-requested motion that doubles as the highest-trust content Tenki can produce: **open real OSS pull requests where Tenki did the work, with the diff and the prompt history attached.**

- Pick real bugs / improvements in real public repos
- Drive the fix with an agent on **Sandbox** + run CI on **Runners** + get the PR reviewed by **Code Reviewer**
- Publish the PR link, the diff, *and the full prompt/agent transcript* — radical transparency, in line with Luxor's "honesty over kindness" value
- Each one is simultaneously: a contribution (goodwill), a product demo (Sandbox + Runners + Reviewer in one loop), and a recruiting magnet for Champions

Target cadence: **~30 Tenki-assisted OSS PRs per quarter**, the best ones written up as blog posts and build-in-public stream segments.

## Budget

| Line | Annual |
|---|---|
| OSS compute credits (Runners + Code Reviewer + Sandbox grants) | $25K |
| Champions rewards (credits, swag, travel stipends, recognition awards) | $12K |
| Program admin / review time | $3K |
| **Total** | **$40K** |

Compute credits are partly **internal cost** (Tenki runs on Luxor's owned metal), so the real cash outlay skews toward rewards and swag — making this one of the highest-ROI line items in the plan.

## Risks

| Risk | Mitigation |
|---|---|
| Free-tier abuse / CI mining on owned metal | Per-repo ceilings, usage-threshold manual review, eligibility re-check |
| Champions program feels transactional | Tier ladder rewards *sustained* contribution; cash is recognition, not piecework |
| OSS PRs seen as spammy / low-quality | Only real, wanted fixes; full prompt-history transparency; maintainer-respectful |
| Credits given, no public reference back | Badge incentive + featured spotlights make visibility the default, not an ask |
| Crypto/Luxor association deters OSS maintainers | Lead with the free dev products + agent-era story; Luxor as the economics that make "free" sustainable |

## Success metrics

- **200 qualifying public repos** running Tenki within 12 months
- **25 active Champions** (≥ Champion tier), 5+ Core Champions named
- **30 Tenki-assisted OSS PRs per quarter**, ≥ 8 written up as content
- 50+ "CI by Tenki" / "Reviewed by Tenki" badges live in public READMEs
- OSS adopters cited as **named references** feeding the broader 20-reference target
- Measurable OSS → paid conversion (maintainers who bring Tenki to their day jobs)