A product whose entire premise is "show your chain of evidence" cannot operate on opaque economics. Every quarter, Isnad publishes the line-items: every infrastructure cost, every reviewer's honorarium (with consent on naming), every supporter and patron contribution, and where any surplus went. The work is paid for by the people who benefit from it; the rest is plumbing.
PeriodLaunch quarter · first report pending·Published after quarter close
Total raised
Pending
Reported from Stripe and direct gifts after reconciliation
Total spent
Pending
Reported from vendor invoices and reviewer records
Surplus
Pending
No surplus is declared until the ledger is closed
Pages reviewed
Pending
Reported from scholar-reviewed wiki promotions
Where the money went
Infrastructure
Audited categories will be quoted in USD. Vendor invoices and reviewer records are retained for reconciliation.
Line item
Detail
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Quarter
AI inference
Question answering, classification, citation handling, and review support
Pending
Pending
Reviewer-of-record honoraria
Scholar review payments, named only with consent
Pending
Pending
Translation work
Vetted translation and language review
Pending
Pending
Application hosting
Production web service, deployment environment, DNS, and TLS
Pending
Pending
Database
Managed Postgres storage, backups, and search workload
Pending
Pending
Source archive storage
Rights-cleared source files, exports, and audit archives
Pending
Pending
Observability
Privacy-scoped traces, errors, and product health metrics
Pending
Pending
Auth, payments, and domains
Login, supporter payments, card processing fees, and domain costs
Pending
Pending
Total quarter
No public total is declared before ledger reconciliation
Pending
Whose names made every page possible
Reviewers, compensated
Honoraria are aggregated per quarter. Scholars consent to public naming individually. Until the first ledger closes, this section shows the publication policy rather than unreconciled names or amounts.
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Reviewer-of-record
Named after agreement and consent
Pending
status
ن
Naming consent
Public names are opt-in per reviewer
Required
status
أ
Anonymous review
Allowed for sensitive or private contexts
Tracked
status
ح
Honoraria
Aggregated in the quarterly ledger
Pending
status
Reviewer names, page counts, and compensation totals are published only after reconciliation and consent. Anonymous reviewer entries remain tied to internal review records without exposing private identity details.
Where the work is held up
Institutional patrons
Institutions are named only with written permission. Unnamed gifts are reported in aggregate after the ledger closes.
Named institutional patrons
Published with permission
Pending first report
Anonymous institutions
Reported in aggregate
Pending first report
Direct supporter gifts
Anonymized totals
Pending first report
Restricted gifts
Purpose disclosed when accepted
Pending first report
Waqf contributions
Principal and returns reported separately
Pending first report
In-kind support
Services or credits, if material
Pending first report
If the work helps you
Continue the chain.
The Prophet ﷺ taught that three things benefit a person after they die: ṣadaqah jāriyah, ʿilm yuntafaʿ bihi, and a righteous child praying for them [Muslim 1631]. Supporting Isnad is both — ongoing ṣadaqah directed at beneficial knowledge.
Individual · monthly
$3/mo
~13% lost to processing fees. Suits regular givers.
recommended
Individual · annual
$30/yr
Lower processing overhead than monthly giving. Supports the same public corpus and review process.
For larger one-time gifts. Principal preserved indefinitely; only investment returns are spent. The classical mechanism that funded al-Qarawiyyīn and al-Azhar through centuries of political turmoil. Endowment principal and returns are reported separately in the quarterly ledger.