Micromark is free, independent, and built by one person. Every Mark costs real infrastructure. If an engine gave you a verdict worth acting on, you can keep the engines running.
No paywall. No pop-up.
Just a question, asked once.
You may have arrived here after a Mark. Maybe it told you something a dashboard had been hiding for months. Maybe it told you something you didn’t want to hear, which is usually the same thing.
Either way, it cost you nothing. That was the deal, and the deal doesn’t change. Every engine stays free. Every Mark stays free. Nobody hits a limit mid-question.
But free is a price, not a cost. The cost is real, and right now one person carries it. This page is where you can carry a little of it too — if, and only if, an engine earned it.
What free actually costs.
We don’t do inflated infrastructure claims, so we won’t start here. Micromark runs lean by design — but lean is not zero.
Every Mark touches a database. Over a thousand benchmark rows, maintained by hand, checked against real market data, kept honest so the verdict can be. Databases run on servers, and servers run on money.
Every Mark that reaches an inbox costs delivery. Email infrastructure is the least romantic line item in software and the least optional one.
Every engine takes weeks to build. The metrics, the benchmark cascade, the verdict logic, the testing. There is no team. There is one person, evenings and weekends, and a conviction that verdicts beat dashboards.
We’re not asking you to buy anything. We’re asking you to keep something alive that gave you an answer.
Pick the one that fits.
No tier tables. No feature matrices. Three honest options, in ascending order of belief.
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Keep the engines running.
A one-time contribution. No tiers, no perks, no recurring guilt. It pays for servers, benchmarks, and email delivery — the unglamorous machinery behind every Mark. Give once, and the engines run a little longer.
Contribute once →02
Fund the next engine.
Every engine starts as a question nobody has built an answer for. Sponsor one, and your name goes on that engine’s page — permanently. You won’t own the engine. You’ll have made it exist.
Sponsor an engine →03
Invest in what’s next.
Micromark 2.0 is on the drawing board — engines that connect to your live data and deliver verdicts on their own. If you believe verdicts beat dashboards, and you invest in things you believe, the form below is for you.
Go to the form →Micromark 2.0 is on the drawing board.
The engines you use today ask you for your numbers. The engines we’re designing next won’t have to ask.
Connected engines. Plug in your analytics, your store, your billing — and the engines read the numbers themselves. No forms. No copy-paste. The question stays yours; the fetching becomes ours.
Marks that arrive on their own. A verdict in your inbox every week, written from your live data. Not a dashboard you have to visit. A debrief that visits you.
Engines that got smarter. Deeper synthesis, sharper verdicts, the same one-question discipline. Micro stays the discipline. The Mark just gets better at being the answer.
If you read that and thought “I’d back that” — this form is the shortest distance between that thought and us.
The suites have sales teams.
The engines have you.
If a Mark ever changed a decision, you already know why this page exists.