Support the atlas
Last updated 25 September 2026
The Five Layer AI Cake is free to read, and the dataset behind it — 103 companies, 155 events, 33 people — is CC BY 4.0, which means you can take it, build on it and sell what you build, as long as you say where it came from. That is deliberate and it is not going to change.
It also costs money and hours every week: the research, the model calls that draft it, the human who reads every draft before it merges. If the atlas is useful to you or to your company and you want to put something behind it, there are three ways, and all of them give you something back.
1 · Sponsor a slot
One rotating, clearly labelled sponsored · launch placement on the atlas ribbon, matched to your layer — silicon ads sit with silicon, tooling with tooling. Copy runs in atlas voice: concrete, dry, no hype words.
The editorial firewall, stated up front: sponsorship buys the labelled slot and never a company entry, a score, or an event in the dataset. Every placement is approved by the editor, and a declined placement is refunded in full. If we cannot place you honestly, we say no.
2 · Commission a film
A 30-second vertical film built from your own documents or your public filings — a company introduction, a safety or SOP briefing, an induction, a CSR explainer. Facts come only from your material. For safety films we render your procedure and never write one for you. You approve the script and the cut before anything is delivered.
This is the work that pays for the atlas, so commissioning one is the most direct support there is.
3 · Take a listed placement
If neither of the above fits but you still want to back the work: email us, name the amount, and we send an invoice from Nirukta. Your name — or your company's, with a link — goes in the supporters list on this page.
That is a small, plainly labelled placement rather than a gift, and the next section explains why that distinction is not us being pedantic.
Supporters
Nobody yet. This list starts the day someone is on it, and it will name them in the order they arrived.
Why there is no donate button
Because we are not a charity, and pretending otherwise would be the beginning of a mess for both of us.
ConeApex is the trading name of Nirukta Digital XR Technologies Private Limited, an ordinary private limited company. It holds no 12A or 80G registration, because those belong to trusts, societies and Section 8 companies. So:
- You get no 80G deduction for anything you send us, and we will never imply otherwise or issue a receipt that looks like one.
- Everything above is a service, invoiced. You receive a placement, a film, or a listing, and a proper invoice carrying our legal name and CIN. That is the honest description of the transaction and it is also the one that keeps it clean.
- We cannot accept donations from outside India. Under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act 2010, a gift from a foreign source to an Indian company is foreign contribution, and receiving it requires a registration this company does not hold. Payment for a service is a different thing entirely — so a sponsor or a client anywhere in the world is welcome, and a donor is not.
If you were hoping to give tax-deductible money to independent AI research, we would rather point you somewhere it counts than take it here. METR is a research nonprofit doing measurement work we read and cite.
What your money actually pays for
- The model calls that draft each batch of candidate events, and the hours spent reading them before any of it merges.
- Keeping the dataset open — CC BY 4.0, with no paywall and no "contact us for access" tier.
- The text-first pages, which exist so the atlas can be read and cited without running any code.
- Translation and native review, so the primers work in more than one language.
Nothing here buys a place in the dataset. That is the one thing not for sale, and it is the only reason the rest is worth anything.
ConeApex is the trading name of Nirukta Digital XR Technologies Private Limited (CIN U62090TS2025PTC198275), GEM Square, Madhapur, Hyderabad 500081, Telangana, India. Terms · Refunds · Contact. Nothing on this page is a charitable solicitation.