Here's how we do it.

• Ad-free services that we run for you, with low-cost premium features.
• Efficient and automated where possible customer support to keep costs down.
• Open source and dual license - to prevent others from making bank off our work.
• We're here to provide benefit and help others, first and foremost!
• All Profits to Charity. (Uncle Sam is a necessary benefactor, for better or worse.)
• We don't buy ads. We rely on YOU to get the word out!
• Minimize Money to The Man. Whatever that means...
• Publicly visible Charities and Amounts - transparency
• Publicly visible compensation. Our highest paid hourly rate less than 3x our lowest paid.
• Relaxed development times and working style.
• Low staffing - we're lean.

We haven't raised any money yet! But our goal is to make a sizable donation split four ways to these endeavors by years' end.

• Warren Wilson College
• Homeward Bound of greater Asheville, NC
• ArtSpace Charter School in Swannanoa NC
• Empowerment International

We don't have anything to report. Yet. Soon you'll find a link to our quarterly P&L.

The Wild and Scenic Chattooga River slips out of the mountains of North Carolina and into northern Georgia cold, clear, untamed, and fiercely alive. The river embodies a mystical quality, and dissolves boundaries: between states, between past and present, between human time and river time. Often shrouded in mist, the river inspires a sense of wonder. Within its course the mind becomes quiet. The world somehow wider. More open, even amid the tight slopes of the river's boundaries.

From the Cherokee Tsatu-gi means "Has crossed the stream." As a metaphor, for us at Shatuga, it symbolizes the transformation we are experiencing into new ways of being human, especially with A.I. in the mix. We've crossed into something wild, and untamed. The Cherokee people once inhabited these lands at times unchallenged. And so to honor this heritage, we are offering Shatuga to you - as a free service - for we have crossed into a new place - a new time - together.