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Transparency

Everything we do, in plain sight

HAS is an open-science project funded by its community. Here is our real status — no marketing — so anyone can verify it.

Our transparency principles

  • Open code: the entire stack (has-web, has-admin, has-simulator) lives on GitHub under MIT license.
  • Open data: aggregated datasets we publish carry a DOI on Zenodo under CC-BY 4.0.
  • Open process: every architectural decision lives as a public ADR in the specs repo.
  • Open finance: we detail donation status, AWS spend, and legal-entity plan right here.

Donation status

Current status: PAUSED

Donations are temporarily disabled while we formalize the nonprofit legal entity. No money is being accepted today.

We paused donations in May 2026 because Stripe identified HAS within its restricted-businesses list (project without formal legal entity). The key was disabled the same day and `POST /donate` endpoints return HTTP 500 until the block is resolved. Plan: apply to Open Source Collective as 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor and, once MRR reaches $1k USD/month, incorporate our own Mexican A.C.

Full decision documented in ADR-020 — Pause donations pending legal entity.

Legal entity and governance

HAS operates as a natural person (founder) transitioning to a formal nonprofit entity. The interim Privacy Officer is the same founder; the formal DPO role will be designated when real citizens enter production. The privacy policy (v0.1-draft) is pending legal review per jurisdiction (Mexico LFPDPPP, US HIPAA + state laws, EU GDPR, Brazil LGPD).

Legal entity roadmap: ADR-009 — Legal Entity Strategy. Privacy Officer designation: 13-security/privacy-officer.md.

Infrastructure and costs

All infra lives in a single AWS account (account 712389989805, dixi profile). Costs are under explicit alerts to avoid surprises.

Hosting
AWS (S3 + CloudFront + Route53 + ACM for has-web; Lambda + API Gateway + Aurora Postgres + Cognito for has-admin; ECS Fargate scale-to-zero for has-simulator).
Budget
AWS Budgets alerts at $5 (warning) and $20 (critical). Simulator idle cost: ~$0 (Fargate scale-to-zero).
Deployment
AWS CodePipeline for the 3 repos (has-web, has-admin, has-simulator). Each push to main triggers automatic build + test + deploy.
Encryption
AES-256 at rest (AWS KMS with dedicated CMKs for vault and hub). TLS 1.3 in transit. No third parties with data access.

How to verify all of this

None of the above requires trusting our word. Everything can be audited:

Last updated: 2026-05-29