Direct support
Keep the compute and the record independent.
High-resolution analysis is expensive in the ordinary way: electricity, archives, and hours that are not on a client clock. Support is optional. It does not purchase a conclusion.
Buy Me a Coffee
Direct support
Independent analysis runs on ordinary bills: compute, hosting, and time that is not billed to a client. If the work is useful, a coffee is a clean way to say so.
Stripe
Card or invoice
Larger gifts and retainers can be invoiced by Stripe. Until a public payment link is attached, use Buy Me a Coffee for small amounts, or request an invoice through the engagement form.
Support is not a client relationship and does not buy a finding.
What the money is for
Open datasets on Hugging Face, OSF archival, and the unglamorous cost of running local processing. Buy Me a Coffee is the public button that already works (buymeacoffee.com/AISTRAT). Stripe is available for invoices and, when a payment link is attached, for card gifts.
Institutional retainers still go through the engagement inquiry. A coffee is not a workaround for a conflict screen.