[simne]

At this moment only acceptable structure for you, is to give to other people big seller discounts, if they could do large volume sells.

All other models are not viable for you at this time at this market, because you are too weak to struggle.

If you will accept other company to access your internal data, it will be very easy for them to just copy all you do, and then say "you don't need anymore, we could do all this stuff without you".

Even if you technically could copyright your stuff, they will learn how you done it and could very fast repeat all parts as clean room.

[bitsbytes]

Yeah but the product is not ready to sell yet for more generic use cases. There is more work that needs to be done and we're estimating that right now on how much effort is required to make it production ready, and if we can bootstrap ourselves or to look other ways.

Thanks for your response.

[simne]

I said, beware of give access to internals of your technology. Because, this is your value NOW. Later, when you will have many customers, they will be additional part of value.

Sure, you should decide yourself, to whom you could trust, but for me now, all looks too clear - they just want to assimilate your technology, or if lucky, assimilate all your command with technology. I cannot decide, if this is good for you from what I know now.