Keep the research open
Every guide, every lesson, every lab and the certification exam are free and stay free. There is no paywall, no signup wall, no members tier and no gated download. That is the point of publishing in the open, and it is not going to change.
It does cost real money to build. The agents behind the research, the drafting and review passes, the labs and the course material all run on paid API credits and paid subscriptions, out of pocket. If the work has been useful to you and you want to put something toward that, this is the one place on the site that asks.
One time or monthly, any amount, hosted on Buy Me a Coffee. Nothing is collected on this site.
- Model API credits: the agents that run the research, and the drafting and review passes behind every guide.
- The AI subscriptions the courses, labs and tooling are built with.
- The domain, the tooling, and the compute time the labs and agent fleets run on.
- It does not buy the certification. The exam is free, the certificate is free, and no contribution changes a result.
- It does not unlock anything. There is no paywall, no members tier, and no gated download to buy your way past.
- It does not buy coverage. Nothing published here is sponsored, and no contributor gets a say in what gets researched or written.
Supporting is not a condition of anything. Read everything, take the exam, print the certificate, use the labs, and give nothing. That is a completely normal way to use this site.
Money is the smallest part of it. Sharing a guide with someone who needs it, correcting something I got wrong, or telling me which part of the course did not land is worth more to the work than a contribution. Corrections and questions go to jason.jeske@krypteiasec.com.
Krypteia Sec is an independent research and development platform, run in a personal capacity. The research published here is my own and does not represent, and is not funded or endorsed by, any employer or client.
Jason Jeske · About the author