I was thinking this morning about the Kodaris community model and why it works. And more specifically, why we see our customers as investors rather than just people paying to use the software.
Here's how it works. We do services with customers. We build features with them. We design them together based on what they actually need. And then we release those features to the entire Kodaris community. Every 7 days, 50 weeks a year. All customers paying their subscription fee receive every update free of charge.
Right now Kodaris has 60 plus products that we incrementally improve over time with customer input. If there's a gap in the platform or something new in the market we need to address, we build it. And because of our current pricing model, every customer can take advantage of all 60 plus products for a flat rate fee.
The part that's a unique concept to some people in the industry is how we handle the economics. But the innovation model itself isn't unheard of.
Large software companies pilot new features and even entire products with enterprise customers all the time. AWS builds new products with a handful of enterprise customers, turns them into generally available services, and then charges everyone to use them. Incubators bring in startups with great ideas, give them access to a few customers, let them build, and then monetize what comes out of it.
Kodaris does something similar. We work closely with customers. We keep engineers very close to the customer and the product they're building. We get real feedback. We iterate. We ship. The result is strong market fit and strong customer adoption because we're building the exact thing the customer is asking for.
The difference is what happens after we build it.
When a customer pays Kodaris to build a feature, I see that as an investment in Kodaris. The customer is spending their money. We're creating intellectual property. And then we make that intellectual property available to the entire Kodaris community.
If you think about Kodaris customers as the investors in Kodaris, not just the people paying to use it, the return becomes clear. You're getting a return on your investment week after week. Every release. Every improvement. Every new module that another customer helped fund and that now shows up in your platform.
And that return compounds over time. As more customers participate, as the Kodaris community grows through word of mouth and referrals, the pool of investment gets larger. More features, product enhancements, and new products. The platform drives more value for everyone.
The more investors we have, the larger the pool, the more return on investment for everyone.
There are areas where usage costs are real. We're building a lot of AI into the platform. Features like AP automation require document conversion and rules processing that have actual cost behind them. Not everything can be built once and run forever at zero marginal cost.
But the core engine still comes in the platform. 60 plus products. Thousands of features. All included.
Rather than try to monetize everything our customers are putting into the platform, our goal is to continuously give back. We grow as a company through small usage markups where real costs exist, not by charging for every feature that our community helped create.
And here's the thing. It's actually in the best interest of our customers for Kodaris to be profitable, healthy, and growing. A growing customer base compounds the investment for everyone. More customers means more feedback, more features, more products, and a stronger platform. Kodaris growth is a direct return on your investment as a customer.
If you need something very specific to your business, Kodaris has development environments on top of the core platform. You can develop in the cloud or use the REST APIs. Those customizations are customer-specific, and we engineered the platform from the ground up to support that.
But when we build a core feature to support those custom needs, or a brand new module that customers need, that goes back into the platform. It becomes a living product. It gets improved with feedback over time. And every customer benefits.
That's what the Kodaris community actually means. It's not a marketing term. Customers invest through their participation and their subscription. Kodaris builds and releases. Everyone receives the return. The larger the Kodaris community gets, the more this benefit compounds for everyone in distribution and manufacturing.
It is an exciting way to create the future together.