Funding goals

Fund Ultraviolet

Blacklight Foundation funds the public infrastructure for a systems language designed for LLM-generated code humans can still review.

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Funding pitch

LLM-generated code is becoming infrastructure.

It is reviewed, debugged, diffed, audited, shipped, and trusted in production. LLMs can emit source quickly, but humans still need to understand the authority, effects, ownership, and behavior of what gets committed.

Most programming languages were designed primarily for humans writing code by hand.

Ultraviolet explores a narrower question:

What should a systems programming language look like if LLM-generated-code reviewability is a first-class design constraint?

Ultraviolet is currently in alpha. A bootstrap-built compiler artifact exists, and Blacklight Foundation is funding the public work needed to make Ultraviolet credible, buildable, documented, and useful to early evaluators, human reviewers, and LLM-based code generation systems.

Sponsor funding supports public infrastructure:

compiler migration
CI and releases
quickstart documentation
examples
diagnostics
LLM-generated code demo work
open LLM training corpus
contributor onboarding
public roadmap and reporting

We are not asking sponsors to bet that Ultraviolet has already won.

We are asking sponsors to fund a serious public experiment in reviewable LLM-generated systems code.

If your company cares about LLM code generation, compilers, static analysis, developer tools, infrastructure, security, or AI-generated source, this work is probably adjacent to your future.

Public Alpha Launch Fund

Goal: $25,000

Timeline: 30 to 45 days

This fund supports the first usable public alpha of Ultraviolet.

Funding goes toward compiler migration, a working quickstart, first examples, CI smoke tests, a release checklist, contributor onboarding, and public sponsor reporting.

The goal is simple: a technical visitor should be able to find the compiler, build the current alpha, run a first example, and understand what comes next.

$7.5k compiler migration / repo consolidation
$5k working quickstart and first example
$5k CI smoke tests and release checklist
$5k contributor onboarding and issue cleanup
$2.5k first monthly report / sponsor reporting / admin

Fund the public alpha

First LLM-Generated Code Demo Fund

Goal: $35,000

Timeline: 60 to 90 days

Ultraviolet exists to explore a specific idea: LLM-generated systems code should be readable enough for humans to review.

This fund would build the first public demonstration of that idea. In the planned demo, an LLM would generate Ultraviolet source from a small constrained systems task or interface description. The compiler would check that source, and the walkthrough would show how the output supports local reasoning, explicit authority and effects, stable structure, and reviewable diffs.

Funding supports LLM task harnesses, compiler integration, documentation, examples, and a recorded technical walkthrough.

$10k LLM task harness and prompt/evaluation setup
$7.5k LLM-generated Ultraviolet source examples
$5k compiler integration
$5k documentation
$5k walkthrough/demo video
$2.5k sponsor report and maintenance pass

Fund the LLM-generated code demo

Open LLM Training Corpus Fund

Goal: $50,000

Timeline: 90 to 120 days

LLMs need high-quality examples, constraints, and review signals to generate systems code that humans can inspect with confidence.

This fund would develop an open-licensed corpus of Ultraviolet materials for LLM training and evaluation: canonical examples, constrained programming tasks, expected source outputs, review annotations, diagnostics examples, and explanations that teach the language's explicit authority, effects, ownership, and static-by-default design.

The goal is to make Ultraviolet easier for LLMs to generate correctly and easier for humans to review, audit, and improve.

$12.5k corpus design, licensing, and data format
$10k canonical examples and explanations
$10k constrained tasks, prompts, and expected outputs
$7.5k review annotations, anti-patterns, and diagnostics cases
$5k evaluation harness, metadata, and dataset splits
$5k public release, sponsor report, and maintenance pass

Fund the training corpus

Maintainer-in-Residence Fund

Goal: $120,000/year

Timeline: 12 months

Programming languages do not become sustainable through one-off bursts of attention. They need consistent maintainer time.

The Maintainer-in-Residence Fund supports one year of focused public work on Ultraviolet: compiler development, release engineering, documentation, examples, diagnostics, contributor onboarding, public roadmap updates, sponsor reporting, infrastructure, and compliance.

This fund is Blacklight Foundation's path from alpha project to durable public infrastructure.