$5, not $500

Back the issues you depend on.

Pledge a few dollars against any open issue, or back a whole repo to cover every issue, including the ones opened next. Pledges pool with other backers' until there's enough for the maintainer to press Start; your wallet stays untouched until they do. You're buying compute and maintainer attention, not a stranger's weekend.

Unspent → refunded

Pay for what runs, keep the rest.

The run debits the provider's token cost plus a 20% platform fee as it works, every charge itemised on your wallet ledger, and whatever the run doesn't spend comes straight back to your wallet when the PR merges or closes.

The strongest nudge

Recruit the maintainer.

Repo not on CleverCrow yet? Back the issue anyway and the dashboard writes the invite for you to post on the thread. A backer with money already on the line is the credible version of "you should try this", and a funded pool waiting is the strongest onboarding pitch a maintainer can get.

The community pays for the compute, not you.

An agent on your laptop bills your card for other people's bug reports. Here the people who want the fix fund it: backers pool a few dollars against the issue, the run draws from the pool, and you never reach for your wallet.

The whole workflow comes packaged.

Funding pool, plan approval gate, draft PR, CI-fix rounds, review-feedback rounds, settlement and refunds: one Start click runs the loop end to end, with you at every gate that matters. No terminal babysitting, no prompt wrangling, no copy-pasting CI logs.

The agent works in a padded room.

It runs in a credential-less sandbox: no git, no push rights, no tokens, no way to touch your repo. A separate, locked-down service applies the diff and opens the draft PR. That's a stronger boundary than an agent running on your machine with your keys loaded.