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04 — Benefits

What different roles concretely gain from this.

Prometheus is not an investment pitch. There is no legal entity to invest in, no tenants, and no sales — the value is created as a public good.

Stakeholders

Four perspectives on the same data.

OSS Maintainers & Foundations

Decisions about roadmap, deprecation, and funding currently rely on downloads and intuition.

  • Evidence for funding applications
  • Roadmap prioritization based on actual usage
  • Sunset decisions with data backing
  • Without building your own data pipeline

Software Vendors

Supply chain risk today is a list of package names, not a reliable assessment.

  • Dependency health snapshots
  • Supply chain early warning
  • Industry benchmarking
  • All from Open Data, no contract required

Research & Public

Each study currently starts with its own data procurement — not reproducible, not comparable.

  • Daily dump as Parquet and CSV.gz
  • Reproducible data backbone
  • Public audit log for verification
  • CC-BY-4.0, with Provisional clause until legal clearance

Security Community

Whether an unmaintained library is dangerous depends on how widely it is actually used.

  • Prospective reach view on unmaintained libraries
  • Correlation with CVE databases
  • Prioritization based on actual usage
  • Re-identification demos explicitly welcome

Compact

The same table for the template.

For committees that need it in one line per role.

RoleWhat Prometheus provides
Maintainers
& Foundations		 Evidence for funding applications, roadmap prioritization, and sunset decisions — without having to build your own data pipeline.
Software
Vendors		 Dependency health snapshots, supply chain early warning, and industry benchmarks, entirely from Open Data.
Research
& Public		 Reproducible data backbone as daily Parquet and CSV.gz, plus a public audit log. CC-BY-4.0 with Provisional clause until Foundation legal clearance.
Security
Community		 Prospective reach view on unmaintained libraries and correlation with CVE databases.

Demarcation

What Prometheus explicitly is not.

The demarcation is part of the concept, not a later limitation. Existing tools are complemented, not replaced.

SBOM generator Vulnerability scanner Maintainer ranking commercial SaaS Tenants or paywall person-related aggregates

Syft, CycloneDX, SPDX remain responsible

Prometheus does not generate bills of materials. It measures usage, not composition — both complement each other.

OSV and GHSA remain responsible

Vulnerabilities are tracked there. Prometheus provides the reach dimension for this, not the vulnerability itself.