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2      Games, Dracon Music, the AI Hub) and the tools that recommend the third-party
3      infrastructure the studio pays for itself.</p></header> <h2 id="what" class="svelte-cwls5q">What Dracon is</h2> <p class="svelte-cwls5q">Dracon is a small software studio. The studio builds and runs software: it makes games,
4    produces music, ships an AI Hub, and publishes single-purpose compare tools (Codex Reset,

5    Object Storage Compare, Email API Compare, VPS Compare, Domain TCO, Vector DB Compare,
6    Observability Compare, Agent Sandbox Pricing).
7    The tools surface is value-first: free utilities with
8    capture-dated data, no affiliate links, no tracked merchant links.</p> <p class="svelte-cwls5q">The studio is anonymous. There is no founder headshot, no founder LinkedIn, no "founded
9    in [year]" line. We don't have those to share, and inventing them would be the kind of
10    unverified claim this site is built to refuse. The studio <em>is</em> Dracon; the byline
11    on every editorial page reads <strong class="svelte-cwls5q">By Dracon</strong> for the same reason.</p> <h2 id="why" class="svelte-cwls5q">Why the tools surface exists</h2> <p class="svelte-cwls5q">The tools surface isn't a marketing play. It is the place where the studio's own
12    infrastructure becomes useful to other people: Codex Reset tracks the usage windows the
13    studio actually hits, and Object Storage Compare prices the storage the studio actually
14    buys: real numbers, capture-dated, no fake data.</p> <p class="svelte-cwls5q">The other reason is more honest: the studio tried the affiliate model twice and cut it
15    both times. There are no tracked merchant links, no redirect endpoints, and no
16    commission narrative anywhere on the platform. The full breakdown is on the <a href="/how-we-make-money" class="svelte-cwls5q">how we make money</a> page.</p> <h2 id="how-it-works" class="svelte-cwls5q">How Dracon ships</h2> <p class="svelte-cwls5q">Every public recommendation has the same pipeline:</p> <ol class="svelte-cwls5q"><li class="svelte-cwls5q"><strong class="svelte-cwls5q">Selection</strong>: only infrastructure the studio actually uses is listed. The
17      rule is "would we spend our own money on this?" If the answer is no, it doesn't get a
18      row. The full picking criteria are on the <a href="/methodology" class="svelte-cwls5q">methodology</a> page.</li> <li class="svelte-cwls5q"><strong class="svelte-cwls5q">Capture</strong>: every number is primary data captured on a known date:
19      prices from vendor pricing pages, benchmarks from the studio's own runs. A row without
20      a capture says so; unmeasured cells say "seed placeholder" instead of pretending.</li> <li class="svelte-cwls5q"><strong class="svelte-cwls5q">Editorial review</strong>: the captures are reviewed by the studio
21      before they land on a page. Numbers flagged <em>aging</em> (pricing rotated) are
22      looked at by a human before the next capture replaces the old one.</li></ol> <h2 id="byline" class="svelte-cwls5q">"By Dracon": the byline convention</h2> <p class="svelte-cwls5q">Every editorial page on the platform carries the byline <strong class="svelte-cwls5q">By Dracon</strong>. The
23    name is the studio's editorial identity, the same name that appears in the site footer
24    (<code class="svelte-cwls5q">© 2026 Dracon</code>) and in the chrome's logo. The match matters: a 2026
25    search/AI-overviews reader checking the byline against the publisher looks for that name
26    match.</p> <p class="svelte-cwls5q">If a future article is genuinely authored by a separate human contributor, a new <code class="svelte-cwls5q">Person</code> schema is added for that contributor and the byline updates. For now
27    the byline is the studio's editorial name.</p> <h2 id="ai-disclosure" class="svelte-cwls5q">AI assistance, inside the share</h2> <p class="svelte-cwls5q">Parts of the editorial flow on the platform are AI-assisted. The drafting pattern is
28    AI-assisted drafting + primary-data capture + human review, the same pipeline the
29    studio uses on the games, music, and AI Hub surfaces. The point of disclosing it is not
30    to apologise. It is to make the pipeline visible to a visitor who needs to know what
31    they are reading.</p> <!> <h2 id="next" class="svelte-cwls5q">Where to go next</h2> <ul class="svelte-cwls5q"><li class="svelte-cwls5q"><a href="/methodology" class="svelte-cwls5q">Methodology</a>: how captures are dated, how vendors get
32        selected, and how the AI-assistance pipeline is shaped.</li> <li class="svelte-cwls5q"><a href="/how-we-make-money" class="svelte-cwls5q">How we make money</a>: product revenue in the open,
33        and what we refuse to do.</li> <li class="svelte-cwls5q"><a href="/tools" data-sveltekit-reload="" class="svelte-cwls5q">The tools</a>: free, value-first utilities: Codex Reset,
34        Object Storage Compare, VPS / domain / vector-DB / email-API / observability / agent-sandbox pricing compares.</li></ul></div>`);function S(h,s){m(s,!0),q("cwls5q",c=>{var e=A(),a=o(u(e),2),t=o(a,8),r=o(t,4),d=o(r,12);w(()=>{i(a,"href",`${s.data.siteOrigin??""}/about`),i(t,"content",`${s.data.siteOrigin??""}/about`),i(r,"content",`${s.data.siteOrigin??""}/og/dracon-og.png`),i(d,"content",`${s.data.siteOrigin??""}/og/dracon-og.png`)}),g(()=>{v.title="About | Dracon"}),l(c,e)}),k(h,{toc:!0,sidebar:e=>{var a=I();l(e,a)},children:(e,a)=>{var t=_(),r=o(f(t),30);D(r,{variant:"banner",context:"this page"}),b(4),y(t),l(e,t)},$$slots:{sidebar:!0,default:!0}}),p()}export{S as component};