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COSUP

Composable Open Source University Platform

Investor & Community Briefing · 2026

The problem

Universities Are Trapped

Vendor-locked. Legally exposed. Financially drained.

💰

$1.5M+/year

Extracted as SaaS licensing. Universities pay per-user, per-year to hyperscalers they cannot audit or leave.

⚖️

CLOUD Act

US law grants extraterritorial access to data stored by American companies — even on European soil. Student records legally exposed.

🧩

15+ Siloed Tools

Each with its own identity system, billing cycle, and data silo. Integration is always the institution's problem.

The solution

Own Your Infrastructure.
All of It.

75
Services
6
Security Layers
0
Vendor Lock-in
🖥️

On-Premise

Bare metal servers

☁️

OpenInfra PaaS

Proxmox · OpenStack · CloudStack · OpenNebula · MicroCloud

⎈

Kubernetes

OKD · K3s

Every layer — from hypervisor to application — is open source and auditable.

Capabilities

What It Replaces

Instead of…
COSUP provides…
Blackboard, Canvas
Complete learning management
Google Workspace, Microsoft 365
File sharing & real-time editing
Okta, Azure AD
Single sign-on across every service
SAP, Oracle ERP
Administration, HR, accounting
ChatGPT for Education
Private on-premises AI
Stripe (single provider)
Multi-provider payments
VMware Horizon
Browser-based virtual labs
Cloudflare WAF
ML web application firewall
Security

Six Layers Between the Internet
and Your Data

🛡️ Perimeter — Firewall
ML-based WAF blocks injection, XSS, and zero-days before they reach any application
🔒 Gateway — Encrypted Transit
TLS everywhere, strict headers, routed through a single controlled entry point
👤 Identity — Single Sign-On
Unified auth, role-based access enforced at the gateway
🔑 Secrets — Credential Automation
Every password auto-generated, rotated, and distributed — no human in the loop
🗄️ Isolation — Network Zones
4 isolated tiers. Databases have zero internet access.
🏗️ Foundation — Open Infrastructure
Proxmox · OpenStack · CloudStack · OpenNebula · MicroCloud · OKD — auditable from hypervisor to app

Every layer is open source — auditable by anyone who cares about digital sovereignty.

Market

Who It's For

🏛️

Public Universities

Reclaiming digital sovereignty. Your data, your rules, your jurisdiction.

🌍

Global South

World-class infrastructure at zero licensing cost. Education for every institution.

🔬

Research Institutions

GDPR and data-residency compliance. Sensitive research data never leaves your servers.

⚖️

Public Good Advocates

Education infrastructure as a public good — not a subscription.

Thousands of institutions. Billions spent on SaaS licenses.

Traction

The Numbers

75
Integrated Services
262
Automated Tests
6
Security Layers
GPLv3
Free Forever
$4.4M
SaaS · 5yr · 10K users
vs
$815K
COSUP · 5yr · 10K users

5.4× cost reduction

Illustrative. Actual costs vary by institution size and deployment model.

It's Already Running

This is not a concept. Every link below is live.

$ task ci:deploy -- --with-tunnel --tunnel-domain demo.cosup.org
task: [ci:deploy] Deploying with tunnel...
✓ Vault unsealed — secrets distributed
✓ 75 services provisioned
✓ Cloudflare tunnel attached → demo.cosup.org
✓ Health checks passed (262/262)
✓ Platform ready → https://demo.cosup.org

Core Platform

LMS CMS Files ERP Shop

Communication

Chat Office Webmail

AI & Automation

AI Chat Workflows Virtual Labs Media

Payments

Card Processing Crypto

Documents

DMS

Monitoring

Status Dashboards Metrics Traces

SSO Demo Accounts — One login, all services

Studentstudent1rIwCzSa_gxl_VHz9
Teacherteacher1LRdb4xZa4GEoxeuV
Staffstaff1RlNIoDKWb1tTIoEo

Real-time health: status-demo.cosup.org — 75 services, monitored 24/7

Join the Initiative

For Investors

Fund open infrastructure for education. Back a platform, not another SaaS startup.

For Community

Deploy. Contribute. Adapt. Every pull request strengthens the commons.

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