FAQ

Questions the rest of the docs don’t answer — mostly about licensing, pricing, and where the project is headed.

What is the licensing for hev layer?

Right now hev layer is distributed under a proprietary license and requires a signed beta agreement.

Will it be a paid product?

Yes. I’m building hev layer as a business, not a side project. Paying customers get a vendor with every incentive to support them well.

Will any of it be open source?

Some of it. The clients will be published publicly during the design preview, and as commercial adoption grows I plan to open the gateway as well. The dashboard, operator, and autoscaling components will stay under a commercial license.

Opening the gateway is also the ultimate form of graceful degradation — a core value of hev layer. Infrastructure on your query path shouldn’t depend on any one company sticking around, including mine.

How much will it cost?

Pricing isn’t final. The shape will be: a small line item for an enterprise, sized to fund proper support and full-time development.

Is hev layer a hosted service?

No. Layer runs in your Kubernetes cluster, next to your data, against your own Turbopuffer account. See install for what a deployment looks like.

How do I get started?

Sign up and I’ll follow up to schedule a discovery call.

Who built hev layer?

Adam Hevenor. hev layer is a hev mind product.