From fb51c7abb04ea4807a086612fbe11280dde7fb82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: doctorpangloss <@hiddenswitch.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:04:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] sponsor information

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 README.md           | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
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+github: [ hiddenswitch ]
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@@ -1581,3 +1581,21 @@ This will use a snapshot of the legacy frontend preserved in the [ComfyUI Legacy
 ## Known Issues
 
 Please visit the Issues tab for documented known issues.
+
+## Sponsoring ComfyUI LTS
+
+This Long-Term Support (LTS) fork of ComfyUI is maintained by [Hidden Switch](https://hiddenswitch.com) and [AppMana](https://appmana.com), a creative technology consultancy that builds and maintains:
+- Tools and infrastructure for generative AI art and video.
+- A high-performance streaming service for Unity and Unreal Engine applications.
+- A community-authored digital card game, [Spellsource](https://spellsource.com).
+
+Your sponsorship enables us to dedicate significant engineering time to this project. This results in faster bug fixes, quicker adoption of upstream features, and the development of robust, professional-grade features like:
+- Long-term support and stability.
+- Easy installation and dependency management via `pip` and `uv`.
+- First-class support for installable custom nodes.
+- Distributed, multi-GPU processing capabilities.
+- New API and embedding options for professional workflows.
+
+A lot of work goes into maintaining a project of this scale—not just software development, but also responding to issues, reviewing contributions, writing high-quality documentation, testing across different platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS, CUDA, ROCm), and keeping the ecosystem of dependent custom nodes up-to-date.
+
+Your financial support allows us to prioritize these tasks and continue to move this project and its community forward.
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