About Posit

RStudio (now Posit) was founded in 2009 with the vision of creating high quality open-source software for data scientists. While our scope has expanded far beyond those early days, our core mission has never wavered. We invest heavily in open-source development, education, and the community with the goal of serving knowledge creators 100 years from now.

Our mission#

Posit’s mission is to create open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication. We build tools that prioritize correctness, transparency, and reproducibility in their output.

Our open-source and professional software exist in a virtuous cycle. Wide adoption of our open-source tools in the community creates the foundation for our professional products . In turn, the revenue from our enterprise customers allows us to reinvest our engineering efforts back into the open-source ecosystem. This model ensures that our core projects remain free, stable, and active for the long term.

Public Benefit Corporation status#

Posit is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). Our charter requires us to consider the impact of our decisions on the open-source community and the long-term health of the ecosystem we serve.

Learn about our PBC status Read our 2025 PBC report

Open Source Pledge#

For over a decade, we have dedicated a majority of our engineering resources to open-source software. In 2024, we formally joined the Open Source Pledge as a commitment to continue funding the developers behind the core tools that the data science community relies on.

Learn more about the Open Source Pledge Read our 2025 report card

Ecosystem support#

We provide financial support and engineering contributions to the foundational organizations and projects that make modern data science possible:

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