Most of what we watch never reaches you.
PatchRail watches the public surfaces where paid open-source work appears: GitHub, Algora, and other public bounty boards. That part is table stakes. The product is what gets filtered out before a human ever reviews your queue.
Duplicates collapse
The same bounty often appears on more than one board, under more than one label. You see it once, with the best-sourced version of the facts.
Stale rewards are flagged
A posted reward with no maintainer signal for weeks is a time sink dressed as an opportunity. The radar tracks maintainer activity so the queue stays live.
Spam-attractive issues get caught
Some issues look lucrative precisely because they attract drive-by attempts. We mark them before your team spends a morning finding out the hard way.
Funding gets verified
An issue only ranks when the money behind it can be traced to a real source. Unverifiable funding goes to the watchlist, not your queue.
The full source mix, the filtering rationale, and the review notes ship with every engagement, so you can audit every call we made.