Bring Bichon to the organizations you serve
We are building a network of MSPs, IT consultancies, hosting providers, and email-archiving specialists who deploy and support Bichon around the world. If your clients need to keep email for compliance, litigation, or peace of mind, there is a place for you here.
No fee to join · Terms agreed individually · Referral, reseller, managed service, and integration
Who it’s for
If you already look after someone’s email, you already fit
Bichon is infrastructure, not another SaaS account. The partners who get the most from it are the ones already on the ground with the customer.
Managed service providers
You already run mail, backup, or infrastructure for SMBs and mid-market clients. Bichon adds a long-term archiving service to the stack you support every day.
Email & archiving consultants
You help organizations with retention policies, journaling, and legal hold. Bichon gives you a self-hosted platform you can recommend without the usual vendor caveats.
Hosting & cloud providers
You offer private, dedicated, or on-prem hosting. Archiving is a natural add-on that keeps customer email on infrastructure you already control.
Compliance & eDiscovery integrators
You build around retention, audit, and investigation workflows. The REST API, SIEM exports, and journaling let you wire Bichon into your own tooling.
Ways to partner
Four ways in — pick what fits your business
Models can be combined. Many partners start with referrals and move to reselling or managed service once they have a customer who wants the whole thing handled.
01
Referral
Introduce a customer and step back. We run the evaluation, quote, and deployment, and you receive a referral fee once the deal closes.
02
Reseller
Buy at partner pricing, bundle Bichon licenses with your own migration, configuration, and support services, and set your own margin.
03
Managed service
Run Bichon on behalf of your clients — on their infrastructure or yours, under your SLA and your brand. Requires a written partner agreement under our commercial license.
04
Technology
Build on the API. Integrate Bichon into your compliance, eDiscovery, DMS, or security product, with a direct line to the developers.
The program is in early access, so commercial terms are agreed individually rather than published. Everything is confirmed in writing before you introduce a customer.
Why Bichon
Built to be recommended
A single Rust binary, a full-text search index, and a REST API — no external database, no mandatory cloud, no per-seat billing. It is an easy technical story to tell and an easy deployment to support.
Read the architecture notesOpen-source core
Clients can start free and upgrade to Pro or Enterprise only when they need audit, legal hold, SSO, or journaling.
Self-hosted by design
Email stays on infrastructure the client controls — an easy sell for regulated and privacy-sensitive organizations.
Perpetual licenses
Paid editions do not expire for the release purchased; updates are an annual subscription. No forced migration, no per-seat billing.
Direct access
Partners work with the people who build the product, not a channel desk. Pre-sales questions go straight to the maintainers.
How it works
From first message to first customer
No portal, no tiers, no certification course. A few emails and a short written agreement.
Step 1
Apply
Tell us about your business, your region, and the clients you serve. It takes two minutes.
Step 2
Email exchange
We reply with a few questions about your market, your services, and what you want from the program — everything in writing, at your pace.
Step 3
Agree terms
Referral fee or reseller margin, support boundaries, and territory — written down in a short agreement.
Step 4
Start
You get demo licenses, collateral, and a named contact for pre-sales and technical questions.
FAQ
Questions before you apply
Is there a fee to join?
No. The program is free to join; you only commit when you agree on terms for a specific model.
Do you publish commission rates?
Not during early access. Referral fees and reseller margins are agreed individually, so they can reflect deal size, region, and the services you provide. We put the numbers in writing before you introduce a customer.
Can I run Bichon as a managed service for my clients?
Yes, with a written partner agreement. The commercial license requires prior written consent before providing the software to third parties as a hosted or managed service — the partner agreement is that consent.
Which regions are you looking for?
Worldwide. We are particularly interested in partners across Europe, North America, Latin America, APAC, and the Middle East, but we will work with anyone serving organizations that need long-term email retention.
Do we need to get on a call?
No. The whole program runs over email — questions, scoping, terms, and onboarding are all handled in writing. That keeps it easy across time zones and gives both sides a written record of what was agreed.
Do I need to know Rust or run a development team?
No. Bichon ships as a single binary or a Docker image, with a WebUI, CLI, and documented REST API. If you can run a container, you can run Bichon.
How do partners get paid?
By bank transfer or Stripe, at intervals set in the partner agreement, after the customer’s payment has cleared.
Apply
Tell us about your business
We read every application ourselves and reply within two business days. If it looks like a fit, we will write back with a few questions and a draft of the terms — no sales script, everything in writing.
Prefer email?
Write to rustmailer.git@gmail.com with a line about your company and the clients you serve.
- No fee to join
- Terms agreed individually
- Reply within two business days
- Email-first — we work across time zones