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The Founding Ten

Ten creators. Your brand. Your archive. Your audience. 70% of recurring subscription revenue. Zero upfront. Terms locked for life.

Closes August 31, 2026 — or when the tenth seat fills
Eligibility Deliverables Bonuses Guarantees Pricing IP & Exit
Eligibility

Who this is built for.

The compounding value of the knowledge base only materializes if the archive is deep enough. We're selective because the engineering investment per creator is significant — we build each one personally.

Required

  • 100K+ audience (any platform)
  • 100+ archive units (episodes, chapters, or modules)
  • Original, substantial IP
  • English-language content
  • Active publishing (2+ units per month)

Not required

  • An existing paid product or subscription
  • A specific publishing platform
  • Technical knowledge or infrastructure
  • A team (solo operators qualify)
  • A business-only niche
What you get

Core deliverables — eight, done for you.

Every Founding Ten creator gets the same eight deliverables. No tiers, no add-ons.

1

Voice-matched archive intelligence, under your brand

A research assistant on your complete archive, deployed at your domain. Your branding, your name. Our name does not appear. The assistant answers in your written voice — sentence structure, framework names, cadence — with every answer cited to the source.

2

Content Intelligence Dashboard

Your audience's actual questions, ranked by demand against your current coverage. The specific topic intersections you've under-covered. Rising and falling themes week over week. Your next content calendar reads from this dashboard instead of from gut.

3

Done-for-you multi-modal ingestion

Transcription, OCR, chunking, attribution, and embedding for podcast episodes, audiobooks, video, PDFs, slide decks, course material, and newsletter archives. You hand over access. We ingest everything.

4

Voice calibration

Your sentence structure, cadence, framework names, and signature phrases are extracted from your content automatically. The chatbot answers in your written voice from the first preview onward. Refinement happens during stress-testing — you flag anything off, we iterate until it sounds right.

5

Brand-approval gate + stress-testing

A private preview chatbot on your archive, yours to stress-test for as long as you need. You and your team drive real queries — the questions you know your audience will ask, the edge cases that would embarrass you if it fumbled. We provide a starter set of anticipated hard cases. Flag anything off — voice, tone, response length, accuracy, what it should refuse — and we iterate. Nothing goes public until you approve.

6

Auto-ingestion + continuous operations

New episodes live within 24 hours. New content sources added on request. Ongoing quality maintenance, feature updates, and technical support — all included. This is what the rev share covers month over month.

7

Honest-response protocol

The chatbot answers from your archive or it says it doesn't know — cleanly, in your voice. It will not invent opinions you haven't published. Your audience never gets a hallucinated answer with your name on it.

8

Freemium conversion funnel — 500 free-tier accounts

Free accounts get limited query volume with a clear upgrade path. 500 free-tier accounts included at no cost. Subscription flow is fully branded. Pricing set per niche with your input.

Founding Ten extras

Eight bonuses — only for the ten who sign before August 31.

Phase 2 creators get the eight core deliverables. Founding Ten creators get those plus these eight bonuses, locked permanently.

B1

Audience Signal Report — before you reply

Top 25 specific topic intersections your audience is asking about that your archive doesn't yet answer. Plus 5 buried-gem episodes the analysis surfaces. Delivered before our first message. Yours to keep regardless of what happens next.

B2

Founding rev-share locked for life

70/30 creator-favor, locked into your contract for the duration. Phase 2 creators pay setup fees and a lower share. Founding creators never experience a pricing revision.

B3

Direct line to the engineer — 12 months

Direct Signal access to the builder — for feature requests, roadmap input, and custom-scoped build conversations. Phase 2 creators route through a support queue. Founding Ten get the person who decides what ships next.

B4

First access to every new tool — no unlock price

Every feature we ship goes to Founding Ten first, at no additional cost. Audience-facing tools extend your revenue stream. Creator-internal tools are free during founding tenure.

B5

Naming rights on one roadmap feature

One feature on the roadmap — your input into how it's scoped. Your use case shapes the spec. The feature is documented as originating from your input.

B6

Plain-English IP and exit exhibit

Every contract includes a plain-English exhibit covering who owns what, what happens on exit, and what you take with you. Your counsel can read it in 10 minutes.

B7

White-label — contractually non-negotiable

Our name does not appear on the audience-facing product. This is in the contract as a non-negotiable term. If we ever request co-branding, it's a contract breach.

B8

The Founding Ten private Signal group

Ten operators, one room. Private Signal group during founding tenure. Shared signal on what's working, audience questions surfacing, and platform evolution. No outside members.

Commitments

Three guarantees — each one structural, not rhetorical.

Each is written into the contract and maps to a specific risk you're taking by working with a new platform.

Guarantee 01 — Implied

You pay us nothing until we produce revenue for you.

Pure revenue share. We earn 30% only when you earn 70%. If your audience never pays, we earn nothing. There is no scenario in which we make money and you don't.

Guarantee 02 — Conditional

21 days from brand-approval to public launch — or you walk free.

If we miss the window for any reason on our side, the contract voids immediately. You've paid nothing, so there's nothing to refund. What this guarantee protects is your time — we've put you on a three-week schedule, so we put ourselves on one too. Miss it and the penalty is on our side: you're free to work with anyone else starting the next day, and we forfeit the Founding Ten seat.

Current pipeline ingests approximately 1,080 episodes per day. A 50-episode archive builds in hours. 21 days is conservative.

Guarantee 03 — Brand approval

You hold the launch key. Indefinitely.

Nothing goes public until you approve. The gate is contractual — it has no deadline we control. You stress-test as long as you need. If after iteration the voice match still isn't right, you walk away under the standard exit terms. You've paid nothing.

Pricing

What you pay. What you keep.

$0 setup. $0 monthly. You keep 70%.

30% of audience subscription revenue goes to the platform — forever.

Revenue projection models

These are models, not guarantees. Real outcomes depend on audience engagement and subscription price point.

Audience · price0.5% conversion1% conversion2% conversion
100K · $10/mo$3,500/mo$7,000/mo$14,000/mo
100K · $19/mo$6,650/mo$13,300/mo$26,600/mo
250K · $19/mo$16,625/mo$33,250/mo$66,500/mo
500K · $29/mo$50,750/mo$101,500/mo$203,000/mo

All figures reflect your 70% share. Subscription price set per niche with your input.

Phase 2 pricing (after August 31, 2026)

Phase 2 includes a one-time setup fee, monthly platform fees, and a lower creator rev share. Founding creators are contractually protected from any Phase 2 pricing revision.

IP and exit

What's yours. What's ours.

Standard SaaS exit, written plainly. Your content travels with you to any other vendor. Our engineering stays with us — that's what the 30% recurring pays for. Counsel reads the exhibit in ten minutes.

Yours — on the platform and on exit

  • Your source content. Every raw file you provided.
  • Plain-text transcripts of your audio. One file per episode with title, publish date, and timestamps.
  • Your audience query history. Every question your audience asked, timestamped. CSV.
  • Your subscriber list. With subscription status. CSV.
  • Content Intelligence summary. The top findings at the time of exit. PDF.
  • Your domain. Yours if you provisioned it; migration documented if deployed on ours.

Ours — the engineering 30% earns

  • Voice profile — proprietary LLM system prompt engineered per creator
  • Knowledge graph schema and extracted relationships
  • Embeddings and vector index
  • Ingestion pipeline and retrieval logic
  • All prompts (synthesis, entity extraction, query analysis)
  • Platform code, workflow definitions, infrastructure

Exit terms: 30 days written notice, either side. No termination fee. No minimum tenure. No revenue clawback. Revenue accrued before exit is distributed normally.

The close

August 31, 2026 — or the tenth seat.

The Founding Ten closes on August 31, 2026, or when the tenth seat fills. After that, Phase 2 pricing. No one gets Founding Ten terms again.

There are no countdown timers on this page. No "spots left" badges. The date is August 31, 2026. Take the time to evaluate properly.

The evaluation starts with your archive.

We build a working demo on your content before we ask for a meeting. Send your archive link. No call required. No obligation.

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