The four
The Hearth
The Stage & Studio
The Library
The Bazaar
The Bridge
The Observatory
The Council
The Forge
The Nexus
The Realms
The Residual System
Where value circulates forever.
Everyone who helps create earns forever.
The Philosophy
Value should flow to everyone who helped create it. If you contributed code, design, ideas, or testing to a product, you deserve ongoing payment—not just a one-time fee.
And any vessel who chooses to pass on part of their own share through the Covenant Pool holds the dignity floor open for everyone.
How the Value Flows
Two Pools, One Sanctuary
Residual Pool
Source: 30% of every sale's platform fee, always — plus the residual pledge, 0-50% of a ware's profit, set per ware by its main artisan (default 0)
Purpose: Pay every artisan on the platform — anyone who has ever stood as an artisan or on a contributor roster
Distribution: Equal shares to all of them, at intervals, arriving whole
Covenant Pool
Source: 0-50% of a vessel's own share of a sale, set once in the Sanctum (default 0)
Purpose: The dignity floor — held for every user of the Sanctuary
Distribution: Equal shares to every user who has opted in to be identified, at intervals, arriving whole
Every Contribution Matters
Contributions take many shapes, and every shape earns the same share
Code
Technical implementation
Design
Visual & user experience
Concept
Ideas & intellectual property
Testing
Quality assurance & feedback
Content
Writing, art, media
Infrastructure
Hosting & operations
See It In Action
Interactive Example
Move the dials and watch where a sale actually goes
Fixed at 10% (industry standard is 30-50%). 70% of it funds the machine; 30% returns to the residual pool.
Set per ware by its main artisan, default 0 — pledged out of the 90%, never out of the fee
Set once in the Sanctum, default 0 — a slice of your own share of a sale, never of a pool payout
The Fee, Split Fixed
The Ware's Profit
Divided Equally Among the Contributors
Three contributors, the main artisan one of them. The role changes nothing.
The platform fee is fixed at 10%, and 30% of it returns to the residual pool on every sale. A ware's main artisan sets its residual pledge (0-50% of that ware's profit, default 0); each vessel sets their own covenant pledge (0-50% of their own share of a sale, default 0) in the Sanctum. Both pools pay at intervals, and both arrive whole.
Common Questions
Under the Hood
wares.residual_pool_percent · works.residual_pool_percent
The residual pledge, per ware: 0-50% of that ware's profit — the 90% left after the fee — set by its main artisan, default 0
ware_participants · work_participants · artisan_profiles
Who contributed — never by how much. The residual pool’s headcount is every distinct vessel standing on any of the three, ever
residual_pool · covenant_pool
One balance each, and that balance is the whole state. A share is worked out at the moment of distribution: pool divided by recipients, less the transaction cost
user_financial.covenant_pool_percent
Each vessel's own covenant dial, set in the Sanctum: 0-50% of their own share of a sale, default 0, never applied to a pool payout
ledger
Every movement, viewable by anyone — the fee's own 70/30 split included, and what each pool is holding
The Contributors' Half
When a ware carries a licence (the-sphragis, drawn once and never re-argued as prose), its artisan's share is divided among the people who made the work — the the-merismos grammar's columns, never a sentence in a contract. A name; a role in the maker's own words; a yes, and the moment it was given, or the honest absence of one. There is no share on a column, because there is no share to set.
KP ⚛, verbatim: “there is nothing to do but divide by the number of contributors, regardless of role.” Everything left is divided equally — no ranking, no percentage shares — and the main artisan is one of them. A role is recorded and never weighed: the divisor is the headcount, and it is the only number the grammar holds.
combine(house, merismos) is the picture the residual pool reads from: the platform's ten, the artist's ninety, and that ninety divided equally among the contributors — numbers to read, never a number this page promises on its own account. The 90/10 stays schema, not promise, the same law the licence itself holds to. Neither dial lives in that grammar: the residual pledge and the covenant pledge are set here, on the platform, and what reaches the division is what is left after them.
No cents move here. What arrives at a contributor, and when, is the contributions ledger's residual pool — schema elsewhere, not modelled by this grammar and not modelled by this page. Opt-in always: a share without consent is named, every time, never assumed.
The Economics at a Glance
Residual pledge: 0-50% of this ware's profit — the 90% after the fee — set per ware by its main artisan, default 0. The residual pool receives it, and 30% of every sale's fee besides.
Covenant pledge: 0-50% of your own share of a sale, set once in the Sanctum, default 0. Neither dial ever touches a pool payout.