Discover
Find a reader archetype, a community, a connection, or a message that the Guide would otherwise miss.
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A launchpad for the people who find the people
Do not tokenize the destination. Tokenize the time removed.
The first market for shortening a creator's path to a sustainable audience. One paying subscriber has already vouched for the path. Now we measure whether a network can find the next cohort without pretending the future is already earned.
Founding audience market / cohort 01Open for one week. Then the market closes until HumAIn Lab cohort 1 gives us actual evidence. The first cohort settles at the end of October.
MARKET / 001calculating window…
A bounded search for signal.
Participants choose a notional amount and a chain preference. The lock period is visible. The settlement formula is not hidden behind a cartoon rocket. This first surface records intent; it does not accept money or create a security.
$42subscriber / month
$4.2K100-subscriber MRR target
31 Octcohort freeze
REVENUE / PROJECTIONtransparent assumptions
The $100K course launch is a separate target.
Course revenue depends on price and seats. The market should not confuse a $100K launch with the subscriber MRR curve; one is a launch event, the other is recurring audience evidence.
| Average course price | Seats for $100K | Subscriber baseline | Market reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| $500 | 200 | 100 subscribers = $4,200 MRR | volume test |
| $1,000 | 100 | 100 subscribers = $50,400 ARR | clean parity |
| $2,500 | 40 | linear first-year ≈ $25,200 | depth test |
| $5,000 | 20 | time compression matters | high-touch test |
THE NARRATIVE
A market that pays to find the audience, not a machine that promises a payout.
Early readers are not a vanity metric. They are evidence about which people recognize the work, which framing converts, and what makes a reader stay. The market is useful only if it improves those observations.
Test
Turn the hypothesis into a consequence-bearing experiment. A theory earns weight by changing the observable path.
Freeze
At cohort 1's end, freeze the evidence. Later growth belongs to a later market. The past should not acquire infinite obligations.
THE CLOCK
Seven days open. Twelve weeks to evidence.
06 → 13 Augfounding market window. Model a position and leave a signal.
13 Aug → 31 Octmarket closed. HumAIn Lab cohort 1 supplies the evidence.
31 Octfreeze the cohort state. Any real instrument must settle only under a reviewed formula.
THE RECEIPT
What this page refuses to hide.
Boundary: this prototype does not accept funds, issue tokens, custody assets, promise returns, or create a revenue claim. A tradable instrument tied to subscriber growth and the efforts of others may be a security or another regulated product. Real purchases require a reviewed legal structure, eligibility and disclosure rules, custody/chain operations, tax treatment, and an explicit settlement oracle. The lock-intent form stores only a local browser receipt.