Private Sweat Equity

Invite-only, builders first

The work is real. The stake is real. The record is open.

An invite-only community where every task, point, and honored pledge is written down and visible to all.

A focused hour starts around 10 points.

PaletteSilver 20%FormalizedLedger
Jul 01
Award

Nora · Export brand kits to SVG

+90 pts
Jul 04
Award

Dave · Color-contrast audit and fixes

+60 pts
Jul 08
Profit

Q2 net profit reported

$4,200
Jul 10
Pledge honored

Sofia · shared 20% of Q2 profit, pro-rata by points

$840
An example from the community.owner keeps 80%

How it works

No lawyers, no cap tables. Three moves, each one written down.

List

List a project, pick a pledge tier

A public promise to share Bronze 10, Silver 20, or Gold 30 percent of net profits.

Silver 20%
Negotiate

Post a task, agree its point value

Skill gets priced by discussion, not a formula, starting from a shared anchor.

10 pts / hr
Confirm

Deliver, the owner confirms, points post

The award lands in the append-only ledger and can never be quietly edited.

+80 pts

The pledge

A standard, comparable commitment made in plain sight. Move the tier, plug in your points, and watch your real stake.

20%
80%
Contributors shareOwner keeps the un-pledged rest
Your effective stake

8.00%

Contributors split the pledged share pro-rata by points. Owners never log their own sweat; their stake is simply what is not pledged.

Reputation is the real currency

Points are per-project. Reputation is global, and it is the asset that follows you everywhere.

ContributorPointsShare of poolEffective project %
NBNora Bright9060.0%12.00%
DMDave Mattson6040.0%8.00%

An example cap table, computed from a project's ledger.

“Sofia honored the pledge the moment revenue landed. Rare and real.”
Nora Bright·on Sofia, after Palette formalized

Everyone plays both sides.

Today's owner is tomorrow's contributor. Defecting as an owner poisons your standing as a contributor, so reciprocity does the enforcing, not a contract.

On the record, even when it goes wrong

An honor system is only credible if it records the hard parts too. It does.

Rejected

Every rejection is logged and shows on the owner's track record.

Dormant

After six months idle a project is marked dormant. Points stay in the ledger in case it revives.

Risk factors, asked plainly

What if a project goes dormant?
It gets marked dormant after six months idle, noted on the owner’s profile. Your points stay in the ledger in case it revives.
Who confirms my work?
The project owner. Every confirmation, rejection, and downgrade is logged and visible on their track record.
Can points be revoked?
The ledger is append-only. Corrections are new, visible entries, never silent edits.
Is this legal equity?
No. It is a moral pledge, tracked in the open. Not a security, not an investment, not a contract.

Trust is imported once, then extended one invite at a time.

I built this to work the way I wish side-project collaboration already worked. If you have an invite, come build something with us.
Dave MattsonFounder