Founding promises
Five promises, in writing.
You should know what happens to your work, your data, and your earnings before you join a platform. These five promises are our answer. They are not a poster: they will be written into the terms of service, and the draft author contract already carries them while the full terms await legal review.
01
Your work is yours.
We take a non-exclusive license to display your work, not ownership, an option on it, or a right of first refusal. You can publish the same story elsewhere on the same day. You can also export everything you’ve written in open standard formats at any time.
02
Your audience, on their terms.
Readers decide whether they want to hear from authors: opt-in, off by default, withdrawable at any time. Messages go through povesta, so a reader’s address never reaches an author and there are no contact lists to export. Author emails are not switched on yet; the permission you record today is honored when they are.
03
We never train AI on your writing.
Your writing is not training data. That is written into the contract, not a policy page we can quietly edit. Anti-scraping defenses are on by default. The same rule binds the studio: its tools read your draft to advise you, never to learn from you.
04
Clear fees, published up front.
Our share of author earnings stays within a published 10–15% band, as set out in the draft author contract; the exact rate is published before paid features launch. There are no gag clauses, now or later: writers may say out loud what they earn here and what we take.
05
Your work must outlast the platform.
If povesta ever winds down, you lose nothing: notice and time to export, a copy of the archive held by an independent party so it can be returned, and refunds of unspent credits once paid features exist. Writers walk away with their work, readers with their libraries.