Put money in.
Pick an idea.
Read the result.
You pay a founder a set amount every month. You, or someone else backing them, suggests what they should try next. They pick one, run it, and publish what happened — whether it worked or not.
The money, the idea and the result are three separate things, held by three different people. The checking is not: one person does that, and until someone independent is doing it, that is the part of this you are taking on trust.
See who you can backWho owes whom what.
Backers pay and suggest; founders run and publish. Both halves are written out in full — including what backing never buys, what a founder gets in return, and how either side leaves.
Read the agreementTwo products.One of themdoes notexist yet.
People ask whether backing a founder for a year should earn a share of what they build. We think it should — and offering that needs authorisation this product does not have and is not going to get, because it is the wrong shape for it.
- NowThesisPatronage. You pay a founder monthly, you get access, a say in what they try, and your name on the record. You do not get equity, interest, revenue, or anything you could sell. No licence is needed for this and none is pending.
- Being builtA separate investment productIts own app, run with a platform that already holds authorisation, because we would rather partner for the regulated half than spend a year becoming a worse version of somebody who already is. You would choose it on its own terms, with its own risk warnings, and it would not be this.
- NeverA bridge between the twoBacking someone here will not earn a place in that, a priority in it, or a discount on it. If it did, this page would be an invitation to invest, and this page is not that.
Nothing you pay today earns a claim on anything in the second row. What is being built is a different product, offered under someone else's licence, that you would choose separately or not at all.
A month, start to finish.
- Day 1The money arrivesSales tax and the card fee come off first. What is left gets split.
- Day 3One idea is pickedIts budget is set aside from the pot.
- Days 4–25It gets doneThe founder pays for it and uploads the receipts.
- Day 28The books are checkedMoney spent without a receipt counts as not spent.
- Day 30The result is fixedIt cannot be edited afterwards.
- Day 31Leftovers roll overMoney for experiments never turns into founder wages.
Three ways to split it.
The founder picks one and it is locked for the month. At least 25% always goes to experiments.| Split | Experiments | Founder | This site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly experiments | 70% | 15% | 15% |
| An even split | 50% | 35% | 15% |
| Mostly the founder | 25% | 60% | 15% |
The founder sets the tiers.
Not us. Each founder writes their own ladder — how many tiers, what each one costs, and what it gets you. We only fix what a tier is never allowed to contain.
- How many tiers there are, and what each costs
- What each tier can see of the numbers
- Who gets a seat on the weekly call
- Which tier can suggest an experiment
- How the money is split, once a month
- Equity, options, or a share of the company
- Interest, revenue, or profit
- Anything resellable or transferable
- A vote that binds the founder
- A number nobody has checked
That list is enforced by the software, not by review. The tier builder has no field for any of it.
Where your money actually goes.
Sales tax and the card fee come off before anything is split, so the percentages apply to what is left, not to what you paid. Every payment screen on this site runs exactly this sum, at whatever amount you pick.
After tax and card fees, €15.43 of this reaches the founder each month.
Recurring monthly until you cancel, charged on the day you start and on that date each month. Accounts are not open yet, so cancelling means replying to the founder's receipt — the money is taken by their payment provider, not by us. If they stop answering, your bank can revoke the mandate or reverse a charge without their agreement. The month in progress is not refunded.
We never touch the money.
Thesis never holds your money — the founder's own payment provider collects all of it, and we check how the experiment share is spent. The 15% platform line is what running this site would cost. There is no way to collect it during the pilot, so today that share stays with the founder too.
- You payTheir account, not oursPayment is taken by the founder's own payment account, not by Thesis. You will finish on their page and come straight back.
- They spendOut of their own accountThe founder pays the supplier directly for the experiment and uploads the receipt. Money they cannot evidence counts as unspent and rolls into next month.
- We checkAnd publish what we findOur job is the record: that the split was applied, that the money went where the experiment said it would, and that the result is published either way.
This is a deliberate limit, not a gap we intend to close. Holding other people’s money is a separate licence, a separate audit and a separate class of failure, and nothing this product does needs it.
This is not an investment
Backing a founder is patronage. You get insider access, a voice, and recognition — not equity, interest, revenue share, or financial returns of any kind. If the founder succeeds, you helped; you do not own a piece of it.