People are putting real things through this now. A wedding. A convention's whole ticket take. The dues an association has collected since 1994. Somebody's food business.
That deserves more than a policy page, so here is what I hold myself to, in plain words. There's a privacy policy as well, and it says the same things in the language lawyers need.
What you sell lands in a Stripe account in your name. Not mine, and not a balance you have to ask me to release.
This is the one I'd point at first, because it isn't a policy I could quietly change later — it's how the payments are wired. If I disappeared tomorrow the money for a ticket sold tomorrow would still go to the person who sold it.
The list of who came, who bought and who joined is yours. Ask and I'll send it to you. I don't sell it, rent it, or market to it.
Your guest list is the most valuable thing you'll ever put in here, and the whole business model of the platforms you're used to is to sit between you and it. I'd rather charge you a fee you can see.
Your handle is yours. If you leave, you leave with it.
Gist runs on the AT Protocol — the open protocol behind Bluesky. Your handle, posts, follows and DMs are portable records, not rows in my database. You can move them to another host and keep your name. That's a structural commitment, not a feature I could withdraw.
Aura will never write, send, post, or pay on your behalf without asking first. Every write goes through a confirmation gate. Every time.
An assistant that acts on its own is a liability dressed as convenience. Aura drafts, finds, sorts and suggests. You press the button.
Your data is never sold, never shared with advertisers, and never used to train a foundation model without you saying yes — separately, explicitly, and reversibly.
When something is missing, thin, or held together with tape, it goes on the page before you commit — not in a support thread three weeks later.
Every category page here carries a section listing what it can't do yet, and the about page ends on one. That's deliberate. I'd rather lose someone at the start than let them find out on the day.
This is African-founded, and that isn't a market — it's a design constraint that makes the thing better. Translation across African languages is first-class rather than a checkbox. Naira settlement sits beside dollars as an equal. The way people actually gather — the association, the aso-ebi, the class of '09 — is the shape of the product, not an edge case it has to be bent around.
Software has shipped one culture's defaults for thirty years. This one ships another.
If I ever break one of these — tell me. My address is below and I'm the one who reads it.