Pipes is an early-stage protocol in active, continuous development. Backers support servers, vector storage, and independent engineering. Features roll out iteratively.
Own Your Knowledge.
Subsidize The Network.
In corporate AI, your conversations are mined and captured for \$0. In Pipes, you curate authoritative primary sources, run on-device models, and earn streaming micro-royalties in Sats or Cash.
Monthly Curator Tiers
Choose between an unlisted Private Pipe (personal second brain) or a discoverable Public Pipe (earn from the 25% Curator Pool).
Private Personal Pipe
Explore the sovereign web, read public primary sources, and build your private unlisted second brain.
- Private personal pipe (sealed & unlisted)
- Follow up to 4 sovereign pipes
- Unlimited local WebGPU edge inference
- Ad-free, non-monetized reading room
- Automated PII & secret scrubbing
Casual Personal Curator
≈ 7,692 sats / mo
Support sovereign curation, unlock a Public or Private personal pipe, and earn from the 25% Curator Pool.
- Public or Private Personal Pipe selection
- Follow up to 10 curated pipes
- Up to ~250 curations and chat queries / month
- Eligible for 25% monthly Curator Yield Pool earnings
- Personal sovereign cloud backup & sync
- 2-line embed widget for your website
Most Popular · The Sovereign Curator
≈ 32,308 sats / mo
Run an authoritative pipe, contribute primary source monographs, unlock local storage, and earn sats.
- 1 Free Registered Pipe domain included ($20 value)
- Local Storage Option: Run offline-first local backups
- Unlimited pipe follows & subscriptions
- Up to ~1,000 curations and chat queries / month
- 70% Direct Contributor Query Revenue Share (Sats)
- Eligible for 25% monthly Curator Yield Pool distributions
- BYOK Unlocked: Drive inference with Claude or GPT-4o
Power Researcher & Enterprise Barrier
≈ 72,308 sats / mo
For high-volume researchers, creators building serious digital reach, and custom agent microtoll controls.
- Unlimited pipe follows & subscriptions
- Up to ~2,500 curations and chat queries / month
- Set Custom Microtoll Rates (1¢–5¢+) for external AI scrapers
- WebGPU Local Edge: Full exportable offline vector models
- Crowdsourced Harness Engineering: Share & invoke proven visual and analytical scaffolds
- Priority HNSW vector re-indexing & fast ingestion
Annual Sovereign Infrastructure & Cohorts
Group pipes for academies, direct collaborative design calls, and foundational support to scale independent software.
Classrooms & Cohorts
≈ 460,000 sats
A private shared pipe for your school, homeschool cooperative, research lab, or family. Replaces tool sprawl across Google Drive, Slack, WhatsApp, and email with a single verifiable pipeline.
- Private multi-member shared pipe for your cohort
- Full Period ($21/mo) Tier included for the year ($252 value)
- Early Cohort Co-Design Calls with Kyle (bi-weekly starting October)
- Replace Google Drive + Slack sprawl with a single pipe
- 2-line Greater chatbot embed for cohort websites
- Selectively publish nodes publicly to earn query royalties
Starting early October to plan forum features, Substack integrations, and permissions.
Patron Founder
≈ 1,153,846 sats base (Custom amounts welcome)
For high-conviction Bitcoiners, angels, and believers who want to see sovereign open infrastructure win. Directly funds servers, high-performance HNSW vector databases, and independent engineering.
- Full Year of Ellipsis ($47/mo) Tier included (~$564 value)
- Full Access to Classrooms & Cohorts ($299/yr) included for FREE
- 30–60 Minute 1-on-1 Strategy & Architecture Call with Kyle
- Bi-weekly Patron Dispatches & Private Insider Webinars
- Custom contribution options ($750 to $50,000+) to build platform runway
- Permanent verified Patron Founder status across protocol
Scheduled for early October. Also includes custom contribution selector up to $50,000+.
Opens patron briefing, custom contribution selector & call scheduling
Business Platform
+ Custom Implementation Fee
A software platform floor for commercial organizations. Custom enterprise integrations, data isolation, and SLAs are scoped per company (typically $10k–$25k for SMBs, enterprise custom).
- $2,500/yr Base Platform Software License floor
- Custom implementation fee scoped per team (typically $10k–$25k)
- Dedicated enterprise API connectors (Slack, Notion, CRMs)
- Enterprise redundancy, zero-knowledge privacy, and compliance auditing
- Dedicated architecture reviews and developer support
Where does your money go, and how do curators earn?
Unlike traditional social media algorithms that force creators into clickbait thumbnails and median slop, Pipes operates on a proportional merit pool.
Covers server infrastructure, continuous background vector hydrators, and fast HNSW embeddings so external AI agents can query at <20ms latency.
Distributed proportionally to active curators based on verified primary sources and citations. No MrBeast winner-take-all; every active curator earns their share.
When external agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) query your specific nodes via MCP, 70% of the query fee is routed directly to you in Bitcoin Satoshis.
Generic web searches return tourist blurbs or Hollywood stereotypes. On Pipes, AI queries authenticated curators living in Mississippi and Georgia writing about regional community credit, civic audits, and local music traditions.
An entrepreneur asking about shirt fabrics for humid rounds gets direct notes from club champions and textile engineers who play 100 rounds a year—saving $50,000 in manufacturing errors while paying the author a query toll.