The database
Your instance runs on its own database with row level security at every table. Nobody else's members are in it, and it exports whole.
Own the community, not a seat in it
Your community. Your instance. Your money.
A home you own outright, with the database, the brand, and the whole membership economy in your name, and a price that is paid once.
The Ownership Line
A percentage platform keeps
$29,250
over 60 months
Apex Community costs
$9,600
once, and keeps $0
You pass the line in month 20 and everything after it is yours.
people
USD
pct
Sixty months, the fee applied to every membership payment, and one price for the instance. No other terms.
The line explained
What a percentage costs. What one price costs. What you own at the end.
01
A percentage fee is applied to every membership payment for as long as the community exists. At 250 members and $39 a month, 5 percent is $488 a month. Over five years that is $29,250, and it is the number the Ownership Line prints first.
02
One price is $9,600 for the instance, paid once. The fee on membership revenue is zero. The number does not change when the community grows, which is the point: growth is yours to keep.
03
At the end you hold the database, the brand, the member list, and the Stripe account the payments cleared into. If you ever leave, the export is standard Postgres and the photographs are files in a bucket you can read.
What your members walk into
A place, with a door that has your name on it.
Home opens on a full width photograph you chose, with a welcome by first name and one line of what happened today. Under it, the feed: photos, questions, wins, live for every member. Beside it, the rooms, the guidelines, and an introduction to someone they have not met.
Watch, Learn, Events and Messages are one tap away on every screen, on a phone or a laptop, in the same five places.
What you actually own
Six things, in your name, from the first day.
The brand
Your name, your accent, your cover photograph, your guidelines. Members see your community wearing your identity on every page, including sign in.
The membership economy
Paid membership at the price you set, billed through your own Stripe account. Every dollar clears to you. The platform fee is zero, stated once, in writing.
The rooms
Real time conversation by topic, workshop groups with their own library, video from YouTube or Vimeo, and a stage for going live.
The people
A feed members open every day, a directory with search, introductions that pair two people who have not met, and a notification engine written into the database itself.
One price, once.
Founders Lifetime is $9,600 for the instance, with 25 available. After the 25th it closes and the yearly tier remains.
Founders
$9,600 once, 25 instances.
The first 25 instances are sold at one price for life, and the count on the pricing page is the real one.
Claim an instanceQuestions
The eight we answer most.
What does one instance include?
One organization, one database, one brand, and the whole product: the feed, rooms and workshop groups, real time messages, video from YouTube or Vimeo, live streams with chat, courses, events with RSVP and calendar files, a member directory, a business directory, news wires, the arcade, and organizer insights. Everything ships on day one. There is no module you pay extra to switch on, and the setup checklist on your Home page walks you through the five things that make it yours: name, cover, accent, guidelines, and ten invitations.
How is the five year number computed?
The Ownership Line multiplies members by monthly price to get monthly revenue, applies the fee percentage you typed to get what a percentage platform keeps each month, and multiplies by 60 months. It is integer arithmetic in cents, so $25 is 2500 and 3.0 percent is 300 basis points. The crossover month is the one price of the instance divided by that monthly keep, rounded up. A 250 member community at $39 on a 5.0 percent fee pays $488 a month and $29,250 over five years, and crosses the $9,600 line in month 20. Change any input and the reading updates without smoothing.
What happens when the fee is low enough that a percentage wins?
The instrument says so, in those words. If your community is small enough or your current fee low enough that the percentage never reaches $9,600 inside 60 months, the sentence under the line changes to say a percentage is cheaper than owning it. We would rather lose that sale than publish a number we cannot stand behind. The yearly Instance tier at $1,200 exists for exactly that case, and the same arithmetic applies to it.
Who hosts it, and who holds the keys?
The instance runs on its own Supabase project and its own Vercel deployment, created in your name. Storage buckets are private and every asset is signed. If you leave, you take the database with you as a standard Postgres export. The membership contract is with the organizer, not with us: we never bill your members, and we never see their card details, because payments run through your own Stripe account.
How do members join?
By invitation. An organizer mints a link in Settings with a role, a use count, and an expiry, and shares it anywhere. A person opens the link, creates an account with their own email and password, and lands on Home with a display name that is unique inside your community. Links can be revoked at any time. There is no public sign up page, so the only people inside are people someone chose to let in.
What does the organizer control?
Rooms and categories, workshop groups and who is in them, courses and lessons with attached files, events, the business directory review queue, member strikes, pinned posts, community guidelines, the accent and cover, and the paid membership plan. Owners also see billing. Members can post, comment, message, RSVP, upload a profile picture, go live, and request an introduction. Every one of those permissions is enforced by a database policy, not by the interface.
Is it accessible?
Every interactive element shows a visible focus ring, every touch target is at least 44 pixels, every text pairing in all ten themes measures at or above 4.5 to 1, and the Branding studio refuses an accent that cannot carry readable button text. Nothing moves unless a visitor caused it, and under reduced motion the Ownership Line swaps its bar for a plain sentence. Photographs carry alt text and sit over a gradient so a missing file never leaves a hole.
What is the Partner tier?
Partner is for a reseller who runs several instances for their own clients: an agency, a denomination, a franchise. It is priced on volume, includes a shared template for spinning up a new instance with the reseller's default branding, and a single place to see every instance's health. Ask on the pricing page and we will quote it against the number of instances you expect in the first year.
