Platform Ethos

CardPact is a marketplace owned and governed by the members that sell on it.

01

You have a vote.

Every member seller has governance rights over the platform. Fee changes, platform policy, how surplus is spent — all of it is driven by member votes. No single seller, and no founder, can override the membership.

02

You reap the upside.

Surplus beyond what it costs to run the platform flows back to member sellers as patronage dividends, proportional to your sales volume. The platform exists to serve you, not to squeeze you for shareholder gain.

03

You can't be sold out.

The rules that matter aren't just words on a piece of paper that can be rewritten overnight by some executives in a board room. They're enforced by the code upon which the platform is built — not even the founders can change it, once deployed, without membership approval.

How does this hold up in practice? →

What we're asking of founding sellers

Founding membership is not passive. The product is still in development, in its earliest stage. What is needed right now is honest input, not a financial commitment. Here's the ask:

In exchange, founding sellers will have proportionally large influence on how the platform is designed, and on the platform parameters from the outset. The founding cohort shapes what this becomes.

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