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Investing and funding

Fund a platform built to share its profit with the people doing the work.

Arsclepius is live, small and early: a working product, a shared skill library, payments and payouts, and a revenue-share ledger built to close every quarter. Funding goes to the things that grow it: more disciplines built out, advertising, and outreach to the instructors and communities who make it worth joining.

  • Live product, early stage
  • Funds go to expansion and outreach
  • Terms discussed one to one

What Arsclepius is

Arsclepius is where people find activities, connection, and play, and where the instructors, communities, and venues behind them run everything in one place. Your growth follows you, trust comes from instructors who sign off what they have seen, and profits are shared with the people doing the work.

It is a platform for growing in a hands-on craft, whether someone comes to learn it, teach it, perform it or watch it. Each discipline has a skill ladder, and a habitat for the person's companion that follows their practice in the communities they join there. What a person does and what they watch are kept on separate records, and an instructor can sign off a skill they have seen a student do, with their name on the card. The first two tiers are marked by the platform from logged practice, and professionals start at Tier 2 in what they teach; neither is shown as verified. Around that sit practice sheets, online courses, events with tickets and QR check-in, communities with chat and a calendar, and performers with pages of their own that fans can follow.

Full ladders are built today for shibari, yoga, pilates, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, freediving, sexual health, polyamory and the fitness family, from powerlifting and kettlebell to running and swimming. Aerial, muay thai, scuba and others are seeded and can grow. Anyone can explore events, courses and public profiles without an account.

It is built to be honest about itself. Every public page states what is live and what is not, and the pay page prints how the revenue share is computed rather than a number it cannot back.

Where funding goes

The first uses are expansion and reach. The cost lines are the same ones the platform's own ledger budgets for.

Building out disciplines

Each discipline needs a curated ladder: skills, tiers, prerequisites, anatomy, and the peer review that keeps it honest. Shibari, yoga, freediving and the fitness family are among those built out; the rest are seeded. This is skilled work, and funding pays for it.

Advertising

Reaching students who are already looking for a class, a jam, a coach or a show, in the disciplines that are ready for them.

Outreach to instructors and communities

The platform is only as good as who teaches on it. Funding pays for finding instructors and communities, bringing them on, and supporting them while their students arrive.

Safety and support

A safety and support net for the crafts this platform serves, including the independent professionals for serious disputes that are still being arranged.

Operations and people

Servers, payments infrastructure, and the salaries of the people who build and run it. Salaries are a cost line that comes off the top before any share is paid.

How the model works

  1. One fee per paid order

    Arsclepius earns one fee on each paid order, plus voluntary support, which buys nothing. There is no monthly fee and no listing fee. Sellers set their own prices and choose who pays the fee: passed on, it is added on top for the buyer and the seller is paid in full; absorbed, it comes out of the seller's share. Payouts run through Stripe Connect. The rate in force is published on the pay page.

  2. Costs come off the top

    Operations, salaries, advertising, safety and support, and leadership are budgeted, and any deficit from earlier periods is covered first. What remains is what there is to share.

  3. Profit goes back to the people doing the work

    After costs, the pool is for the people and communities who keep running things on the platform, once they are past a wait of eight active quarters. Each one's part is their work for other people that quarter out of everyone's, part of it weighted by how long they have kept going; the part earned by people still in their wait stays with the platform. Never by price or revenue, and never equally per person. Nothing is distributed before October 1, 2028.

    The full mechanics are on the pay page.

  4. Growth compounds through the library

    Every skill lives in one shared library reviewed by the professionals who teach it. Each new instructor and community makes the ladders deeper for the next one.

What this page will not do

This page is not an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities. Any investment would be offered only through proper documents, as the law requires.

It will not print projections, valuations or terms. Those are discussed one to one, against the real ledger, with the founder.

It will not change the revenue share quietly. The rule was replaced once, on October 8, 2026, before any quarter was closed or paid. The pay page says what changed, and any funding conversation starts from it.

Questions people ask

What stage is Arsclepius at?

Live and early. The core is live: accounts, ladders, instructor sign-offs, practice sheets, courses, events with tickets and check-in, communities, performers, Stripe payments and payouts. The user base is small, and the revenue share has not made its first distribution yet. Real figures are shared one to one.

What is the revenue model?

One platform fee on every paid order, published on the pay page, plus voluntary support, which buys nothing. There is no monthly fee and no listing fee. By default it is charged on top of the price the seller set; a seller can choose to absorb it instead.

What would funding be used for first?

Advertising to students in the disciplines that are ready, and outreach to the instructors and communities who teach them. Then building out more disciplines.

How do I start a conversation?

Email Robert@Arsclepius.com with the subject line Investing in Arsclepius, or use the question form on the home page and pick Investing. You will get a reply from a person.

Can I see the product before we talk?

Yes. Events, courses, public profiles and published experience pages are open to anyone without an account, and every audience page on this site states what is live.

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