Royalties

Every answer knows where it came from.

Mary keeps a ledger of what each answer drew on: which documents, which passages, and how much each one mattered. Open any reply to see its thread.

From the thread

Every reply opens onto a sheet like this. Here is hers on why the bridge is orange.

From the thread

Contribution

Royalty
100%
Documents
3
Passages
3

Thread F0D6E628-A656-441E-B10D-D33D77FF9788

Sources

  • The Bridge in the FogReading

    He argued for International Orange because it sits warmly against the hills and still shows up in fog.

  • Warning coloursNotes

    The Navy had wanted black and yellow stripes, so ships could see it through anything.

  • Conversation with Mary, last TuesdayMemory

    You asked why so many bridges are painted red, and whether it was only primer.

Contribution tracking

Every passage Mary uses is logged against the document it came from, then painted as a brushstroke over the phrase it shaped. Each answer carries a thread ID, so you can always trace it back.

Relevancy

Not every source pulls equal weight. Each one earns a share by how closely it matched your question and how much of it made it into the answer. That share is the percentage and the bar beside it.

Your thread, your royalty

Today Mary only searches your own thread: what you have read, heard, noted and said. Every contribution is yours, so the royalty is 100% yours.

Beyond your thread

Soon, other people’s threads — with consent, and paid.

Retrieval will reach past your own database into other people’s. Ask a question and Mary can draw on what a friend, a colleague or an expert has read and written, with their consent, and pay them for what they contribute.

  1. Consent first

    Nothing is shared unless its owner opts in, source by source, and they can take it back at any time.

  2. Paid by relevance

    When someone else’s passage shapes your answer, they earn its share of the royalty.

  3. Always traceable

    Every answer keeps its thread, so each contributor can see where their work went and what it earned.

Drawing on other people’s threads is on the way. Today Mary only draws from yours.