Terms
Written on 28 September 2026. Reworded on 10 October 2026, when question and answer became Problem and Solution, the words the product uses; nothing promised changed. On 19 October 2026 three sentences were added about shares and returns. They promise something new, so everyone is asked to agree again. On 12 November 2026 a section was added about the paid plan. It binds only someone who buys the plan, and they agree to it again at the checkout, so nobody is asked again for it. A lawyer may revise this page later. If that happens, the date here changes, and nothing already promised is taken back.
What Solvocracy is
Solvocracy is a private place where a group works out what to do and keeps the reasons. A group is invite-only, and only its members can see what is in it.
A group can also choose to show a public page: its name, its purpose Problem, a short statement, and Problems it would like help with. Nothing is public until a group-wide sponsor of that group switches it on.
Your group’s private work
Your group is invite-only, and only its members can see what is in it. Other groups on the site cannot see it, and neither can anyone we show Solvocracy to.
We don't share your group's private data with anyone. Solvocracy runs on two hosting services, Supabase for the database and Vercel for the website, which store it for us under their own privacy rules. We will point you to those rules if you want them. We open your group's content only when you ask us for help, ask for an export, or give us permission in advance, and we keep no copy outside the system.
Everything in your group is yours. A sponsor can download the group's whole record at any time. You can also ask us for a full export, for any reason, and for deletion. If a pilot ends, you get the export, and then, if you ask, the group is deleted. If Solvocracy ever stops running, you get your complete record before anything goes dark.
What a public page shows, and never shows
A public page shows what the group’s sponsor chose: the group’s name and purpose Problem, a statement and a website the sponsor wrote, how many members it has, and any Problem the sponsor opened to the public, with the Solutions members have proposed so far.
It never shows who wrote what. No member’s name, face or email appears on a public page. Votes, comments, costs, files and everything not opened stay inside the group.
Once a page or a Problem has been shown, it can be closed but not removed. A closed page shows a notice and the page as it was on the day it was closed. We keep it that way so a public record cannot be quietly edited.
Problems a group opens to the public
When a group opens a Problem, it is asking anyone to help solve it. Solvocracy does not take Solutions from outside the group yet; the page says how to reach the group.
If a group says what it offers for a solution it uses, that is the group’s own promise. Solvocracy makes no promise, moves no money, and is not a party to any arrangement between a group and anyone who helps it.
Influence, backing and shares
Influence has no cash value and is not a share in anything. Backing a Solution is a gift and can never be exchanged for shares or any return. Nobody may promise shares or returns on Solvocracy; a business formed on Solvocracy decides ownership among its founders under its own counsel.
Who is responsible for what a page says
Everything on a group’s public page was written by members of that group. Solvocracy hosts it. It does not endorse it, check it, or speak for the group.
The paid plan
Solvocracy sells one thing: more of the writing assistant, on a stronger model, for one member at a set price a month or a year, or for a whole group from a shared pool. The prices are on the plan page before you pay, with any sales tax inside them.
It never buys a vote, standing, a place on any list, more room to post, or anything in moderation. Nobody can see who pays.
The plan renews until you cancel. There is no minimum term, and no period you use first and are charged for after. You agree to the renewal in its own box before you pay, and an email after the first payment repeats the terms and how to cancel. You can cancel at any time from Settings, in two clicks, and the plan then runs to the end of the period you have paid for. Before a yearly plan renews, you get a reminder email at least fifteen days ahead.
If the price ever changes for a plan already running, you get an email at least seven days before, with the new price and how to cancel. Within seven days of a first payment you can ask for the whole payment back from the plan page. A payment that fails pauses the plan and changes nothing else about your account.
Taking something down
If something on a public page is about you and should not be there, or you believe it breaks the law, tell us through the takedown form. We read every request and write back within a few days.
When we take something down, the words come out and a note is left in their place saying a moderator removed them. That applies to the live page and to any copy kept from before the page was closed. The record that something was there stays; the words do not.