Your Audience Belongs in the Development Room
Open your world to the people who love it and let them pitch ideas, vote on what belongs, and back the ones they believe in with real money — while the creative call stays entirely yours. Audience-backed development, with a world logic engine underneath that keeps the whole thing coherent.
Free to open a Board. You keep 90% of every backing.
The most alive worlds are already being built in public
Serialized fiction, webcomics, actual-play, ongoing channels — the worlds people care most about grow in front of an audience, chapter by chapter. And that audience has ideas. Until now there was nowhere for those ideas to go except a comment section that forgets them by morning, and no way for the people who love a world to help fund the making of it.
Every attempt to fix that by "letting the crowd write the story" fell apart for the same reason: no one kept the world coherent. Votes decided canon, the crowd pulled in every direction at once, and the story turned to noise.
The Board is the missing middle: a stage where your audience proposes and funds, a logic engine that keeps the canon consistent, and a single author — you — who decides what becomes real.
From a pitch in the queue to canon in your world
Real support, not applause
Kickstarter funds a finished thing. Patreon funds an ongoing creator. The Board funds the development of the canon itself — in real time, with your audience as active participants who have skin in the game.
You keep 90% of every backing and tip — CanonBoard takes a 10% platform fee — and withdraw to PayPal once your balance reaches $50. Every idea that makes it into canon keeps its contributor's name. The money and the credit both flow to the people building the world.
Underneath the Board is a world logic engine — the only tool in this space that actively stress-tests your canon instead of just storing it.
Anything you canonize from the Board is cross-referenced against your whole world. Broken rules, age inconsistencies, two people in one place at once — flagged in plain English before they ever become real.
See the world logic engine →Questions about the Board
What is audience-backed development?+
It's a way to build a story world in the open: your audience proposes ideas and funds the ones they believe in while the world is still being made, and you — the single author — decide what actually becomes canon. Not crowdsourcing the story to a vote; funding and pressure-testing the development of it, with one person holding the creative line.
Do I lose control of my story?+
No. The Board is a queue, not a vote. Your audience signals what they want with votes and dollars. You decide what's canon. The creative authority never leaves you, and nothing enters your world without your approval.
What does backing actually do?+
Backing a pitch buys it visibility — it surfaces higher in the queue so you and other voters are more likely to see it. It never guarantees canonization; the best ideas still win on merit. Backing goes directly to you as the creator.
How much of the money do I keep?+
You keep 90% of every backing and tip. CanonBoard takes a 10% platform fee. Withdraw to PayPal once your balance reaches $50. The money flows to the person building the world.
How does the world stay coherent if the crowd is pitching?+
Every earlier attempt at crowd-fiction fell apart because no one kept the world consistent. Underneath the Board is a world logic engine — Conflict Detection reads your whole world and flags contradictions, so anything you canonize from the Board is stress-tested against everything else before it's real.
Does opening a Board cost anything?+
No. A public Board is included on every plan, including Free. You only pay if you want the paid engine features (Conflict Detection, Refine, Smart Import) or more seats and projects.
Build the world. Open the Board.
Start free, build a canon that holds together, and open it to the room that's been waiting to help you make it.