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Reading x Meritocracy, Democracy
n a system where being well-informed
is recognized and rewarded.
A way to effortlessly catalog, verify, quantify, and beautifully present your intellectual life. Organize and improve your mind, while proving and sharing your learning on any subject.
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The internet is information. By making it only count for advertising, the information became secondary.
This destroyed our information ecosystem.
The internet is the nervous system of modern society. We are seeing what happens when it’s optimized for quantity of attention , instead of quality of information.
Readocracy flips the script.
We are in a knowledge economy. Readocracy makes your attention online count as subject matter expertise instead.
Instead of checking your attention for advertising value, Readocracy checks it for learning value. It makes your attention count for your credibility on the subjects you’re passionate about.
Instead of an extractive model where others profit off of you, Readocracy is an additive model: you gain the value. Instead of quantity, it’s all about quality.
Imagine an internet optimized for that, instead.
Readocracy’s attention verification technology quantifies and certifies your consumption. You choose what’s public, and you can delete any item any time. Add books, podcasts, tweets, and your writing to round it out.
Your public profile is your intellectual portfolio, powered by the learning and note-taking you’re doing anyways. It comes with Linkedin embedding, email signatures, custom headers, and more.
Every profile can be subscribed to. If you find great content, and add helpful notes, you can put some of it behind a paywall. For yourself, or for charity.
Your personal insights are like Fitbit for your information diet. Both your consumption, as well as your contributions on Twitter and Medium. Spot the biases and sentiment of what you’re putting into your brain. You are what gets your attention.
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The most privacy-forward UX
you've probably ever used
We’re paranoid, too.
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You can literally see
when Readocracy is
active / tracking
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You decide what is
public, otherwise it
defaults to private
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You can make your
own exclusion list,
and easily delete
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We remind you
what was saved, and
how, every week
Mentally-stimulating prizes for the top readers
and top referrers from Sept 1 until Dec 1
Believe being well-informed should count?
Become a partner in our movement.
Colleges &
Universities
Helps your students graduate with a headstart, a portfolio that gives them an unfair advantage
Content publishers / site owners
Make your content immediately worth credits, gain free engagement tools
Professional Associations
Make it effortless to quantify and recognize informal learning, increase engagement
All over the world, ignorance is getting a free pass.
Let’s make the alternative shine.
Questions?
FAQ
"How do you make money? Are you just another data-exploiting, privacy-infringing business?" "What are the credits for? / Why credits? / What is a credit?" "How secure is my data on Readocracy / why should I trust you with my data?" "How can you tell if somebody actually read something? How does it work?" "How do you decide how many credits an article is worth?" "What if you're looking at questionable content?" "Is attention knowledge? What about application?" "Does the product distinguish between quality of articles / journalism?close
We’re on a mission to bring integrity back to the internet, and we genuinely appreciate everyone who wants to be part of making that a reality.
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The investment that increases your revenue while it grows
Smart Money
We have 100 spots set aside for well-respected leaders to own a piece of the upside in Readocracy, while using the platform and helping others learn through their unique content choices and any notes they add.
The beauty of it? It can become a new revenue stream for you. Much like a paid newsletter, you can charge for full access to your Readocracy stream - either for yourself, or for a charity of your choice.
If you do public speaking, you can embed your Readocracy QR code in your slides. Anyone watching just holds up their phone, and they’re directed to your profile, where they can subscribe. A one-time revenue event becomes a recurring stream with Readocracy. All using the reading and research and notes you’re spending time on anyways.
A Good Investment (Exec Summary)
Opens up easy, new recurring revenue for you
A product you can easily/proudly show off daily and benefit from daily
Help save the world by making the internet less toxic and ignorant, take power away from trolls, bots, and hucksters
This changes how the internet is valued, get in on the ground floor
Maniacally committed, values-driven, yet pragmatic founders
Our team brings over 25 years building social content platforms, supporting over 500K users, and winning recognition from Deloitte, IBM, Facebook. The Globe & Mail, and more.
Deep technology stack with a wide range of unique, proprietary IP
Highly defensible, original business model
Large, under-served, extremely valuable market, with a rich set of roadmap revenue streams (all lucrative, while user-respecting)
Want the full details on all of the above? Think you have what it takes to be one of our 100 angel-vangelists? Know somebody who does?
We would love to hear from you.
Readocracy is brought to you by Rewordly Inc., the team behind Readefined.com and Rewordly.com, the other two platforms in our prize-winning, mission-driven suite. We are based in Toronto and Bucharest, with an increasing presence in NYC. We are a quirky bunch - our team includes a vintage keyboard collector, table top gaming connoisseur, fashion photographer, and even a guerilla “serendipity artist”, amongst other things. By day, we are coders, designers, researchers, and strategists. Above all, we are deeply passionate, open-minded, values-driven people.
We are founded by two brothers, Mario and Matei Vasilescu. Matei taught himself to code at age 15, and had built a pre-Facebook social network with over 200K users, driving 40M hits/month, by the time he was 20. His proprietary platform architecture, MWE, powers micro-networks for global clients supporting over 500K users. Mario is a robotics engineer turned product designer. He is a multi-prize winner on digital innovation, and led digital strategy projects for national organizations in both Canada and France. Richard Tuck, our embedded executive advisor, rounds out the leadership team: he is the former CEO of Riipen, an education startup he grew from 3 to over 30 people with contracts across North America. He is an advisor to several startups, and a professor and program designer at Red River College, focused on social entrepreneurship.
The remainder of our advisors bring executive experience from IBM global, Columbia University, Torstar, Village Media, LoyaltyOne, and Code for America.
If you have any questions, we would be happy to hear from you.
The internet was supposed to be an incredible force for good. An oracle of knowledge, bringing together the best our world has to offer. Instead, it is increasingly tearing at the fabric of our society, sowing division, inciting violence, fueling depression and addiction, and upending democracies, while it bankrupts quality journalism along the way.
Our belief is that only a systemic, foundational rethinking of the web - one that finds a way to still play off existing habits - can bring about the dramatic shift that is required.
Our approach to this is to rethink the fundamental economics of the web: how value is measured, and how it is collected online, in a way that incentivizes quality creation, quality attention, and quality participation.
Today, the web is still largely driven by superficial measures rooted in basic attention and mindless behaviour: page clicks, ad impressions, and superficial “engagement” actions. The result is an inevitable race to the bottom where everything is optimized for quantity, while quality fits in where it can. This is a system that inherently rewards provocation, hysteria, and short cuts, while stifling thoughtfulness.
Our technology challenges this value system. Through Readefined.com, and now Readocracy, it makes it possible to optimize for, and be tangibly rewarded for, quality attention over quantity attention; for quality participation, over quantity participation. For both content publishers, and audiences. Rewordly.com fits in by helping quality perspectives, and more nuanced arguments, shine through the noise.
Today, the web is also a largely exploitative arrangement: the users themselves benefit from access to information, however their time and attention are endlessly abused. Platforms, publishers, and advertisers, have depended on a singular business model of ad-driven view-and-click attention extraction. With Readocracy, we are trying to help users more tangibly and visibly benefit from their time spent online, while also giving publishers and platforms a new, healthier, less exploitative, win-win way of profiting from the interest of their audiences.
What is listed above is not an easy task. It is an uphill climb, requiring a tremendous amount of education and re-education, and support from those who are only just beginning to see that the current system is clearly starting to collapse.
We have already made great progress, however, and are optimistic for what we can achieve with our ever-growing list of supporters and partners. If you would like to join them, and want to help us with our mission, we would love to hear from you.
