Manifesto · Founders' note
Creators deserve one home.
On the operator-creator, the cost of a fractured stack, and why we built AGGREGATE+.
I · The diagnosis
The creator economy is seven products in a trench coat.
he average serious creator runs a newsletter on one platform, a store on a second, a Patreon-style page on a third, a Calendly on a fourth, a payment processor on a fifth, an email automation on a sixth, and a spreadsheet to make sense of any of it. Roughly thirty percent of every dollar earned never reaches them — it gets carved off by processors, SaaS fees, and the ambient cost of switching tabs.
The promise of the creator economy was leverage. The reality is bookkeeping. Most creators can't answer a basic question: which post paid me this week?
II · The principles
One ledger. One money page. One audience.
Every dollar that clears on a card — tips, subscriptions, product orders — should show up on the same ledger line once Stripe Connect and webhooks do their job. Not in seven dashboards stitched together by CSVs and good intentions.
Every audience you build should be yours to own and export. Lock-in is not a business model. It's a tax on talent.
The public money page at aggregate.plus/@you should carry posts, products, tiers, and link tiles with real themes and analytics — while Studio and BYOK AI stay in your control, not ours.
III · The operator-creator
Build like a SaaS founder. Write like a novelist.
The operator-creator reads their own ledger, knows which link tile converted, and publishes from a real composer — not a carousel of tabs. Calendly-style booking links sit next to products and tiers on the same surface.
AGGREGATE+ is the back office: Studio for the pipeline, Settings → AI for the keys you already pay for, Stripe Connect for the rails, and a money page your audience can trust.
IV · The promise
We work for you. Not the algorithm.
We'll never sell ads on your audience. We'll never lock your subscriber export. Fee changes get real notice — see the Terms.
Card volume today carries a 5% platform application fee plus Stripe processing (published rate for this deployment — see Pricing). Our Terms describe waiving that platform fee until monthly processed revenue crosses US$500; automated tiering is still landing — read Pricing for how checkouts behave right now.
V · The call
We built AGGREGATE+ for the operator-creator.
If you've been waiting for a serious back office for your independent media business — one ledger, one money page, every dollar accounted for — here it is.
— The AGGREGATE+ founders