FOR FUNDERS & PARTNERS
Closed betaArtfork is a working platform, not a pitch-stage idea. Studio, Workshop, Ledger, Marketplace, and Event Manager are built and running in closed beta today.
THE PROBLEM
Creators juggle disconnected tools across the whole arc of a project: planning software, spreadsheets and side-deals for splitting credit and money, separate marketplaces to sell the result, separate tools to run a series or exhibition once it's out. Mutual recognition, including financial, is what sustains the desire to keep collaborating, and it fades fast, for the original creator and for anyone who builds on their work.
THE SOLUTION
Studio
Discipline-specific creation tools: a full film/documentary production suite, a photography studio, an in-browser publishing canvas.
Workshop
Where creators find collaborators and negotiate grafts.
Ledger + Wallet
Signed, automated equity splits and revenue distribution.
Marketplace
Sell the resulting work: digital downloads, originals, editions, commissions.
Event Manager
Run series, judged contests, or curated exhibitions, with scenography and QR labels for physical shows.
MARKET
$59.6B global art market
2025, +4% YoY, ~41.5M transactions. Artfork's real scope is wider (music, film, documentary, performance, publishing), and this is the defensible, sourced anchor.
The fastest-growing segment
Accessible, entry-level work under $5,000, 38% of all dealer sales, first-time-buyer driven, plus independent multi-discipline creators with no unified tooling today.
Laos beachhead
~7.5M population; NIFA (National Institute of Fine Arts) and 26,000+ registered handicraft businesses; concentrated in Vientiane and Luang Prabang. Marketplace already live in beta there.
THE LEDGER
The Sap is Artfork's fixed platform fee, 20% of every revenue distribution, non-negotiable and always visible in the equity ledger.
The remaining 80% belongs to the artists. For collaborations, that 80% is split exactly as signed, before a single asset is uploaded.
REAL GROUND
Artfork's education chapter, a mentorship-residency program in Laos, is where the platform's mechanics meet real practitioners: real mentors, real students, real equity splits, before real money is even involved. It began as the founder's original idea for a physical art school, before infrastructure and political constraints redirected it toward a digital platform first.
Read about the Workshops chapter →Artfork is closed beta, self-funded to date, and looking for partners who want measurable local impact with a real sustainability path.