Communities already know what they want. We are building the system that proves it.
Artificial Frontier is a pre-launch technology company. We build software that lets a community show real demand for a product, a re-release, a repair, a region, or a fix — including real economic demand — and that lets a verified company or creator answer that demand with an offer people can actually accept.
Status: pre-launch. Our first product is in active development and is not open to the public yet. We have not announced a launch date. Nothing on this site describes a service you can sign up for today.
Demand is guessed at, not measured.
Companies decide what to build, restock, revive, localise, or repair using proxies: petitions, comment threads, resale prices, survey panels, waitlists. Every one of those signals has the same defect — it is not denominated, not verified, not current, and not addressed to anyone in particular. So the people who could act on it discount it, and the people who wanted it never find out whether they were alone.
Denominated
A signal that carries an amount says something a click cannot. Our economic-intent layer is designed so a person can state what a specific outcome is actually worth to them right now — and so that number is only counted when there is evidence behind it.
Current
Interest decays. Demand recorded two years ago is not demand today. Our design treats verified signal as something that expires on a schedule and has to be renewed, so a headline number never outlives the intent behind it.
Addressed
Demand aimed at nobody goes nowhere. Every demand in our system points at one canonical, identified target — a company or a person who has opted in — so there is always a specific party who can see it, verify themselves, and decide whether to respond.
One product, built in three layers.
Our first product has the working title Project Demand. The consumer brand has not been chosen yet, and we would rather say so than invent one.
A public demand network
Anyone can post a public demand — bring this back, ship this here, fix this, make this — aimed at one identified target. Other people add social support. Demands belong to the community, not to whoever typed them first.
Verified Demand
A separate, optional layer where a person states how much a specific outcome is worth to them. The public total counts only amounts backed by approved evidence, and it expires. No money is collected merely because someone adds Verified Demand.
A response the target issues
The end state we are building toward: an eligible verified target can answer a demand with an exact, all-or-nothing preorder or reward campaign on its own terms — and supporters separately decide whether to back that specific offer.
Careful about money, ambitious about the product.
The product vision is large. The first thing we ask a payment provider to review is deliberately narrow. Those are not in conflict — it is how we intend to earn the right to build the rest.
We separate the social layer from the money layer in the design, in the database, and in the copy. Demonstrating demand does not move money. The only place money can move for a target is a campaign that the target itself issues, with exact terms, that a supporter separately and freshly agrees to.
Where a capability depends on a payment provider's written approval, we label it planned and we do not build the provider-specific parts until that approval exists. We would rather ship a smaller honest product than a larger one that misdescribes what happens to people's money.
Status, without the spin.
- The company
- Artificial Frontier is pre-launch. We are not announcing customers, usage, funding, or a launch date, because there is nothing there to announce yet.
- The product
- Project Demand is in active development and is not open to the public. Access today is limited to development and testing.
- Payments
- One paid product is built: Boosts, a promotional-distribution purchase made from Artificial Frontier. It runs in our payment provider's test mode; we have not begun collecting live payments. Target campaigns are planned and depend on a payment provider's written approval that we do not have yet. See the details →
- What comes next
- Finishing the public demand loop, opening a limited public launch, and completing payment provider review for the first campaign type. We will describe each of those as it happens, not before.
What Artificial Frontier is not.
- Not a bank, a money transmitter, or any kind of financial institution.
- Not a way to send money to another person. There is no peer-to-peer cash transfer.
- Not a wallet. No one has a stored balance with us.
- Not an investment, a security, a share of anything, or a lending product.
- Not crypto. No tokens, no coins, no blockchain component.
- Not a general crowdfunding site where anyone can raise money for anything.
Questions about how any of this works?
We answer questions from prospective users, targets, journalists, and payment and compliance reviewers at the same address.