Every AI coding tool harvests this exact telemetry, ships it home, and sells the
story — to investors, to competitors, to anyone but you. Backpay flips the meter:
the same metadata, collectively bargained. 50% of every contract flows back to the
people generating the data. This page is me going first.
0 tokens through the meter · — days
The whole constitution
i.
Counters, never content. The collector's schema has no field for prompts, paths or names — it cannot leak what it cannot hold.
ii.
Nothing leaves unseen.preview prints every byte before anything is sent. The collector is open source, small enough to read in one coffee.
iii.
No one is ever the product alone. No data cell covering fewer than five panelists is published or sold. Individual rows: never, at any price.
iv.
The ledger is public from day zero. Half of every euro, pro-rata by days contributed — or this is just another harvester with better fonts.
v.
Paid in money nobody can freeze. Default payout rail: Lightning. Your balance is yours, not a platform's hostage.
PANEL LEDGER — accrued to panelists€0.00
contracts sold0
meter statusON — counting since day one
The first hundred carry founding weight.
One command, once — the meter then runs itself (a ~1-second daily tick, no daemon).
It shows you every byte and asks before sending anything. No email, no signup, no spam — ever.Read the full manifesto →
npx backpay
1 member(s) and counting · founding weight for the first 100
Questions, answered straight
What is Backpay?
An open-source data union for AI dev tools. Members run a tiny meter that reads the usage logs their AI coding tools already write locally and submits day-level counters only. The union sells k-anonymous aggregates — the live index of which AI tools are actually winning — and 50% of every contract flows back to members, pro-rata by days contributed.
Can it read my prompts or code?
No — structurally. The payload schema has no field for prompts, file paths, repo names or code, so they cannot be sent. Tool and model names come from a fixed vocabulary; strings from your logs are never copied. preview prints every byte before anything leaves your machine.
How do I get paid?
50% of every revenue contract accrues to members, pro-rata by days of data contributed. Your balance is visible from day one via status — before payouts even open. Default payout rail: a Lightning address you control.
How do I join?
Run npx backpay. It reads your local logs, shows the complete payload, and asks consent before sending anything. You become member №N — the first 100 carry permanent founding weight. (Until the meter is published: leave your email above.)