Level B5, The vault
Height is bought. Revenue is proven.
Upstairs, floors go to whoever pays the most, and every paid floor says so. Down here money can’t move you. Each figure is read from the founder’s own Stripe account through a read-only key, every hour, and nobody types a number in.
The ledger.
Ranked by what Stripe says, never by what anyone paid us. Each startup’s floor on the tower sits beside it, so you can see both.
- 01Empty boxWaiting for the first founder to open their books.
- 02Empty box
- 03Empty box
Revenue is money captured less refunds, before Stripe’s fees, in US dollars at the European Central Bank’s rate on the day we read it. MRR adds up active subscriptions brought to a month, after lasting discounts. Usage-based prices and trials aren’t counted.
How a figure gets in.
- 01
Make a read-only key.
Our link opens Stripe with read access to charges, subscriptions, prices and products already ticked. Nothing that can charge, refund or pay out.
- 02
Paste it on your floor.
Only the founder who holds the floor can. The key is sealed before it’s stored and never shown again, to anyone, you included.
- 03
We read it every hour.
Your figures go on your floor’s page and into the ledger. Delete the key, here or in Stripe, and they leave with it.
What we keep
Revenue per day, MRR, how many subscriptions are active, and the key’s last four characters.
What we never keep
Any single charge, or anything about your customers: no names, emails or card details.
Two ledgers that never touch.
Upstairs · The tower
Floors are bought.
The more a startup pays, the higher it goes, from $2. Every paid floor is labelled as a paid placement.
Downstairs · The vault
Revenue is read.
Straight from Stripe, every hour. What a startup paid for its floor plays no part here.
- Every figure comes from Stripe, read by us. There’s nowhere to type a number in.
- Paying for a floor never moves a startup in the vault, and nothing in the vault moves a floor.
- A startup whose key stops working leaves the ledger after three days.
- Connecting another company’s revenue to your floor gets the floor taken down.
- The vault is free, whatever floor you’re on.
Open your books.
Got a floor? Connect Stripe in a minute and your revenue goes up beside it.