QUESTIONS, obvious answers.
Everything a reader asks before upgrading — answered in plain language, nothing in the footnotes.
What's a dossier?
A composed editorial artifact answering your question — concise, cited inline, drawn live from the archive. Three voices: the body (the answer itself), a pull quote anchored to a specific piece, and pencil notes in the margin. Free readers compose nine dossiers a month; members compose without a monthly limit, subject to fair use.
What do members get beyond the counter?
The same concierge, the same citations, the same click-through as free readers — nothing in the dossier itself is held back, and the answer is never tuned to who's asking. Membership lifts the monthly limit and adds six things: continuity — the concierge keeps the thread of what you're composing, so you can ask a follow-up without starting over; depth — go deeper on any passage that catches your eye, and the concierge pulls more from the archive on exactly that; itinerary mode — ask for a trip and the concierge composes a day-by-day travel itinerary the same way it builds a dossier, every recommendation drawn from the archive and linked to its source; acquisition mode — describe a considered purchase and it composes a cited buying brief, organised by what actually decides it, every claim sourced and never a buy-signal (free to everyone during launch, members-only after); comparison mode — name two to four options and it sets them side by side, axis by axis, every claim cited and no winner called; and a saved history of every dossier, itinerary, acquisition brief, and comparison you've composed, to revisit any time.
What's itinerary mode?
A second thing the concierge composes, for members: ask it for a trip and, instead of a single dossier, it builds a day-by-day itinerary — each day drawn from the archive, every recommendation cited to the piece it came from. The same composition as a dossier, no fabrication, structured by day rather than as one answer; saved to your history and frozen, so you can revisit the exact itinerary any time. Like every dossier, it's only as broad as the archive behind it — it fills out as the index grows and more publishers join.
What's acquisition mode?
Another thing the concierge composes: describe a considered purchase — what you want and what it's for — and instead of a single dossier it composes a cited buying brief, organised by what actually decides it: purpose, value, condition, and where to find it. Every claim is cited to the piece it came from, and it never tips into a buy-signal — it lays out what the archive says and leaves the choice to you. The same composition as a dossier, no fabrication, structured around the decision rather than as one answer; saved to your history and frozen, so you can revisit it any time. Acquisition is free to everyone during its launch window, then settles to members-only. Like every dossier, it's only as broad as the archive behind it — it fills out as the index grows and more publishers join.
What's comparison mode?
And another, for members: name two to four options you're weighing — say the Submariner or the Aquanaut — and instead of a single dossier it composes a head-to-head, setting them side by side and contrasting them axis by axis (lineage, movement, design and fit, value, where to find them). Every claim on every side is cited to the piece it came from, and it never crowns a winner — even if you ask it to pick, you get the cited case on each side and you decide. Where a cited writer prefers one, it says so and attributes the view to them; it never makes that call itself. And it's honest about gaps: where the archive covers one option deeply and another thinly, it says so on that axis and shows only the cited side rather than inventing the missing one. Saved to your history and frozen, so you can revisit it any time — and like every dossier, only as broad as the archive behind it, filling out as the index grows and more publishers join.
Why €12?
Pays for the model time, the indexing, the editorial work, and the platform that keeps the concierge running. Publishers earn separately — every dossier closes with commerce cards routed through the cited publication, with 70% of any affiliate commission flowing to that publisher.
What's the founding 500?
First 500 paying members lock €8.40/mo (€84/yr) — 30% off the standard rate, permanent. Reserved for the first 500 to upgrade from free to paid. Founding designation in your account, permanent in the colophon.
How do I cancel?
From your account. Cancel anytime via the Stripe Customer Portal — access continues through the end of your paid period.
Do members see my history?
Only you do. We don't sell anything to anyone. We don't track you. We don't run ads. The whole revenue model is the €12 standard rate — and a 30% cut of any commerce we send to publishers.