Who makes Ledger, and why

Why a harm-reduction prediction game exists

You read a matchup, commit to an opinion before the outcome, and find out whether you were right. Betting apps did not invent that feeling; they attached a price to it. A sportsbook keeps a share of what its players wager, so the product works best, for the house, when you play more, more often, in more expensive forms.

Ledger is the same call with the money removed. Every call settles on what actually happened. Nothing goes in and nothing comes out. Safety is the shape of the product, not a settings page you have to find. The Dividend, free Float paid out every week and when players collectively rest, is never triggered by a loss. No timers, no expiring purchases, no countdown clocks. Daily rhythms exist, but nothing punishes you for missing a day, and free Float from the Dividend stays claimable for at least a week.

A game is not treatment, and we say so wherever it matters. If betting has become a problem rather than a habit, the resources on our responsible play page come before anything Ledger can offer.

The pledge, and how to check it

Anyone can publish promises. These are written so you can verify them yourself.

No real money, ever

The check is the product itself. The economy is closed: no deposit screen, no cash-out, no store, no price on anything. Float, the currency you spend, refills on its own and cannot be bought. Standing, the score you earn, cannot be sold. The Terms bind both as virtual items with no cash value. Open the app and look for a way to pay. There is none.

No ads

Ledger has never shown an ad, on this site or in the game. View the source of any page and count the ad scripts. The one advertising-related request is a Google Ads tag, disclosed in the Privacy Policy. It measures our ads and lets Google show our own ads to past visitors elsewhere. It never shows an ad on this site or in the game.

Settlement is checked, not guessed

Every market settles on the real result: real finals and boxscores for sports, real prices for crypto, and an automated, source-gated check of the public record for world and culture calls. When an outcome cannot be verified, the market stays pending rather than being guessed. The full methodology is public at how Ledger settles predictions.

The record is public

Player records are opt-in public pages under /p/, and every figure on them is recomputed from stored calls that were graded against real results, never self-scored. Scout, the in-game companion, publishes its own Call of the Day the same way, losses included, at Scout's record.

One commitment sits underneath the others: if any line of this pledge ever had to change, you would get plain notice first, and the delete button would still work. Data export and full account deletion are already built in, so that part you can check today.

How Ledger will make money

Right now, it does not. There is no payment path anywhere in the product. The plan is two things. The first is an optional membership: something worth paying for, paid directly by the people who want it. The second is licensing. The mechanics that make Ledger safer (an economy that rewards rest, a cool-off that interrupts the chase, hard rules against manufactured urgency) are useful to companies that are serious about responsible gambling, and we plan to license that work to them.

Three things will never fund Ledger: advertising, selling data, and selling Float. The last one matters most. The moment Float can be bought, it has cash value, and Ledger becomes the thing it was built to replace.

Who is behind it

Martori Studio, a small independent studio. Ledger is one of our products; the others live at martori.studio. You can reach us at hello@martori.studio or through the support page. Both get read.

A note from the founder