One price, once,
for everything we ever make.
The price only goes up, because the library only grows. Bond one pays $79 for the same forever that bond five thousand pays $4,999 — being early is the whole deal. Everything else about the two bonds is identical, permanently.
Nothing here is for sale yet. The terms are a draft; an attorney reads them before a single bond is sold, and the live numbers below stay in brackets until the ledger behind them is real.
- price now
- [current price]
- remaining
- [n remaining]
- next bond
- [next bond]
- sold
- [n] of 5,000
The first one’s on us.
This is the last one you buy.
Free Beer Studio is named for a round on the house — the first thirty minutes, the first look, the first bit of help, given before anyone asks what it costs. That part isn’t changing.
A Beer Bond is the other direction, and it only happens once. You buy the studio a round, and the studio never asks you for another — not for the products that exist, not for the ones that don’t exist yet, not for the upgrade, not for the next tier, not ever. One price, one number, one time.
It is a strange thing to sell, and the honest reason it works is narrow: the studio is one person and an AI chief of staff, so the cost of a holder is close to nothing and the value of a holder is close to everything. Five thousand people who own everything I make is the reason to keep making things.
Four things,
and they don’t expire.
Every bond entitles the holder to exactly the same thing, forever. What differs between the first bond and the last is only what was paid for it.
- The whole library, for life
- Every product the studio ships, at its top self-serve tier — the ones that exist and the ones that don't yet. A new product ships and it is already yours. Nothing more to pay, ever.
- Founder’s row
- You see everything before it’s public, and you have a direct line to say what you want built next. The list of holders is the list I build for.
- First Round priority
- Book a First Round and your booking goes to the front of the line. The thirty minutes is still on the house; holders just don’t wait for it.
- Your number
- Bonds are numbered one through five thousand. Yours is yours, permanently, and it goes on the wall — with your name only if you want it there.
The price only goes up,
because the library only grows.
Bonds are sold in batches at one price. A batch sells out, the next price turns on, and it never comes back down — no discount, no sale, no coupon, no second series. Five thousand bonds exist and then there are none.
| Tranche | Bonds | Size | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 1–100 | 100 | $79 |
| 02 | 101–300 | 200 | $119 |
| 03 | 301–600 | 300 | $169 |
| 04 | 601–1,000 | 400 | $239 |
| 05 | 1,001–1,500 | 500 | $329 |
| 06 | 1,501–2,100 | 600 | $449 |
| 07 | 2,101–2,700 | 600 | $599 |
| 08 | 2,701–3,300 | 600 | $799 |
| 09 | 3,301–3,800 | 500 | $1,099 |
| 10 | 3,801–4,300 | 500 | $1,499 |
| 11 | 4,301–4,700 | 400 | $2,199 |
| 12 | 4,701–4,900 | 200 | $2,999 |
| 13 | 4,901–5,000 | 100 | $4,999 |
Tranche one is where it starts. Which tranche is open, what it costs today and how many are left at that price come from the ledger of actual sales — until that ledger exists they read [current price] and [n remaining], and no count on this site will ever be a number nobody paid for.
If a product is sold,
you can’t lose it.
A one-person studio might one day sell a product to someone who can run it better. That has to be good for holders or it shouldn’t be allowed to happen — so this is in the terms from day one, not added later.
- 01
Sold with your rights attached
A product only leaves with holder access as a condition of the sale — the buyer honours it, or you get the closest thing the studio still makes, at its top tier, for life.
- 02
Every sale funds the next build
The money goes into building, and at least one new product enters the bond within twelve months of any product leaving.
- 03
The library never shrinks
A product leaving means someone paid to own the work. Your seat is protected either way — that is what makes this a bond on the studio rather than on one app.
Five thousand seats,
numbered and visible.
Every bond has a number and every number shows here. A name appears beside it only if the holder asks for one — otherwise the seat stays a number. [n] of 5,000 sold, which is the honest way to show scarcity: by counting.
- #0001[holder]
- #0002[holder]
- #0003[holder]
- #0004[holder]
- #0005[holder]
- #0006[holder]
- #0007[holder]
- #0008[holder]
- #0009[holder]
- #0010[holder]
- #0011[holder]
- #0012[holder]
- #0013[holder]
- #0014[holder]
- #0015[holder]
- #0016[holder]
- #0017[holder]
- #0018[holder]
- #0019[holder]
- #0020[holder]
- #0021[holder]
- #0022[holder]
- #0023[holder]
- #0024[holder]
- #0025 → #5000unsold
Asked already,
answered plainly.
The first one is the one that matters most, and the answer is a flat no.
- Is this an investment?
- No. It’s a lifetime deal. It never pays you money; it gets you everything we make. No equity, no share of revenue, no return — a bond buys access, permanently, and that is the whole of it.
- Why does the price go up?
- Because the library only grows. Bond one buys a library of what exists today; the last bond buys everything built between now and then. Being early is the whole deal — and it is the only advantage an early holder gets, because every bond entitles the holder to exactly the same thing.
- Can I buy more than one?
- Yes. Each bond is a separate number registered to a person.
- Can I sell it, or give it away?
- No. A bond is registered to you and is not transferable — there is no market for it and the studio will not run one. A single free transfer to a named person may be added later as a gift; if that ever happens it gets written into the terms first, and it still won’t be a market.
- What if I stop using it?
- Nothing happens. The access doesn’t expire and there is nothing to renew.
- What if you sell one of the products?
- The Graduation Clause covers it, and it is in the terms from day one: the product leaves with your access attached, or you get the closest successor for life. Read it above.
- What if the studio winds down?
- Anything that can be licensed to you outright stays yours, granted perpetually on that date. Anything that runs on servers someone has to pay for stops — with ninety days’ notice and a full export first. No money comes back. The terms below say it plainly, because pretending otherwise would be the dishonest version.
- Why “Beer Bonds”?
- The studio is named for a round on the house. A bond is the round that ends the round-buying: one price, once, and you never pay the studio again.
- Is this like Bowie Bonds?
- Only in the story. Bowie’s were real securities — money in, money back with interest, rated and sold to a pension arm. This is the other side of that idea: Bowie sold his future work for interest payments; ours just gives you the work. Nothing is repaid, nothing yields, nothing resells.
- Who do I contact?
- wayne@freebeer.ai — with your bond number, once you have one.
The whole deal,
in three minutes.
This is the draft, in full, on the page — not a PDF behind an email address. It has not been through an attorney yet, and it says so at the top.
Beer Bonds — Terms
Draft — not yet reviewed by counsel. This page is written in plain words so a person can read it in three minutes. It has not been through an attorney and is not legal advice. Nothing here is offered for sale until it has been reviewed and the reviewed version replaces this one.
What a Beer Bond is
One price, once, for everything Free Beer Studio ever makes.
- The whole library, for life. Every product FBS ships — the ones that exist today and the ones that don't yet — at that product's top self-serve tier. A new product ships, and it is already yours. Nothing more to pay, ever.
- Founder's row. You see everything before it's public, and you have a direct line to say what you want built.
- First Round priority. If you book a First Round, your booking goes to the front of the line.
- Your number. Bonds are numbered 1 through 5,000. Yours is yours, permanently, and it is shown on the wall (with your name only if you choose).
There are 5,000 bonds. When the last one is sold, there are no more — not later, not at a different price, not in a second series.
What a Beer Bond is not
- Not equity. You do not own a piece of Free Beer Studio, and you get no vote in how it runs.
- Not a share of revenue or profit. It never pays you money.
- Not a security, not a debt, not a loan. The word "bond" is the name of a lifetime deal. Nothing is owed back to you in money.
- Not transferable. Your bond is registered to you. It cannot be sold, traded, given away, or passed on. There is no market for it and FBS will not operate one. (A single free transfer to a named person may be added later as a gift — if that ever happens, it will be written here first, and it will still not be a market.)
- Not consultancy. It does not include hands-on support for client-scale deployments or custom work. That is a First Round, and it is booked and paid for separately.
- Not a refundable deposit. Payment is for immediate and ongoing access, not held on your behalf.
How the price works
- Bonds are sold in batches. Every bond in a batch costs the same.
- When a batch sells out, the next price turns on. The price only goes up.
- There is never a discount, never a sale, never a coupon, never a price that goes back down.
- The current price, how many bonds are left at that price, and the number of the next bond are shown live on the page — real counts from real sales, nothing else.
- The price only goes up because the library only grows. Being early is the whole deal.
Everyone holds the same bond. A bond bought at the first price and a bond bought at the last price entitle the holder to exactly the same thing, forever. What differs is what you paid.
The Graduation Clause — what happens if a product is sold
Free Beer Studio may one day sell a product to someone else. Holders cannot lose when it does. This clause is part of the terms from day one:
- A product is only sold with your rights attached. Either the buyer agrees, as a condition of the sale, to honour your lifetime access to that product — or you receive the closest thing FBS still makes, at its top tier, for life.
- Every sale funds the next build. The money from a sale goes into building, and at least one new product enters the bond within twelve months of any product leaving.
- What you can check for yourself. The library never shrinks. A product leaving the studio means someone paid to own the work — and your seat is protected either way.
If Free Beer Studio winds down
An honest answer, because the deal is for life and the studio is one person.
- What survives. Anything FBS can license to you outright — downloadable software, files, templates, documents, archives — stays yours. On wind-down, FBS will grant holders a perpetual licence to those products as they exist on that date, and will make final versions available for download.
- What cannot survive. Anything that runs on servers FBS pays for — hosted apps, accounts, APIs, anything that only works while someone keeps the lights on — stops when the studio stops. No one can promise otherwise and mean it. FBS commits to giving at least 90 days' notice and a full export of your data before anything is switched off.
- What you do not get. Money back. There is no refund, in whole or in part, on wind-down or at any other time.
- What FBS will try. Where a hosted product can reasonably be released to holders to run themselves, or handed to someone who will keep running it, FBS will do that rather than shut it off. This is an intention, stated honestly, not a guarantee.
Questions
The questions people ask about the deal — including what it is and is not — are answered in the Questions section further up this page. The draft's own question list is the same list.
Open for counsel: how the bond is characterised (the "bond" name against securities law), the wind-down licence grant, whether the Graduation Clause binds an acquirer as written, the non-transfer and no-refund terms, sales-tax treatment and merchant of record, and the governing jurisdiction.
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Nothing is for sale until counsel has read the terms and the ledger is wired to real sales. Until then the way in is the same as everything else here — thirty minutes, on the house. Say it’s about Beer Bonds and you’ll hear the day tranche one opens.