For Funders
Get in early on the creators Hollywood ignores.
ArchMarket is where independent, AI-native series get made, funded directly by the people who want to watch them. Titles move through four stages, and you can put real money behind one at any of the three funding stages. The further along a title already is, the more it has proven.
You most likely arrived for one series, sent by the person making it. What you have walked into is every campaign open at once, because every creator here points their audience at the same place. That is why a title can reach its floor on ArchMarket when the same title would stall on a general crowdfunding site: the audience is pooled rather than split, and it grows every time another creator joins.
The four stages
Pitch: a poster and a logline
Spot it firstThe first stage. A title at Pitch is a poster and a logline, and it may have no creator attached at all. Pledges are small, because so is what exists. If a pitch attracts enough backing, it can fund a contest for a creator to build its trailer. This is the stage where you are earliest, and where nobody can tell you the answer yet.
- Poster
- Logline
More detail
Trailer: a cut trailer, with a creator attached
Back the makerA creator is attached and has cut an actual trailer. You are no longer backing a premise, you are backing execution, and you can see the execution before you decide. Pledges step up with the stage, because the thing you are buying into is further along and scarcer.
- Poster
- Logline
- Trailer
More detail
Short Run: roughly ten finished episodes
Lend to the titleAround ten episodes exist, enough for a viewer to decide whether they would pay for more. They go live on ArchTV, where everyone, you included, sees the real numbers. The money for them is a loan to that title's own company, at 24.9% a year, interest only, for four years, from up to 100 lenders putting in $250 to $1,000 each through Wefunder. Short Runs are not open yet.
- Poster
- Logline
- Trailer
- First ten episodes
More detail
Upload your series & start monetizing
Nothing to backThe fourth stage is a door, not an offer. A creator whose series already runs somewhere else can bring it straight to ArchTV and earn from app launch without raising anything, which means there is no campaign here for you to back. It matters to you anyway: these titles compete for the same viewers, and they report the same public numbers.
- Poster
- Logline
- Trailer
- First ten episodes
- The full series
More detail
Each stage buys your place at the next one
The stages are a chain, not four separate offers. Back a title at Pitch and you get first access when it opens its Trailer campaign. Back it at Trailer and you get first access to its Short Run, where you can lend to the title when that raise opens. Every stage you back puts you ahead of the people who arrive at the next one, which is why being early on one title is worth more than being late on three.
The Short Run is where that chain ends, and it is not open. No Short Run accepts money until it is listed on a licensed funding portal. Until then, first access to one is a place in a line, not an offer.
What a title loan would and would not be
- You are a lender to one title, not an owner of it. Each title is its own company and that company is the borrower. You do not become a member of it, and you take no interest in ArchMadison or in any other title.
- It ends. The loan runs four years from the close of the round, interest paid along the way and the principal in one payment at the end. An obligation with no end date is a different and worse instrument than this one.
- It pays a fixed rate. 24.9% a year in simple interest, interest only. You are paid interest and your principal and nothing else, and the creator keeps everything the title earns beyond that. The rate is stated in the offering materials for the round.
- It is secured on that title and nothing else. The loan is not guaranteed by the creator or by ArchMadison, and one title's revenue is never used to repay another title's lenders. If the company cannot pay, the title is sold and lenders are paid from the sale in equal rank, which may be nothing if nobody bids. The interest rate is what you are paid for taking that risk.
- Each title is its own company, and it pays its own costs. Its running costs, from the registered agent to the tax form every lender receives, come off the top of the title's revenue into a capped reserve before interest is paid. They are a cost of the title, never a debt against what you are owed.
- The license goes with the title. Whoever holds the title, the creator or a buyer at a sale, holds it with its ArchTV license already in place, on the same terms. That is what gives the security its value. The exclusive on a funded title ends when the loan has been repaid or the title has been sold.
- A title that cannot pay is sold, not abandoned. A missed interest payment after a cure period is a default; a second miss triggers the sale, run by a third party. Lenders are offered it first, the creator can match the highest outside bid with their own money, and ArchMadison cannot bid.
Title loans are not offered on ArchMarket today and nothing here is an offer to sell a security. The agreement and the issuing company’s filed offering materials for a given title control over this summary.
How the money actually moves
Backing a stage is not a donation and it is not a purchase. It runs in four steps, and your money does not leave your hands at step one.
You back a title at its current stage. Nothing is charged. A pledge is a promise, not a payment.
Pledges are called only once a title clears two floors at once, a dollar total and a number of distinct backers, whichever lands later. Both have to clear, so a call means real money and real people, not three large backers speaking for an audience that does not exist.
Called money goes into escrow. It is not the creator's yet and it is not spent.
Escrow pays out to the creator against delivery milestones. They deliver, they get paid. They do not deliver, the money does not move.
Why back more than the minimum
Backing a stage is rewards-based, so a bigger pledge does not buy a bigger return. It buys a better position, and position is the scarce thing.
Coins, a creator credit, and your name on the campaign.
Everything above, plus earlier access when the title moves to its next stage.
Founding backer status and the earliest window of all, including first look at the title's Short Run when it opens.
Where a return would come from
Illustrative exampleBacking a Pitch or a Trailer does not pay a return. Lending to a Short Run would, and the interest is paid out of the revenue the series earns, which on ArchTV is fans spending coins to watch. Here is what that engine looks like for a series that is working, using sample numbers.
How a series you back earns
Fans spend coins to watch the series you fund. Coins they buy are real revenue — and you're paid first out of it, through the series' waterfall, up to your return cap. More watch-time = more coin spend.
310,000
Coins spent on your titles
9,600
Episodes unlocked
190
Series unlocked
1,800
Paying fans
- Engagement value
- all coin spend × $0.01/coin
- Counted as revenue (purchased coins)
- you're paid on coins fans buy — basis A
- Creator share (70%)
- the revenue pool your return is paid from
- Series revenue (creator share)
- August 2026 · interest to lenders is paid first
By title
Neon Divide
6,200 episodes · 1,250 fans · 120 full-series
200,000 coins
$1,980.00 value
Dust and Wire
3,400 episodes · 820 fans · 70 full-series
110,000 coins
$1,089.00 value
How your return works
- Your loan funds the series. As fans buy and spend coins to watch it, the series earns real revenue.
- You're paid interest first out of that revenue, through the series' waterfall: 24.9% a year, simple, paid quarterly, with what you lent returned in one payment at the end of four years. Once the loan is repaid, 100% reverts to the creator.
- You are paid interest and your principal, nothing more and nothing less, and rounds are all-or-nothing: if a raise misses its goal, you're not charged.
- Payouts land in your connected account. The platform never takes a cut of your return.
Lender payment statement
Sample- Payee
- Your name
- Title
- The series you backed
- Period
- Quarter ending 00/00/0000
- Payment date
- 00/00/0000
- Title revenue this period
- $XX.XX
- Less company running costs
- $XX.XX
- Interest due this period
- $XX.XX
- Your interest payment
- $XX.XX
- Deposited this period
- $XX.XX
- Paid to date, toward your cap
- $XX.XX
A sample, with placeholder figures. No Short Run is open, nothing has been paid, and this is not an offer. A quarter in which the title earns nothing still owes its interest, and the statement arrives saying so.
What protects you
- Nothing is charged up front: a pledge is a promise. Money moves only when a title clears both of its floors.
- Two floors, not one: a call needs a dollar total and a backer count. Either one alone is gameable.
- Milestone escrow: called money sits in escrow and reaches the creator as they deliver, not before.
- Small by design: the three funding stages are built for a spread of small bets across many creators, not one big swing.
Spread small pledges across a slate of pitches. Watch them climb, or fail to. Back the ones that climb, earlier and harder than anyone else did. A portfolio of the next generation's franchises, built a few dollars at a time.