People, not profit
We build what our communities actually need, not what extracts the most from them.
Tech and operations · A cooperative in formation
Tech for the rest of us.
Evocatr runs the operations and builds tech for queers, creatives, and culturally diverse communities. Every project runs on the same rules: people over profit, profit back into the work, and an exit to trust, never an IPO.
Four rules.
Every project.
Whatever we build, it sits on the same foundation. These are not values on a wall. They are written into how we are structured, paid and governed.
Cooperative by design
The people who build and use our platforms get a real say in how they run.
Profit circulates
Surplus goes back into building more tech, and out to the workers and customers who give our platforms life.
Exit to trust, not IPO
Our platforms are never sold to the highest bidder. Ownership passes into a trust that keeps them serving their community for good.
Where the money goes
No shareholders to feed.
We're new, so there's nothing to split yet. When there is, it only goes three places. How much goes where gets decided with our first members, in the open.
What comes in
Revenue from our platforms and the work we do
The build
Back into making and maintaining more tech.
The workers
The people who build and run the platforms.
The community
The customers and members who give them life.
Not on the list: outside investors, buyouts, a stock ticker.
What we do
Built by people like you.
Evocatr was started by an artist who spent two decades running operations, payments and trust & safety for platforms that served communities the mainstream ignored. We know how to keep the lights on and the users safe. Now we put that to work for our own communities.
Operations consulting
Payments, compliance, trust & safety, support and the processes that hold a platform together. We come in, fix what's broken and set it up to scale without selling out your users.
Build
Platforms, marketplaces and tools, from first idea to launch.
Share
Ownership and surplus with the workers and members who make each platform worth using.
In the works
Help us build it.
Builders, artists, future members, curious people. Get updates as we form the co-op and open our first projects.