The Incention Manifesto: Resist Slop, Embrace Change

The Legacy Entertainment Industry is Broken

IP development is too slow and too costly. Big Entertainment refuses to incorporate fan feedback, with the shots being called by suits in boardrooms. The same people have been making the same work, taking too long, for too long. Thousands of highly-valuable, beloved franchises lie dormant, collecting dust, waiting for major studio investment. Yet, highly-capable creative communities remain untapped. Meanwhile, AI threatens to flood the market with algorithmic slop — prioritizing quantity over quality.

But there's another threat: the paralysis of fear. Executives, frozen by AI's rapid advancement, cling to old models that no longer serve creators or audiences–or their businesses! They see AI as either a complete replacement for human creativity or an enemy to be defeated. Both perspectives miss the revolutionary opportunity before us.

Our Vision To Bridge Hollywood & AI

Incention represents a new paradigm — one where human creativity and technology amplify each other. 

We believe the future with the highest upside is one where AI agents and humans work side-by-side to create multibillion-dollar franchises.

We are not here to replace human storytellers–quite the opposite.

Creators will shape the stories told, while a swarm of AI agents will handle mundane tasks and administrative slog, enabling us to bring our collective vision to life more efficiently.

Incention is ethically training a proprietary large language model (LLM) and giving anyone the ability to generate new stories while collaborating with the ideas of the IP creator, community, and agent.

Built on Story's infrastructure, Incention provides the framework for a new creative economy. One where:

• Creators gain legitimate access to build upon established IP and earn from their work.
• Rising talent can directly participate in expanding beloved universes.
• IP holders safely open their properties to fresh perspectives and monetization.
• AI serves as a collaborative tool, enhancing human imagination.
• Smart contracts automatically handle rights management and revenue distribution.
• Communities shape and profit from the narratives they love.

And we’re launching with a brand new science-fiction universe imagined by one of our greatest writers of the genre.

Introducing: Emergence, the Debut Franchise Launching on Incention

From David S. Goyer, the creative mind behind Foundation, The Dark Knight trilogy, Blade, and more comes a sci-fi universe designed as a creative sandbox.

Emergence is the first instance of this new Incention model in action — a proving ground for collaborative creation, a bridge between traditional IP and the future of the creative development process.

The first product launched inside this new franchise is Atlas, an AI agent designed to serve as your creative copilot.

Atlas orchestrates collaboration between human creators and powerful creative tooling on Incention to tell better stories more efficiently.

Through the Incention platform, you can:

• Create original stories, characters, settings, objects, and lore to become canonical parts of the Emergence universe.
• Contribute to the growth of the project and get rewarded with real IP ownership as Emergence evolves.
• Collaborate with Atlas, an AI agent designed as a 24/7 thought partner to help develop your Emergence ideas, armed with capabilities to register your IP on Story and build better, high-quality content.

Our Mission to Support Creators

Incention envisions a future where creators, consumers, and corporate studios thrive within a more equitable and collaborative creative ecosystem. One in which we:

1. Create sustainable revenue models for creators and IP holders.
   Where franchises can enable their communities to monetize derivative works – adaptations, fanfic, memes, videos, art, and more.
   
2. Establish clear frameworks for human-AI creative collaboration.
   Where AI agents do more than read+write, but have identity, financial rails, standards, and regulations to become an ethical bridge between AI and Hollywood.
   
3. Build the arena for the next generation of storytelling.
   Where fan communities and established creators use AI and blockchain as the bridge to create and earn more.

Marginal improvements would be an utter failure. Our aim is fundamental change to how stories are created, shared, and monetized. Every creator becomes a potential collaborator. Every fan becomes a potential creator. Every IP becomes a potential universe.

The choice before us is clear: embrace the future of collaborative creation or watch as fear of AI paralyzes the industry. We choose to act.

To creators: Your talent deserves more opportunity, more upside.

To fans: You deserve fresh, captivating content, and the ability to meaningfully shape its future.

To IP holders: Your stories deserve fresh perspectives and new revenue streams. 

To Hollywood: Your industry deserves a revolution to not just survive but thrive for the next century.

Join us in building a future where:

• Human creativity remains at the core of storytelling.
• Rising creators have direct paths to build upon established IP.
• AI amplifies rather than replaces human potential.
• Communities share in the value they help create.
• Great stories find their audience and reward their creators.

The future of storytelling starts here.

Not with algorithms replacing humans, but with technology empowering creators.

Not with fear of what AI might do, but with excitement for what we can achieve together.

Not winner-take-all or most, but positive sum collaboration. 

We are excited the shape the future of the creative process with you.