ORGANIZATION-OWNED ≠ ISOLATED

Proposed architecture: the organization controls its branded Open Surface and domain, audience relationship, briefs, private assets and context, requirements, rubrics, private review material, permissions and access to deeper stages. Its private Workspace is where it operates Opens and reviews contributions. It controls the rights it actually purchases or licenses. Spora powers the workflow and maintains the underlying work and economic record.

The contributor controls their identity, participation across organizations, work until rights are transferred or licensed, and what permissioned proof they expose. Portable proof records an event; it need not disclose confidential work.

Illustrative example: Jordan may carry permissioned proof that Nike shortlisted, paid, commissioned or rehired Jordan, or shipped work with Jordan, without exposing the confidential brief or submission to Adidas.

CANONICAL EVENT MODEL · PROPOSED

Open → Contribution → Review → Selection → Paid Continuation → Outcome. Spora maintains the connected record: contribution events, brief and asset versions where appropriate, contribution status, shortlists, selections, engagements, licenses, commissions, agreements, payments, collaborations, repeat relationships and shipped outcomes. Engagements, licenses, commissions and payments can sit within paid continuation. Permissions and visibility attach to each record.

A record may be private, permissioned, disputed, revoked or no longer publicly visible. Retention, deletion, verification, disputes and privacy rules remain product and contractual design questions. Maintaining a record does not make every event permanently public.

PERSISTENT OPEN SURFACE, BOUNDED WORK

An Open is an organization-authorized invitation to attempt specific work under stated terms. The organization can maintain a persistent branded Open Surface containing multiple Opens. Because the surface persists while its Opens change, contributors can return to participate in new work over time. Every contribution belongs to a specific Open, which defines welcome work, context/assets, requirements, evaluation criteria, submission format, eligibility, limits, rights terms, deadline/status and the path into paid work.

Illustrative Open Surface: eos.com/open could hold separate Opens for UGC/product reactions, short-form video, AI-native commercials, fragrance concepts, photography and packaging. A launch brief can close on a deadline while a product-reaction Open stays available. The organization chooses what it will receive and evaluate.

The Open remains the fundamental object. It establishes consent to receive a defined kind of work; a persistent surface is not an unrestricted unsolicited-submission inbox. The surface can stay open. The work stays bounded.

FROM OPEN SURFACES TO A NETWORK

Spora starts by powering real organization-owned demand. As those Opens accumulate, it can index the live Opens their organizations make discoverable. Contributors could browse work across brands, studios, startups and artists, with every attempt subject to that Open’s rules and limits. The broader marketplace grows from activity already happening through those Open Surfaces.