PURPOSE • OPPORTUNITY • PARTICIPATION • SUSTAINABILITY
What We Are Evolving Into
The Blue•Print — An Emerging Social Enterprise
The Blue•Print began with a purpose: helping people develop, publish, preserve and control their own stories and creative contributions.
That purpose remains central. As the platform develops, we are also creating the foundations for something broader: an environment in which people can collaborate, develop skills, commission services and create opportunities to earn income from their work.
Creating opportunities, providing the tools to realise them, and developing the means to sustain them.
Our social purpose guides our commercial direction, while author ownership, informed consent and individual independence remain fundamental.
From publication to opportunity
Authors
An Author may need editing, artwork, audio, research assistance or promotion alongside their publishing space.
We are developing ways to request, approve and manage these services while maintaining the Author's control over their work.
Artists and creative contributors
Illustration, promotional images, visual presentation and other creative services can become defined commissions with agreed deliverables.
Contributors should understand how their work will be used, credited and paid for.
Mentors
Mentors may support Authors with planning, publication preparation and promotional campaigns.
Proposed services could include agreed campaign schedules, budgets, approval arrangements and performance reporting.
Wider participation
As the enterprise grows, additional services may create opportunities for specialists, collaborators and people developing new skills.
These may involve commissioned work, independent service provision or future employment, depending on the arrangements established.
Providing the tools to participate
Creating an opportunity is only the beginning. People also need practical ways to organise and complete the work.
- Publishing and managing individual publications
- Preparing and reviewing creative contributions
- Requesting services and agreeing on their scope
- Planning and recording promotional activity
- Measuring publication and audience engagement
- Documenting completed work and financial obligations
These capabilities are at different stages of development. Some tools are being used and tested; others are proposed future integrations.
Independence and accountability
Our aim is to make it easier for participants to understand what has been requested, what has been agreed, what has been delivered and what payment is due.
Ownership, permissions, agreed terms, contributor recognition and transparent financial records are important parts of that objective.
We also want to measure meaningful outcomes: participation, completed commissions, paid opportunities, income distributed and the contribution those activities make to the wider community.
A sustainable enterprise with a social purpose
Financial sustainability is necessary if The Blue•Print is to develop, maintain its services and expand the opportunities it can offer.
Our intention is to build legitimate commercial activity that supports contributors, meets operating costs and allows reinvestment into the platform's accessibility, capabilities and community benefit.
We see social purpose and commercial sustainability as complementary objectives, not competing ones.
Building progressively and transparently
This is a statement of direction, not a claim that every planned service is operational.
Development, testing and implementation are continuing. As capabilities become available, we intend to describe their actual scope and conditions clearly.
Our purpose is to help people move from having something worth sharing to having the means, support and opportunity to bring it into the world.
Explore The Blue•Print
The Platform
Explore the publishing environment, existing demonstrations and developing tools.
Explore the platformPartnerships
Find out how people and organisations can contribute to the next stages of development.
Development and partnerships