What Commitery is

Commitery is built around a simple behavioral mechanism: make the cost of not following through explicit before the work starts. You do not buy a result from Commitery. You create a commitment with clear terms, then Commitery records it, handles proof review, and processes the agreed failed-outcome payment only if the conditions are met.

The amount you set is not a fee and not a purchase. It is a conditional commitment amount attached to your own goal. If you do what you said you would and prove it, nothing is charged. The amount only ever becomes a real charge when a failed outcome is confirmed and every protection below has passed.

• You choose the goal, deadline, proof requirements, and commitment amount before checkout.
• Your payment method is saved at checkout, but the commitment amount is not charged at checkout.
• The amount can become chargeable only after proof review confirms a failed outcome, the product dispute process is complete, and the withdrawal period no longer blocks the charge.

Every commitment moves through the same path. Understanding these stages explains why a charge can never appear out of nowhere.

• Define. You write the goal, pick a goal deadline, and Commitery generates a proof scope that describes what acceptable evidence looks like.
• Commit. At checkout you accept the terms, save a payment method, and authorize a conditional charge. The commitment becomes active. No money moves.
• Do the work. You complete the goal by the goal deadline. Then you upload proof during the proof window, which can extend past the goal deadline.
• Review. Commitery checks your proof against the agreed scope and either marks the commitment completed or proposes a failed verdict.
• Resolve. A completed commitment closes with no charge. A proposed failed verdict opens a 48-hour dispute window, and the EU withdrawal period must also pass before any charge is submitted.

• A commitment is not just a note or reminder. It is a checkout-backed agreement with a deadline, proof scope, payment authorization, and legal withdrawal information.
• Commitery separates the goal deadline from the proof deadline. The goal must be completed by the goal deadline; proof can usually be uploaded during the proof window after that.
• A failed verdict proposal starts a 48-hour product dispute window. The charge is not submitted while that window is open or a timely dispute is pending.
• For EU consumer withdrawal handling, Commitery does not submit the failed-outcome charge before the 14-day withdrawal period has passed.

• Commitery is not a betting, gambling, prediction-market, or prize product. You do not win money for completing goals.
• Commitery is not a savings account or escrow product. You do not deposit the commitment amount upfront.
• Commitery is not an insurance product. The charge is tied to your own failed commitment outcome, not to an insured event.
• Commitery is not a general payment-splitting app. Creator upside is referral remuneration, not a discount, pool, or reward for you.

A few terms appear throughout these docs. They mean the same thing on every page.

• Goal deadline — the moment by which the goal itself must be done.
• Proof window — the period after the goal deadline in which you can still upload evidence.
• Proof scope — the description, agreed at checkout, of what counts as acceptable evidence.
• Failed verdict proposal— review's conclusion that the proof does not meet the scope. It is a proposal, not a charge.
• Product dispute window — the 48 hours after a failed verdict proposal in which you can contest it. See Disputes.
• Withdrawal period — the statutory 14-day EU consumer window during which a charge is blocked. See Withdrawal period.

Next, see how a commitment is set up in Creating a commitment or how evidence is judged in Proof and review.