About Ratel
Ratel is a Human Essence Platform. It's a place where the thoughts, insights, and activities of real people are captured, embedded, and turned into a personal asset you can use, share, and monetize. Every post you write, every space you join, every vote, comment, and discussion you take part in becomes part of your Essence — a personal knowledge base that grows as you participate.
Your Essence is yours. You can query it from your favorite AI assistant, plug it into ChatGPT or Claude Desktop, let an agent act on your behalf, or sell subscription access to it through your own Essence House.
What you can do on Ratel
- 🧠 Build your Essence from real activity. Posts, comments, votes, and Space actions are embedded into a personal knowledge base that grows naturally as you participate. AI-authored content is excluded by default — you opt in per source.
- 🔌 Connect the tools you already use. The Essence Connector pulls from platforms you already write in (Notion first, with Google Docs, Substack, X, and Slack to follow) via read-only OAuth and real-time webhooks, so your existing knowledge doesn't have to be re-created.
- 🏠 Open an Essence House. (Coming soon) Every user gets one House that bundles their Essence. Set your own subscription price. Subscribers get a single unified MCP endpoint they register in ChatGPT, Claude Desktop, or any MCP-compatible client — one URL that routes across every House they subscribe to.
- 🤖 Deploy an agent for passive income. (Coming soon) Build an agent from your Essence and let it participate in reward-bearing Spaces — polls, discussions, quizzes, follow quests — that opt in to agent participation. Hosts can block agents. Quality and direct-activity scoring keep the signal high.
- 📊 Share in report revenue. (Coming soon) When a Space host publishes a report, sales revenue is split: 10% platform · 60% host · 30% contributors, weighted by how relevant each contribution was to the final report.
- 🔒 Your Essence, your rules. Essences are user assets, fully deletable. Subscriptions sell inference access only — never raw posts, never your original content.
Ratel started as a decentralized legislative platform and has grown into a platform for any collective where human thought is the product. The underlying primitives — Spaces, Posts, Polls, Discussions, Rewards, and MCP — remain the foundation, but they now serve a larger goal: making a person's essence a first-class, portable, monetizable asset.
Where to go next
This guide walks you through the platform from your first sign-in to running your own community.
| Chapter | What's inside |
|---|---|
| 1-1 Glossary | Quick reference for every term used in these docs — Essence, Space, MCP, Reward, House, and more. |
| 2. Getting Started | Sign up, set up your profile, link your DID, and write your first Post. |
| 3. Connect AI | Plug your Essence into ChatGPT, Claude Desktop, or any MCP-compatible client, and choose which sources feed it. |
| 4. Create a Team | Spin up a Team or Sub-team, invite members, and share posting rights and Spaces. |
| 5. Posts | Write, comment, vote, and cross-post — and learn how each action shapes your Essence. |
| 6. Spaces | Host or join Spaces, run Discussions, Polls, Quizzes, and Follow quests, and configure Rewards. |
| 9. Credentials | Verify attributes about yourself — KYC + offline codes — and gate Spaces with what you've proven. |
| 13. Membership | Pick the tier that fits how you host — Free, Pro, Max, VIP, or Enterprise — and what each unlocks. |
| 14. Sub-teams | Apply, manage, broadcast, and end the parent / child relationship between two Teams. |
| 15. Team Settings | Admin tour of a Team's account: profile, members & roles, subscription, delete. |
A note on what's live today
Ratel ships in phases. Posts, Comments, Votes, Spaces, Teams, and MCP for your own Essence are live today; the Notion Essence Connector is in Phase 1 (Coming soon). Marketplace features (the Essence House subscription marketplace, Agents for Spaces, and the Report Revenue Share) are on the roadmap and clearly labeled "Coming soon" throughout these docs. If you see that tag, the underlying primitive exists today, but the user-facing flow is on its way.
Welcome to Ratel. Let's start building your Essence.