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A Public Pledge · Est. 2026

Ten percent.
Every dollar.
Forever.

Of every dollar I ever earn. Of every business I ever build. Deployed as a crusade I personally operate — not donated, not foundationed, not laundered through overhead. The ledger is the receipt.

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— Signed,John KaneFounding pledger · Dots
The Pledge

Ten percent of every dollar I ever make.

Every business I build. Every dollar of profit, forever. Ten percent goes into this fund, and it gets spent on a crusade I personally run. Not a charity. Not a foundation with a board and a logo. A vehicle for change that I operate the way I operate anything else that matters to me — with obsession, full attention, and a clear enemy.

The counter above shows the real number. At launch, it reads $0.00 — because nothing has been deployed yet. I am going first on purpose. Every cent that moves through this fund from here on is captured on a public ledger that anyone can audit. No black boxes, no marketing math, no redirected overhead.

This is not a donation. It is a declaration.

The Mechanism

One dollar in. Ten dollars of change out.

Charities spend on overhead. Founders know how to spend on reach. The money in this fund is not handed off — it is aimed. Every dollar is treated like ad spend with an obsessively measured return.

01
Profit

Ten percent of every dollar, from every business, automatically earmarked the moment it clears.

02
Amplify

That money buys ads, content, and attention aimed at the cause. One dollar in, two to ten dollars out in matched donations and raised awareness.

03
Deploy

Multiplied funds are spent directly on the crusade — operators on the ground, exposure, legal pressure, rescues. No third-party overhead.

$1
in→
$2–$10
deployed
Reinvested back into reach. The loop keeps going.
The Crusades

Clear enemies. Named causes.

A crusade only works when everyone knows what they are fighting. These are the ones I am funding now. The list grows as the fund does.

Anti-Fraud

Going after the B2B scam operators big enforcement ignores — the ones crushing founders before they even start.

Committed: $0Deployed: $0

Bridge Out of Darkness

Helping young founders and recovering addicts find the bridge out — the one I had to build from scratch.

Committed: $0Deployed: $0
More crusades will be added as the fund grows and cases are qualified. Deployment totals will appear on each card as money flows.
Origin

Why this exists.

At twenty-four I was cold-calling small business owners trying to sell them marketing services. One of them told me his current agency was selling him his own leads back to him. I looked into it.

What I found was a hundred-million-dollar-a-year marketing scam operation running under multiple names. They had been sued before, moved down the street, and spun up three new shells doing the same thing. They were robo-calling small businesses across the country, pretending to be a major search platform, guaranteeing rankings, taking over the business listings, and charging founders hundreds of dollars a month for leads they were already getting for free.

I scraped their servers. Pulled contact info for fifty thousand victims. Emailed them all. Thirty thousand cancelled their contracts. The scam company sued me into the stone age — I did not have a lawyer, they had three, and the judge threw my evidence out because a kid at a law library does not know how to format a filing. I lost. Then Google eventually stepped in, leaned on them, and the case against me evaporated overnight.

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That really set a fire under my ass. The system protects the scammers big enough to hire lawyers. Nobody is coming for the mid-tier ones. So I will.

This fund is the grown-up version of that fight. Enough capital, enough reach, and enough operators to go after the scammers the regulators ignore — and to help the founders and recovering addicts coming up behind me find the bridge out of the dark that I had to build by hand.

The Invitation

If AI is about to make you rich — drive one of these.

A lot of founders are about to become a lot wealthier than they expected. The honest thing to do with a slice of that money is not to mail it off to a charity and feel good about it for a minute. The honest thing is to operate a vehicle of change yourself — using the same obsession, taste, and distribution instincts that built the business.

Commit ten percent of your lifetime profit. Pick a fight. Pay the same attention to it that you pay your pipeline. You will be a better operator, a better human, and — watch — a better business. Customers buy from people who are trying to do something outside of themselves.

Take the pledge below. It is the only CTA on this page.

Take The Pledge

Put your business on the ledger.

Tell me who you are and what you are building. This is not a donation request. It is a signed intent to deploy a percentage of your lifetime profit on a crusade you run.

The floor is 10%. Go higher if the fight means more.

Reviewed personally. Ledger-only contact.

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