About

Written by: Fatih

HEPHFORGE is a small, independent publication that watches the AI ecosystem day by day and records what it sees. We have taken no investment, we are affiliated with no one, and we accept no payment from the projects we analyse. This page is less about who we are than about what we have promised and where we currently stand; the second of those can be audited, the first cannot.

What we do

Once a day we call the sources we watch, one by one, and record what we saw. Today that means 25 channels, 36 files and 1,621 record lines in the public archive. On top of those records we then write a human reading. The two layers are never blended: the record belongs to the machine, the verdict to a person, and each is marked as such on the page.

What we do not do

We do not set price targets, we do not say buy or sell, we do not review portfolios. Nothing written here is investment advice — and that is a boundary, not a footnote. The full list of what we do not do is on the Limits page, and it does not move because someone has paid.

Independence

Our only source of revenue is reader subscriptions. We accept no fee, token or other benefit from any project we analyse, and we publish no sponsored content. Should any relationship arise in future it will be stated plainly on the relevant page and in the Corrections record. This does not prove we are trustworthy; it only says that if we are wrong, money is not the reason.

Being wrong is part of it

An empty corrections page does not mean a publication has never been wrong; more often it means it has not looked. When we establish that a published sentence is false, its old form, its new form and the reason all appear on the Corrections page. We do not correct silently: repairing a text without telling anyone stops the reader from knowing what they trusted, and when.

How confident are we

Let us be honest: this is an assumption. We looked for a precedent at our own scale — an analysis product that shows its sources openly, is modestly priced, and sustains itself — and we did not find one. We searched, and we recorded that we did not find it. There are examples of a single analyst operating with a free tier and a deep tier, but their revenue figures are not public.

The timed test we set ourselves

An assumption that is not written so it can be proven wrong is not an assumption but a wish. So we set ourselves a test with a start and an end date: a 30-day window opened on 26 August 2026 and closes on 25 September 2026, and its criterion is a single sentence — if no paying subscriber arrives by that date, our distribution assumption is dead and we change course. As these lines are written we are on day 12 of that window.

The evidence for that criterion is a collection record and a receipt file, not a declaration of intent; our own document saying “it happened” does not count as proof. The result of the test will be published on this site either way.

Price and where things stand

The paid tier is not open yet. The Pricing page was published up front because a price should be visible before anyone is asked for money. The figure is 10 dollars a month or 90 dollars a year; the opening figures of 29 monthly and 290 yearly were lowered before the paid tier opened, and the old number is still visible on that page, as we promised it would be. Collection will run through a merchant of record; we never touch card data at any stage.

Corporate identity — our open debt

As of today there is no registered company behind HEPHFORGE; incorporation is in progress and is expected to complete within a month. When the registration is published, the registry details will be added to this page together with an externally verifiable address. We write this now because announcing a gap once it is filled is easy; stating it while it is still open is what shows how accurate the rest of the page is.

Two languages

We publish in Turkish and English. The Turkish side is not a translation but a parallel edition: every page exists in both languages and the archive behind them is the same. There is no verdict written in one language and withheld in the other, and a mistake corrected on one side is corrected on the other.

The tempo of publication

The recording layer runs once a day, and if even one channel errors the whole round for that day is abandoned — publishing whatever is at hand and rendering the gap invisible would become a quiet lie in a publication that talks about measurement. What that means in practice was seen on 5 September 2026: a source returned a server error that morning, that day's round was never written, and the gap simply stands in the archive.

Reaching us

For error reports, correction requests and objections of any kind you can write to us directly; the address is on the Contact page, with no form or ticket system in between. Correction requests are recorded whether or not they are accepted.