Worth Keeping / No one has to ask Austin Founding Collection / Drop 001

Give · scan · redeem · earn

No one
has to ask.

Worth Keeping puts collectible Austin art in the hands of neighbors experiencing homelessness or financial insecurity. They give first. You keep real artist-made work, and scanning it opens the Worth Keeping app — the artist’s story, a local deal, your wallet. When you redeem, the business pays the person who gave you the sticker. And if you ever decide to make it yours for good, that purchase pays them too.

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Drop 001 artwork: a great-tailed grackle, artist-created Austin work — Drop 001 · Art-02Front: art only

01GiveA neighbor hands you the sticker. No ask attached.
02ScanOptional. The code opens the app — story, deal, wallet.
03RedeemShow your app wallet at the counter — no sticker needed.
04EarnThe business pays the giver for the new customer.

PUBLIC BRAND Worth Keeping COLLECTION Austin Founding Collection RELEASE Drop 001 · six artist-approved fronts WORKING EXAMPLE $10 per new customer, paid to the giver

01 · Where it starts

It starts with a gift.

Asking is heavy. For a neighbor without housing or steady income, it means holding out a hand all day and hoping — and for the person walking by, it’s a moment neither of them chose. Worth Keeping gives both people a better moment to share: the neighbor gives first — a small piece of Austin art, worth keeping — and earns real income every time that gift finds its way home.

You were already going to buy the coffee. Now the sticker gets you a deal on it — and the person who handed it to you gets paid for bringing the shop a customer.

The gift: The ask becomes a give. Something worth having moves first, before anything is requested.
The payer: The local business — because a new face at the counter is worth real money to them.
The proof: Every redemption is verified in store. Counts, not stories.
The object: Artist-made collectible work — good enough that people ask for it.

02 · How it works

One sticker,
many hands.

01 · Artist

Art gets made

An Austin artist creates the work and approves every reproduction. The front carries no logo, no code, no ask.

02 · Worth Keeping

Drops get printed

Authorized batches carry the story and code on the standardized back, then stock to givers.

03 · Giver

The handoff

A neighbor experiencing homelessness or financial insecurity gives the sticker away — no ask, no pitch. “This is for you.”

04 · Keeper

Scan by choice

Keep the art free and clear. Scanning the back opens the app — the artist’s story, a current deal, and a wallet that carries it.

05 · Business

The redemption

Show the offer from your app wallet at the counter — something free or discounted on a purchase you were likely making anyway.

06 · Payout

The giver earns

The business pays the giver for the new customer — and if the sticker is ever sold to a collector, a share of that sale reaches them too.

The point Every hand the sticker passes through gets something — art, a story, a deal — and the giver gets paid as it goes.

03 · The app

The sticker is the key.
The app is the door.

Every sticker back carries a code. Scan it and the Worth Keeping app opens — that’s where everything digital lives: the artist’s story, the local offer, your collection. The moment the code reveals your offer, the sticker’s work is done. The offer rides along in your app wallet — the sticker stays what it always was: a piece of art worth keeping.

Promotions, coupons, and everything a business runs happens inside the app. You never need to carry the sticker to the counter — just show your wallet.

01 · The scan reveals

Worth KeepingDrop 001 · No. 0847

Art-02 Grackle Verified · artist-approved

“I’ve watched grackles own every parking lot in this city…” — the artist’s story, first.

Free drink with any purchase A local coffee shop · East Austin · expires in 30 days

02 · Your wallet carries it

My wallet3 offers · 2 kept

Free drink with any purchaseCoffee shop · show at counter

Saved

Two tacos, one freeTaco truck · East 7th

Expiring

$3 off any washNeighborhood laundry

Redeemed

My collectionArt-02 Grackle · Art-05 Boot

2 kept

Illustrative Demo screens — the app ships with the Austin pilot.

04 · The economics

Small money, straight
into a neighbor’s hands.

A new customer usually costs a business $30–$70 in ads — money that vanishes into a feed. In our working example, a Worth Keeping redemption costs $10, and it goes to the neighbor who made the introduction in person, on their own street.

Typical paid acquisitionAds, promoted posts, coupon platforms $30–70Per new customer

Worth Keeping redemptionPaid directly to the giver $10Per new customer

Illustrative Working example — pilot terms are set with founding businesses.

05 · The life of one sticker

One little gift
keeps on giving.

A sticker doesn’t retire after one scan. In our working example, each one is good for about five scans as it moves hand to hand — and the giver keeps earning the whole way.

Hand 01 · Scan 01Scanned on day one — the story lands, the coffee deal gets redeemed.+$10 to the giver
Hand 01 → 02Passed to a friend. New keeper, same little piece of Austin.—
Hand 02 · Scans 02–03Scanned twice — the artist’s story gets read, the deal gets browsed.—
Hand 02 · Scan 04The second offer gets redeemed at a taco truck down the block.+$10 to the giver
Hand 02 → 03Passed on once more — scan 05 introduces one more neighbor.—
Hand 03 · CollectedThe last keeper falls for it and buys it out of circulation. A share of that sale, after operating costs, goes home to the giver.+ share of sale

One sticker, one giver, paid three times. $20 + sale share

Illustrative Working example — five scans per sticker, redemption rates, and sale shares are set during the pilot.

06 · After the scan

Every sticker has two futures.

Future A · Collect

Make it yours.

Buy the sticker and take it out of circulation. It joins your collection as a registered piece of the drop — and a portion of what you pay, after operating costs, goes home to the giver who first passed it on. Owning the sticker never transfers the artist’s original work or copyright.

Purchase terms · planned

Future B · Pass it on

Keep it moving.

Hand it to someone else — the way it reached you. A new keeper gets the art, the story, and the deal, and the circulation count keeps climbing. The giver already earned; now the sticker works its way through the neighborhood.

Always free

Collect it or keep it moving — both endings are wins. One builds a collection worth keeping; the other keeps the introduction going.

07 · Who takes part

Four people, one exchange.

01 · The person this is for

The giver

A neighbor experiencing homelessness or financial insecurity. Instead of asking, they carry the drop and give first — and every sticker that becomes a customer pays them.

Earns per redemption

The keeper

Keeps the sticker free and clear. May scan for the story and the deal, buy it out of circulation, or pass it on to the next keeper.

The business

Gets walk-in customers for a fraction of ad cost, and the spend goes to a person, not a platform. Reporting stays factual and aggregate-only.

Terms planned

The artist

Creates the work, approves every reproduction, and gets a profile in the app that sends collectors straight to their commissions.

Approval required

08 · The artists

Every drop is a gallery show.

The sticker front belongs entirely to the artist — no logo, no code, no ask printed over the work. And when a keeper scans the back, the artist is the first thing they meet: every drop artist gets a page inside the app with their story, their links, and a direct line for commissions. A sticker in circulation is a business card that people fight to keep.

Six Austin artists open the Founding Collection. Every future drop adds more.

Artist profile

In the app · every drop artist

Drop 001 artist Art-04 Bluebonnet · Austin, TX

StoryThe work, in the artist’s words
SocialInstagram · portfolio · site
CommissionsOpen · direct contact
In circulationDrop 001 · authorized batch

Illustrative

09 · What everyone sees

Proof, not promises.

Illustrative · demo numbers

Giver ledger

East Austin · Drop 001

75Stickers passed

58Scans

21Redemptions

$255Earned · both streams

3Sold · $45 your share

May 2Next restock

21 of your stickers became customers, and 3 found forever homes. Restock is ready at East Austin Community Hub.

Business pulse

Local coffee shop · Drop 001

250Stickers out

184Scans

62New customers

$620Paid to givers

$10Cost per customer

74%Batch scanned

Your circulation is strong — 74% of the first batch has been scanned. Consider funding another drop.

Numbers above are a working demonstration, not live data. Real reporting stays factual and aggregate-only — verified counts, never extrapolated impact.

10 · Austin Founding Collection

Drop 001. Six fronts.

Drop 001 artwork: armadillo — Art-01 Armadillo

Drop 001 artwork: grackle — Art-02 Grackle

Drop 001 artwork: bridge — Art-03 Bridge

Each front is artist-created Austin work, reproduced with recorded approval. Good enough that people ask for them — which is exactly the point.

11 · How we hold it

Built dignity-first.

Give first, always

The exchange opens with something worth having, not an ask. Value moves before anything is requested — that’s the whole reversal.

Income, not alms

Givers are paid for real customer acquisition, the same work ad platforms charge for. It’s earned money, with no pity story attached.

Choice at every step

Keeping is free. Scanning is optional. Collecting or passing it on is the keeper’s call. Anonymous-first, with skip and withdraw always available.

Evidence, not embellishment

Reporting stays factual — verified counts, never extrapolated lives changed. Anything not yet real is labeled planned or illustrative.

The exchange phrase

“This is for you. It’s worth keeping.”

12 · Get involved

Austin, meet Drop 001.

The founding pilot is planned for Austin. We’re talking with artists, local businesses, and community partners now — early conversations shape how the first drop lands, from payout terms to where givers restock.

Start a conversation Pilot · planned

CollectionAustin Founding Collection

ReleaseDrop 001 · six artist-approved fronts

Working example$10 per redemption + a share of every sale, to the giver

Two futuresCollect it · or pass it on

StatusPilot planned · partner conversations open

Looking forArtists · local businesses · community partners

13 · Questions

Asked and answered.

Who are the givers?

Neighbors experiencing homelessness or financial insecurity — people who used to have to ask strangers for help. Worth Keeping flips their position: they carry something people actually want, give it first, and earn income when a sticker becomes a customer.

How does a giver earn money?

Two ways. When someone they gave a sticker to redeems the offer at a local business, the business pays the giver a fixed amount — $10 in our working example, the same service ad platforms charge $30–$70 for. And when a keeper buys a sticker out of circulation, a portion of that sale, after operating costs, goes to the giver too. One sticker can pay the same person several times over its life.

Is this charity?

No. Nobody is donating and nobody is receiving alms. The keeper gets art and a deal, the business gets a customer at a fraction of ad cost, and the giver gets paid for making the introduction. It’s customer acquisition that happens to be human.

Can I buy the sticker?

Yes — that’s one of its two futures. Collect it and it leaves circulation as a registered piece of the drop, and a portion of the purchase, after operating costs, goes to the giver who passed it on. Or pass it forward and someone else becomes the next keeper. Purchase terms are planned and set per drop. Owning a sticker never transfers the artist’s original work or copyright.

What does the artist get?

Full control and a stage. Artists approve every reproduction, the front never carries a logo or code, and each drop artist gets a page in the app promoting their story, socials, and open commissions — every scan is an introduction to their work.

Do I have to scan the sticker?

No. The sticker is a gift and keeping it carries no obligation. Scanning is optional and everything can be browsed without sharing anything.

Do I need the sticker to use my offer?

No. Once the code on the back reveals your offer, the sticker’s job is done — the offer lives in your Worth Keeping app wallet, and that’s what you show at the counter. The sticker goes back to being what it started as: art worth keeping, or worth passing on.

Why would a business pay for this?

Because it’s cheaper than what they already pay. A new walk-in customer through ads typically costs $30–$70; through Worth Keeping the working example is $10 — and the spend stays in the neighborhood, attached to a story customers feel good about.

When does the pilot start?

Drop 001 is planned for Austin. Timing, payout terms, and partners are being set with founding businesses now — anything we can’t yet verify is labeled planned, and we’d rather tell you that than guess.

No onehas to ask.