Nothing has shipped yet. That is the job.

A child says they want a story about a dragon who is frightened of the postman. Talebrix asks them who it is about, where it happens, what goes wrong and how it ends — out loud, no screen to hold, no spelling — and then writes it, draws it, prints it and binds it into a real picture book with their name on the cover as the author. It takes a few minutes. It happens in the room they are sitting in, while they are still arguing about whether the dragon is friendly.

That is the thing to hold on to when the work gets to bills of materials and reading levels: a five year old who has never written anything is about to be handed a book they wrote. It is meant to cost £199 with 6 books in the box, and a Story Pack of 6 is meant to cost £14.99.

None of it has happened yet. The prices are intent and so are the specifications, and this site is a demand test — its whole job is to find out whether enough parents ask for one. So the honest description of both jobs is that they are early enough to change what the product is, and early enough that it might not get made. If that reads as a warning, it is the wrong job. If it reads as the interesting part, keep going.

Both are co-founder’s jobs and the page is written as one. You would join as a director and a shareholder rather than an employee, which is the honest description of what somebody is doing when they take on a company that has not raised money and has not sold anything.

So there is no salary until January 2027. Until then the equity is the whole of it, and it is a founder’s share for a founder’s reason: the work happens before there is money to pay for it, and that ought to be owned rather than thanked. It is a real thing to ask of somebody, and it is the first thing to weigh.

What January 2027 depends on is money that is not in the bank today. The likeliest route to it is that this site does its job — enough parents ask for one that somebody funds the making of it. That is a plan rather than a promise, and anybody who tells you otherwise at this stage is selling something.

Write to hello@talebrix.com. Say which of the two, and send one thing you have made that you would defend — a mechanism, a bill of materials, a book, a set of pictures. A CV is welcome and a portfolio is welcome; neither is worth as much as the one thing.

Ask hard questions about the money — the ones you would want answered before agreeing to work without any, and the ones a shareholders’ agreement has to settle before either of us signs anything. Nobody sensible takes terms like these on trust.

There is no form on this page on purpose. The only thing this site collects is an email address, and a page arguing for that is not the place to start asking for more. A person reads everything that arrives, and will answer.