Behind Saboteur: Mission and Values
I created Saboteur LLC because I believe software should serve creators instead of exploiting them. Software for creators has become a labyrinth of subscription services, paywalls, and your data in a cloud on someone else’s servers where you can lose access to it, or it can be used for LLM training without your knowledge, consent, or any compensation to you. Saboteur’s Mission and Values mirror that intention.
The Saboteur Mission
Empower creators of all backgrounds with tools that enhance — not replace — their creative work, while helping audiences discover the diverse artistic voices that algorithms overlook.
Saboteur’s Values
Creator Sovereignty
Artists and authors own their work, their voice, and their data. The creative output of Saboteur’s users — manuscripts, compositions, lyrics, original writing — will never be used to train AI or machine learning models under any circumstance. Usage and behavioral data may be collected to improve products, but only with explicit, informed, and unambiguous user consent — and never in ways that obscure what is being shared or why.
Ethical Monetization
Revenue models are designed to charge fairly for genuine value, with generous free tiers for those who need them. Saboteur will not sell user data, run manipulative engagement loops, or optimize for time-on-platform at the expense of user wellbeing.
Discovery Over Popularity
Saboteur builds for the creator who hasn’t been found yet. Across every platform and medium the company serves — music, writing, visual art — the goal is to surface work that deserves an audience, not to amplify what already has one. Popularity is not a proxy for quality, and Saboteur’s products will never be designed as if it is.
Transparency
How the company makes money, how recommendations work, and how user data is handled will be documented and accessible — not buried in terms of service.
Accessibility Across Income Levels
Core functionality remains free. Paid tiers exist to support the platform, not to hold essential features hostage.
Focused by Design
Saboteur is a tools and platforms company, not an AI company. Artificial intelligence and LLM capabilities appear in Saboteur products only as assistive infrastructure — to help creators work better, never to replace them or generate output in their name.
The Bottom Line
Saboteur’s Mission and Values are a promise to everyone that uses my software, and they drive the decisions behind everything I make under the Saboteur banner. They are explicitly designed to prevent accidental or intentional exploitation of the people I serve. These are non-negotiables for myself, anyone I employ, and anyone I work with.
The bottom line will always be Creators First.