Coil

discontinued creator-monetization platform

Coil

Industry Publishing

A discontinued private web-monetization platform that used memberships and streaming micropayments to fund creators through the Web Monetization standard. Coil was directionally better than surveillance advertising because it paid creators without behavioral ad targeting, but it was closed, company-controlled, and ultimately not durable.

Why this matters: Coil is a useful calibration point for alternative creator revenue models that avoid ads but do not become commons infrastructure.

Letter grade D Extractive Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 21* D - Extractive

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material28
Bonus+2
Cap35Ownership <= 2 and Governance <= 2
After Cap30
Penalties-9
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Evaluation Overview

D - Extractive

The score turns mainly on Extraction, with the largest penalty coming from Reversibility.

Strengths

  • Extraction5/10
  • Solidarity with the Unemployed4/7
  • Market Conduct4/5

Penalties

  • Reversibility-5
  • Accountability Opacity-2
  • Subscription Capture-1
  • Ideological Disavowal-1

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims12
  • Direct axis claims12
  • Coverage12/15

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
2 / 10

Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context Coil's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context Coil's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context Coil operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context Coil's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context Coil's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
2 / 10

Coil's linked public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • Coil's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context Coil's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context Coil operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context Coil's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context Coil's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
5 / 10

Coil's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context Coil's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • Coil's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context Coil operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context Coil's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context Coil's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
2 / 7

Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context Coil's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context Coil's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context Coil operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context Coil's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context Coil's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
4 / 7

Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context Coil's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context Coil's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context Coil operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context Coil's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context Coil's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
3 / 7

Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context Coil's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context Coil's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context Coil operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context Coil's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context Coil's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
4 / 5

Coil operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context Coil's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context Coil's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • Coil operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context Coil's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context Coil's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
4 / 5

Coil's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context Coil's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context Coil's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context Coil operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • Coil's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • context Coil's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
2 / 5

Coil's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers. [1]
  • context Coil's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction. [2]
  • context Coil's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising. [3]
  • context Coil operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work. [4]
  • context Coil's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction. [5]
  • Coil's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure. [6]

Penalties

Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Reversibility
?
Applied when positive conduct depends on current living leaders, founders, family owners, or other person-contingent governance rather than durable structure. Range: -5 to 0.
-5

Coil's model depended on company continuation and was discontinued, showing that the alternative was not durably locked as public infrastructure.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • Coil's model depended on company continuation and was discontinued, showing that the alternative was not durably locked as public infrastructure. [9]
Subscription Capture
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Manipulative recurring-payment, automatic-renewal, cancellation-friction, bundling, trial-conversion, or refund designs that profit from inertia or confusion. Range: -5 to 0.
-1

Coil's model uses recurring subscription, reward, token, or account mechanics that can profit from inertia or continued participation.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • Coil's model uses recurring subscription, reward, token, or account mechanics that can profit from inertia or continued participation. [10]
Accountability Opacity
?
Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
-2

Coil's public model requires users to understand complex advertising, data, token, privacy, or pledge mechanics before they can judge the exchange clearly.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • Coil's public model requires users to understand complex advertising, data, token, privacy, or pledge mechanics before they can judge the exchange clearly. [11]
Ideological Disavowal
?
Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
-1

Coil frames contested choices about advertising, consent, misinformation, attention, or data markets as responsible infrastructure or reform rather than as a situated institutional position.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • Coil frames contested choices about advertising, consent, misinformation, attention, or data markets as responsible infrastructure or reform rather than as a situated institutional position. [12]

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
1 / 3

Coil gives users, creators, or participating organizations a more legible or fairer value proposition than ordinary opaque advertising markets.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • Coil gives users, creators, or participating organizations a more legible or fairer value proposition than ordinary opaque advertising markets. [7]
Cost Transparency
?
Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency, especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or individualized pricing are normal.
1 / 3

Coil's public materials make parts of the advertising, reward, pledge, or creator-payment exchange more visible than conventional adtech.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Attention, consent, advertising, and anti-surveillance batch calibrated against browser, adtech, open-source, and media-infrastructure entries.

Linked evidence
  • Coil's public materials make parts of the advertising, reward, pledge, or creator-payment exchange more visible than conventional adtech. [8]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 75/100

12 verified linked claims 12 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 12/15 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 18/20

12 verified linked claims

Source quality 10/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 9/18

12 direct claims across 15 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 8/10

12/15 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Coil is organized around the structure described in its public materials rather than democratic ownership by all affected users or workers.

Ownership Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

2Coil's public materials show a governance model where ordinary users, advertisers, members, or pledge participants do not have full binding control over institutional direction.

Governance Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

3Coil's model changes the flow of advertising, attention, data, or creator revenue compared with ordinary surveillance advertising.

Extraction Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

4Coil operates in or against the advertising and attention market by changing how consent, tracking, ad placement, creator funding, or marketing ethics work.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

5Coil's core product or program is aimed at changing advertising, tracking, data markets, or marketing practice rather than simply maximizing hidden behavioral extraction.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

6Coil's model can scale through software, standards, pledges, advertising buyers, or data-market infrastructure, with different accountability risks depending on control structure.

Scale Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

7Coil gives users, creators, or participating organizations a more legible or fairer value proposition than ordinary opaque advertising markets.

Good Deal Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

8Coil's public materials make parts of the advertising, reward, pledge, or creator-payment exchange more visible than conventional adtech.

Cost Transparency Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

9Coil's model depended on company continuation and was discontinued, showing that the alternative was not durably locked as public infrastructure.

Reversibility Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

10Coil's model uses recurring subscription, reward, token, or account mechanics that can profit from inertia or continued participation.

Subscription Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

11Coil's public model requires users to understand complex advertising, data, token, privacy, or pledge mechanics before they can judge the exchange clearly.

Accountability Opacity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

12Coil frames contested choices about advertising, consent, misinformation, attention, or data markets as responsible infrastructure or reform rather than as a situated institutional position.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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