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LightVessel DAO
An atelier, not a marketplace — which meant building an intake that turns people away as carefully as it lets them in.
The problem
LightVessel takes enduring sacred and historical texts and preserves them as permanent works of art on-chain, under stated moral and spiritual guardrails. That positioning creates an unusual engineering requirement: the site has to qualify a commission, not merely capture a lead.
It also has to hold three languages — English, Spanish and Hebrew, the last of which reads right to left — without the layout falling apart or the translations drifting from one another.
What we built
- A trilingual site including right-to-left Hebrew, from one content model rather than three parallel sites.
- A gated commission intake that captures the shape of a proposed work before it reaches a person, so the atelier's time goes to enquiries that fit its guardrails.
- Turnstile on lead capture, because an intake form on a site about permanence is exactly the kind of target that fills with noise.
- An AI guide under a fixed daily ceiling — capped per message and per day, so an unusual traffic spike cannot turn into an unusual invoice.
What it means
The atelier is the parent of two published editions — the Zohar and the Tehillim series — and the intake, language handling and spend controls built here carry across all three. Building the guardrails once meant the editions shipped without rebuilding them.
Stack
Workers, D1, KV, R2, Turnstile, Solana