Praxis Applied

The witness economy.

Rabid reconstructs real-world events from the people who were physically there — and pays them for being there. Human presence becomes a measurable contribution to the memory of the moment.

The crowd creates the memory. The crowd shares the value.

For a hundred years, the broadcast owned the event. The fans who were actually there, recording, reacting, generating the atmosphere, got nothing back. Rabid changes the ledger. Every witness whose footage helps reconstruct a moment becomes a tracked, paid contributor. The replay keeps paying them for years.

Three Layers

Witness. Statistician. Commentary.

Every event passes through three independent contribution layers. Each function as separate pieces that create the full picture.

01

Witness

Captures what was actually seen.

People who were physically present record from where they stood — phones, GoPros, smart glasses, body cameras. The device doesn't matter. Presence does. Every second of their footage that makes the final cut is tracked. Every replay pays them again.

02

Statistician

Builds the informational skeleton.

Independent data — timestamped, event-linked, fully owned by the network of contributors. No copy of any broadcast's graphics package. The statistician layer makes events searchable, analyzable, and intelligently navigable without depending on a network's editorial frame.

03

Commentary

Adds the voice over the moment.

Multiple commentary tracks layer on the same stitched event. Neutral analyst, team-side homer, comedian, historian, foreign language, no commentary. Viewers can switch tracks live. Commentators earn on time listened — not on uploads.

How it works

Two hundred fans. One stadium. One stitched event.

Rabid begins with replay — not live. The system reconstructs the event after the final whistle, from the perspectives of the people who were there.

A college football championship

From scattered phones to a coherent fan-perspective replay.

  1. Before kickoff, 200 fans opt in as witnesses for the night. Some in the upper deck, some on the sideline, some in the parking lot tailgate. Phones, GoPros, wearables.
  2. They record naturally throughout the game. No one is told what to film. The instruction is simple: be present, capture what you see.
  3. After the final whistle, every clip uploads. Each carries a timestamp, a location pin, and a contributor ID.
  4. The Assembly System time-aligns the feeds — using audio spikes, crowd roars, scoreboard cues. The event becomes a unified timeline made of 200 overlapping perspectives.
  5. The best available angle for each moment is selected. The system favors emotional clarity over technical polish. Sometimes that's the perfect catch. Sometimes it's the crowd losing its mind in the upper deck.
  6. Three independent commentators record over the cut: a neutral analyst, a team-side homer, and a comedian. Viewers pick. Viewers switch mid-game.
  7. The result publishes as a 90-minute fan-perspective cut. The Settlement System pays out — witnesses by seconds of their footage used, commentators by minutes listened, the platform by its share of the pool.
  8. Three years later, someone replays it on the anniversary. The pool pays out again. Witnesses keep earning from presence. Commentators keep earning from selection. The event becomes a long-tail asset.

No broadcast. No director's cut. No network deciding which angle you see. The crowd reconstructs the night, and the crowd keeps a share of the memory.

Where this applies

Anywhere a crowd creates the moment.

Rabid starts with sports, and expands wherever human presence is the value.

Sports

The crowd's view

Championship games, rivalry matches, Banana Ball, the local team. Reconstructed from the fans inside.

Concerts

The fan edition

Licensed witness editions, in partnership with the artist. The intimate version the official concert film can't capture.

News & Public

Multiple readings of one moment

Same evidence layer, selectable interpretations. The event stays fixed; the framing becomes a choice.

Personal

Weddings, graduations, reunions

Hundreds of guests already record everything. Rabid stitches the lived version that no single videographer can produce.

Join the network

Two ways in.

Watch first. Move up when you're ready to contribute — and earn — from the events you were actually at.

Viewer
$0

For watching the stitched events the witness network has reconstructed.

  • Watch any published fan-perspective event
  • Switch between commentary tracks live
  • Browse the archive of stitched moments
  • See the contributor ledger on every event
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Witness
$2.99/ month

For the people who were actually there.

  • Everything in Viewer
  • Upload footage from any covered event
  • Earn from every second of your footage that makes a stitched cut
  • Earn again on every replay — for as long as the event lives
  • Build a witness profile across events on Rabid.Fan
  • Submit commentary or statistician tracks (subject to review)
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Social media rewards virality. Rabid rewards presence. You mattered because you were there — not because you went viral.

The witness economy