Pauv is the world's first real-time market for public sentiment. Every public figure has a Net Public Sentiment Index (NPSI), a live, dollar-denominated measure of cultural relevance shaped entirely by forecasting activity. Users open Positive or Negative Forecasts on a Talent's NPSI based on where they think that person's relevance is headed. Talent earn a good-faith royalty on every forecast. Users get to read the culture before it's obvious.
Public sentiment around cultural figures is shaped every single day, across every platform, in every conversation, but there has never been a way to quantify it in real time. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket let users forecast binary events ("Will X win the award?"), but once the event settles, the market disappears. There is no continuous, live measure of how the world perceives a person's cultural relevance, and no mechanism for the Talent themselves to benefit from the attention already surrounding them.
Pauv introduces the Net Public Sentiment Index (NPSI), a live, dollar-denominated measure of public perception driven entirely by forecasting activity. Users open Positive or Negative Forecasts on a public figure's NPSI based on whether they believe that person's cultural relevance will rise or fall. Every forecast settles instantly through our proprietary Dual Curve Model, with no counterparty, no binary outcome, and no expiration. The result is a continuous, transparent signal of how the world perceives someone. Talent earn a good-faith royalty of 0.5% on every forecast opened on their NPSI, claimable at any time with zero obligations or involvement required.
The forecasting platform is fully built and functional. We've obtained a legal opinion supporting our model and established FBO accounts at Lead Bank for secure fund custody. Pre-claimed NPSI profiles on the platform represent 3M+ combined followers. We've raised $60K on rolling SAFEs and are a registered MSB with integrated KYC. The nation's No. 1 overall football prospect in the Class of 2030 pre-claimed his NPSI profile before we've even gone live.
