Back the machine

He built a machine to launch one book. Now he wants to give it to every activist group on Earth.

This book had no publisher, no advertising budget and no Amazon. It was launched by an open-source AI agency built for the job. A crowdfund to finish that machine and hand it over, free, opens in early February 2027.

What it is

A marketing agency you own.

It plans, writes, designs, schedules and publishes, so a small group with something true to say can be heard without hiring an agency or feeding a platform. It does the heavy lifting. People make the decisions and sign off every word.

Who it is for

The people doing the work.

Activists, environmental movements, community groups and change makers who have a cause and no spare hours. Free at the point of use. Not for sale to corporations.

How it is built

Open source, and yours to run.

The code is open for anyone to read, copy and improve. It is designed to run on your own computer and keep your group’s data with you, not in somebody else’s cloud.

The proof

You are looking at it.

The book’s launch, this website and the campaign around them are the machine’s first job. Solarpunk Press makes no secret of that: saying a machine helped is part of the brand.

Be told when it opens

Leave an email. Hear the day it starts.

No money is asked for today and none is taken here. This is only a list of people who want to know when the crowdfund goes live.

Your email is used for news of this crowdfund and the Solar Blether letter, and for nothing else. Reply “no more” to any letter and it stops that day. Privacy and deletion. Solarpunk Press is an imprint of wordforword OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia. The author, Matt Lygate (GINGERBEARD), is in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Solarpunk Society / Early access

Join the Clan

Read the book a full month before everyone else. Early access opens 1 October — the public launch isn't until 3 November. Come in by email, by Telegram, or both. No cost, no catch, and you can leave any time.

01 / By email

Get the early-access letter

One human writing to one human. We confirm the distribution route before sending the book. Never sold, never spam.

02 / By Telegram

Join the Telegram community

A community where folk help each other build the thing — you talk with everyone, not just at Gingerbeard. Come say hello; launch news lands there first.

Open the Telegram community

Either one, or both — up to you. Privacy and deletion.

Get the book

The ebook is free. Pick a box to take it. Both give you the same complete book, ePub and PDF.

Want it on paper? Buy the paperback from Bookvault, £17.99 in the UK. It opens in a new tab, so nothing here stops.

Two feeds, two voices

Come find us.

One lane is the Press itself — explainers and dispatches made by the machine, checked by a human. The other is Building Solartime: the author and Julia, building the thing out loud. Nothing loads, tracks or phones home until you tap a link.

Most of the traffic

Solarpunk Press International

The author + Julia

Building Solartime