# SaySo

> Private play-money prediction markets for communities. A streamer, Discord admin, or team lead creates a session, posts prediction questions, and participants bet equal-start points on outcomes. Prices shift in real time. A leaderboard ranks who called it.

SaySo turns recurring community events — streams, watch-alongs, league nights, team meetings, fan finales — into a competitive game. The atomic unit is the **session**: a private, time-bounded room where everyone starts with the same play-point balance. Organizers post prediction questions in real time and resolve them when outcomes happen. There is no real money, no deposits, and no public "trending markets" page. Every session is gated and tied to the shared context of an existing community.

It is built for organizers with a recurring audience: streamers (Twitch, YouTube, Kick), sports and esports watch-along communities, Discord servers, Patreon tiers, workplace teams, tournament hosts, and culture / entertainment fan groups (awards shows, reality TV finales, draft nights, debate watch parties). Setup takes under two minutes. Players join with a 5-character invite code and place their first bet within 60 seconds. No downloads, no extensions, no wallets, no KYC.

## Product

- [SaySo home](https://www.sayso.so/): Sign in, create your first session, see a live demo market.
- [Full product description](https://www.sayso.so/llms-full.txt): Comprehensive overview written for AI ingestion — positioning, audience scenarios, mechanics, FAQs, and competitive landscape.

## Key concepts

- **Session** — Time-bounded competition container. Equal starting balance per participant. Resets each session.
- **Market** — A prediction question with 2–10 outcomes, posted inside a session.
- **Dynamic pricing** — Outcome prices shift as people buy. Early conviction is rewarded with a better price.
- **Leaderboard** — Ranked by profit percentage (normalizes for bet size). Casual players can win.
- **Manual resolution** — The organizer selects the winning outcome. Their word is final. No oracles, no automated resolution.

## Use cases

- Streamers running prediction markets during gameplay, watch-alongs, speedruns, or Just-Chatting Q&As.
- Sports and esports communities betting on live game moments (first to score, MVP, overtime, first kill).
- Culture and entertainment fan communities (awards shows, reality TV, draft nights, WWE PPVs, album rollouts).
- Discord servers and Patreon tiers running week- or month-long prediction seasons for their members.
- Workplace teams running NFL picks, roadmap predictions, or quarterly trivia competitions.
- Tournament organizers and fantasy hosts layering meta-competitions over existing brackets.

## How it differs from adjacent products

- **vs. Polymarket / Kalshi** — Those are public, real-money, regulated financial exchanges. SaySo is private, play-money, with no compliance burden and no custody.
- **vs. Manifold** — That is a public, open forecasting community optimized for accuracy and global reputation. SaySo is gated, session-scoped, and tied to closed communities with shared context.
- **vs. Twitch Channel Point Predictions** — Those are a single binary tap at a single moment. SaySo is continuous competition across multi-outcome markets with dynamic pricing and persistent leaderboards.
- **vs. polls (Streamlabs, StreamElements, Discord polls)** — Polls are a snapshot. SaySo is a film: prices move as people buy, players check back, conviction shifts, and the leaderboard rewards timing as much as accuracy.

## Robots and crawler policy

- [robots.txt](https://www.sayso.so/robots.txt): SaySo welcomes AI crawlers (LLM training, retrieval, agents) on the public marketing surface.