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  **Writer collective** — the original business model of _Every_, in which the
  company was organized as a collective of writers; per the episode _How We
  Built a Media and Software Empire With AI - Ep. 31 with Brandon Gell_, Every
  later abandoned this writer-collective model.
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# Writer collective

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## Definition

**Writer collective** — the original business model of _Every_, in which the company was organized as a collective of writers; per the episode _How We Built a Media and Software Empire With AI - Ep. 31 with Brandon Gell_, Every later abandoned this writer-collective model.

The phrase **Writer collective** shows up in the episode *How We Built a Media and Software Empire With AI - Ep. 31 with Brandon Gell*, where it names an early stage of **Every**'s business model. In the episode's framing, Every originally operated as a writer collective — a company built around a community of writers — and later **abandoned** that original model in favor of new approaches, including its pyramid business model and its thesis on “unbundling” general-purpose AI into niche tools like **Spiral** and **Sparkle**.