· Ethics charter ·
Jyotiṣa, the dharmic sciences, and the Sanskrit corpus are sacred inheritances. We refuse to use them to push, scare, or upsell. This is the discipline we hold ourselves to, in writing.
No “shocking predictions.” No “urgent remedies you must perform now.” No countdowns, no exit-intent modals, no “only 3 slots left.” Sāḍe Sātī is honored as a transformative period of discipline and maturation — never described as “seven and a half years of suffering.”
Every screen, card, and PDF section labels what kind of statement it is making — Computed (astronomical fact), Classical (rule applied to the fact, citing a verse), or Interpretive (reverence-framed prose). The labels never blur.
Every classical reading carries its primary verse — Sanskrit, IAST, English, Hindi — fetched live from the Kadambini corpus. If a translation needs fixing, we fix it in Kadambini and every product sees the corrected reading on next cache expiry. We do not invent verses, and we do not silently restate them.
Maṅgala Doṣa is described as a traditional pattern in matrimonial compatibility, with the well-documented mitigation paths classical sources already offer — not as matrimonial disqualification. Kāla Sarpa is noted with a transparent disclosure that its classical standing is debated, since it is a post-medieval innovation. Sāḍe Sātī carries the BPHS framing, not the click-bait one.
The free Snapshot returns Lagna, Rāśi, Nakṣatra, current Mahādaśā, and Sāḍe Sātī status — the four most-asked classical facts — with full citation. The paid Reading deepens the analysis but does not unlock truth. We will not place a paywall in front of what classical sources teach is freely shareable.
When the user does not know the exact birth time, we say so — we do not invent precision. We surface a nakṣatra-based profile (which is stable across the day) and explain what we are not computing and why. We are working on a rectification helper that uses major life events, not a guess.
Devotional content — daily pañcāṅga, festival shlokas, Kadambini corpus access — stays free. The monetized surfaces are computational artifacts (Reports, the Kundali Reading, paid API). When a Hindu temple-goer would buy a paṇḍit's time, we charge. When a Hindu temple-goer would receive prasāda, we don't.
No notification spam, no streak nudging, no FOMO loops. The product is a tool that should make itself unnecessary — once you understand your chart, you should not need to come back daily.
· A note on the people building this ·
vibz.art is fully self-funded — no VC, no accelerators, no equity ever. We are not building a venture-scale astrology app that profits from anxiety. We are building computational tools for a tradition we love. That choice constrains how fast we can grow; it also frees us to keep these promises.
Our compute stack is documented openly at /transparency.