The adoption model

A new space does not start as a blank canvas, and it does not start as a thin preset stuffed with placeholders. It starts as a clone of a curated example space — a real, working space with sensible structure and example content already in place.

example space   →   clone   →   your new space
(curated, real)              (yours to change, autonomous now)

How a space comes into being

When you create a space, the platform copies a curated example: its structure and its example content come across together, as a complete, functioning whole. From the first moment you are not staring at an empty screen wondering where to begin — you are looking at a site that already works, which you then make your own. You rename, rewrite, restructure and replace until nothing of the example remains but the head start it gave you.

And the instant the clone is made, the space is autonomous. There is no lingering tie to the example it came from — the example was a starting shape, not a parent the space reports to. From here it follows everything described in What is a space: its own subdomain, its own data, its own life.

Why clone an example

Two things are true at once that a blank canvas cannot offer together. You get a fast, oriented start — real structure, real example content, a site that runs on day one — and you remain the full owner of it, free to change anything. A blank canvas gives ownership but no orientation; a rigid template gives orientation but resists change. Cloning a curated example gives both: a worked example to learn from, with no strings attached once it is yours.

The same principle, end to end

This is the platform’s adoption rule applied to birth itself. Just as a space adopts a snapshot when it needs something from elsewhere, and adopts a plan master when it upgrades, a space is an adoption to begin with — a copy taken at a moment, autonomous ever after. “Spaces don’t cross — they adopt snapshots” is not only how spaces relate once they exist; it is how they come to exist in the first place.