Nothing great is made. Ideally.

Pare is a collaborative canvas for teams removing things. Eleven objects per file, permanently. A second designer has to approve anything you intend to keep, and the approval expires.

Request an empty file

Accession opens 14 days after request. No file is issued with content in it.

Objects currently held in this vitrine

Pare, Untitled file, 2026.
Plaster, hairline, absence. 1440 × 900 px.
Deaccessioned by the studio, March 2026.

1,904,166

Objects removed across all files today

41,209

Files currently holding the full eleven

8,730

Approvals lapsing before Friday

4.2

Mean objects per file, falling

What the platform does to your work

Permanent collection · Gallery 1

Governance

Subtraction Review

Every object you keep needs written justification from a colleague, filed within 24 hours. Approvals lapse after 30 days and the object is removed on the 31st. Nobody is notified, because notifying you would be a form of clutter.

PA.2026.0011 · Review workflow, mandatory, two signatories.
Dimensions variable. Duration 30 days.

Capacity

The Eleven

A Pare file holds eleven objects. Placing a twelfth opens a dialog asking which of the eleven you love less. No answer keeps twelve. Teams describe the first week as difficult and the second week as quiet.

PA.2026.0012 · Hard cap, enforced at the canvas.
11 objects. Not negotiable at any tier.

Presence

Unattributed Presence

Collaborators appear as unlabeled hairlines. No name, no colour, no cursor chat. You will not learn who deleted your work. Internal research we commissioned from ourselves found this to be the healthier arrangement.

PA.2026.0013 · Anonymous multiplayer, one hairline per person.
1 px. Colourless. Attribution withheld indefinitely.

On loan from practitioners

Interpretive panel · Gallery 2

We removed the logo in March, the wordmark in April, and the brand guidelines in May. Recognition is down 71 percent. The remaining 29 percent is the correct 29 percent.

Marisol Vane VP of Reduction, a furniture company that has stopped producing furniture.
On Threshold since 2025. Files held: 6. Objects held: 2.

My team shipped one rectangle in Q3. Leadership asked what happened to the rest of the roadmap and I walked them through the minutes. It was the correct rectangle.

Dov Halloran Staff Product Designer and Certified Shedding Facilitator (Level II).
On Threshold since 2024. Files held: 1. Objects held: 1.

Pare removed my portfolio case study while I was presenting it. Eleven people watched the artboard go to plaster. Two of them asked for a trial.

Priya Ostrander Head of Negative Space, Series C freight brokerage.
On Void since 2026. Files held: 0. Objects held: 0.

Acquisition schedule

Three editions · Billed in advance · No refunds, no exports

Renounce

$49 / seat / month

One file. Eleven objects. No export.

One file, permanently
Subtraction Review with a single reviewer
Export disabled at the account level
Version history retained for you, not shown to you

Threshold

$340 / seat / month

Unlimited files. Eleven objects each. Enforced.

Unlimited files, all capped at eleven
Quarterly possession audit with a named auditor
Fasting windows on a team schedule
Shared deaccession minutes

Void

$9,000 / org / year, billed in full

No canvas. A certificate. A phone number.

No canvas is provisioned
A letterpress certificate confirming you did not open one
A phone number that rings in an empty room in Basel
Annual condition report on the work you did not make