Your payment systems know your clients better than you do.
Every deposit, cancellation, and repeat visit is tracked, aggregated, and sold on, built into profiles neither you nor your clients ever get to see.
Stop being harvested.
Continue getting paid.
Artega is the sovereign booking and payment infrastructure for independent practitioners.
Take deposits, manage appointments, get paid without surveillance, moral clauses, or frozen funds.
Want to see it first? Try it as a customer for £1 — real payment, real flow.
Sovereignty isn't a fix for when things go wrong. It's the standard your practice deserves from day one.
Most of us carry a quiet unease now, the sense that everything we do, and increasingly everything we buy, is being logged somewhere by someone we never agreed to let in. That's what data sovereignty means, stripped of the jargon: your information, and your clients', should belong to you by default and not be collected simply because collecting it was possible. Practitioners feel this more than most because trust is part of your service. You don't have to wait for this to happen to you.
Edited from a photo by Fausto SandovalNot Hypothetical: Four Case Studies
$26,984 seized
22-year customer
A 22-year customer's funds were seized. Money never returned.
Lena Evans used PayPal for 22 years to sell clothing on eBay, run payments for a poker league she owned, and handle donations for a nonprofit that helps women in need. PayPal froze her account, and six months later, seized $26,984 without ever telling her why. She's one of three plaintiffs in a federal case alleging PayPal told them they'd "have to get a subpoena" just to learn why their own money was being held.
With Artega
With Artega, there's no balance for anyone to freeze, no subpoena required to find out why. Payouts settle straight to your own wallet. There's nothing sitting in our system to hold onto in the first place.
Invisible sharing
with every business that uses Stripe
A shopper's purchase history was scored and shared with other merchants.
Account deactivated
money never returned
Square deactivated a small business owner's account without reason and froze his customers' payments and nearly a year on, the money still hasn't reached him.
Name leaked
across four major processors
Sellers' real names are exposed on client statements by default.
Edited from a photo by Antonika ChanelWe can't freeze what we never hold. We can't sell what we never see.
Every practitioner has always been responsible for who they choose to work with. Artega doesn't change that. It isn't, and was never meant to be, the referee for what you and your client agree.
We prove the agreement happened. We're not part of it. What's agreed, delivered, or disputed is between you and your client, same as it's always been.
You've already agreed to work together: the details, the price, the terms, all settled between the two of you. Artega doesn't get involved in that part. There's no messaging, no negotiation, no third voice in the conversation. What we do is confirm it.
When you're ready, Artega mints an NFT, proof that the agreement exists and payment has been made. It sits on the blockchain, so it's permanent and verifiable, but it names no one: only you and your client would ever recognize what it refers to. Think of it as a receipt, not a product: it records that something happened, nothing more.
As that happens, your client pays by card, similar to how they would anywhere else. Behind the scenes, our payment partner converts it and sends it straight to your own wallet. Stablecoin, not cash, which is what keeps the whole thing private. Artega never holds the money, never sees a balance, and never sits between you and your funds.
The only new step is setting up your wallet, and it's a small one. Every practitioner gets 1:1 onboarding right now to walk through it.
Your client pays similar to how they would anywhere else: nothing to set up, nothing to learn.
Agree the details
Client and practitioner agree the service and price.
Booking created
Practitioner creates the agreement and sends a payment request.
Client pays by card
Secure, familiar checkout with a card or Apple Pay.
Client gets proof of agreement NFT
Practitioner receives funds directly; client gets an NFT receipt as proof.
Simple tracking
Practitioner can manage and track every agreement in one calm place. Client receives email confirmation.
Pseudonymous by default
Clients and practitioners appear on the blockchain as wallet addresses, no names or content of the agreement leaked.
Private between the two of you
Only given details, not personal details, are shared between client and practitioner.
No personal data collected
Artega doesn't take personal data from either party.
See what your clients see.
Book and pay through Artega yourself. You'll experience exactly the same flow your customers get. Real money, real details, no sandbox.
Two live agreements. No subscription. Your payment goes to the same live infrastructure your clients would use.
Built to serve you. Not harvest your data.
Most payment platforms study what you do so they can profit from it later: through profiling, ad targeting, or data quietly sold on. We don't. Your booking and client details stay exactly where they belong: with you, not packaged as someone else's product.
Edited from a photo by Igor BispoPayment goes directly to a wallet only you control: no holding period, no platform sitting in between. PayPal held one customer's account for six months before seizing $26,984; Square has frozen a merchant's $1,500 for nearly a year.
Read the full breakdown →Booking, deposits, and payment all live in one flow, out of the box. Stripe and PayPal are payments-only — you'd need a third-party plugin just to take a booking.
Read the full breakdown →What you're paid, and when, is never packaged up and sold to advertisers or data brokers. Stripe shares a purchase-history risk score across every merchant that uses it. PayPal, Square, and SumUp have all disclosed sharing customer data with advertising partners for targeted ads.
Read the full breakdown →We can't freeze what we never hold. We can't sell what we never see. Your client pays by card, similar to how they would anywhere else: behind the scenes, our payment partner converts it and sends it straight to your own wallet. Artega never holds the money, never sees a balance, and never sits between you and your funds. PayPal seized $26,984; Square held $1,500 for a year; Stripe reserves up to 15% for 120 days; SumUp merchants report weeks-long holds. These aren't isolated cases. These are just the ones that went public.
Read the full breakdown →We don't ask for your legal name: only the name you choose to trade under. There's nothing on our end to leak, share, or start suggesting later, the way banks sometimes populate a payee name from account data without asking. Square's own support forum has merchants whose name leaked onto a customer's statement; PayPal shows a seller's real name to buyers by default; there's nothing to stop SumUp's display name defaulting back to the legal name already on file, and SumUp's exposure isn't limited to the display name: in our own test transaction it showed the seller's personal phone number directly to the client, tappable to call; Stripe keeps your legal name on file regardless of what's displayed.
Read the full breakdown →Your profession is never grounds for being shut down. Artega doesn't police what your work is, only whether it's legal. Square, Stripe, PayPal, and SumUp all reserve the right in their terms to shut down accounts based on what they personally judge acceptable; Artega doesn't.
Read the full breakdown →A real person sets you up personally: not a help article and a support ticket queue. Stripe, Square, PayPal, and SumUp are all self-serve sign-up — automated approval, no dedicated person to help.
Read the full breakdown →What you book and get paid for here never feeds an ad profile that follows you elsewhere. Stripe, PayPal, Square, and SumUp have all disclosed selling or sharing data for behavioural advertising under California privacy law.
Read the full breakdown →Payment goes directly to a wallet only you control: no holding period, no platform sitting in between. PayPal held one customer's account for six months before seizing $26,984; Square has frozen a merchant's $1,500 for nearly a year.
Read the full breakdown →Booking, deposits, and payment all live in one flow, out of the box. Stripe and PayPal are payments-only — you'd need a third-party plugin just to take a booking.
Read the full breakdown →What you're paid, and when, is never packaged up and sold to advertisers or data brokers. Stripe shares a purchase-history risk score across every merchant that uses it. PayPal, Square, and SumUp have all disclosed sharing customer data with advertising partners for targeted ads.
Read the full breakdown →We can't freeze what we never hold. We can't sell what we never see. Your client pays by card, similar to how they would anywhere else: behind the scenes, our payment partner converts it and sends it straight to your own wallet. Artega never holds the money, never sees a balance, and never sits between you and your funds. PayPal seized $26,984; Square held $1,500 for a year; Stripe reserves up to 15% for 120 days; SumUp merchants report weeks-long holds. These aren't isolated cases. These are just the ones that went public.
Read the full breakdown →We don't ask for your legal name: only the name you choose to trade under. There's nothing on our end to leak, share, or start suggesting later, the way banks sometimes populate a payee name from account data without asking. Square's own support forum has merchants whose name leaked onto a customer's statement; PayPal shows a seller's real name to buyers by default; there's nothing to stop SumUp's display name defaulting back to the legal name already on file, and SumUp's exposure isn't limited to the display name: in our own test transaction it showed the seller's personal phone number directly to the client, tappable to call; Stripe keeps your legal name on file regardless of what's displayed.
Read the full breakdown →Your profession is never grounds for being shut down. Artega doesn't police what your work is, only whether it's legal. Square, Stripe, PayPal, and SumUp all reserve the right in their terms to shut down accounts based on what they personally judge acceptable; Artega doesn't.
Read the full breakdown →A real person sets you up personally: not a help article and a support ticket queue. Stripe, Square, PayPal, and SumUp are all self-serve sign-up — automated approval, no dedicated person to help.
Read the full breakdown →What you book and get paid for here never feeds an ad profile that follows you elsewhere. Stripe, PayPal, Square, and SumUp have all disclosed selling or sharing data for behavioural advertising under California privacy law.
Read the full breakdown →
Edited from a photo by Ghen Mar CuañoWe don't use extractive pricing.
The price you see is the only way we make money: no selling your data, no ads run against your clients, no cut anywhere else in the chain.
Join the Beta: Become a Founding Member
Keep Signature, our highest tier, for life. Free for the first 3 months, then just £5/month, forever.
A separate payment processing fee applies, taken from what you receive as a practitioner. The price your client pays never changes.
Claim Your Founding Spot →Infrastructure aligned with your values, not against them.
Artega is new. We'd rather tell you that than fake the alternative. These spots are reserved for the practitioners who join first: real names, real work, once there's something real to say.
Edited from a photo by Vitaly GarievFrequently Asked Questions
Straight answers on privacy, ID verification, and getting paid
Edited from a photo by AllGoReady to run your practice on systems that respect you?
Join the private beta for concierge onboarding and founder pricing that is locked in for life.
- Signature tier free for 3 months, then £5/month for life
- 1:1 onboarding with the founding team
- Shape the roadmap alongside the first cohort
Limited spots in the founding cohort. Takes under a minute.