We have officially launched the pledge manager. Thanks for your patience while we got this set up. The pledge manager always starts with a "smoke test". Basically, the platform will randomly select 5% of backers to complete their survey. This will allow us to see if there are any problems before we open it up to the full backer pool. If you do not get a survey during the smoke test, don't worry. That's all part of the process.

If you are one of the backers involved in the smoke test, please complete your survey as soon as possible, preferably by Monday. This is your actual survey, so complete it accurately. As with all backers, you can continue to update or modify your survey until we lock it down (tentatively scheduled for mid-October). But this lets us identify and fix any problems before we send the surveys out to the rest of the backers. If you get a survey and have any questions or problems, BackerKit has world-class customer service, so don't hesitate to contact them with any issue you might have.

If there are no major problems, we will start sending the remainder of the surveys out next week, and I will post a full update on how to use BackerKit at that time.