A tattoo is one of the few purchases that cannot be returned, and almost nobody sees it before they commit to it. A design on a screen tells you nothing about how it sits on a collarbone. So the decision gets postponed for months, or it gets made in a chair with the stencil already on.

• The second question is as bad as the first: who does this, and what should it cost?

The designs are curated, not generated. You browse a gallery of ready-made pieces, refresh it for a different set, or upload an image you already have - a drawing, a photograph, something an artist sent you. Vivid does not make the art and does not claim to.

• No prompt box, no generation, no paywall.

Point the camera at the place you are considering and the design appears over the live view. You place it yourself: one finger moves it, two fingers scale and turn it. Move the camera and you see it from another angle. It runs in the browser on the phone you already have, with no app to install and nothing uploaded to see it.

• You position it by hand. Vivid does not track your body, and does not claim to.

When one design is the one, you finalize it - size, color, placement, an email, and an Instagram handle if you want to give one - and Vivid takes it to studios. In this beta that means ten hand-picked Berlin studios, each with a checked Instagram, address and site. Offers come back to you. You never pay Vivid anything.

Vivid sends a photograph of someone's body to strangers. So consent is typed, not ticked: the person writes "I confirm" against a line that names exactly who may contact them and how. The wording is versioned and stored with the request, so an old record still shows what that person actually agreed to.

• The request is written down before the mail goes out, not after.

Live in Berlin, in beta, free. The gallery, the upload, the camera try-on, the finalize step, the typed consent, the stored request and the outreach to ten curated studios all work today. What is not built: the studio side. There are no studio accounts, no studio dashboard, no bidding inbox, and nothing bills anybody.

• Berlin only. Every other city joins a list and is told so on the first screen.

Vivid is free for the users. Studios get one month for free. Afterwards, to keep getting session requests, a studio pays $49 a month. The person is never the customer, at any point, in any version of this.

Vivid is in a live public first round, raising $250,000 - the software-track figure. It is a runway requirement rather than a valuation: the operating layer, the fundraising costs, the human hours, the AI and infrastructure, the marketing, the legal and tax reserves and an operating buffer, added up and published line by line. Offers are non-binding and start at $1: no card, no money moves, and nothing is binding until the round closes and the company is incorporated.

• No return is guaranteed. We recommend understanding the model, the business plan, and the risks before investing actual money. Consider independent professional advice if needed. Dream x Destiny does not provide investment advice.