Topsheet’s Appeal to Heaven

Our team at Topsheet is making a public appeal to Heaven.

From the beginning, our desire has been to build and run this company in a way that honors God, genuinely loves people, and seeks to do good. Early on, we made a deliberate decision not to take on outside shareholders—whether public or private. While doing so may have benefited us financially, we believe it would ultimately work against our customers, our employees, and our values.

Shareholder-driven companies are bound by fiduciary obligations that prioritize maximizing returns above all else. Over time, that pressure inevitably reshapes decisions. It leads to finding more ways to charge customers, extracting as much labor as possible from employees for as little as possible, and cutting corners on product quality so capital can be redirected toward marketing, acquisitions, or eliminating competitors. These compromises may not happen immediately, but they happen eventually. They do not reflect our heart, our character, or what we believe honors God.

As a result, we find ourselves competing in an industry where many of our competitors have raised hundreds of millions of dollars—while we operate solely on the revenue we earn. We do our best to serve our customers with integrity, but we are honest enough to admit that limited resources sometimes mean we fall short of what we wish we could deliver. Even so, we believe there is a world where doing the right thing ultimately bears fruit—not because we are exceptionally wise or capable, but because these are the kinds of decisions God honors.

Our desire is not to charge more, but less. Not to rush development, but to invest more time and care into building software that truly serves the people who rely on it. And because we do not answer to shareholders, we are free to continually reinvest in our product, our customers, and our team as resources allow.

We believe automation should not replace people, but serve them—by creating more space for meaningful, human connection with our customers, and by giving our employees more time with their families while paying them fair, livable wages that reflect dignity and respect.

We are committed to doing right by the film and entertainment industry, by our employees, and by God.

This path is not easy. We have fewer resources, fewer people, and less time than many of our competitors. We fully acknowledge that achieving these goals will not be the result of our strength, intelligence, strategy, or financial power. It will only be by God’s favor.

This is our public declaration of an appeal to Heaven. Not a claim of righteousness or perfection, but a standard we are choosing to hold ourselves to—so that we may represent God as faithfully as humanly possible, and trust Him to show His favor, goodness, and love toward us and toward those we serve.

Today, we appeal to Heaven.