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Apollo Benz Productions

An independent studio out of Kansas City. We keep the Black record and build worlds on top of it: a documented publication, an original illustrated series, a mythic novel series, and working sites built for people in our community.

5
Properties
35
Pieces in the record
22 Sept 2026
Last published
Kansas City
Based

The Properties

Publication

Word Reimagined

The documented Black record. Histories, the primary sources behind them, and dispatches on the present.

Live wordreimagined.com

Original illustrated series

Hooded Robin

Civic noir. Public good is where power hides its language.

In development

Mythic novel series

A Dozen Rifts

A fable. The world is still forming and the telling has already started.

In development

Built for our community BYB Press Live Let's Tax About It Live
The product The Doctrine Arsenal Live 51 precision prompts for worldbuilders, multi-IP founders, visual operators, and independent creators who refuse to let AI flatten their work.

Current

35 published pieces

BARRIER

Word Reimagined

How we work

The standards are the product

The receipt gate

No claim publishes until its primary document has been retrieved and read. Quotations are checked character for character. Disproving our own draft counts as the gate working.

The document is shown

Where a claim rests on a record, the record is published with it. A reader should never have to trust a summary.

Corrections stay put

When something is wrong we correct it where it was published, not quietly somewhere else. The old version keeps its place and carries the correction.

Generated images are never passed off as artifacts

Original art is labelled as original art. An archival document is labelled as an archival document. The two are never captioned as each other.

Status is not a claim

A property is described as live only when you can open it. In development means in development. There is no third meaning.