Happy post-Thanksgiving/Black Friday everyone! Hope you had a great time with the fam and picked up some sweet knife deals to boot! 

I wanted to take a moment to talk about BackerKit.

We launched our first two preorders (Truffles and HiveMind) with Kickstarter and then used BackerKit as our campaign fulfillment tool. But with Snarf we went with BackerKit from start to finish. Let me explain why.

BackerKit was born out of the same desire AKT has - to take care of a community you love, and build what helps them thrive.

Their founders ran the first Kickstarter project to ever cross $100K, but they noticed the tools for communicating with backers before and after the campaign were a bit lacking. 

So they built their own solution to serve the people who supported them. Other creators saw what they built, wanted the same thing, and BackerKit grew into a full platform designed around communication, clarity, and community.

That story resonates with us. AKT also started with a simple idea: make things better for the knife community. Build what we wish existed. Improve it piece by piece. Back the people that back us. BackerKit operates with that same heart, which is why the partnership makes sense.

What this means for you as a backer:

• Clear communication from preorder to fulfillment

• Easy ways to give feedback and stay connected

• A clean, simple system for choosing add-ons without confusion

• Post-campaign tools that keep the conversation going long after the preorder ends

BackerKit has been an incredible partner during Snarf's preorder. They are personable, respond quickly, care deeply, and treat Snarf like something worth investing in, which helps us focus on our favorite part of preorders: getting to know our backers from the moment you join us until your knife ships. 

Thanks for walking alongside us as Snarf moves toward the finish line on 12/2!

-Michael
Chief Knife Nerd
Aurora Knife and Tool