The rules.

The $25.

• $25 a month, planned: $20 to your town's goal fund, $5 to operations. Your $20 builds your town. Your $5 builds the country.
• Processing fees come out first. The exact fee numbers are still being worked out.
• Joining, posting ideas, and voting are free.
• No money moves until the legal setup is done — entity formed, terms written, money handling cleared by a lawyer. Right now: $0 collected, $0 paid.

Ten sentences.

The whole money story, in ten short sentences. If a future money rule can't be said in one short sentence, it doesn't ship.

1. Paying members pay $25 a month.
2. $20 builds your town. $5 builds the country.
3. Every 30 days, your town votes: keep funding the project, or move on to the next one.
4. No person gets the money — the winning project gets funded toward its full plan cost, round after round, upkeep included, no hidden pots.
5. Whatever is left rolls into your town's big-project savings.
6. Spending savings somewhere else needs more than half the town voting yes.
7. Move on from a project? Money set aside so far sits in savings for the next winning idea.
8. The founder's pay comes from the $5 side only — never the $20 — the exact formula is below and the ledger is public.
9. After bills and the founder's formula, whatever $5 money is left goes to the Legacy Fund — schools, hospitals, and other major projects the members vote on.
10. No giveaways, no accounts without ID, one vote each — cancel anytime, no future charges. That's the whole money story.

One goal at a time, funded in 30-day rounds.

• Voters control it. The final week's winner becomes the goal the fund builds.
• One community per city — cities aren't divided. Your $20 stays in the community that paid it.
• Fund what serves the community, at the community's scale. Every plan must show who it serves and where. One neighborhood's park doesn't qualify for the city fund — parks across the city do.
• Each 30-day round, the pool funds the winning project toward its full plan cost — build plus upkeep reserve as one funded total; what's left over builds that community's big-project savings. The round clock starts when the community approves the project and funds are allocated to it. After 30 days the town votes: keep funding it, or move on — the vote opens on its own, one changeable vote per member, and 70% of the community's members for either side decides it (non-voters count against it); anything less is not a no, the vote stays open for debate. Move on, and money set aside so far stays in the savings for the next winning idea. One goal is funded at a time — newly approved winners wait their turn for the pool, and the next cycle's voting starts as soon as a project is finalized. Big builds out of the savings are voted the same way. The savings can only ever build things in its own community — moving it anywhere else takes more than half of that community's members voting yes.
• One goal at a time, and no person ever gets the money — it pays for the build: materials, contractors, upkeep.
• Cancel anytime — unsubscribe and no future charges. If the service ever closes, what happens to pooled money is being written with the lawyer before launch.

Voted spending, public ledger.

• Any member proposes what, how much, and why. Then a 7-day vote. It passes when yes beats no and enough members vote: 5+ votes under 500 members, 1% of members at 500 or more.
• The founder gets one vote — same as everyone. No veto, on anything — including his own pay.
• Passed proposals move no money until legal review is finished.
• Every dollar is recorded with receipts on the Watch > Money page — including the founder's pay, when there is any. Goal and operations money sit in separate accounts once the entity exists.

What the founder gets.

• Only from operations. Never from the $20 goal fund. If operations takes in nothing, he gets nothing.
• Changed by member vote.

  6% on operations money attributed to the first 25,000 paying members; 3% on members 25,001–250,000; 2% on members 250,001–1,000,000; 1% above 1,000,000. Hard cap: $1,750,000 gross per month.
• The formula sets the number — not the founder, month to month. He can take less, never more. Every payment goes on the public ledger, labeled.
• Changing it takes nearly the whole app, together: a 14-day app-wide vote, and it passes only if 70% of ALL app members vote yes — not 70% of whoever showed up. Everyone who doesn't vote counts against the change. Propose or vote on a change.

What the leftover builds.

• Every month, operations money flows in this order: processing fees, then running costs (team, verification, hosting, legal, trust & safety), then the founder's capped formula. Everything left over flows automatically into the Legacy Fund. No vote needed for the flow — it just happens, on the public ledger.
• One big build at a time — schools, hospitals, major projects — funded through completion, upkeep reserve included.
• Any verified member can nominate a build with a location and scope. To reach the ballot it needs three things: land identified, a real cost plan, and a local partner to run it. Then every member in every community votes as one — most votes wins.
• Competitive bids, members pick the contractor, public timeline and receipts in the Watch tab. When it's done, the building is handed to the local partner.
• The fund is protected: its money can only go elsewhere if more than half of ALL app members vote yes. Non-voters count against it.
• Honest state: $0 until real surplus exists. The nomination and voting machinery gets built when the fund approaches the cost of a first real build.

The community's voice, elected.

• 3 speakers per community. They post the daily updates and project timelines — what's done, what's next, spending down to the penny. If it isn't posted, it didn't happen.
• Elected monthly: members nominate anyone in the community and vote for who they want — one person, one vote, all public. At month end, the 3 nominees with the most votes (at least 5 each) serve 12-month terms. A tie for the last seat leaves it vacant until next month.
• Unpaid. Speakers don't touch money, don't pick winners, and don't override a single vote.
• Removable at any time by majority vote — same turnout bar as operations spending. A recalled speaker's seat is filled at the next monthly tally.

Runs the goal day to day.

• Each community elects its own planner — permits, calls, checking the plan and the numbers. 12-month term, re-electable, and replaceable at any time by majority vote.
• The planner's pay is voted like any other expense. They can't approve their own pay, or hand paid work to themselves or family without a separate member vote.
• Elections and recalls run in each community's World > governance section.

One person, one vote.

• Every member votes on everything — ideas, the goal, spending, the planner, even the founder's pay. Paying or not, your vote counts the same.
• All ballots are public. No secret ballots — open votes, open ledger, open debates.
• No downvotes. Don't like an idea? Don't vote for it — or suggest how to improve it.
• All month: post ideas and vote your support — one support vote per person per idea.
• Final week (when the town votes to move on, or there's no active goal): the 10 most-supported ideas with a finished plan make the ballot. One vote per person, pick one. Most votes wins, but it needs a quorum to count: 5+ final votes in communities under 500 members, 1% of members once a community passes 500. A tie goes to a 48-hour head-to-head runoff — and if that ties, another 48 hours, repeating until the members break it. No arbitrary winner.
• The winner becomes the goal. While a goal is active, no new final ballot runs. When the work is done, any member marks it complete with a public note saying what was built, signed with their name.
• Ideas that lose are saved on the back burner, visible to all — they can return any month.

No document, no account — no exceptions.

• Every account is verified through a vendor before doing anything: state ID, driver's license, passport, military ID, or tribal ID. That's how one person stays one vote.
• The vendor sees your documents during the check and holds them under its own policy. We never store your ID documents ourselves.

What it takes to win.

• Post what's wrong and what you'd do about it. Only finished plans can win: an itemized budget, milestones, an upkeep reserve, and community coverage. Serious estimates — the community votes separately on who does the work.
• Each funded project gets a petition naming the decision-maker — the city council, the county board, the landlord. Only verified local residents sign.
• Moderation tooling isn't built yet — and we won't pretend it is. Everything here is public, so bad actors have nowhere to hide. Flagging and pause rules get written and published before launch.

No discrimination. No fighting.

• Debate the idea, not the person. Discrimination, harassment, and fighting get removed — and the removal is public.
• One account per person. Fake accounts and vote manipulation get banned. Scams get paused and investigated in the open.
• Removing a member takes a 2/3 vote of all community members — people who don't vote count against removal. Any member can propose it, with the reason stated publicly. The vote and the reason stay public.

Where this stands.

• This is a pre-launch prototype — publicly reachable, not launched. No money collected, no public communities yet.
• None of this is a promise of returns, funding, or outcomes.
• The Terms of Service and Privacy Policy are pending legal review. Nothing real happens until they exist.
• These rules change only in the open. The money rules were locked on September 26, 2026 — the community-scale rule and the big-project reserve were added September 28, 2026 — and the ten-sentence money rules were locked September 29, 2026 — revised the same day for 30-day funding rounds. Fee schedule still pending.

The glossary.