What could we build?

Two pots, two votes.

• Today: $0 collected, $0 paid out, no projects built. Everything below is a what-if, not a promise.
• Your town's $20 a month builds your town's voted goal. That money belongs to each town's vote — it is not on this page.
• This page is about the other $5 a month: the operations fund, which all members vote on together. After processing fees, the cost of running the machine, and the fixed founder-pay formula, the leftover flows automatically into the Legacy Fund — the standing fund for the projects below. See the rules for the full process.
• The numbers below imagine 150 million paying members — about $750 million a month, $9 billion a year, on the operations side.
• Nothing here happens by itself. Every project below would be picked by an app-wide member vote — one big build at a time, funded until built — and the Legacy Fund can only be spent on anything else if more than half of all app members vote yes. This is a vision of what's possible — not a plan, not a promise, not a guarantee of outcomes.

What if homes were given, not sold?

What if the fund built modest, well-built homes — given, not sold — for families being crushed by rent? The part we can roughly price is the build itself: about $250,000 a home in rough build cost only — that excludes land, permits, utility hookups, and site prep, which vary wildly by market. Rural builds (well, septic, power lines) look nothing like this.

The math: $250 million a month could build 1,000 homes a month — 12,000 families housed a year. At full scale, that's about a fifth of the operations fund — but that math is before the founder-pay formula (up to $1.75M/month) and payment processing fees come out. Real project money lands below the headline.

One more thing about "given, not sold": this is the community providing homes for people who can't afford them — community-owned, no lottery, no winners picked, no giveaway. Recipients may owe income tax on a gifted home, and property tax, insurance, and maintenance still need paying. No favoritism, no backroom list.

What if clinics were free?

What if the fund put neighborhood clinics where people actually live — with free checkups and free basic care — instead of where it's profitable to put them?

The math: 100 clinics at a rough $2–5 million each — call it around $300 million, one time — a small share at full scale. Rough figures only: unsourced, not quotes.

What if hospitals answered to everyone?

What if members voted to build full hospitals with community money — answerable to the community, free at the point of care, with every dollar of construction public?

The math: at $9 billion a year on the operations side, members could vote to build dozens of small hospitals a year and still fund everything else on this page. Rough, unsourced figures — not quotes — and that $9 billion is before the founder-pay formula (up to $1.75M/month) and payment processing fees come out.

What if businesses were owned by the people?

What if the fund gave grants — not loans — to local businesses: bakeries, barbershops, repair shops, daycares. Owned by people in the community, hiring people in the community.

The math: $50,000 grants to 10,000 local businesses is $500 million — about three weeks of the operations fund at full scale.

What if job training were free?

What if the fund built trade schools for the work that actually pays: electricians, welders, solar installers, builders. Free to attend, feeding workers straight into the projects above.

The math: training centers cost a few million each to set up — members could put one in every major town and barely dent the fund.

The people doing the work.

Before any of the above, the operations fund would pay the people who keep it all moving: each town's elected planner, the local crews building the projects, and the team running the app. Jobs first — the work doesn't happen without workers.

Payroll totals by role are published on the public ledger, like every other dollar — individual workers' pay stays private.