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How a global nonprofit brought transparency to distributed decisions
150 people across three continents, restoring degraded land—and the decisions couldn't wait for the next meeting.
- Clear record of key decisions
- Structured input from distributed teams
- Multi-stage approvals across time zones
- Decisions separated from communication noise
Running a property co-op without ever meeting in person
130 people from 32 countries bought apartments together. Now they have to run a business, a community, and a building — democratically.
- Legally binding cooperative votes
- Full agency for distributed members
- Searchable governance discussion archive
- Member participation tracking
From traditional recruiter to self-managing organisation
A 60-year-old recruiting company threw out the org chart, gave every employee the same authority as the CEO, and scaled it to 450 people across three countries.
- Self-management scaled to 450 staff
- Decisions proposed, debated, documented centrally
- Equal voice regardless of seniority
- Transparent record of team decisions
Governing the library that secures the Internet
When the whole internet depends on your library, you can't make decisions behind closed doors anymore.
- Multi-stakeholder community input
- Transparent archive of every decision
- Delegate voting balances power fairly
- Reach beyond your developer community
Making democracy work at campaign speed
Behind Zohran Mamdani's historic mayoral primary win was a decision-making system that coordinated 13,000 members with zero paid staff.
- Binding votes at scale
- Anonymous member voting
- Clear record of every decision
- Full data control via self-hosting
Building blockchain without bosses
Twenty-eight developers spun out of the Ethereum Foundation with no hierarchy, no executives, and a rule that every decision must have everyone's consent.
- Consent-based distributed decisions
- Legally binding governance decisions
- Every voice heard across time zones
- Official record of decision rationale
An ecovillage replaces strata management with democracy
100 households in wine country — growing to 350 — ditched conventional strata management to govern themselves, and they're building the playbook as they go.
- Decisions across neighbourhood clusters
- Transparent community decision archive
- Equal say for all residents
- Self-governance replacing strata management
Consent-based decisions at an Argentine consultancy
What happens when 80 developers collectively set everyone's salary — and a single objection can block any decision?
- Transparent team salary-setting
- Searchable decision history and reasoning
- Routine decisions resolved asynchronously
- Equal say through consent process
How a self-managed team makes decisions
As the team grew past 20, the old way of deciding things stopped working.
- Consent-based distributed decisions
- Full transparency through documentation
- Templates for recurring processes
- Async strategic and financial alignment
Conservation governance at a global scale
240 participants from 70 countries, speaking dozens of languages, need to reach consensus — and they've never once had to fall back to a vote.
- General Assembly across 70 countries
- Inclusion across all time zones
- Async consensus around live meetings
- Automatic multilingual translation
How a 120-person co-op sets strategy by assembly
120 open-source developers, fully remote, competing for talent against Silicon Valley — and nothing happens without going through a general assembly.
- General Assembly for 120+ members
- Focused threads save meeting time
- Transparent remote cooperative decisions
- Strategic decision archive with context
How a 450-person company tore up its hierarchy
Six people read a book about reinventing organizations — and then convinced a 60-year-old company to tear up its hierarchy.
- All decisions proposed, debated, documented
- Tools aligned with self-organization
- Every employee voice heard equally
- Company-wide consent-based decisions
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