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Environmental nonprofit

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
Case study: World Resources Institute →
How a global nonprofit brought transparency to distributed decisions
Running a property co-op without ever meeting in person
Coliving cooperative

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
Case study: Semkovo Co-op →
Self-managing recruitment company

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
Case study: Raise Recruiting →
From traditional recruiter to self-managing organisation
Making democracy work at campaign speed
Political movement

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
Case study: NYC Democratic Socialists of America →
Software consultancy cooperative

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
Case study: Camplight →
How a self-managed team makes decisions
Conservation governance at a global scale
International conservation association

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
Case study: ICCA Consortium →
Teachers' union

28,000 teachers debate strike action and win historic pay rise

850 teaching positions unfilled, a profession in crisis — and 28,000 union members who needed to debate strike action and reject government offers together.

  • 28,000 members debating strike action
  • Scattered members included via email
  • Member-led campaign direction
  • Secret ballots informed by open debate
Case study: NZEI Te Riu Roa →
28,000 teachers debate strike action and win historic pay rise

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