Worker cooperatives
Democratic ownership needs
decisions that keep moving
Loomio gives worker-owners a shared place to deliberate, make decisions, and keep the reasoning on record — without turning every operational question into another meeting.
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Good cooperative governance takes time. It should not take over your week.
Worker-owners need a way to raise questions, work through differences, and make accountable decisions while still getting the work done.
Meetings carry too much
When every issue waits for the next meeting, decisions pile up. The conversation gets rushed, and operational work slows down.
Email is not governance
Replies get missed, positions change, and no one can tell where a decision landed. That is a poor foundation for shared ownership.
Context leaves with people
New worker-owners need more than the final policy. They need the discussion and rationale that help the cooperative learn from its past.
"Loomio is a great tool that has saved us a lot of time. If any organization needs to integrate distributed decision making, then Loomio is going to be a great place to start."Xavier Castaño, Igalia
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
"What we value about Loomio is that we have a record. We can move the non-contentious stuff forward within Loomio which gives us more space when we are in person to talk about what really matters."Nahuel, 10Pines
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
"You have a platform to express your opinion asynchronously. It enables everybody from every time zone to contribute. I can confirm that all of our 'official' decisions as a collective nowadays are Loomio decisions."Anja Petkovic Komel, Argot Collective
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
"Our board group has been particularly transformative, enabling continuous governance, improving response times and increasing our agility, resilience and sustainability… Loomio saves us thousands of pounds every year."Austen Cordasco, Co-operative Assistance Network
A co-op that teaches other co-ops democracy
A workers' co-op that teaches other co-ops how to be democratic had to figure out how to practice what it preached — with a team scattered across the UK.
- Continuous governance without extra meetings
- Conversations driven to clear outcomes
- Thousands saved on meeting costs
- Faster responses, greater agility
A practical home for cooperative decisions
Use Loomio alongside your existing meetings and governance practice — making the important work visible and easier to carry forward.
Time for genuine deliberation
Give people room to read the context, raise concerns, and improve an idea without meeting-room pressure.
Clear proposals and outcomes
Bring the proposal, discussion, and result together so worker-owners know what has been agreed and what happens next.
A searchable governance record
Keep the why with the what. New members can find the reasoning behind policies, decisions, and past agreements.
Make democratic governance part of the everyday work
Start with one working group or one decision that is waiting for the next meeting. Build the practice together from there.
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