Case Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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