This 📝memo contains notes on the 📝Co-Creator Agreement.
In this, we are developing an approach/methodology to equitable exchange...
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Notes (v2)
Survey flow...
- (Step 2) Name this CCA (e.g. One Financial, see all 📝Stories of the Cooperative)
Parties
- (Step 1 and 2) Which Citizens are co-creating this Story? [multi-select]
- Who is space being made for?
Intention
- 🟡 (Step 1) Contributions: Sponsorship, co-creation, investment, etc.
- 🟡 (Step 1) Choices: incubation, acceleration, etc.
Roles
- (Step 2) What are the Roles of each Party? (e.g. C-suite, contractor, etc.)
- 🟡 (Step 1) What 📝Types of Capital is each Citizen contributing? (order by volume)
Capital
- 🟡 (Step 1) How is each co-creator buying-in to the partnership? stories leveraged, etc.
- (Step 2) Which Stories/organizations are being built upon? (assets leveraged) [multi-select]
- (Step 2) What 📝Types of Capital are requested from each participating Story?
- (Step 2) What equitable exchange is being offered to each Story? (order by priority)
Plan (Step 2)
- Business model (choose)
- e.g. Sell services (agency), create education (community) and build technology (studio)
- Business plan/outline (submit or request)
- e.g. bootstrapping product with agency services
- Financial model/budget/forecast (submit or request)
- Metrics (choose from living metrics)
Choice
- What types of capital is each citizen choosing? (order by priority)
- If 📝Financial Capital, then share 'Cash Distributions Methods' (order by priority)
- What time to the point of conversation is desired?
- In the event a CCA entity is to exit One Economy, then choose 'Equity Distribution Methods'
Governance (consent)
- The threshold for 📝consent (boundaries)
- Power of the network
- 📝Management by Means (desires)
- Meaningful work
- A company that learns from itself
- A nonlinear feedback system
- Capital Appreciation/Depreciation Rate
- Conservation of resources
- Triple bottom line
- From net positive impact to higher-order learning
- Toward industrial ecology
- The "Blueprint for Change" strategy
- Ethical finance
- Managing in a resource-constrained world
- Openness
- Making people's lives better
- Accountability
- Clarity and transparency
- Self-reinvention
- Sense of purpose (meaning)
- Learning from mistakes
- Symbiosis as a strategic catalyst
- Team building around learning
- Toward decentralized decision-making
- Looking beyond ROI
- Symbiosis (relationships)
Gov Chat Notes
- "ethos driven" + "quantifying personhood" ~ Mark
- prepare for disagreement as a known
- "What are the stressors?" + "what does success/failure look like" ~ 📝Will Cady
- Question: Do we need “new containers” (Mark’s words) and, if so, how do we maximize communication and understanding among participants. ~ 📝Sam Hayes
- intent/belief section for co-creation > upon dispute assess alignment
- + regular review/revision
- "To capture the Ethos / The Needle / The Beliefs —— Perhaps we make space in the CCA under the ‘Plan’ header or under a separate ‘Ethos’ header to document 1) The agreed intent of the entity and 2) The relevant beliefs of its contributors — any dispute can be assessed through alignments against the stated intent of the project and stated Beliefs of the parties involved. Perhaps these Intents & Beliefs can also be reviewed for revision on a regular basis."
Notes (v1)
📝BDSMR as a preframer
- Citizens involved
- Relationships with Story
- Roles of Citizens and transition timing (evolution of virtual agreement into physical one)
- Governance / Management (expectations communication)
- The threshold for consent (boundaries)
- *Frequency and substance of check-in
- do-ocoracy > democracy > republic
- Assets leveraged
- e.g. service partner agreements
- Business plan (agency, community, studio, art/philanthropy)
- The intended course of business
- metrics
- forecast/budget
- current compensation, deferred compensation, etc.
- paid for work
- profits distributed by capital contributions
- Capital Exchanged
- Buy-in (types of capital)
- Priority ordering of 📝Types of Capital in/out for each party
- Intended path > 3, 6, 12 months
- e.g. consistent rev (3), tech product w/ customers (6), education/community (12)
- e.g. consistent rev (3), education/community (6), tech product w/ 111 customers (12)
- Cap table (e.g. software biz) / education (social-biz), partnership formula (e.g. service-biz)
- the latter one requires a partnership buy-in
- Conversion point (milestones)
- birth/hatching/exit of One Governance (e.g.raising outside capital)
- Exit? = checkbox to demark intention
RSA Structure Mimicry
Below is the RSA text copy-pasted as it is being modified for CCA:
A 📝📝Co-Creator Agreement , or CCA, is a 📝Living Document that enables Citizens of One to create virtual corporations within One Inc Cooperative. [RSA The average time to complete this form is 11 minutes. You will receive R$111.]
Part 1. Information About Co-Creators: Identifying and/or introducing yourself.
What is your first name? What is your last name? What are your pronouns?What is your Citizen email address?
Part 2. Alignment of Language Syncing common terminology for mutual understanding. A 📝**frame** is a lens through which one views reality. Frames are commonly called perspectives, paradigms, etc. We co-create, elevate, and gift frames amongst Citizens
Are you open to receiving new frames?One frame We use most often within the cooperative is that of 📝co-creativity, or joint creativity, which invites individuals to reveal their true nature by contributing aspects of themselves, rather than talk about them. We believe that We can better understand each other by creating together.
Will you co-create with Us?c. Co-creativity is a form of 📝play.
To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion.To be playful is to allow for possibility. Citizens of One are committed to play. Can We being with play?
Finite games are played for the purpose of winning. 📝**Infinite games** are played for the purpose of continuing play.
Capitalism is a finite game. Cooperatives are infinite games. Do you align with this frame?
e.As a co-created living system making space for infinite play, much of One Inc Cooperative is deliberately incomplete. Will you accept "we don't know" as an answer?Part 3. Foundations of Agreement Communication of our baseline understandings. While present day legal contracts have merit in certain situations, We believe that their overuse has flattened our ability to interrelate by creating undue expectations. We choose to first cultivate agreements. An agreement is a harmony of intentions. It is a 📝living entity and must be cared for consciously in order to thrive. Do you agree to cultivate agreements? Do you 📝📝consent to governance of our agreements in alignment with the 📝Agreements of One?This question is required.Do you understand how to invoke our 📝Safe Words?
Do you acknowledge multiple 📝📝Types of Capital?This question is required.Types of Capital such as: 💰 Financial Capital; purchases, sponsorships, investments, etc. ⏳ Natural Capital; physical work, intellectual/creative labors, etc. 🧠 Intellectual Capital; knowledge, insight, experience, etc. 🎨 Cultural Capital; artistic/journalistic representation, parody, etc. 🗣 Social Capital; invitation, awareness, advocacy, alignment, etc. 🧘♂️ Spiritual Capital; attention, presence, and other ineffable energies. Part 4. Communication of ObjectivesInforming us about your near term objectives.
What is one small thing you'd like to achieve within the next 1 month? Be as vague or specific as you'd like.What is one medium thing you'd like to achieve within the next 3 months? Be as vague or specific as you'd like.What is one large thing you'd like to achieve within the next 11 months? Be as vague or specific as you'd like.Part 5. Communication of IntentionsSharing with us your highest level intentions.What is one thing you'd like to achieve for yourself in your lifetime? Be as vague or specific as you'd like.What is one thing you'd like to achieve for the world in your lifetime? Be as vague or specific as you'd like.What is one thing you'd like to achieve for📝**the Self** in your lifetime? Be as vague or specific as you'd like.Part 6. Exchanges of Capital Conveyance of capital to be given and received. What capital are you 📝making space for?This question is required. *These are the 📝📝Types of Capital you wish to receive.Choose as many as you like
- A💰 Financial Capital; purchases, sponsorships, investments, etc.
- B⏳ Natural Capital; physical work, intellectual/creative labors, etc.
- C🧠 Intellectual Capital; knowledge, insight, experience, etc.
- D🗣 Social Capital; advocacy, alignment, awareness, etc.
- E🎨 Cultural Capital; artistic representation, parody, etc.
- F🧘♂️ Spiritual Capital; attention, presence, ineffable energies, etc.
Tell us more about this.What capital will you contribute?This question is required. *These are the 📝📝Types of Capital you intend to give.Choose as many as you like
- A💰 Financial Capital; purchases, sponsorships, investments, etc.
- B⏳ Natural Capital; physical work, intellectual/creative labors, etc.
- C🧠 Intellectual Capital; knowledge, insight, experience, etc.
- D🗣 Social Capital; advocacy, alignment, awareness, etc.
- E🎨 Cultural Capital; artistic representation, parody, etc.
- F🧘♂️ Spiritual Capital; attention, presence, ineffable energies, etc.
Tell us more about this.Is there anything else you'd like to share?
Michal's notes/thoughts inspired by RSA
- Ask each party to "tell us more" in their own words
- Ask each party for their "end" vision or goal vision
- Similar to RSA, ask what the vision is for a month, 3 months, a year from now/end project vision.
References
Notes
- types of capital (3x3)
- e.g. for a service-based business, the financial capital might live with the incubated entity while the intellectual capital lives with the collective.