We’re an open-source community of devs, product people, marketers, and more who are building something different.

Different how?

We’re building a new way of working.

Work sovereignty

To truly obtain freedom, we need to have sovereignty; ultimate and un-confiscatable authority over our lives. The ability to make decisions for ourselves, free of coercion.

In the realm of work, sovereignty translates into having complete control over how you make income, to the extent that your earning ability is resilient amidst outside forces.

Work sovereignty is made possible when your reputation, built over time, is trusted by enough people to make finding new work easy.

Your ease of finding new work is a matter of…

1. Your perceived reputation, based on data available and it’s quality

2. Who can access your reputation data and what they can do with it

Without work sovereignty, the ability to acquire new work whenever you please can be taken away from you by nation-states, employers, and job platforms. They may revoke work permits, terminate your employment, or even ban you from accessing certain platforms that help you find new partners.

Unfortunately, most people today do not experience work sovereignty. This is due to some big design flaws in how we collaborate today.

How we’ve scaled work globally

Reputation is hard to scale. It always has been.

In the past, the people that we could work with were limited to our personal network: the people that we knew directly, and their respective networks, as long as they were willing to vouch for our reputation.

<aside> ℹ️ What is reputation? Reputation is the cumulation of data on an individual, as interpreted by others. It can include information like work history, reviews, education history, transaction history, and a virtually endless set of other data points. It is inherently subjective based on context and circumstance. It is ever-changing as new data is added.

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So far, it's only been possible to scale beyond these brain-powered reputation networks through "trusted" intermediaries.

Hiring networks, freelance marketplaces, ride-share apps, babysitting platforms, food delivery platforms and an endless number of other work platforms are the middlemen of our era.

Today, trusted intermediaries provide us with three key services:

+ act as a guarantor of our reputation

+ connect us with people beyond our network

+ facilitate and secure payments

These third parties helped us scale work, but they came at a cost.