Our Mission

pact exists to give all people a free, open, and decentralized place to collaborate - strengthening human rights and planetary wisdom through demonstrated work, without concentrating power or capital.

That sentence is not marketing. It is the legal public-benefit purpose of the company that builds pact, and every product, design, and financial decision has to align with it. When a decision conflicts with the purpose, we change the decision, not the purpose.

What pact is

pact is a peer-verified open exchange of ideas, goods, and services. People near each other connect to do things they couldn't do alone - move a couch, learn an instrument, build something, repair something - and exchange what they can, whether that's money, a trade, or simply help. Completed work becomes a permanent, public Hallmark: proof of what someone actually did, not just what they claim. These records live on an open ledger, searchable by anyone, forever.

There is no engagement feed, no vanity metrics, and no algorithm deciding what you see. Quality surfaces through real outcomes and transparent signals you interpret yourself.

What we stand for

• Decentralization. No person or company holds lasting power over another's participation or record. Power is scoped to the work you create and ends when it closes.
• Transparency. Work, outcomes, and moderation are public. There is no shadow suppression and no private work record. Only personal logistics (arranging a safe meet-up) stay private.
• Diversity and openness. Who can collaborate, what work exists, and who can see it is open by default. Closed, gatekept systems weaken the network.
• Simplicity. Every feature must earn its place through demonstrated need and alignment with human rights or environmental wisdom.

Where we are now

pact is in Phase 1 - Steward-funded (negative_operating). The Stewards who build pact contribute their own time and resources to seed the foundation and prove the concept. No one draws compensation in this phase. The platform grows into paying its own way through a defined sequence of phases, never the other way around.

How pay works

Compensation is governed by growth phases, in order:

1. Steward-funded - founders fund it themselves, no pay (we are here).
2. Neutral operating - revenue covers monthly operating costs at breakeven; still no pay.
3. Neutral platform - only then does additional revenue pay competitive, market-rate salaries to Stewards.
4. Growth - further revenue funds the minimum hiring and the projects needed to keep building.

Two permanent guardrails: no Steward's total compensation may exceed 5x the lowest-paid Steward's, and any profit beyond compensation must be reinvested into the next phase - never paid out as a dividend or personal windfall. Profit serves the mission, not a few people.

How investment works

pact can accept outside capital, but only on terms that protect the mission:

• Investors receive non-voting economic shares - no governance, no board control, no veto over any product, operational, or financial decision. Voting control stays permanently with the two founders and can never be transferred to an outside party.
• Investors receive a capped return of 3x their capital, paid only from revenue and only after the platform covers its own operating costs. Once the 3x cap is paid, the shares are automatically redeemed and the investor retains no ongoing interest.

In other words: people can help fund pact and earn a fair, capped return - but no one can buy control of it. That is the point.

pact is built by Stewardship World, a California Public Benefit Corporation. This page summarizes our governing documents in plain language.