Own your team.
A nonprofit platform for finding the people you'd start a worker cooperative with — and the clients who'd hire it.
One developer doing great work alone is a freelancer. Three people with a name and a shared portfolio are a firm — same skills, firm rates. What's missing isn't talent. It's the introduction.
See it working
Say what you bring and what kind of company you want. Teams that need you show up ranked, with the reason spelled out.
One platform, three doors
We propose teams around what you bring and the company you want. Nobody is assigned — a team exists only once everyone said yes to everyone.
A coop charter by default. Probation, consent decisions, shares paid from earnings — and a blameless fork when you want different things.
Formed teams publish fixed-price offers. The platform sets the terms, and rates rise with a team's track record — never a race to the bottom.
More than a team
Matching people is the start, not the point. The point is what the team becomes: a business its workers own, where surplus goes to the people who did the work and the big decisions need everyone's consent. That's a cooperative, and it's a century-old, well-tested way to run a company — it just rarely gets offered to people forming from scratch.
What makes it work
The engine proposes; people accept or pass. A proposal becomes a team only when everyone has answered. Saying yes costs nothing but a conversation.
Borrowed from a century of worker-coop practice. You prove yourself in work, not cash; your share is paid from your first earnings and refunded when you leave.
Disagree on direction? State it, name who's moving, keep your rung. Lineage stays visible and watchers follow both branches. It's how groups find out what they are.
Under the hood
The direction is open source: a coop-formation platform that a nonprofit, a workforce board or a coop federation could deploy for its own members, on its own terms. That's why the architecture is worth showing — and why nothing in it is a black box. Three layers, joined by contracts rather than a framework; only one is permanent.
Licensing isn't settled yet. What is settled: nothing here depends on keeping it closed.
Try it
Open the demo and sign in as @you — a developer new to the pool with invitations already in the inbox. Everything is synthetic; nothing you type is stored.