The Venture Labor OS
Owners ship better work than renters. The upside belongs to the people who shipped it. Provenance, Discernment, Equity.
Viewer → Partner → Member
Three tiers. Contribution and vouching. No tier for sale.
- Viewer: unauthenticated public + anyone signed up but not yet vouched. Sees marketing surfaces, open RFPs, published showcase, policies, trust page; can manage own profile and opt in/out of Tier-2 data participation.
- Partner: vetted counterparty and active revenue-sharing contributor. Limited-scope EPK. Discovery-hidden by default; recognition unlocks a discovery window. Votes in the Partner body on operational governance.
- Member: full builder and cooperative steward. Sees the internal directory, calendar, activity feed. Full MVP score visibility. Co-brand rights. Canonization at year end. Votes in both bodies; carries treasury, covenant, and ratification voice on structural decisions.
The commitments every Member makes
Deliver. Communicate. Route through the platform. Give honest peer review. Respect confidentiality.
Each carries a consequence. Compliance penalty, or expulsion per bylaws.
MVP Score. 0-99 OVR, updated daily.
Seven sub-ratings: quality, outcomes, reliability, hustle, collaboration, attendance, referrals + BD. Twelve-month rolling, weighted recent.
Bands: 90+ Champion's Court eligible. 75-89 Promotion eligible. 65-74 Good standing. Below 65 Probation. New Members: provisional until promotion.
Decline surfaces inside a quarter. Recovery works the same.
Compliance ladder. Real consequences, recorded.
Each violation: −9 OVR for 90 days, stacking. Three inside 90 days: probation.
Admin-recorded with reason on the audit log. Rescission available, also audit-logged. Arbitration available on disputed penalties.
Three surfaces, all metric-driven
- Future Modernist of the Month: metric shortlist + admin editorial pick while the cooperative is small. Member vote once the voting Membership is large enough to make the outcome meaningful. Open to Members and Partners. Unlocks a public-discovery window for Partners.
- Constellation of the Year: annual cohort of Members who held Champion's Court standing during the year.
- Champion's Court: top 10% of Members at OVR ≥ 90. Refreshes daily.
Members co-brand with FM. Recognized Partners get a featured window at reduced weight. Full weight is for Members.
Base pay guaranteed. Performance ceiling gated.
Every quote: base and ceiling. Base pays. Ceiling releases on a quality gate.
Gate: client rating ≥ 4/5. Fallback: PM rating (60%) + peer composite (40%) ≥ 4. Reclaimed ceilings feed the Engagement Recovery Pool.
The client never sees the gate. Talent conditioning, not a price lever.
85 / 12 / 3 split, disclosed
Every cooperative-collected dollar:
- 85% to the contributor pool (talent + admin pool per contract).
- 12% to reserve. Subdivides for treasury, LP for the token rail, and cooperative benefits (health fund, sabbatical, etc.).
- 3% to admin operations.
Disclosed on every contract. Members see the split on wallet history in compStage detail. No silent skim.
Annual canonization. ERC-721 + ERC-6551.
End of every calendar year, each active Member (plus every Partner who held a recognition that year) mints a canonization card. ERC-721 NFT with an ERC-6551 token- bound account. A wallet for that Member's year.
Tier locks to the year-end rarity band (gray probation, green good standing, blue promotion eligible, magenta Future Modernist, gold-holographic Champion). The card holds the $BUILD allocated that year, wrapped recognition NFTs, and cooperative artifacts collected from the cohort. On-chain provenance of a Member's year — not a vote-weight multiplier. Governance stays one-person-one-vote in each chamber.
Phygital versions become a marketplace product class. Members buy their own at near-cost; outsiders buy as collectibles at market rate.
Canon starts at zero. First real canonization at the end of the first full calendar year. No retroactive standing.
Bicameral. One person, one vote per body.
Two chambers. Both one-person-one-vote in their own body. Token holdings do not weight votes — anti-whale at the governance layer.
- Partner body — operational governance. Matching policy, project selection rules, admin approvals, RFP acceptance criteria, moderator selection, cohort spotlights. Working contributors get voice on how the work runs.
- Member body — existential governance. Treasury allocation, covenant amendments, tier structure changes, Member admissions, direction pivots. Also ratifies structural changes sent up from the Partner body.
How the framework changes
Operational rules — matching, RFP flow, moderator selection — change on Partner-body vote. Existential rules — covenant, MVP mechanic, recognition rails, compensation, revenue split — change on Member-body vote. Proposals posted 30 days before either vote.
Every change audit-logged with proposal, vote results, effective date. On-chain provenance from each Member's canonization TBA gives transparency to contribution and standing — it is not itself a vote-weight multiplier.
Policy library
Version 0.1 · Last reviewed 2026-07-01 · Sandbox draft. Shape locked. Wording lands with counsel review + Member counter- signature at production.
Governance mechanics
How does the MVP score actually work?
Every active Member carries an OVR (0-99) computed from seven sub-ratings: quality, outcomes, reliability, hustle, collaboration, attendance, referrals + BD. Twelve-month rolling window, weighted to recent work. Provisional new Members don't carry a public OVR until they cross the promotion threshold. Roughly three completed engagements plus two peer reviews received.
Bands: 90+ Champion's Court eligible. 75-89 promotion eligible. 65-74 good standing. Below 65 probation. Standing refreshes with each daily compute.
What triggers a compliance penalty?
Covenant violations: missed milestones without communication, silence when the cooperative needs a signal, direct-hire circumvention around the platform, dishonest peer review, breach of client-privileged confidentiality. Each penalty is -9 OVR for 90 days, stacking.
The math is deliberate: three penalties inside 90 days moves a middle-band Member into probation; four moves them toward removal. Real-time impact. No slow decline that only surfaces after a year of accumulated damage.
How does Champion's Court work?
Top 10% of active Members AND OVR ≥ 90. Both gates apply. Refreshes with each daily compute. You can enter and leave depending on how the cooperative is performing that week. Champion's Court is the only tier that carries the gold holographic canonization card.
At year-end, every Member who held Champion's Court standing during the year enters the Constellation of that year. The annual canonization cohort minted permanently on-chain.
What is annual canonization?
At the end of each calendar year, every active Member (and any Partner who held a recognition during the year) mints an ERC-721 canonization card with an ERC-6551 token-bound account. Tier locks to their year-end rarity band.
The first canonization runs at the end of the cooperative's first full calendar year of operation. No retroactive canon. Members don't receive credit for pre-launch work through the cooperative record. Retroactive minting would invent standing nobody earned through the system. That's the integrity floor.
Do Partners and Members have the same voting rights?
Not exactly the same, but Partners do vote. Governance is bicameral: the Partner body votes on operational rules (matching, RFP flow, moderator selection, admin approvals, cohort spotlights) and the Member body votes on existential rules (treasury, covenant amendments, tier changes, direction pivots, admissions). Both bodies run one-person-one-vote inside their own chamber. Token holdings never weight the vote.
The rationale: contribution earns voice. A Partner is an active revenue-sharing contributor and deserves a say in how the work runs. But hard-to-reverse decisions need proven stewards — that is the Member body's job. This also gives progression from Partner to Member a real step-up in weight, not just a badge.
Can the Covenant change?
Yes, by Member-body vote. The covenant is existential — hard to reverse, sets the terms everyone signs — so it routes through the Member body, not the Partner body. Proposed changes are posted at least 30 days before the vote so Members have time to read, discuss, and weigh in. Voting is one-person-one-vote; token holdings do not weight the vote.
Sandbox has admin-only proposal for testing. Production runs on the real vote.