The handbook

The handbook is the source.

This is the canonical statement of how the cooperative works, what it expects of its members, and what it owes them in return. The handbook takes ninety minutes to read carefully. It is updated quarterly with the Assembly’s approval.

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Table of contents

  1. Definition
  2. Membership
  3. Governance
  4. Finance
  5. Working Groups
  6. Audit rights
  7. Dispute resolution
  8. Dissolution procedure
  9. Amendments
  10. Membership covenant

Article 1 · Definition

Mozi Cooperative is a worker-and-investor-owned cooperative incorporated under Wyoming DAO LLC law. The cooperative holds and operates the infrastructure of the Citrate Network. Membership is open to qualified participants who accept the cooperative’s bylaws and the membership covenant.

Article 2 · Membership

Membership is by application; applications are reviewed monthly by the Governing Council. Each member has one vote in the Member Assembly. Members receive a defined share of operating revenue, audit rights to the cooperative’s books, and standing to file proposals to the Assembly.

Article 3 · Governance

The Member Assembly elects the nine-seat Governing Council to three-year terms. The Council oversees three working groups: Capital, Operations, and Research. Voting cadence, proposal procedure, and emergency-vote rules are documented in /join/governance.

Article 4 · Finance

Operating revenue across seven streams (network compute fees, school deployments, real estate, research grants, IP licensing, treasury yield, member dues) flows to the Commons Treasury. Twenty-five percent of equity returns to members on an annual schedule, computed on a transparent formula and audited externally. The pay ratio between top and bottom compensation is capped at 6:1.

Article 5 · Working Groups

Capital builds and operates the funds. Operations builds and maintains the Citrate Network. Research publishes the Cnidarian Foundation papers. Each group has a named lead serving at the pleasure of the Council. Group decisions are recorded as design-decision records in the public repository.

Article 6 · Audit rights

Each member has the right to inspect the cooperative’s books — financial records, governance minutes, contracts. Requests are filed with the member secretary and answered within fifteen business days. Council members reviewing other members’ data create an audit record on the same database transaction.

Article 7 · Dispute resolution

Disputes between members, between members and the cooperative, or between the cooperative and external parties are handled in three stages: direct conversation, member-secretary mediation, and binding arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Association in Wyoming.

Article 8 · Dissolution procedure

The cooperative may be dissolved only by a two-thirds vote of the Member Assembly. On dissolution, the Commons Treasury is distributed to members on the standard revenue formula, and remaining assets transfer to a successor cooperative federation or to the Cnidarian Foundation as research endowment.

Article 9 · Amendments

Amendments to the handbook or bylaws require a simple majority of the Assembly with at least 14 days’ notice; amendments to the dissolution procedure or the pay-ratio cap require a two-thirds majority. Amendments are recorded in the public archive with the proposing member, the vote tally, and the date.

Article 10 · Membership covenant

Acceptance of membership is signified by signing the covenant, which is a single page. The covenant binds the member to the cooperative’s bylaws and binds the cooperative to the member’s rights. The full covenant text appears below; signing happens during the application flow.

The full handbook text is the canonical source — the summaries above are the public excerpts. The complete document downloads as a PDF (lands in WP-2.5) and is also available in the cooperative archive for members.