Built to belong to its community.
Unifyhub has two layers. The community is how it governs and shares benefits. The companies are its legal tools.
This page states what is true today and what is designed to change, because a structure that asks for trust has to say plainly who holds what.
Today
There is one company, UNIFYHUB SYSTEMS S.R.L. Its founder owns and runs it. It holds the shared technology the ecosystem runs on, and it operates Grafier, the first venture, as a separately tracked division.
No elected representative, coin or mission company exists yet. The rules below say how they come about.
The companies
Unifyhub is the holding company. It states the mission, vision and principles and holds the shared technology as intellectual property. It does not sell to communities. Its income is the licence fees and dividends its ventures return.
Ventures earn the money. Grafier is the first. Each venture licenses the shared technology, serves its own customers under its own name, and returns its profit to fund the shared layer and the next venture.
Mission companies pursue a community mission, starting with food waste. They run the participation programme and may seek public grants.
Every venture makes four promises: it pays a fair, independently checked licence fee; it returns its profit; community data stays under community control and users keep their right to leave; and no outside investor enters without Unifyhub's consent.
Before the handover
The community is meant to govern the company. Until it can, the founder exercises the owner rights under guardrails:
a public log of every owner decision, with the founder's conflict of interest noted;
the accountant checks the numbers, and an outside adviser who is not paid by the founder can veto an investor's entry and the licence price;
the handover happens automatically at a measurable point, a member count or a date, whichever comes first, with a fallback if no community forms;
each venture's articles carry Unifyhub's consent right and a successor-signatory clause;
no coin is issued before the handover.
The trigger numbers and the adviser are still to be chosen, and a lawyer is confirming how the handover is written down.
Representatives, not executives
At the handover, the owner rights pass to a representative elected by the community and recallable by it. Mission participants already elect their Coordinators and confirm the Reviewers those Coordinators nominate.
Representatives are members of the community, chosen by members of the community.
They act under delegated, inspectable, revocable authority: what they may do is stated, what they have done is recorded, and the community can take it back.
Selection draws on contribution, competence and peer trust. The reasons are checkable, while private identities and sensitive evidence stay protected.
A mandate does not confer ownership of the community's records. Authority stays bounded and recallable.
Trust is the unit of measure
A contributor's standing is not a role, a salary grade, or a headcount. It is trust, built through contributions, peer review and accountable decisions.
Trust is earned in the open. Explorer, Member and Contributor are levels reached automatically under published, community-approved criteria; Reviewer and Coordinator are trusted roles the community grants.
Trust is evidence, not permission. It makes a person eligible for trusted roles, but authority comes only from an election, a confirmation or a local grant, and the community's representatives are elected from the people it trusts most.
Trust is revocable. It follows the record, and the record does not flatter.
Points recognize contribution and unlock participation. They do not, on their own, confer authority, payment or ownership; each has its own rules.
Contributors are engaged by their effort
Contribution is recorded and recognized through points and a public record of approved work. Participation is unpaid by default, and there is no cash payout at launch. Future mission rewards may include cash and mission-company stock under terms agreed separately and reviewed for legal and tax compliance first. Approved early work keeps its eligibility, even after a contributor leaves.
The companies may hire when they need to, offering roles to suitable community members first. Ventures run with ordinary management and employees.
Money
Investors must never control Unifyhub, a venture or a mission company. Venture capital, private equity, private credit and other private investors are excluded from every company in the ecosystem. Ventures and mission companies may take government and EU funding, including public equity, only as their own company and after a check that it does not undo these rules; Unifyhub itself does not. A public investor gets no control and no rights over community data, at most a capped preference in a sale, and no deadline that could force a sale. Growth is paid for by customers and public funding, not by people who could buy control.
The infrastructure
The layer is designed to run as a multi-node cluster across several regions, on the community's own systems or with partners who host it, with everyone else using the same shared infrastructure.
The infrastructure is not owned by the people it serves, and it does not need to be. It is a shared substrate, replaceable by design, with a credible right of exit: the record can leave, and the identity travels with it. A structure whose infrastructure cannot be left is not a community; it is a landlord.
What this is not
It is not a company that owns its community's record.
It is not funded by investors who could take control.
It is not a DAO with a token and no record.
It is not a promise without a date: the handover is designed before it is needed.
It is an experiment in the real world, and the test of it is whether it translates into actual gains for the community. If it does not, the structure is wrong and the structure changes.