Charge for care, not captivity.
All strategy · 06 / 08
The business sells stewardship: the work of keeping a community's operating life safe.
Charge for
durable community records
shared memory
policy clarity
migration safety
operational stability
governance support
These costs go up as a community grows, and they are the reason a community stays.
Unifyhub's ventures and mission companies sell this work. Unifyhub, the holding, does not sell to communities; it earns the licence fees and profit its ventures return. Private investors are kept out, so no one can buy the right to make leaving harder.
The test
The strategy must survive departure. A community that leaves with its records intact is a successful community by the strategy's own terms. A business that only works when people cannot leave is a different business than the one described here, and the monetization principle exists to catch the swap.