What the League builds, and how to take part

Manifesto one

An entrepreneurial coordination community

A coordination failure has a familiar shape. A creator would leave a platform if the reviews came along. Owners in a building would fund a safety upgrade if the money were collected only once enough of them committed. A small supplier would sell to a new buyer if one audit counted for all of them. In each case the valuable move is blocked because acting alone is too costly.

The League exists to change that condition with ventures. A venture here is an organized effort to make a useful mechanism work: a company, a cooperative, a mutual, a standards body, or a shared service run by local operators. It can use AI or leave AI out. It succeeds when it changes a stuck choice and passes more of the resulting benefit to the people who created it or bore its costs.

The League aims to bring together what a venture needs and cannot find alone: founders, builders, early users, the counterparty on the other side of a bind, operators who will run the mechanism locally, institutions willing to adopt a rule, and capital where it helps. Research has a job inside that work. It picks better opportunities, tests whether a mechanism changed what people can do, and publishes what failed so the next builder can skip it.

Competition can be healthy. The League acts when incentives make individually reasonable behavior trap people, concentrate benefits, or block a more valuable shared choice. It has no interest in becoming a think tank that reports on collective-action failures, a commentary site about AI, or a funnel that sorts founders toward a few winner-take-all companies.

Manifesto two

One hundred million ventures, one million of them built on beating a bind

The League's stated ambition is an economy of 100 million AI-enabled ventures, and within it one million profitable ventures whose main value is that they beat a coordination failure. The numbers are a direction of travel. Nobody has counted them yet, and this page makes no claim that the League has produced any share of them.

The scale matters because of what it rules out. A small portfolio of large AI companies would fall short of that ambition. One hundred million ventures can only exist if starting one is cheap, if the tools and records they need are shared, and if success never requires becoming a monopoly. A venture serving one neighborhood, one trade, or one thousand customers should be able to run profitably, pay its people, and stay independent.

AI is the leverage that makes that plausible. Falling prices for capable software lower the cost of discovery, matching, evidence handling, protocol design, record portability, and service delivery. A two-person venture can now afford operations that once required a department. The League welcomes conventional local businesses as well as software startups.

The one million are a narrower group. Their product is the mechanism itself: the conditional commitment, the portable record, the shared audit, the mutual pool. These ventures must earn a profit and show whether the mechanism changes the blocked choice, who benefits, and who bears the cost.

Manifesto three

Resilient, federated systems

The League is for human resilience and against fragile arrangements. A system is fragile when one platform, employer, institution, model provider, capital source, or policy change can turn a predictable disruption into collective helplessness. The failure is structural, and good behavior by the single point of control cannot fix it.

The League favors patterns that let people keep local autonomy while gaining collective capacity. They can be digital, institutional, contractual, or physical. AI can accelerate them and is never a prerequisite.

• FederationsIndependent local nodes share protocols, discovery, and mutual support without submitting to one operator.
• Interoperable protocols and open standardsMany providers implement the same interface, so users and contributors can move without losing the value they created.
• Portable identity, reputation, benefits, and recordsEarned value travels with the person instead of staying trapped in an employer, platform, or gatekeeper database.
• Mutuals and shared-risk poolsParticipants spread costs that would otherwise make an individually rational choice impossible, with claims and rules accountable to members.
• Conditional commitments and assurance contractsPeople commit together so no one bears the full first-mover loss when the action only works if enough others join.
• Cooperatives, steward ownership, and participant-owned networksThe people creating or depending on the value hold real rights over the rules and the distribution.
• Microtransaction and reciprocity railsSmall acts of useful work, care, verification, creativity, and coordination are recognized and compensated without waiting for a giant employer or platform.
• Distributed production and service meshesLocal builders and operators provide a shared service through common tooling, suppliers, and standards.
• Community-owned data and AI infrastructurePeople pool data, compute, models, or governance rights under terms they can inspect, change, and leave.
• Participatory governance with appealsPeople affected by a rule can see it, contest it, correct records, and influence the decision-maker.
• Redundant local capacityMultiple viable paths for energy, food, payments, communications, care, transport, knowledge, and income keep one failure from becoming collective helplessness.

The League favors federated, portable, mutual, interoperable, composable, participant-owned systems suited to small ventures. Scale comes from replication and connection among many independent actors. Growth that absorbs those actors into one central machine has failed the test, even when it is profitable.

The same test applies to the League's own tools. Any AI component has to work across more than one provider and keep an open or no-AI fallback. People must be able to leave what we build.

Manifesto four

Pro-AI, pro-abundance, pro-democracy, pro-microtransaction, pro-micro-scale

Pro-AI. AI should expand what ordinary people can build, know, coordinate, and afford. The League uses AI and welcomes ventures that use it. Membership never requires it.

Pro-abundance. Abundance means the cost of useful capability keeps falling and access to it keeps widening. A venture that lowers the price of a needed service for everyone who has to act has done abundance work, whatever its size.

Pro-democracy. The people affected by a rule should be able to see it, contest it, correct the record, and share in governance where it matters. Ventures should write those rights into their bylaws, contracts, and interfaces before growth makes it expensive to add.

Pro-microtransaction. Small acts of useful work, care, verification, creativity, and coordination should be legible and compensable. x4me2, a live League prototype, is built in that direction. It recovers reviews a person wrote on other platforms, checks authorship, and hosts the record outside the platform where it began. Payments from AI systems that use those reviews are planned and have not gone live.

Pro-micro-scale. A venture should be able to solve a real local or niche problem profitably without waiting to become a monopoly or a venture-scale company. Most of the hundred million will be small, and the League is built for them.

Manifesto five

A realistic post-AGI transition

As AI makes capability cheap and automates more conventional work, a society needs distributed ways for people to create value, earn, own, cooperate, and direct their own lives. Without them, survival for many people comes to depend on centralized redistribution, and practical economic agency shrinks to a payment.

The League's aim is a transition in which a universal basic income is unnecessary for survival, because people still hold the means to earn and to own. The League offers this as a purpose. Whether any government adopts or rejects a basic income is a separate question, and this page makes no prediction about it.

The route the League works on is a far broader economy of AI-enabled, human-owned, profitable ventures; microtransaction rails that compensate real contributions; portable records and rights; democratic coordination mechanisms; and resilient networks that run from the neighborhood to the globe. Abundance after AGI should expand self-direction and shared prosperity. The measure of a good transition is how many people can still start something, keep what they earn, move when they need to, and take part in the rules that govern them.

The work starts now, on the pieces that can be built now: a record another service accepts, a commitment that collects money only when enough people join, an audit that counts more than once, a mutual that spreads a cost no one could carry alone.