Scalable Network Organizations
SNOs are how open ecosystems beat Big Tech. They channel funding and revenue back to contributors, protect the commons, and scale operations while the community sets the rules.
The Future of Work Needs New Structures
Scalable Network Organizations are a new pattern for open networks that want to act like companies without becoming companies. They coordinate people, AI agents, and institutions across borders while keeping ownership and decision power in the network.
Networks now need structures that:
Handle global operations and compliance as a shared service instead of every team reinventing it.
Fund long term public goods, not just short programs and campaigns.
Let contributors move between projects while keeping their reputation and upside.
From DAOs to SNOs
DAOs were the first draft of this future. They proved that open treasuries and public governance work, but they left big gaps in legal protection, operations, and sustainable funding.
DAOs today
On chain voting and proposals align decisions with the community, yet often stop at signaling.
SNOs with the right entities
DAOs remain the decision layer and are wired into entities that can execute budgets, hire, and ship.
DAOs today
Working groups spin up informally, with unclear scopes, accountability, and local compliance.
SNOs with the right entities
Operational Hubs give teams clear mandates, compliant payments, and reliable day to day execution.
DAOs today
Often lean on one time raises and short term incentives instead of durable revenue.
SNOs with the right entities
OCFs and Revenue Hubs connect investment capital and customer income back to public goods and core contributors.
Built to Scale
Start small with a shared treasury and a few contributors. Add Operational Hubs as you expand into new regions. Connect an investment vehicle that rewards real work. Add a commercial arm that serves customers and routes value back to the network. The same architecture that supports a pilot today can run full international operations tomorrow.
Pilot
Start with a shared treasury, a few contributors, and a single Operational Hub focused on one clear mission.
Add Hubs
Spin up additional Operational Hubs as work spreads into new regions, programs, or teams.
Attach Capital
Launch an OCF that funds real work, using transparent work receipts to track where resources go.
Scale Revenue
Bring on Revenue Generating Hubs that serve customers, sign contracts, and route value back to the network.
Five Entities, One Network
DAO
The decision-making community. Sets direction in public, allocates resources, and maintains shared standards.
Operational Hub
A nonprofit or service entity. Handles compliant payments, payroll, grants, and contributor onboarding across regions.
OCF (Open Capital Facility)
The investment layer. Links capital to contribution using non-transferable work receipts so funding tracks real work.
RGH (Revenue-Generating Hub)
The commercial arm. Signs contracts, invoices customers, and shares a portion of revenue back to the network through retroactive public goods funding.
IP Entity
The brand and rights steward. Holds trademarks and software rights on behalf of the network to protect the commons.
Together these entities route capital and contributions without concentrating control. Governance and IP set direction and rights. Hubs do the work and meet compliance needs.
How It Works
Decide in the DAO
Proposals set goals, budgets, and standards across hubs.
Operate through Operational Hubs
Pay people, run programs, and stay compliant.
Invest through the OCF
Allocate capital with work receipts so rewards reflect real work.
Earn through the RGH
Sell services and products, handle contracting and invoicing, and return value to builders and public goods.
Protect through the IP Entity
Keep brand and software rights aligned with governance outcomes.
Checks and balances prevent capture. Value cycles back to the people who build.
Capital and contributions circulate through OCF, RGH, and Operational Hubs while DAO and IP entities keep direction and rights aligned.
Achra: where SNOs operate
Achra is the coordination platform for SNOs. It connects teams, contributors, and investors in one operational marketplace that grows with the network.
With Achra, you can:
Run contributor payments and grants across regions
Launch an Operational Hub and attach it to the DAO
Set up an OCF with transparent work receipts to fund work
Invoice customers through an RGH and route value to public goods
Safeguard brand and software rights through an IP Entity
Vetra enables sovereignty for SNOs
SNOs need infrastructure that keeps control with the network. Vetra is the builder stack for organizational software and AI native web apps that stay open, portable, and under network control.
What it gives you:
Specification driven AI. Model workflows as structured documents so agents behave safely and predictably.
Reactive operations. Event driven updates and collaborative primitives that feel like Git for processes.
Scalable by design. CQRS and sharded document storage that stay fast as the network grows.
Web3 and open cloud. Wallet login, cryptographic verification, and an OpenStack based cloud option for a true cloud exit.
Vetra is the software architecture that lets a SNO stay sovereign, embed AI from the start, and scale without giving leverage to a closed platform.
A Framework for Open-Source Capitalism
SNOs make open networks economically self-sustaining. They allow value created in public to flow back to the people who build it, aligning governance, capital, and collaboration to form a more equitable digital economy.
This is how open systems compete with Big Tech: not by copying their structures, but by scaling cooperation itself.