Agora — Organization Canvas
Purpose
Enable individuals to build a personal AI governance team that represents their values in collective decision-making through liquid democracy and trust circles.
Overall Strategy
See 00_Organization_Logbook/03_Strategy.md
Customers, Partners, and Stakeholders
- Primary users: Individuals who want an AI team for personal/professional governance (early adopters: developers, knowledge workers, civic tech enthusiasts)
- Secondary users: Communities experimenting with liquid democracy and decentralized governance
- Partners: Democracy Earth Foundation (dormant but foundational research), open-source governance projects, S3/sociocracy practitioners
- Stakeholders: Anyone affected by decisions made through the platform (broader public as adoption grows)
Business Model(s)
- Open-source framework — the core Agora setup (agents, coaching, OKRs) is free and open-source
- Premium features — hosted agent infrastructure, advanced delegation protocols, team/organization tiers
- Consulting/training — helping organizations adopt the governance framework
- Revenue model to be validated through experiments
Environmental Conditions
- Legal/Economic: AI governance is unregulated but evolving rapidly; GDPR applies to personal data processing; no legal framework for AI delegation in political systems yet
- Market trends: Explosion of AI agent frameworks (AutoGPT, CrewAI, etc.); growing distrust in traditional democratic institutions; rising interest in liquid democracy and DAO governance
- Competition: Democracy Earth (dormant), Loomio (active, consensus-focused), Aragon (DAO tooling), generic AI agent frameworks (lack governance/values alignment). No competitor combines personal coaching + AI agents + liquid democracy.
Review date: 2026-07-07