01Civic coreLOCAL STAR
Local-first communication
A neighborhood computer, sensor hub, mesh relay, and honest gateway to certified satellite backhaul.
EL SEGUNDO + 25 MILES / FOUNDING DIRECTION 001
Useful things.
Governed in common.
A family of local-first objects for cleaner air, better water, humane light, quiet care, resilient power, and neighborhood connection.
Founding phaseNo tokenNo treasuryOpen charter
THE FUTURE SHOULD FEEL
CLOSER TO HOME.
THE OBJECT FAMILY
Six objects.
One local promise.
Technology can be capable without becoming invasive. Each companion does one understandable job, works with the civic core, and remains useful when distant systems are unavailable.
01Civic core
02BreatheLOCAL AIR
Air quality + filtration
Quiet air insight, filtration control, and replaceable-filter status without a camera or cloud microphone.
03RefillLOCAL WATER
Water + filter awareness
A beautiful refill ritual with filtration and filter-life cues that never pretend to be a potability laboratory.
04RestoreLOCAL LIGHT
Light + outage beacon
Circadian task light by night, low path light during outages, and a subtle beacon for the local mesh.
05ConnectLOCAL CARE
Private daily check-in
A private one-touch daily check-in for trusted people—without surveillance, clinical claims, or emergency theater.
06ContinueLOCAL POWER
Modular local resilience
Quiet modular backup for communication, light, and personal devices when the larger grid disappears.
THE MOVEMENT
Common
by design.
Local before remote
Core functions keep working nearby. Cloud and satellite links extend the system; they do not own it.
Contribution before capital
Voice begins with useful work, field learning, care, fabrication, documentation, or stewardship—not a purchase.
Dignity before data
Collect less. Explain every sensor. Give people a real off switch. Never turn a home into an extraction surface.
Repair before replacement
Open interfaces, replaceable modules, published service paths, and regional repair capacity are product requirements.
LOCAL STAR COMMONS / DAO PROTOTYPE
A direction
people can steer.
The Commons is the governance layer for the movement: product priorities, pilot safeguards, open standards, field learning, and the conditions for any future treasury. Membership is contribution-based and non-transferable.
01Signal
02Shape
03Review
04Vote
05Field
06Learn
Founding proposals
Signals below are private to this browser during the founding prototype.
The first 25 field nodes
Place a small, diverse test cohort across homes, studios, a library-scale space, and light-industrial workplaces inside the pilot radius.
Present askDefine host criteria and field-learning safeguards.
The public sensor covenant
Publish a plain-language contract for every sensed input: purpose, retention, local processing, sharing, deletion, and physical disablement.
Present askStress-test the covenant with residents and accessibility advocates.
The repair commons
Make repair manuals, module interfaces, diagnostic states, and a shared parts library part of the first production plan.
Present askMap South Bay fabrication and repair partners.
FOUNDING CHARTER / V0.1
Rules before
resources.
Governance begins with boundaries. The founding charter makes the purpose, power, and disabled functions visible before a token, treasury, or legal wrapper is considered.
Download machine-readable charter ↘Purpose
Improve daily life and neighborhood resilience through calm, useful, locally accountable technology.
Membership
One person, one non-transferable membership voice earned through a documented contribution or pilot responsibility.
Proposals
Every proposal moves through signal, shape, review, vote, field, and retrospective stages.
Decisions
Founding votes require a published rationale, a minimum review window, and conflict disclosures.
Treasury
Disabled at launch. No token sale, pooled funds, yield, return, or financial promise exists in this prototype.
Technology
Open specifications are the default. Privacy, accessibility, repairability, and graceful offline behavior are hard gates.
Stewards
Working-circle stewards facilitate and document; they do not own the Commons or gain permanent control.
Amendment
The charter can change only through the same public proposal process it defines, with a higher review threshold.
25 MILES
12 MILES
EL SEGUNDO
THE FIRST FIELD / 25-MILE RADIUS
Small enough
to learn.
Large enough to matter.
El Segundo is a rare meeting point for aerospace, advanced manufacturing, logistics, creative production, education, hospitality, and neighborhood life. The pilot uses that density to test whether local infrastructure can be more useful, legible, and humane.
- 01Homes and multifamily buildings
- 02Studios and small businesses
- 03Libraries and civic spaces
- 04Industrial and fabrication partners
- 05Care and accessibility advisors
FOUNDING SIGNAL / FIRST 100 CONTRIBUTORS
Bring one useful
thing to the table.
A field site. A fabrication skill. A privacy critique. A repair bench. A neighborhood introduction. A better question. The first membership act is a contribution, not a transaction.