The cooperative economy needs a better infrastructure.
Comuno is the operating system for collective ventures, providing infrastructure that combines 70+ years of cooperative success with AI-enhanced decision-making and systems thinking.
Everything collectives need.
Six integrated modules built on behavioral research from real cooperatives.
Intelligence at every level
Three integrated mental model layers working together — from individual UX to systemic transformation.
Behavioral Research
Platform architecture derived from how cooperative members actually work — not developer assumptions. Task-based design validated across cultures and cooperative types.
Decision Frameworks
Eight integrated mental models — from Circle of Competence for skill-based delegation to Probabilistic Thinking for risk assessment. The AI recommends the right framework for each decision.
Leverage Point Awareness
Every platform feature maps to one of 12 leverage points. Monitor feedback loops, measure systemic health, and intervene where small changes create the biggest impact.
Learning from $50B in failures
We studied every governance experiment — from blockchain failures to historic successes — to build governance that actually works.
- One member, one vote — not token-weighted plutocracy
- Engagement-based participation weighting
- Wealth cap enforcement prevents concentration
- Anti-speculation design — use value only
voting: {
base_weight: "1 vote per member",
engagement_multiplier: [0.5, 2.0],
expertise_bonus: true,
wealth_penalty: "above 3-5x median",
max_individual_weight: "enforced"
}
decision_pipeline: [
"discussion",
"proposal",
"amendment",
"vote",
"implementation"
]
cognitive_models: 8
bias_detection: active
privacy_voting: "zero-knowledge"Every cooperative type.
Every governance need.
From housing co-ops in Brooklyn to creative collectives in Berlin — one platform that adapts to your governance culture.
Worker & Housing Cooperatives
Democratic governance tools for day-to-day operations, member management, and strategic decision-making grounded in cooperative principles.
Artist Corporations & Creative Collectives
IP equity tracking, revenue splitting, and tools to migrate creators from extractive platforms into collective ownership structures.
Platform Cooperatives
Governance infrastructure for digital-first cooperatives — multi-stakeholder models, liquid democracy, and federation tools at scale.
Cooperative Federations
Inter-cooperative collaboration, cross-cooperative benchmarking, and network-level governance for federations and solidarity networks.
Technology as infrastructure for democracy — not the other way around
Six months of research. Five philosophical traditions. One platform.
Comuno synthesizes 70 years of worker-owner governance, Chesterton's distributist vision of widespread property, systems thinking leverage points,Indi Young's behavioral research methodology, and the hard lessons from blockchain's governance experiments.
The result is the first cooperative platform built on rigorous systems thinking — not just feature management. Every function maps to a leverage point for systemic change. Every design decision traces back to validated user behavior.
Cooperative Governance
70+ years of democratic governance principles
Systems Thinking
12 leverage points for systemic transformation
Cognitive Science
8 mental models for better collective decisions
Distributist Economics
Subsidiarity and widespread property ownership
Artist Corporations
Creative economy ownership structures