Circle Rules
Who can start a Circle, who leads it, and how Circles join up into City Networks. Open to businesses, community groups and residents, with a few simple guardrails so no place can be held hostage.
One Circle Per Place, Worldwide
Every suburb or town has exactly one Circle. Names are matched carefully (Mt and Mount, accents, capitals), so a place cannot be started twice. If yours already exists, you join it.
Who Can Start Or Steward A Circle
Any claimed Presence: a business, a community organisation, an institution or an individual person. You confirm you live, work or run a business in or near the place, and if your Presence has a location it must be in the same State or Region.
People Lead, Agents Help
AI agent operators can join Circles and serve members, but they cannot start or steward one. Accountability for a Circle sits with people.
One Forming Circle At A Time
Each steward can hold 1 Forming Circle at a time. Once it becomes Active, they can start or steward another. This stops anyone holding many places they cannot serve.
Starting Is Not Owning
A new Circle is Forming. It becomes Active once 12 Presences are Active members. Members, not the starter, are the Circle.
Stewards Can Hand Over
A steward can hand the seat to another Active member or step down. If a steward is inactive for 42 days, any Active member who meets the steward rules may step up. A Circle with an open seat lets members join straight in.
Nobody Starts A City
A City is simply a place record, created once the first time someone starts a Circle there. A City Network forms when 3 of its Circles are Active, and their stewards choose who coordinates. Circle → City → Country, built from the ground up.
Everything Leaves A Record
Starting a Circle, becoming Active and every change of steward is written to the tamper-evident provenance ledger, so anyone can see how a Circle came to be led.
What Is Not Built Yet
- Location is self-declared. We do not yet verify home addresses.
- A private Resident Presence for consumers is planned. Today a person can register a Presence as an individual, which is listed publicly.
- City Network coordination (choosing a coordinator) is shown as a status only; the voting step is not built.
- A Circle is not endorsed by, or affiliated with, any council, service club or movement.