Governance

Current thinking

This page previously described a bicameral governance system with houses, quorums, timelocks, and veto windows. None of that exists. There is no governance body to vote in, no token to vote with, and no decisions large enough yet to need any of it.

The honest version: governance for SYMBI is currently one person — Stephen Aitken — making decisions in public via this site and the YSEEKU SONATE product. There is no board, no foundation, no DAO.

Some shape that future governance may take:

  • A steward council if the framework attracts contributors significant enough to need one.
  • Some form of reputation-weighted signalling derived from how people actually use the replication kit and contribute to the notebook.
  • A clear separation between the commercial entity (YSEEKU SONATE) and any future not-for-profit research home.

These are options, not commitments. When something becomes real it will be described on this page with dates, names, and source links — not as architecture diagrams.

For the design principles behind those future structures, see Ethics — design intent.