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.