# OURS Founding Right 0.1

**Status:** OPERATIVE PROJECT INSTRUMENT · NOT LEGAL MEMBERSHIP  
**Effective for existing and new sealed entries:** 28 August 2026  
**Authority:** Founder-steward instruction  
**Cohort:** Ordinals 1 through 1,000,000 only  
**Legal status:** Not a share, security, token or promise of profit

This instrument makes the Founding Million finite and gives every active
place the same concrete project rights during formation. It does not pretend
that a legal entity or legal membership interest has already been issued.

> **NOBODY LEAVES FIRST. EVERYBODY LEAVES TOGETHER.**

## 1. When the right attaches

Founding Right 0.1 attaches to every legitimate canonical ordinal from 1
through 1,000,000. Existing places receive the right under the founder-steward
amendment without acquiring a new duty or economic term. A new place attaches
only when a verified entrant accepts the current founding documents and a
canonical ledger entry successfully seals. Authentication or a magic-link
request alone creates nothing and reserves no number.

The allocator may issue ordinals 1 through 1,000,000. It must reject every
attempt after ordinal 1,000,000. A failed transaction consumes no ordinal.

## 2. Rights carried by each active place

Each active Founding Million place carries:

1. **Permanent-number right.** Its ordinal is never sold, transferred,
   reassigned or silently renumbered. A lawful tombstone may remain after a
   withdrawal, but the place is never handed to someone else.
2. **Founding-ratification right.** One equal ballot on Constitution 1.0 and
   the initial legal membership instrument when the published legal,
   identity-assurance and ballot-integrity gates are met.
3. **First-mission right.** One equal ballot in the authorization of the first
   member-owned mission under the published decision process.
4. **Notice and record right.** Timely notice, the complete proposal materials,
   governing versions, decision receipts, material dissent and the result for
   each of those founding decisions.
5. **Economics-ratification right.** No instrument creating economic
   participation — surplus distribution, patronage units, fee exemption or any
   successor to them — may be adopted by OURS until it has been ratified by
   members under the published decision process. The founder-steward may not
   adopt one by decision receipt. See
   [the amendment](./FOUNDING-RIGHT-AMENDMENT-0.1-ECONOMICS-RATIFICATION.md).
6. **Data and exit right.** Access, export, correction and withdrawal through
   the published process. Withdrawal ends active ballot eligibility but never
   transfers the ordinal.

The ballot system is not open today. These clauses are the project's binding
commitment to admit every eligible active founding place on equal terms once
the required gates are met; they are not a claim that a vote already occurred.

## 3. Formation stages

Earliness creates work and access to the stage then underway, not permanent
economic superiority:

- **1—10,000:** guaranteed notice and participation in the public drafting
  window for Constitution 1.0;
- **1—100,000:** guaranteed notice and participation in the nomination window
  for the first mission, and the ratification of the first economic instrument;
- **1—1,000,000:** one equal ballot in the founding ratification and first
  mission authorization.

Nobody receives an extra final ballot because they entered in an earlier band.

**The economics ratification.** The first economic instrument is put to
ratification when no fewer than 100,000 places have been sealed, and not
before. The threshold is a floor: it may be raised by a founder-steward receipt
published before a vote opens, never lowered, and never changed while a vote is
open. Before that vote OURS must publish economic simulations a member can run
themselves, with editable assumptions and readable source, together with the
securities, cooperative-law and tax review the instrument requires. A member
who sealed a place before the vote opens votes in it, whatever their ordinal.

## 4. Equality and anti-capture

Each eligible person may exercise at most one Founding Right. Ordinal, wealth,
payment, referral count, follower count, contribution score and publicity
create no extra ballot. Before any founding ballot opens, OURS must publish and
test a human-assurance process stronger than possession of an email address,
with a correction and appeal path.

The right is personal and non-transferable. It cannot be sold, pledged,
inherited, split, rented or represented by a token. Agents are not people and
cannot hold or exercise it.

## 5. What this is not

Founding Right 0.1 is not:

- legal membership or an ownership share;
- a security, investment contract or promise of profit;
- a claim on revenue, surplus, treasury or assets;
- a guarantee that a proposed legal instrument will survive licensed review
  unchanged;
- permission for the founder or stewards to count clicks, referrals or social
  attention as votes.

It is also not a claim that economic participation will ever exist. Members may
ratify an instrument, ratify a different one, or ratify none; "the members
decide" includes deciding not to.

Any future economic participation requires a separately adopted, licensed-
reviewed instrument, ratified by members. If legal review requires this project
instrument to change, the conflict and proposed remedy must be published before
a founding ballot; the project may not silently subtract a right.

## 6. What happens at 1,000,000

Reaching the millionth place closes the **founding cohort**. It does not close
OURS, and it must never be allowed to mean that a person who arrives later is
turned away without an answer.

The founding cohort exists to do one job: ratify Constitution 1.0 and
authorize the first mission. Once a million people can do that job, the job
does not get easier by adding more people to it. That — and not scarcity — is
why the number is finite.

**The obligation this creates.** The instrument under which the 1,000,001st
person joins is one of the things the founding cohort ratifies. So OURS
carries a deadline it cannot quietly miss:

> When 900,000 places are sealed, OURS must publish the proposed successor
> instrument — the terms on which people join after founding closes — and put
> it in front of the founding cohort. The remaining 100,000 places are the
> margin for getting that right.

If the millionth place seals and no successor instrument exists, that is a
failure of the project, not a rejection of the person standing at the door.
The obligation then is to say exactly that on the front page, publish what
went wrong and what the recovery is, and hold entry open for the successor
rather than pretending the queue is the answer.

**What later members are not.** A successor instrument may not be used to
create a second class of people who carry the obligations of membership
without its rights. Founding places carry the ratification and first-mission
ballots because those decisions happen during founding. They carry no
permanent governance advantage, no economic preference, and no priority of
service. After Constitution 1.0, one member is one vote.

## 7. Versioning and authority

This document is incorporated by Founding Declaration 0.2. Amendments require
a public diff and a founder-steward decision receipt before member
ratification exists. After Constitution 1.0 is ratified, amendment authority
passes to the adopted constitutional process.

> **FOUNDER-STEWARD DECISION · NOT MEMBER RATIFICATION**