Who we are
We are academics, technologists, and community organizers building the infrastructure for an ownership economy.
Our team bridges classical mutualist theory with modern systems design - translating 19th Century cooperative principles into 21st Century governance protocols.
We bring expertise in decentralized finance, participatory budgeting, and platform engineering, united by one conviction: the people who create value should own the value they create.
Whether we’re coding smart contracts for community trusts, designing provenance-tracking systems for universal dividends, or organizing tenant unions into land cooperatives, we’re here to replace “user” with “owner” and “rent” with “return.”
We don’t just critique extraction - we build the alternatives that make extraction obsolete.
Our Team
Alex Thymmons
Alex is an environmental scientist and strategist with 20+ years of experience across the Department of Defense, NATO, and Congress, where he learned how institutions engineer compliance - and how those systems can be rewired for public accountability. He holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Energy Strategy, an MBA in Data Science, and is currently pursuing legal scholarship focused on regulatory architecture.
Co-Founder
George Nguyen
George is a technologist and operations architect with two decades of experience building data systems for Fortune 100 companies and startups, where he learned firsthand how technology extracts value - and how it can be restructured to return it. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from The George Washington University and has served as a researcher for the World Bank and program associate at the United Nations Association.
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