Everything on this site so far describes one company. But if this bootstrap method — perpetual trust ownership, automation focus, sortition governance — actually works and other people or groups adopt it too, a natural question follows: could these entities help each other, the way a family of cooperatives already does at Mondragon Corporation, one of the largest and longest-running worker-cooperative networks in the world?
This is a far-off dream, not a plan — nothing like it exists yet, and it depends entirely on the more basic bootstrap idea working at all, more than once. But it’s worth describing, because it’s the natural extension of “I hope this method spreads” into “and once it has, here’s what could come next.”
A few concrete examples of what this could look like: an EOT-built tool — say, a CAD program competing with something like Fusion 360 or SolidWorks — could be licensed commercially in the usual ways, but offer preferential terms to other like-minded entities, whether reduced cost, earlier access, or direct support, in exchange for a reciprocal resource, or simply because it shares the same values. That kind of generosity only makes sense for a company that isn’t optimizing for maximum extraction from every customer — which ties directly back to the ethics commitments described elsewhere on this site. Beyond software, there’s a category of resources that are hard for any one small company to justify building alone, but genuinely reusable once they exist: legal templates for setting up a perpetual purpose trust, accounting practices suited to profit-sharing instead of equity, a training curriculum for sortition-selected leaders. And at a simpler level, member entities could refer customers to each other, or combine purchasing power for shared inputs, the way cooperative networks already do.