Grow what your group shares, one step at a time.

Every household carries its own food, rent and car, and good ideas wait for a fair way to compare them. GROVE shows your group where its shared money does the most good next: the shared resource that replaces the most costs, the ventures the whole group backs, and when each one is ready.

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GROVE is for ETHOS groups (the organizational structure OmniOne runs on), and free to them. OmniOne members can open their own group now, signed in with the Universal Profile. Everyone else can try the demo with sample numbers, or ask to become an ETHOS.

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The problem

When each person pays every cost alone, the money stays spread thin and the same groceries, rooms and rides get bought many times over. New ideas come up one at a time, and the group needs a shared way to see which one is worth its time and money.

How GROVE helps

Your group keeps two pots, each for its own purpose. The resource pot goes to the shared resource that replaces the most members' costs, food and shelter first. The venture pot goes to the ventures the group rates highest together.

Every number shows where it came from and when. A change becomes official when the group signs it together in a group meeting.

How it works

1. Share your costs
Each member adds their monthly costs. GROVE ranks which shared resource would replace the most of them. Anyone can keep their own costs private and share only totals.
2. Build shared resources first
The resource pot fills month by month and shows when the next shared resource is ready, from shared rooms to a shared kitchen.
3. Choose ventures together
Check a new idea in QuickScreen, rate it as a group for alignment and impact, and compare the top three side by side.

Five ways to start an economy, ranked by the money each needs

Most groups can start with no money at all. These are the five economy-building packages, ranked by how much money each needs up front. Every route starts with the group forming an ETHOS.

1People only, no money

Package4

Land rich, cash poor

Money up front$0

What it needs: Landowners or a place rich in land and food, and local families ready to build.
What it produces: A food economy from day one, where food counts as contribution; then shared assets built with the locals.
Where the money goes: No money No money goes in. Food and work are the contribution.
Starting team: 3 to 5 organizers with the local families
Commitment: Long: years of living and building alongside

2Zero money down

Package5

Partner with a place that exists

Money up front$0 down

What it needs: A retreat center to fill, or an event membership to create.
What it produces: About $360,000 a year, split 40-30-30: about $144,000 to the people running it, $108,000 to their ETHOS, $108,000 to the ecosystem.
Where the money goes: Leave after any stay Into the rent for each stay, so the team can leave after any stay. The ETHOS share then builds toward a longer lease or a building of its own.
Starting team: 3 to 5, growing by each one teach one
Commitment: Medium: stays of about 3 months, rotating

Package2

Many businesses, one pool

Money up front$0 down

What it needs: Businesses that form an ETHOS consortium, each putting a share of its surplus into one pool.
What it produces: About $70,000 a year into the shared pool to build a shared economy. A high-leverage deal, such as a city solar contract, can add much more.
Where the money goes: A shared pool Nothing is donated. The surplus comes from working together, and the pool builds what the businesses share.
Starting team: 5 businesses
Commitment: Ongoing

3Some money in

Package3

A gifted start

Money up frontWhatever is given

What it needs: A giver, and something the gift can go into that earns.
What it produces: Commons on day one, nothing to repay, and every dollar turns into access.
Where the money goes: Held as commons Into something that earns, held as commons, with nothing to repay.
Starting team: 3 to 5
Commitment: Short to start

Package1

One project: a village

Money up frontAbout $3M in all, with $400,000 startup capital up front

What it needs: People who believe in it and will lend, and land and buildings at the center.
What it produces: A village whose land becomes commons once it is paid off.
Where the money goes: Housing Into housing: the land and buildings at the center, lent by people who believe in it and repaid in about a year.
Starting team: 8 lenders, about 6 households
Commitment: Lenders repaid in about a year

The figures are illustrative examples, not promises.

Money never buys ownership or profit. Members can lend to the group and be paid back on the terms set at the start, or give and pool it. The date the payments stop is the date the economy starts.

Who it is for

Start an Economy is for ETHOS groups, and it is free to them. The packages work because an ETHOS has the decision models and the tools they need, GROVE and its own copy of NEOS Den among them. There are two ways to become an ETHOS.

The low-cost way

Get the ETHOS book, in a low-priced online edition when it is out, then go through the paid onboarding. Prices are coming.

The guided way

We walk your group through it by hand and set it up fully, for $1,500.

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Consortiums outside our ecosystem

A consortium of businesses that works in a new-paradigm way can get the packages through a consortium we are part of, for $150 paid to the ecosystem. Becoming a full ETHOS first is the way we recommend.

$150. A one-time $150 purchase of guides and tools. All sales are final. You use the package at your own discretion, and results depend on you.

Sold by Green Earth Vision, a 501(c)(3).

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What it builds toward

Costs drop as shared resources come online. Ventures grow until they carry themselves, and the people they free up can start the next one. Everyone who helped has access to the shared results.

Collective financing, in one paragraph

Collective financing is a group with a shared vision, agreeing on what they are building and how, then funding it together within that agreed-upon scope. Money can come back out on terms set at the start, but it does not buy ownership or profit. What it does is help manifest the shared vision, and everyone who helped gets to access the shared results.

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