Full operating system comparison

Systemic Change

Full operating system comparison

Overall Comparison

System family	Type	Full OS completeness	Best strengths	Main gaps
NEOS / OmniOne	Baseline	72%	Societal OS designed around consent, scoped authority, safe exit, anti-capture, pluralism, memory, non-sovereign coordination	Still needs legal, technical, financial, metrics, security, and pilot infrastructure
Sociocracy / Dynamic Governance	Governance method	58%	Consent-based governance using circles, roles, feedback loops, elections, linked domains	Not a complete economic, legal, asset, security, or societal OS
Open-source protocol governance	Distributed production / standards	55%	Version control, forks, maintainers, transparent history, protocol standards	Weak on real-world assets, care, housing, law, and social conflict
Community land trusts + steward ownership	Asset stewardship / legal	52%	Legal patterns protecting land, assets, and mission from speculation and capture	Not a full decision, culture, technology, or multi-domain OS
Cooperative federations / platform co-ops	Democratic ownership / economic coordination	49%	Member-owned enterprises; democratic governance and shared benefits	Vulnerable to majority capture, governance fatigue, capital limits, legal-board override
Bitcoin / blockchain protocol ecosystems	Protocol / ledger / treasury primitives	47%	Transparent ledgers, cryptographic custody, hard-to-change rules, multi-signature execution	Weak as human governance, conflict repair, legal interface, and plural social OS

20-Factor Full OS Matrix

Requirement	Wt.	NEOS	Sociocracy	Open-source	Land trusts	Co-ops	Bitcoin/blockchain
Clear purpose and scope	100	92	75	70	65	70	55
Safe exit / voluntary participation	99	88	65	90	70	60	80
Scoped revocable authority	98	82	85	70	55	60	45
Decision process resolves without domination	97	90	76	58	40	40	35
Failure containment / graceful dissolution	96	76	65	85	70	55	70
Transparent memory / auditability	95	64	65	95	55	55	90
Capital cannot become governance control	94	84	55	50	85	55	40
Explicit agreements before scale	93	72	80	75	75	65	60
Adaptive feedback loops	92	61	80	75	55	55	55
Role clarity / succession / replaceability	90	66	82	65	60	60	35
Economic viability without dependency traps	89	52	45	55	65	70	50
Conflict repair / escalation	88	58	60	35	45	50	20
Legal / institutional compatibility	87	57	50	45	85	75	35
Pluralism / non-ideological participation	86	86	70	80	65	60	55
Security of data / identity / treasury	85	42	35	70	45	45	90
Interoperability with existing systems	83	59	55	80	75	70	50
Commons / resource stewardship	82	73	55	50	90	65	35
Onboarding / education / culture	80	74	70	65	60	55	40
Drift metrics without gaming	not re-run	not re-run	not re-run	not re-run	not re-run	not re-run	not re-run
Periodic constitutional review	76	45	55	70	55	50	65

Where NEOS / OmniOne Appears Strongest

Full-stack framing: coordinates authority, consent, economics, failure, pluralism, memory, and anti-capture together
Safe exit and voluntary participation treated as structural requirements, not cultural preferences
Capital-authority separation is explicit (especially in SHUR)
ACT provides non-dominating decision resolution
Clear human-over-AI boundary: AI assists, never governs

Where NEOS / OmniOne Still Needs Buildout

System of record (decision ledger, agreement registry, role registry, audit trails)
ACT application layer (proposal intake, consent capture, foresight, tracking)
Role-to-permission infrastructure
Legal wrapper library
Security architecture
Economic model
Conflict repair system
Drift metrics

What Each External System Contributes

Sociocracy: consent and role governance patterns, borrow circles, roles, feedback loops; keep ACT's solutionary logic
Open-source: version-controlled canon, pull-request-style proposals, fork/federation logic; avoid invisible maintainer capture
Land trusts: asset locks, resale formulas, title-governance separation; doesn't solve decisions or culture
Co-ops: member education, participation-based benefits, federation; avoid majority capture
Bitcoin/blockchain: transparent ledgers, multisig treasury, immutable audit records; avoid token voting as governance

The numbers here are estimates, not measurements. They come from OS Compare's file projects/os-compare/full-os-comparison.md, as it stood on 2026-09-21. Deeper analysis could change these numbers.