12The Schematic
The architecture, macro to micro.
One schematic, four altitudes. The legal form first — why the institution holds — then down through the Circles to the single member, and finally the Project: the atomic unit of value. Every level is the same design at a different zoom. Tap any element for the detail behind it.
Why it holds: two entities, one covenant, a stack of law beneath the culture.
I · The Institution — the form that refuses drift
The two-entity ecosystem
Public-benefit foundation · The Hague
Stichting UnitedPeoples
Owns the mission: the fifteen GlobalCircles, the Circle lattice and its Projects, and NAVi. Irrevocable — the mission cannot be sold, captured, or quietly re-pointed.
⇵Constitutional covenant — profit flows to the mission in legally enforceable proportions; control is locked in the Articles of Association⇵
Mission-locked company
UP BV — the economic enginePlanned
The membership relationship underwrites full-service finance at a fraction of the usual acquisition cost. Its profit is not extracted; it is bound.
UP BankUP BusinessBankUP VenturesPlatform Services
The governing stack — each layer bound by the one beneath
The cultureACE practice, the rhythm, the lived institution
The ConstitutionHybrid Holacratic governance — authority distributed by role
The TenetsIdentity held in values, not offices — anti-capture by design
The Articles of AssociationThe legal floor: mission-lock, covenant, free membership
Phase 1 · 100M members by 2035/Phase 2 · ~500M by 2045/Medium scenario — designed, not forecast
The macro first. Tap any element — the foundation, the covenant, the engine, the stack — then descend into the mission.
Same DNA at every scale — the macro is the micro, multiplied.
