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We announced it last week, and today we are officially opening the gates to the Coordination Renaissance.
What does it mean “opening the gates”, and what even is a “coordination renaissance”?
Well, that’s what articles are for. Pretty much any piece of writing is an answer to a question nobody asked – so if you’re asking yourself those questions, this article has already acquired more practical value than some of the stuff you read every day before or after coffee.
If you’re here, you probably already know what Āut is. But let’s cover some edge cases, if either:
you’ve been willingly ignoring us for the last year, and the very mention of our name gave you unstoppable shivers, or
you’ve just returned to Earth after an alien abduction that you extensively, anonymously detailed on Coinfessions, or
you’re just another of Elon Musk’s figments of imagination - blossomed in the quick, transitory phases between the birth, existence and extinction of a meme-coin
then, well, you may not know that Āut is a suite of DAO-native Membership & Governance Tools – designed to expand Autonomy & Coordination in decentralized communities, and power the next generation of human Coordination.
In a nutshell: we are on a mission to accelerate the transition from an authoritarian, exploitative, vertical distribution of power - to non-hierarchical, more efficient, horizontal forms of organization.
The concept of Renaissance is deeply rooted in the foundation of Āut. It's about creating a new wave of innovation, of decentralization, of autonomy – where individuals can come from nothing, emerge from nothing, and take their role according to the value they produce. And collectives come together to build a more open and human-centered world.
A role-based, human-sized society if you like – or a pixelated, universal NFT, where each pixel represents an existing individual, taking their righteous place within the abysmal whole.
As you guessed: at the heart of this concept lies the idea of Roles.
At Āut we made it our main target: to bring “Roles” on-chain, at contract level – to make both the chain and the contract more human. To give individuals the inalienable right of choice. Choice of association, of working together, building together – doing the things they love the most, and they do best.
Further, Roles in Āut communities are in sets of three (3).
If the Renaissance already sounded a bit clumsy, vintage, the boomer of the historical eras – then let us bring you further back, to 2000-something years ago. 60 BC, the Republican Rome. The very foundation of the Roman res publica lied in the triumvirate – where the three (3) representatives of the most influential aspects of those-days-society, by dividing and administering power between each other, could create a balance of forces where none of them could prevail over the other two (2). Interestingly enough, the larger, general triumvirate was broken down to smaller branches – creating a fractal structure, where each triumvirate forked in smaller groups of three.
If you will be patient – and develop that alien-abduction-resistant technology after all – in a few weeks we will introduce something interesting on how this fractal structure can work in DAOs, too.
Now, if in each DAO there are three (3) Roles, and each role has its own set of responsibilities – then, when combined, these Roles can help create a distributed, self-organized, and efficient organization.
That’s where the final aspect of this intro comes in: the infamous "cut with the past," representing the Āut Labs ecosystem as a whole. This symbol is also connected to the concept of Renaissance.
In fact, by creating the tools and protocols that compose the Coordination Stack, Āut Labs – together with you – aim to create a new wave of collectives and organizations, free of the exploitative, authoritarian, and centralized systems of the past.
Just like the original Renaissance, though – the v1 of renewal, and modernity, and change – this Coordination Renaissance, this v2, also needed its heroes. Not the “homini novi” this time, but the Novae* –* next-gen decentralized communities where Coordination is not only possible, but built-in, by design. Novae bring Role, reputation – and all those human ways of creating (more- or less-) tangible value – on-chain.
That’s all. Here’s the starting point of the Coordination Renaissance.
So, summarizing, we have (1) the Communities (Novae), (2) the individuals (Members of these communities), and (3) the role-based Coordination between them.
They coincidentally (or not) ended up to be three (3) elements, and we liked that – so we are using these three components to launch Āut’s Closed Beta, Try Āut .
As we already talked about the Āut’s Product Suite.Today we want to focus on Try Āut, the first wave – and the entry-point to the entire Coordination Renaissance.
🚨 Disclaimer:
All Products in the Āut suite are specifically designed for contract-powered communities. You need to deploy a Nova (a “next-gen DAO”) in order to access the Āut Operating System.
As a Member, you may simply join a Nova. If you’re not part of a Nova yet, as a new user in the DAO Ecosystem you will be able to join any of our Partner DAOs (the “Novae”) from the Nova Showcase (currently, it’s invite-only).
Try Āut is divided in two flows of three (3) steps: A. for DAO Operators B. for DAO Contributors
Let’s dive a bit deeper in each one of them:
A. The DAO Operator journey has three phases:
**Expand.**Nova is a standard that expands the concept of DAO, bringing Members’ Roles & Interactions at Contract level. At this step, the 1st Novae will be deployed, and will start shaping the future of coordination.
**Claim.**After step 1, Operators can take their rightful place in their brand-new Nova. Not only as admins, but as functional members – with a Role & Commitment – and can finally claim their ĀutID, the passport to the Nova Ecosystem, and the Coordination Renaissance as a whole.
**Onboard.**The Dashboard is the Operating System for the Novae. Operators can create Role-based Quests, add modules, and start fully on-chain workflows, to scale Operations, coordinate and capture value. By creating and launching role-based Onboarding Quests, Novae can launch an actual Pilot, to onboard new members, verify their skills, or just gamify the very launch of the community itself.
B. The DAO Contributor journey has three phases as well:
**Join.**Newcomers and fervent supporters of the Coordination Renaissance can access the Nova Showcase, see all Novae part of this wave, read the details – and choose the next-gen DAO they want to be part of, and the Role they want in it.
**Participate.**After applying for a Quest to get a Role in a Nova – new DAO participants can prove their value through quizzes, social tasks, or just creative, open assignments to demonstrate the talent and energy they can bring into the community.
**Claim.**The ĀutID is the atom – what Democritus persuaded us all to be “the indivisible unit” that underlies the matter. Nowadays the atom is no longer indivisible - but our identity, our birth-right to be our own selves, it’s still undeniable. The ĀutID is the universal, non-transferable passport to the Nova ecosystem – and the key to exercise your inalienable right to own your own identity, and be your own self.
Potentially, you are a Nova – and your community.
Or that DAO that you have in mind when you think of a DAO.
Novae are decentralized communities that care about fair decision-making, decision-making that represents nuances – rather than flat majorities. Communities where members are gravely hit to the ground by the gravity of their verticality – and seek horizontal governance structures instead. Because they’re more efficient, and grant them a bigger individual breath. Communities willing to reward value with value, in a measurable, meritocratic way. Communities ready to be mutually accountable with their members, relinquishing the power they were given – not after 4/5 years, but after an instant snapshot has been taken.
Moreover, on a technical/practical level, Novae are unique templates – coming from the unique combination of the Modules + Plugins they choose for running their operations.
And by joining the 1st wave of the Coordination Renaissance, the 1st Novae will be the model of Governance that will inspire the next generations to come. Not on which ones, amongst the 200+ tools to use – but on how to vote efficiently, what Roles to pick, how to reward members, measure reputation etc. etc.
And not by jumping from one side to the other, across 83 open tabs – but in one place. Comfortably from their Nova Dashboard. Together with their members, as an asynchronous orchestra that never gets out of tune.
That’s the invite we want to make you today.
Be a Nova. Join the Coordination Renaissance.Get out of a system that doesn’t represent you.
Change is made by moving forward. Not by rushing, but just walking straight.
Stand up to gravity one step after the other.And let’s build the future of Coordination, together.
We announced it last week, and today we are officially opening the gates to the Coordination Renaissance.
What does it mean “opening the gates”, and what even is a “coordination renaissance”?
Well, that’s what articles are for. Pretty much any piece of writing is an answer to a question nobody asked – so if you’re asking yourself those questions, this article has already acquired more practical value than some of the stuff you read every day before or after coffee.
If you’re here, you probably already know what Āut is. But let’s cover some edge cases, if either:
you’ve been willingly ignoring us for the last year, and the very mention of our name gave you unstoppable shivers, or
you’ve just returned to Earth after an alien abduction that you extensively, anonymously detailed on Coinfessions, or
you’re just another of Elon Musk’s figments of imagination - blossomed in the quick, transitory phases between the birth, existence and extinction of a meme-coin
then, well, you may not know that Āut is a suite of DAO-native Membership & Governance Tools – designed to expand Autonomy & Coordination in decentralized communities, and power the next generation of human Coordination.
In a nutshell: we are on a mission to accelerate the transition from an authoritarian, exploitative, vertical distribution of power - to non-hierarchical, more efficient, horizontal forms of organization.
The concept of Renaissance is deeply rooted in the foundation of Āut. It's about creating a new wave of innovation, of decentralization, of autonomy – where individuals can come from nothing, emerge from nothing, and take their role according to the value they produce. And collectives come together to build a more open and human-centered world.
A role-based, human-sized society if you like – or a pixelated, universal NFT, where each pixel represents an existing individual, taking their righteous place within the abysmal whole.
As you guessed: at the heart of this concept lies the idea of Roles.
At Āut we made it our main target: to bring “Roles” on-chain, at contract level – to make both the chain and the contract more human. To give individuals the inalienable right of choice. Choice of association, of working together, building together – doing the things they love the most, and they do best.
Further, Roles in Āut communities are in sets of three (3).
If the Renaissance already sounded a bit clumsy, vintage, the boomer of the historical eras – then let us bring you further back, to 2000-something years ago. 60 BC, the Republican Rome. The very foundation of the Roman res publica lied in the triumvirate – where the three (3) representatives of the most influential aspects of those-days-society, by dividing and administering power between each other, could create a balance of forces where none of them could prevail over the other two (2). Interestingly enough, the larger, general triumvirate was broken down to smaller branches – creating a fractal structure, where each triumvirate forked in smaller groups of three.
If you will be patient – and develop that alien-abduction-resistant technology after all – in a few weeks we will introduce something interesting on how this fractal structure can work in DAOs, too.
Now, if in each DAO there are three (3) Roles, and each role has its own set of responsibilities – then, when combined, these Roles can help create a distributed, self-organized, and efficient organization.
That’s where the final aspect of this intro comes in: the infamous "cut with the past," representing the Āut Labs ecosystem as a whole. This symbol is also connected to the concept of Renaissance.
In fact, by creating the tools and protocols that compose the Coordination Stack, Āut Labs – together with you – aim to create a new wave of collectives and organizations, free of the exploitative, authoritarian, and centralized systems of the past.
Just like the original Renaissance, though – the v1 of renewal, and modernity, and change – this Coordination Renaissance, this v2, also needed its heroes. Not the “homini novi” this time, but the Novae* –* next-gen decentralized communities where Coordination is not only possible, but built-in, by design. Novae bring Role, reputation – and all those human ways of creating (more- or less-) tangible value – on-chain.
That’s all. Here’s the starting point of the Coordination Renaissance.
So, summarizing, we have (1) the Communities (Novae), (2) the individuals (Members of these communities), and (3) the role-based Coordination between them.
They coincidentally (or not) ended up to be three (3) elements, and we liked that – so we are using these three components to launch Āut’s Closed Beta, Try Āut .
As we already talked about the Āut’s Product Suite.Today we want to focus on Try Āut, the first wave – and the entry-point to the entire Coordination Renaissance.
🚨 Disclaimer:
All Products in the Āut suite are specifically designed for contract-powered communities. You need to deploy a Nova (a “next-gen DAO”) in order to access the Āut Operating System.
As a Member, you may simply join a Nova. If you’re not part of a Nova yet, as a new user in the DAO Ecosystem you will be able to join any of our Partner DAOs (the “Novae”) from the Nova Showcase (currently, it’s invite-only).
Try Āut is divided in two flows of three (3) steps: A. for DAO Operators B. for DAO Contributors
Let’s dive a bit deeper in each one of them:
A. The DAO Operator journey has three phases:
**Expand.**Nova is a standard that expands the concept of DAO, bringing Members’ Roles & Interactions at Contract level. At this step, the 1st Novae will be deployed, and will start shaping the future of coordination.
**Claim.**After step 1, Operators can take their rightful place in their brand-new Nova. Not only as admins, but as functional members – with a Role & Commitment – and can finally claim their ĀutID, the passport to the Nova Ecosystem, and the Coordination Renaissance as a whole.
**Onboard.**The Dashboard is the Operating System for the Novae. Operators can create Role-based Quests, add modules, and start fully on-chain workflows, to scale Operations, coordinate and capture value. By creating and launching role-based Onboarding Quests, Novae can launch an actual Pilot, to onboard new members, verify their skills, or just gamify the very launch of the community itself.
B. The DAO Contributor journey has three phases as well:
**Join.**Newcomers and fervent supporters of the Coordination Renaissance can access the Nova Showcase, see all Novae part of this wave, read the details – and choose the next-gen DAO they want to be part of, and the Role they want in it.
**Participate.**After applying for a Quest to get a Role in a Nova – new DAO participants can prove their value through quizzes, social tasks, or just creative, open assignments to demonstrate the talent and energy they can bring into the community.
**Claim.**The ĀutID is the atom – what Democritus persuaded us all to be “the indivisible unit” that underlies the matter. Nowadays the atom is no longer indivisible - but our identity, our birth-right to be our own selves, it’s still undeniable. The ĀutID is the universal, non-transferable passport to the Nova ecosystem – and the key to exercise your inalienable right to own your own identity, and be your own self.
Potentially, you are a Nova – and your community.
Or that DAO that you have in mind when you think of a DAO.
Novae are decentralized communities that care about fair decision-making, decision-making that represents nuances – rather than flat majorities. Communities where members are gravely hit to the ground by the gravity of their verticality – and seek horizontal governance structures instead. Because they’re more efficient, and grant them a bigger individual breath. Communities willing to reward value with value, in a measurable, meritocratic way. Communities ready to be mutually accountable with their members, relinquishing the power they were given – not after 4/5 years, but after an instant snapshot has been taken.
Moreover, on a technical/practical level, Novae are unique templates – coming from the unique combination of the Modules + Plugins they choose for running their operations.
And by joining the 1st wave of the Coordination Renaissance, the 1st Novae will be the model of Governance that will inspire the next generations to come. Not on which ones, amongst the 200+ tools to use – but on how to vote efficiently, what Roles to pick, how to reward members, measure reputation etc. etc.
And not by jumping from one side to the other, across 83 open tabs – but in one place. Comfortably from their Nova Dashboard. Together with their members, as an asynchronous orchestra that never gets out of tune.
That’s the invite we want to make you today.
Be a Nova. Join the Coordination Renaissance.Get out of a system that doesn’t represent you.
Change is made by moving forward. Not by rushing, but just walking straight.
Stand up to gravity one step after the other.And let’s build the future of Coordination, together.
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