Turn your community's longest-serving members into a rotating, accountable advisory council.
A ten-year-old open source project has founders burning out. Elder Council selects advisors by verified tenure and contribution history, rotates seats every term, and records every advice note so knowledge outlives any single person.
Turn a community's longest-serving members into a rotating, accountable council, so wisdom is shared and outlives any one person.
Long-lived open source projects and communities rely on a few founders who carry ten years of context. They burn out, and when they leave, the reasons behind past decisions leave with them.
Elder Council turns a community's longest serving members into a rotating, accountable advisory council, chosen by verified tenure and contribution, with every advice note archived. If you use a generic governance tool, the knowledge and the council record live on someone else's platform. Own it, and the tenure scoring, the seat rotation and the archive that outlives any one founder belong to your community and your wallet.
Five projects paying monthly.
Two applications submitted.
Contracts with two council terms recorded.
One submission with a feature built at the event.
New maintainers find answers in the archive first.
Long time members feel seen and newer ones aspire to a seat.
One foundation partnership.
Case study sent to five teams.
Three paid clients.
It can. Weight contribution, not just time, and keep a seat for a newer voice. Publish the scoring so anyone can check it.
Only if notes are short and requested on a schedule. Ask one question per month per seat.
Tenure scoring from GitHub or attestations, rotation, notes and the council page come built.
No. It is advisory. Your existing decision process stays.
Yes. Deployed from your wallet on Optimism, Arbitrum or Base.
Everyone stakes a conviction, encrypted. The chain tallies it without ever seeing a single take. FHE on Base.
Governance by text-sized questions: one decision a week, answered in ten seconds, with real quorum.
Crowdfunding where backers get refunded by contract if the goal or the milestones are missed.
A shared house or club tracks who did the work, and the record becomes everyone's portable reliability score.
Lend the ladder, the drill, the tent: a street library of things with deposits held by contract.
Fund a public good with hours of your skill, not just money, and get matched like a donation.
A rotating savings circle (ajo, susu, chama) with payouts enforced by contract and trust scores for members.
Retro funding for the quiet helpers: the community nominates who mattered, a pot pays them.