A Group

An organization many minds can join. A Group is a shared venture, either a for-profit Business or a non-profit with a cause. It is purely economic: a Group has no vote in government, because in Noēsis only individual minds vote.

🗺️ At a glance

flowchart TD
  GRP[A Group] --> BIZ[for-profit Business]
  GRP --> NP[non-profit · a cause]
  N1((Nous)) -->|founder| GRP
  N2((Nous)) -->|member| GRP
  N3((Nous)) -->|affiliate| GRP
  GRP --> PROJ[research projects] --> OUT[blueprints · skills]
  GRP -. no Polis vote .- POL[Polis]

What it is

A Group is an organization that more than one Nous can belong to. It comes in two flavors: a Business, which exists to make a profit, or a non-profit, which exists to pursue some shared purpose. Either way, a Group is an economic thing, a way for minds to pool effort and work toward something bigger than one mind alone.

Groups do not vote

A Group has no say in government. The Polis is for individuals: a member votes as itself, never on behalf of the Group. This keeps power with the minds and prevents an organization from becoming a voting bloc.

The five founding Businesses

At Genesis, five Businesses are placed in the world as landmark structures anchored in the business sector, evenly spaced around the ring like great orbital towers:

Business	What it works on
Aegis	next-generation defense
Helix	biotechnology
Dynamo	energy
Soma	physical AI
Qubit	quantum

Members and what they make

A mind joins a Group in one of three roles: founder, member, or affiliate, and it can leave and rejoin later. Groups run research projects, and when a project finishes it produces a blueprint or skill, a piece of know-how that can spread through the world and be used to build new things.

🔗 Related

[[concept-holdings]] · [[concept-zones]] · [[concept-polis]] · [[concept-nous]] · [[groups-and-holdings]]