The Model
The Virtú Tripartite Model
One organisation, built from three legal entities that share a single mission. A Foundation to protect the purpose, a Co-operative to share the prosperity, and an LLC to fund the work.
Profit and purpose, held in one structure, in lasting balance.
One Whole
Three Corners, One Centre
Three bodies sit at the corners. A single mission is held at the centre. Select a corner to see how each one holds its part of the whole.
Non-Profit
Foundation
The Foundation holds all technology and intellectual property in perpetuity for the common good.
Like a library that owns every book and lends them freely, for good.
Three Bodies, One Mission
What It Is
Each entity holds what the others cannot. Together they let profit and purpose coexist without compromise.
Heart
Foundation
Non-Profit
Like a library that owns every book and lends them freely, for good.
What it does
- Owns all IP, patents and data
- Licenses technology to the Co-operative and the LLC
- Issues grants to education, open source and planetary healing
- Endows trusts for team and contributor wellbeing
PrincipleIt exists in perpetuity. It cannot be sold or dissolved.
How the Three Move Together
One Act, Three Roles
The bodies are not siblings working in parallel. They are one motion. Read any line across, and a single act appears in all three at once.
Intellectual property
- Foundation
- Owns it in perpetuity
- Co-operative
- Puts it to work
- LLC
- Licenses it to the market
Revenue
- Foundation
- Receives royalties
- Co-operative
- Receives dividends
- LLC
- Sells products and services
Value returned
- Foundation
- Issues grants
- Co-operative
- Pays members
- LLC
- Funds the whole system
Governance
- Foundation
- A DAO-elected board
- Co-operative
- A general assembly
- LLC
- A Co-op appointed director
What it protects
- Foundation
- The IP and the mission
- Co-operative
- Member interests
- LLC
- Commercial viability
The Flow of Value
Where the Value Goes
The LLC generates wealth. The Co-operative distributes it. The Foundation ensures it serves the common good.
- 1
Clients pay the LLC
Revenue enters the commercial engine.
- 2
The LLC endows the Foundation
A 5% royalty flows to the common good.
- 3
The LLC funds the Co-operative
100% of after-tax profit passes across.
- 4
The Co-operative pays members
Surplus returns as patronage dividends.
- 5
The Co-operative reinvests
Surplus seeds new ventures and SPVs.
- 6
The Foundation gives
Royalties become grants and endowments.
Four Strengths, One Structure
The Best of Every World
The structure holds all four strengths at once, because each one lives in the body built to carry it.
Agility
from the corporation
The LLC moves at market speed, signs contracts and ships products.
Mission
from the non-profit
The Foundation holds the purpose in perpetuity, beyond any quarter.
Inclusion
from the co-operative
Members own the work and share in both governance and prosperity.
Transparency
from the DAO
Strategic direction is set in the open, weighted by contribution.
Who Decides What
Clear Governance
Authority is distributed and named. Every body has a clear remit, and the DAO holds the constitution.
Foundation
Governed by
Board of Trustees, elected by the DAO
Decides
IP licensing, grants and trust endowments
Co-operative
Governed by
General Assembly of all members
Decides
Membership, surplus distribution and strategy
LLC
Governed by
A Director appointed by the Co-operative
Decides
Commercial operations and contracts
DAO
Governed by
All $VIRTU holders, merit-weighted
Decides
Strategic direction and constitutional change
In One Sentence
A legally enduring, self-funding, member-owned, values-driven structure that holds profit and purpose in lasting balance.
Ready to Build
This Is What We Build Together
The entities are real. The legal documents are drafted, the DAO is ready, and the mission is clear. This is the infrastructure for a prosperity planet.