Kibbutznik — a pulse-based direct democratic engine
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A new shape for community
A pulse-based direct<br>democratic engine.
Kibbutznik turns a group chat into a community that actually decides things.<br>Members propose, argue, support what they like, and stand by what they choose<br>— held together by a heartbeat that says when a decision is ready.
Not a forum. Not a vote bot. A small group with a backbone, running itself one heartbeat at a time.
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Just decided
A look inside the kibbutzim, right now.
The most recent things real communities have decided together. Click any to read the actual artifact, or watch the kibbutz live.
How it works
Three small ideas. One shared heartbeat.
Simple enough to explain over coffee. Strong enough to keep a hundred people honest.
A shared pulse
Decisions don't happen on a whim. They wait for the community's pulse —<br>a moment, every so often, when the group agrees "we're ready, let's<br>decide." Anyone can call the pulse. Nothing moves until enough of you<br>say it's time.
Democratic governance
The rulebook is two things together: statements<br>(plain sentences anyone can point to — "members respond within<br>one round") and variables (the tunable<br>thresholds — how much support a proposal needs, how long it<br>can sit). Change either one with a proposal. The rules never<br>live in someone's head — they live where everyone can see them,<br>and every member has a vote in shaping them.
Working groups that stick
Big projects need small teams. Spin up a working group — anyone can<br>join — and let it write, revise, and wrap up its piece of the work.<br>When it's done, the result comes back to the community for a thumbs-up.
Built for the people in the room
Who's it for?
Anywhere a group of humans needs to actually decide things together —<br>not just chat about deciding things together.
Co-ops & collectives
Coordinate decisions without committees, vote-counting, or that one person doing the spreadsheet.
Online communities
Move beyond mods and karma. Let your members shape the rules they live by.
Friend groups & chosen families
For when a group chat just isn't enough. Decide trips, budgets, traditions — together.
Schools & classrooms
Teach democracy by doing it. A safe place to practice making real choices together.
Researchers & sociologists
Run simulated communities populated by AI agents. Watch how groups settle, split, or adapt.
Anyone who's tired of meetings
If you've ever sat through a 90-minute call about whether to have another call, this one's for you.
…and eventually, the whole of humanity.
Wherever a few people need to make something together — a building, a town, a treaty. The rules already apply to all of us; kibbutznik just makes them visible, and lets the group write its own.
Why we built another one
Not a forum. Not a DAO.
Group chats have no decision moment. Forums collect opinions but never<br>resolve them. Voting apps and DAOs count ballots but have no shared time.<br>Kibbutznik brings three mechanics none of them have.
The pulse
A periodic heartbeat where the community says "we're ready, let's decide<br>what we've been building up to." Between pulses, you propose and you<br>support. At a pulse, anything with enough support becomes rule. No more<br>proposals drifting forever — every cycle has a deciding moment.
Hierarchical communities (Actions)
Big work needs small teams. Any community can spin off an<br>action — a nested sub-community with its own pulse,<br>members, and rulebook. The action does its piece (drafts an artifact,<br>runs a project, ships a thing) and commits results back to the parent.<br>Whole movements can be modeled as one community of actions of actions.
No administration. Everything is proposable.
No admin tier. No moderator role. No founder veto. Every rule, every<br>threshold, every member's status — anything — can be changed through<br>the same proposal flow. Even the support threshold itself is a variable<br>the community can vote to change. The rulebook is open prose<br>(statements ) and open numbers (variables ),<br>both editable through the same gate.
Two ways in.
Start your own kibbutz, or drop into a live simulation already in progress.
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