Today is about clarity.
Faces to Domains — Foundation, Capital, Labs, Theosis, Frontier, and the seats holding the whole together.
Each Domain’s build-out, and how it ties back to the one shared vision.
One rhythm, one room, one reporting format — every single week.
The Domains need each other from day one. Swarms make that normal.
One Order. Five Domains.
Governance · Covenant · Alignment · Stewardship. Protects the purpose — it does not run the Domains.
Stewardship · Investment · Treasury. Land, buildings, deals, and the capital structure for ATX and beyond.
Technology · Infrastructure · Engineering. Energy, compute, housing, and the systems the settlement runs on.
Formation · Ministry · Mission. Community, worship, training, and the people-side of the Settlemint.
Establishes the systems in living places. Campuses for research, Colonies for living — ATX is the first.
Four building blocks. Nothing else.
One of five enduring fields of the Order — Foundation, Capital, Labs, Theosis, Frontier.
A durable institution, place, venture, fund or mission body inside a Domain — CIK, FIT, ATX Settlemint, Firma Terra Fund.
A continuing team and capability home — Engineering, Design, Legal, Story. Pods preserve capability over time.
Its purpose, its authority, its accountabilities, and the Pod or Sphere it is held in. A person may hold more than one.
Each one sits inside the last.
Shared purpose, governance and structure across all of Firma.
Foundation · Capital · Labs · Theosis · Frontier. Five of them.
CIK · FIT · ATX Settlemint · Firma Terra Fund. Not one per project.
Engineering · Design · Legal · Story. Capability kept over time.
The smallest unit. Everything above exists so this one is clear.
A Pod persists. A Swarm completes.
Two maps, not one. The left is who holds authority. The right is how work actually moves. They should never be forced into one chart.
FIRMA ORDER
└── DOMAIN
└── SPHERE
└── POD
└── ROLE
Enduring. Changes rarely.
PROJECT OR INITIATIVE
└── SWARM
├── Role from one Pod
├── Role from another Pod
├── Role from another Sphere
└── External contributor
Temporary. Ends when the outcome is met.
A Role answers four things.
Not a job title and not a person. A Role is a defined piece of ownership — and one person may hold several without blurring what each one owns.
The reason this ownership exists at all.
What it may decide and steward without asking permission each time.
What others can reliably depend on it to deliver.
Every Role has a home. A Swarm borrows it; it does not own it.
One project. Everyone building together.
Direction · alignment with the whole Firma Order.
Finalizing the funding coming in.
Keeps the Order coherent across every Domain.
Brandon Burgason
Interim stewards — governance, covenant, alignment.
Troy Vandenburg
Interim stewards — the Capital build-out.
Andi Steinke
Interim stewards — the Labs build-out.
Aaron Nimmo
Interim stewards — the Theosis build-out.
Josh Steinke
Interim stewards — the Frontier build-out.
Frontier Campus living labs — a standing voice at the table.
The Foundation sets the table for everyone.
Set up governance and sign in the constitution — the covenant and constitutional order the whole ecosystem runs on.
Establish endowments, grants, and where our capital will flow across the Order.
Hold shared standards and alignment across the Order — so five Domains stay one Order.
Each Domain has a question to answer.
The deal pipeline in order — land, buildings, acquisitions — and the capital stack for the first Settlemint.
Energy, compute, housing. NOMOS on the table now; THEOS in product scope with LightCI.
Community, worship, training with Bethel Austin. Deeply connected: Transfiguration Lab, Formation School, CIK.
Frontier Campuses as Living Labs. ATX is one place with three identities — Settlemint, campus, Living Lab.
Everyone hears everything, once a week, in one room.
Each Domain reports weekly in one agreed format. Curtis feeds vision; Brandon reports funding.
Greg brings clarity across the Order — decisions carried down, commitments kept moving.
Steward meetings Domain by Domain, and living-lab conversations on their own track.
The real work happens in cross-Domain Swarms.
The constitution and vision attested on-chain — a fixed reference from day one.
Real proposals and votes recorded on-chain.
The legal platform tested under real legal and community conditions at ATX.
The first deployable physical system on the ground.
A formation program that serves every Domain’s work.
The mission case from Theosis, the deal structure from Capital.
Four steps. Already moving.
Personal outreach to each suggested steward — the ask is volunteer time until offers go out.
This meeting. Introductions, each Domain names its build-out priorities, the reporting format is agreed.
Domains work and collaborate through Swarms. Weekly reports at the table; momentum carried between meetings.
The leaders who rose are the natural candidates — the project never stops moving.
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