Shared economy

Justice = fair access to resources based on evidence of contribution. All forms of contribution — code, docs, design, community — are valued and tracked. The same posture extends to pilot schools: MENA-10 cohort members are not customers we ship a finished product to, they are partners whose feedback shapes the platform. Their case studies, issue reports, and roadmap input are first-class contributions.

Core principles

Contribution matrix

Technical (40% weight)

Quality multipliers (max 3.9× combined): tests pass first try (1.2×) · zero review iterations (1.3×) · includes tests (1.5×) · includes docs (1.4×) · zero regressions in 30 days (1.5×).

Community (30% weight)

Strategic (20% weight)

Ecosystem (10% weight)

Anti-gaming

Transparency

• Public ledger — every contribution generates a permanent hash recorded in git history.
• Formula visibility — src/contribution-engine/formulas.ts is the single source of truth.
• Monthly reports — auto-generated Markdown + PDF distributed to all contributors.
• Dispute process — file an issue tagged valuation-review; three maintainers vote within 7 days.
• Audit trail — auto-generated breakdown attached to every commit's metadata.
• Historical changes — formula changes tracked in git with rationale.
• Maintainer override — requires 2/3 vote plus public justification.

Valuation formula

Hourly rate floor: $45 USD/hour minimum (COCOMO 2024 standard).

Contribution Value = (Base Points × Quality Multiplier × Impact Factor) / Effort Hours

If Contribution Value < $45/hour → Adjusted Value = $45 × Effort Hours

Effort estimation methods: self-reported (honor system + peer validation), auto-detected via commit timestamps (GitHub API), code via COCOMO II formula. Outliers flagged — e.g. 100 lines claimed as 20 hours → manual review.

Underpayment prevention

• Market-rate adjustment — quarterly review against Upwork / Toptal benchmarks.
• Cost-of-living index — high-COL contributors not penalised.
• Skill premium — senior developers receive a 1.5–2× multiplier.
• Minimum-wage alert — earnings below local equivalent trigger an alert.
• Profit redistribution — if margin > 40% while pay < $30/hr, profit redistributes back to contributors.
• Annual satisfaction survey — anonymous, results published.

Non-code recognition

Invisible labor

• Meeting attendance — 10 / hour, capped 4 hr/week.
• Email / DM support — 2 per substantive response.
• Emotional support — peer-nominated, 50 bonus / month.

Skill development

• 1.5× for first contribution in a new area.
• +20% mentor receives 20% of mentee's points.
• 2× for knowledge-transfer guides in complex areas.

Examples

Junior dev — first auth bug fix

50 lines TypeScript, critical bug, 4 hours: base 75 × quality 1.8 × impact 5 = 675 points. Raw value $67.50/hr exceeds floor, but first-contribution bonus (1.5×) lifts payout to $270.

Designer — onboarding flow

5 mockups (500) + 10-user testing (300) + Figma docs (20) = 820 points over 16 hours. Hourly $51.25 — above the $45 floor.

Community manager — monthly cycle

20 hr moderation (100) + 3 onboarded contributors (150) + 1 event (100) + 50 Discord responses (100) = 450 points over ~25 hours. Floor adjustment lifts payout to $1,125.

Revenue sharing

No traditional salaries. Hogwarts is collectively owned by contributors. When projects come in, each contributor takes their share by contribution.

Expected timeline

• Month 1–3 — learn systems, contribute, earn initial shares.
• Month 6–12 — build reusable components, join partnerships.
• Year 2+ — major contributor with SaaS involvement, recurring revenue.

Governance

Formula evolution

1. Propose change via RFC.
2. Run simulation on historical data; show impact.
3. Public discussion period: 30 days.
4. Vote: weighted by contribution history.
5. Supermajority required: 67% to change core valuations.
6. Gradual rollout: 10% test for 1 month first.

Protection against capture

• Voting cap — no contributor exceeds 10% voting power.
• Power decay — founding-team voting power decreases 10% per year.
• Emergency brake — 100+ objections pause a change for review.
• Arbitration — external mediator for major disputes.

Contestable valuations

1. Contributor files issue: "Commit X undervalued because Y".
2. Auto-tagged valuation-review.
3. Three maintainers review within 7 days.
4. Vote: adjust up / down / no change.
5. Outcome recorded publicly with reasoning.

Lineage & references

This page is the measurement layer — how contribution is valued, anti-gaming controls, governance. The doctrinal layer — what we mean by "share economy," the intellectual lineage, and the precise Arabic-rooted vocabulary — lives in the kun strategy folder at SHARE-ECONOMY-MODEL.md. The operational spec layer — CU pool sizing, founder/operating reserves, multi-class CU schema, conversion-to-cash, Mudaraba contract template, Waqf-track activation triggers — is being formalized by Samia (R&D) for Q3 2026 and will live in databayt/revenue (not yet created).

The four references that ground the doctrine:

• Khedr, M.H. (2019). رائد الأعمال Inside Out. Dar Don. ISBN 9789778061598. — MENA-context equity-allocation methodology.
• Akbar, J. (in progress). قص الحق. en.jamelakbar.com · Ummatics colloquium 2024. — Huquq (rights-based access) as alternative to property-based exclusion.
• الحركة الوطنية للبناء والتنمية. ورقة الاقتصاد التشاركي. nmbdsd.org. — Production-solidarity (التضامن في الإنتاج) as the operative principle.
• Islamic economy primitives — Mudaraba (مضاربة), Shirkat al-A'mal (شِركة الأعمال), Waqf (وقف), Zakat-aligned Needs Fund (صندوق العون). Reference textbook: Iqbal & Mirakhor, An Introduction to Islamic Finance (Wiley, 2011); standards: AAOIFI.

The CU framework on this page expresses the shirkat al-a'mal principle (partnership of labor): contributors are owners by measured contribution, not by membership. Honest divergence from the classical structure: this model caps contributor downside — operational losses are absorbed by the operating reserve, not redistributed pro-rata to contributors.

See also

• Contributing — commit conventions, your first PR
• Business model — pricing, revenue, equity allocation
• Code of conduct — community standards
• Doctrine: kun/docs/SHARE-ECONOMY-MODEL.md — full philosophical frame and references