Two tools for a worker-owned cooperative — one to see what everyone is working on, one to record each member’s contribution to the shared books. Both built around a single, stubborn rule: nothing enters the official record without a person deciding to put it there.
This is not a policy promise — it is structural. The tool has no path from “ready” to “recorded” that doesn’t go through a person. If you didn’t land it, it didn’t happen.
A cooperative has two things it needs to track: the work it is doing together, and the activity that goes into the shared books. These are related but different. Common Work handles the first. The Daybook handles the second.
A shared board where work moves through six stages — from a raw idea captured by one person, through collective holding and standing, to a resolved outcome the whole group can see.
Color tells you where something is. The arc goes from gold at the start to blue at the end, through the full spectrum of a day. Work that finishes doesn’t disappear — it composts, visible as provenance rather than hidden as deletion.
A member’s personal record of the day — where what you did becomes visible to the cooperative, on your terms, at the moment you choose.
The Daybook shows the cooperative’s activity as a bloom: a clock face where each petal sits at the hour it was made public, in the color of that hour. The bloom tells you when and how often — never what. Content stays private until you land it.
Everything in the Daybook is one of four kinds. Three of them touch the cooperative’s books — recording labor, value moved, or settlements between members. The fourth is the one new thing: a reflection, which is yours alone until you choose to share it.
A narrative entry — a thought, observation, or note on the day. Private to you by default. Making it public opens a petal in the bloom at the hour it happened. The content is never shared without your action.
Labor logged against the cooperative’s program. You record your hours, confirm the reading is right, then land it. That single act writes the event into the shared record and credits your account.
A transfer or allocation of shared value — money, credits, or resources moved between members or programs. Requires the circle’s assent before anyone can land it. Higher bar, more people involved.
A settlement at day’s end between two members’ accounts. Both parties confirm the line, and then one of them lands it. Two people, one closing action.
The best way to understand these tools is to see them. The six-step guided introduction walks you through the Daybook from the outside in — observe before you participate, learn by doing, see what requires membership standing.
Walk through the cooperative’s rhythm, learn the four kinds of entry, and make your first reflection — in six steps. No account required for the first three.
Six documents, in order from most interactive to most technical. The design system and architecture spec are the ground layers — everything else builds on them.
A six-step journey from guest observer to first reflection. The clearest path into both tools for someone encountering them for the first time.
The two-layer bloom in action. Settled entries as solid petals, open matters filling toward a decision only a person can make.
The peer coordination board. Six-stage arc in the sunset palette, board view, field view, peer signals, and a capture form for new work.
The technical specification: four entry kinds, ripening lifecycle, rhythm view schema, database tables, and the cite-as-you-enforce design principle applied throughout.
Pre-implementation spec for both systems together: constants, schema, state machines, logic rules, cross-system bindings, invariants, and seven open questions deferred to board resolution.
The canonical visual reference: tokens, type scale, rules vocabulary, document and instrument grammars, data visualization with sunset, accessibility requirements, and the site application protocol.
RegenHub, LCA is a Colorado Limited Cooperative Association — a business owned and governed by the people who work in it. Members share profits, share decisions, and share responsibility for the space and the work it does.
In a cooperative, tracking contributions fairly matters: not for surveillance, but because the books are shared. Every member has a capital account, and what goes in it depends on what they’ve done. These tools are an attempt to make that accounting legible — and to keep it in the hands of the people whose work it records.
Techne is the studio brand of RegenHub, LCA. These tools are prototypes — concepts in development, not yet in production. They represent an approach, not a finished system.
The design system (Libre Baskerville, IBM Plex Mono, the sunrise color spectrum) is Techne v4. The guiding principle: legibility is a product, not a byproduct. If you can’t see it, you can’t govern it.