Create more.
Connect complementary abilities so people can achieve things that would be difficult to do alone.
Better systems for working together
Make cooperation the winning move.
WebTree builds and studies systems where people create more together—and have good reasons to help each other succeed.
A long-term mission. Practical experiments. Open questions.
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The possibility behind WebTree
More than the sum of our efforts.
A skill meets a need. An idea finds someone who can build on it. Knowledge shared once becomes useful in many different ways.
Cooperation can create value that would not exist if everyone worked separately. We want to understand what makes that happen—and build systems where the people involved benefit from it.
What would make cooperation dependable? ↗Share success.
Explore how the people behind useful work can benefit from the value they help create.
Build on it.
Let knowledge, designs, tools, and lessons remain useful to the people who come next.
The deeper work
The rules shape
what happens next.
What gets rewarded. Who gets heard. What becomes worth doing.
WebTree is a long-term effort to explore how we coordinate, build trust, recognize contribution, share resources, and make decisions.
Our ideas about contribution and governance are hypotheses to test. We expect real experience to change them.
Why these questions matter ↗Ideas meet reality
Different projects.
A shared question.
Each project has its own purpose, people, and practical problems. They give us different places to discover what makes cooperation work.
Local production
MakeLocal
More people should be able to make things.
Bring together people with a need, a design, equipment, or a useful production skill. Start with local 3D printing and learn from getting real things made.
First priority · Preparing the first real orders
Explore the projectReusable design
0CAD
A design can be the beginning of many useful things.
Explore designs that change with a need. We’re building toward parametric models that people can create, adapt, fork, and improve, with a future connection to local production.
Early development · Browser CAD prototype
Explore the projectShared tools
Open development
Make useful work easier to build on.
Tools for building projects, operating infrastructure, preserving knowledge, and coordinating people and AI. Built from our own needs, with useful parts becoming available to other teams.
Tools used internally · Broader platform in development
Explore the projectProject status checked .
Projects, priorities, and earlier experiments ↗There is room for your part
What could we
make possible?
Bring a perspective.
A question, a lived experience, or a reason an idea might fail.
Bring a contribution.
Build, test, explain, document, translate, or connect people.
Bring a project.
Explore a useful collaboration around a problem you care about.
Curiosity and practical experience belong here. You can participate without being a developer or contributing money.