Kibbutznik — a pulse-based direct democratic engine
Kibbutznik turns a group chat into a community that actually decides things. Members propose, argue, support what they like, and stand by what they choose — held together by a heartbeat that says when a decision is ready.
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Live from the kibbutzim, right now.
The latest things our running communities decided together — proposals that cleared a pulse. Open any one to watch it happen.
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 — a moment when the group agrees "we're ready, let's decide." Anyone can call the pulse. Nothing moves until enough of you say it's time.
Democratic governance
The rulebook is two things together: statements — plain sentences anyone can point to — and variables, the tunable thresholds. Change either with a proposal. The rules never live in someone's head; they live where everyone can see them.
Working groups that stick
Big projects need small teams. Spin up a working group — anyone can join — and let it write, revise, and wrap up its piece of the work. When it's done, the result comes back to the community for a vote.
Not a forum. Not a DAO.
Group chats have no decision moment. Forums collect opinions but never resolve them. Voting apps and DAOs count ballots but have no shared time. Kibbutznik brings three mechanics none of them have.
The pulse
A heartbeat where the community says "we're ready, let's decide what we've been building up to." Between pulses you propose and support. At a pulse, anything with enough support becomes rule — all at once, on the beat. No proposal drifts forever: every cycle has a deciding moment.
Hierarchical communities
Any community can spin off an action — a nested sub-community with its own pulse, members and rulebook. It does its piece, then commits the result back up to its parent for a vote. Actions can have actions, so a whole movement can be one community of actions of actions.
No administration. Everything is proposable.
No admin tier, no moderator, no founder veto. Every rule, every threshold, every member's status can change through the same proposal. Even the support threshold is a variable the community can vote to change — the rules about rules included.
Who's it for?
Anywhere a group needs to actually decide things together — 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.
friends
For when a group chat just isn't enough. Decide trips, budgets and traditions — together.
schools & classrooms
Teach democracy by doing it. A safe place to practise making real choices together.
researchers
Run simulated communities populated by AI agents, and watch how groups settle, split or adapt.
anyone tired of meetings
If you've 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.
Two ways in.
Start your own kibbutz, or drop into a live community already in progress.
decide together. one pulse at a time.