# The Roles

**Track 7 of 11 · who people are in the Kidunaverse · v4.2**
Roles are how members relate to an organization — appointed, earned, or founded, per duna, with thresholds and capabilities set by each duna's founder. **This track supersedes the earlier levels ladder where they conflict** — notably, Catalyst and Luminary are defined by what someone *does*, not by wealth held. Role gates for specific actions are marked in [Actions](actions.html).

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## 1. The nine roles

| Role | Definition | Named now |
|---|---|---|
| **Guest** | Not a member — the guest of a member. No ally of their own; guided and supported by **Ki**, the Genesis Ally that serves all guests and onboards every member ([Orchestration §1](orchestration.html)). | — |
| **Member** | Joined the organization that registered them — a one-time initial purchase of that duna's Compute ($100 for Kinship Duna; each duna sets its own). Once a member, always a member. One FROST wallet, one ally, across all dunas. | the team, and everyone who comes through the founding round |
| **Founder** | One of the first X members of a duna (X set by the duna, always > 100; Kinship Duna: the first 1,000). | the first 1,000 of Kinship Duna |
| **Organizer** | **Appointed** to lead, organize, support, and communicate — on social media and everywhere else. Like an ambassador but more formal, and can get paid: primarily through the lineage, sometimes other ways; some Organizers receive free Compute. | appointments begin after launch |
| **Creator** | Builds context and experiences — wisdom, regimens, writing, design, worlds. Assigned by another Creator. | — |
| **Builder** | Creates apps, agents, automations, code. Assigned by another Builder. | the dev team, day one |
| **Catalyst** | **Founder of a new organization** — the member who spins out a duna. | **Matt Simon** (Service Alliance) · **Dave Thompson & Susan Thompson** (The Fellowship of Play) · **Crystal Stone & Rob Dobson** (Mountain River Trail) · **Stacey Toy** (Fanduna) · **Trevor Fitzgibbon** (Agency) · **Lester Firstenberger** (Contraction · Freehold Finance) · **Paul Levine & Dave Didden** (BiHome/Inner Clinic) · **Marie Uehling** (EP Rising) |
| **Luminary** | A major advisor or figure whose work grounds a duna. | **Howard Teich** (Cosmic Humanity · Vibe Coast) · **Four Arrows** (Indigenous Revival) · **Renée Smith** (Mapshifting) · **Mama Ayo** (Black Love) · **Bill Thatcher** (Soul Kitchen) · **Darcia Narvaez** (Homeworld) |
| **Institution** | Partners, sponsors, and outside entities with accounts: squad wallet, $1K Compute, up to 10 enrolled members, contracts with anyone, **cannot vote**. Must be a registered outside entity. | Current: **Kiduna Club** · **Kinship Intelligence Institute** · **Kinship Systems**. Potential partner: **Circle**. |

## 2. How roles work

- **Per-duna.** A member is a Builder in Kinship Duna and a plain member of Fanduna; roles don't travel automatically. The founder of each duna sets promotion requirements and what each role can do (a Forum can change them — `promote`, `set promotion requirements` are duna commands).
- **Three ways in:** earned by sequence (Founder), appointed (Organizer; Creator and Builder by peers of the same role; Catalyst by the act of founding; Luminary by invitation), or purchased once (Member; Institution).
- **Compensation attaches to roles, not levels.** Organizers earn through lineage — commissions on **Compute purchases** by their Clan (four generations deep), at the duna's schedule: **default 20% / 5% / 3% / 2% by generation**, set at founding by the Catalyst, changeable by Forum; USDC purchases pay immediately, fiat purchases show as **pending** until the funds bridge on-chain, expected monthly ([Real Work, Real Money §3](real-work-real-money.html)). Some Organizers also receive free Compute. Lineage is optional per duna — open door, invite-only, or invite-then-open. Builders and Creators earn through engagements and Forum-approved work; Catalysts earn as founders of their own dunas; Institutions pay in.
- **Promotion is a moment.** Announced by light — the ground briefly brightens — then quiet. Never fireworks (the gold ceremony marks signed acts only), never a leaderboard. (The designed moment: [Levels & Social Objects](design-r4/Levels%20%26%20Social%20Objects%20R4.dc.html), with the celebration updated per [Surfaces §2](surfaces.html).)
- **There is no holdings-based recognition, at all.** No role, badge, pip, or standing ever derives from a member's balances. The system knows balances for many purposes — limits, metering, settlement, treasury display to the holder — but they are never surfaced publicly, never shown to other members, and never rendered as recognition.

## 3. Roles × the team, today

Kinship Duna's own working roles: Moto — Founder/Catalyst of the genesis duna; Jeya (Sucil), Aashik, Elias, Jose, Shriram (Sri Ram), Muthu Krishnan, Vijay — Builders; the writing/design work — Creator seats open; the Catalysts and Luminaries named in §1 anchor their dunas; Kiduna Club, KII, and Kinship Systems stand as the first [Institutions](institutions.html). **The launch cohort — every named Catalyst and Luminary — starts within Kiduna Club** ([Institutions §3](institutions.html)): invited, onboarded, and organizing there while their own dunas take the Alliance → Organization path. Their seat is in one duna; their participation is never limited to it. Each role's daily package is in [downloads](index.html) — one zip per role, made to be dropped into any Claude.

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*Changes in v5.2: Ki (the Genesis Ally) replaces the generic Host for guests and onboarding. v5.0: the launch cohort named — eight catalyst seats and four more luminary placements, all starting within Kiduna Club; Muthu Krishnan and Vijay join the Builders. v4.6: organizer economics decided — commissions on Clan Compute purchases only, default 20/5/3/2, Catalyst-set and Forum-changeable, lineage optional per duna. v4.3: holdings-based recognition removed entirely. v4.2: track created. Full history: [versions](versions/index.html).*
