Design Round 4 · Levels, guilds, institutions · July 8, 2026

# A level is earned standing, a guild is a name, an institution is a counterparty

Four moments: a promotion to Organizer, felt as one gold beat in the thread (5a); a guild sitting feather-light in a sharing flow beside connections, alliances, and organizations (5b); an institution as contract counterparty, square and voteless (5c); and the ally meeting a trusted versus an untrusted domain on the agentic internet (5d). Levels render per duna, founder-set; boundaries stay fluid — the duna line marks who is accountable, never who may talk to whom.

5a

## The promotion — Organizer, with a Clan, sealed in gold because it was earned

Rationale. A promotion is a duna's act, not a purchase — so it arrives as a beat in the conversation, cited to the threshold the founder set, and it is the one everyday moment allowed the full gold treatment: seal stamp, ≤12 embers, once. How a level shows afterward: a small gold pip beside your name, only in that duna's contexts — levels are per-duna state, and the pip travels with the grounding, not with you. The Clan renders as what it is: the eleven people you walked in, tracked four levels deep, named in the ally's voice rather than charted.

7:30 Sunday
A
Aurelia
your ally · grounded in Kinship Duna
Dana crossed ninety days active this morning — she's the eleventh person you've walked in who stayed. Kinship Duna's founder set the Organizer threshold at ten, kept.
Kinship Duna · promotion
You are an Organizer.
Your Clan: the eleven you brought and kept — Rosa, Dana, Matt, and eight through them, tracked four levels deep. It grows as they bring their own.
guest · member · organizer · founder · builder · creator · catalyst · luminary
promotion sealed · duna policy, cited to the threshold · record
From here your name carries the mark in Kinship rooms — Jaya — and organizer proposals open to you. Nowhere else changes: in Mountain River Trail you're a member, same as yesterday.
Show me my Clan What can an Organizer do?
Say anything 🎙 ➤
the ladder renders once, small, as context — never as a progress bar · the pip is per-duna and travels with the grounding
5b

## The guild — a name for some people, feather-light beside the real structures

Rationale. Sharing the winter routes wisdom, the ally offers every scope the graph knows — and the render carries each object's weight. A connection is a person. An alliance has a wallet and a duna context; an organization has a treasury and a Forum. A guild has nothing but a name and its people — no wallet, no chain, no protocol footprint — so it renders lightest: a thin dashed ring, no figure, no badge. The guild crosses duna lines freely because there is no line for it to cross: it is sharing scope only.

↓ back to — "Share the winter routes with the people who'll walk them."
Sharing · winter routes wisdom
Who holds it?
marked PRIVATE · each scope reads at its own level, evaluated on every read
a person
D Dana Okafor connection · holds private over you
a guild — just a name, and its people
✳ Winter Crew guild · 9 people across three dunas · no wallet, no votes — a sharing scope, nothing heavier
an alliance — a wallet and a purpose
TG Trail-gear squad alliance within Mountain River Trail · squad wallet · $212
an organization — the accountable entity
MR Mountain River Trail duna · every member, at the item's level · Forum, treasury, WV org ID
Dana and the Winter Crew hold it — nine people, whatever duna they stand in. Widening to an alliance or a duna is a bigger act; I'd say so first.
press and hold to share it so
weight is legible in the border: solid card = wallet-bearing structure · dashed ring = a name and nothing else
5c

## The institution — a square across the table, never a voice in the Forum

Rationale. The Ceremony Machine contracts Lightbrush for the arena run's projection work. The institution renders distinctly everywhere: a square mark where members are circles, its registered name beneath its working one, and its one structural limit stated in the render, not the fine print. The contract is between accountable entities — the duna's squad wallet on one side, the institution's on the other — proposed by members, decided in the Forum, with the commands it executes shown like any other receipt.

↓ back to — "Show me the Lightbrush contract before it opens."
Forum · The Ceremony Machine · opens Tuesday
Contract Lightbrush for the arena run's projection design?
CM The Ceremony Machine duna · squad wallet + treasury
decides in its Forum
×
L Lightbrush institution · Lightbrush LLC, Delaware
contracts with anyone · votes never
if it passes, these execute — together or not at all
the contract binds both entities hire_contractor
$18,000 escrows from the treasury transfer_usdc
delivery gates the release create_recurring_payment
every member is told notify_members
Lightbrush's ten enrolled members work inside its scope — Priya carries its projection desk. Only members decide this. Lightbrush can propose nothing, vote on nothing; it can only agree across the table.
Set my token when it opens Who negotiated the rate?
members are circles, institutions are square — the shape does the explaining before the copy has to
5d

## The agentic internet — a domain that answers for itself, and one that can't

Rationale. One TXT record binds lightbrush.com to Lightbrush's on-chain identity, and the whole domain becomes accountable within The Ceremony Machine's realm: its pages can carry codes, its agents have provenance. The ally renders the difference as accountability, never safety — a verified domain is answerable, not endorsed. The unverified one is the standing weight rule made visible: stored, marked, never acted on. No red, no warning triangle — an untrusted domain is not a threat, it is merely a stranger.

3:44 Tuesday
A
Aurelia
your ally · grounded in The Ceremony Machine
Two rigs quoted for the arena projection — check them both out?
Done. They're not the same kind of thing:
L lightbrush.com/arena-rig the quote, its terms, and the agent that sent it
accountable — domain bound to Lightbrush, institution under contract law and The Ceremony Machine's realm · DNS + chain, both public, checked now
its quote can carry a code · anything that happens through it answers to a legal entity
? arenaprojection-deals.net a quote arrived by email — cheaper, urgent tone
unverified — no record binds this domain to anyone. Not a threat; a stranger. Stored and marked; I won't act on it, and its pages can't carry codes
Accountable doesn't mean better — it means someone answers if it goes wrong. If the second rig is real, they can bind their domain in one line of DNS and I'll read them again.
Take Lightbrush's quote to the Forum Tell them how to register
Say anything 🎙 ➤
solid card = answerable entity · dashed card = stranger · the word is "accountable", never "safe" (OPEN-QUESTIONS-R4 #4)