The Architecture

One membership. Every door.
The whole stack.

Think of it like an operating system for care. The brands are apps; membership is the account that signs you in everywhere; and underneath sits a federation of owned co-ops that clear care between them — at par, no money moving. Here's how the layers fit.

The layers

A stack, the way Apple builds one

Surfaces on top, identity and intelligence in the middle, proof at the base. Each layer does one job, and membership is the thread that runs through all of them.

Surfaces — the apps

The doors

Each brand is a door for a different person: the family caregiver, the homeshare seeker, the cooperative member.

Identity — the Apple ID

Membership

One membership signs you in across every door. Your profile, your circle, your standing — known everywhere, the moment you arrive.

Wallet — what it unlocks

ComfortCard

The card membership puts in your pocket: HSA/FSA payment, your Letter of Medical Necessity, your emergency care profile (tap or QR), your banked-care balance.

Intelligence — layered, private-first

Sage & the harness

AI that knows you on every surface — escalating only as needed: your private context, then physician-governed care, then the frontier model. The bicycle, not the chauffeur.

Proof — the base layer

hashcare

Every hour of care: verified, attested, portable. Your record, yours forever — and the ledger that lets care move between co-ops.

Sign in once. The wallet, the intelligence, and the proof follow you through every door.

Why membership is the keystone

Free gets you in. Membership makes it yours.

Without an account, every visit starts cold and ends when you close the tab. Membership is the account that turns a collection of sites into one place that knows you.

Free — acquisition

  • Browse, take an assessment, read the book
  • One conversation with Sage, then it's gone
  • Nothing persists; you start over next time
  • The door, not the house

Member ($59/mo) — everything persists

  • SSO — signed in across every door, profile follows you
  • ComfortCard — HSA/FSA pay rail + unlimited LMNs
  • Sage remembers you — care plans, goals, forecasts
  • Your care ledger — banked hours, portable across co-ops
  • Care coordination + the worker handoff to a real caregiver
  • Federation standing — your record honors at any node

At a 30% tax bracket the LMN alone roughly covers the membership. The rest is upside.

The federation

Join one, start one, or own one

Three rungs, one ladder. You enter with zero friction and only become an owner-operator when you're ready — and your banked care carries the whole way up.

Join

When: a co-op or circle already exists near you.

Why: instant — no entity, no paperwork; payroll & compliance handled for you.

Start a circle

When: no co-op nearby, but you + ~5 neighbors.

Why: begin helping and banking care today, no commitment.

Incorporate & federate

When: density + a champion who wants to own it (or a new state).

Why: local ownership, governance, and equity that stays with members.

How care moves between co-ops

hashcare clears care — at par, no money

An hour of care is just an attested record. Because it lives in the shared proof layer, an hour banked in one co-op is honored in another — and because no money crosses and nothing appreciates, the whole network stays legal without a lawyer at every node.

Co-op A · Boulder

A neighbor banks an hour of care

hashcare · 1 hour = 1 hour
verified · portable · never cashable

Co-op B · Rossmoor

The hour is honored, in full

Money-transmitter avoidedNo money crosses co-ops — care clears at par.
Securities avoidedThe token never appreciates or sells; equity does, locally.
Franchise avoidedFederation is cost-sharing, not a royalty.

What stays local: patronage equity (appreciates). What's shared and portable: proof-of-care (at par). The two lanes never merge. See the four passions →

What it takes to offer it well

The build path

The pieces mostly exist — but siloed. Offering membership *well* means wiring them into one account, in this order. The spine is identity; everything hangs off it.

1

The identity spine — one auth (Supabase) every door signs into, so the profile is one profile. This is the keystone; do it first.

build next
2

The wallet — ComfortCard as an Apple/Google Wallet pass (SMART Health Links, already designed) carrying the care profile + LMN.

designed
3

The intelligence — Sage as the persistent connector across surfaces, layered private→governed→frontier.

live, per-site
4

The ledger — hashcare as the Care-Token clearing layer, portable across co-ops, at par.

to wire
5

The tiers — free everywhere (acquisition) → $59/mo member (persistence, wallet, LMN, the works).

priced