Built By DAO
Documenting the Work
The people, purpose and evidence behind contribution—and how a clear account distinguishes reviewed work, skill recognition and future plans.
The People and Decisions Behind a Result
A story about community-owned places includes the people who make them possible: builders, designers, coordinators and organizers. It also includes why the work was needed, how it was carried out and what the result achieved.
Built By DAO’s task and review process gives that account a structure. Scope describes the intended result. Evidence supports review. Recognition follows eligible work. For filmmakers, photographers, writers and designers, those details give the neighborhood idea a human scale and a basis for explaining progress.
Dashboard Previews
Merit Badges
Merit badges and progress in the dashboard preview.View Full PreviewPurpose, Work, Review and Recognition
The finished result has more meaning when its purpose and review are understandable. Each stage of a contribution supplies part of that explanation.
Purpose
The task’s scope and expected result explain what the work was meant to accomplish.
Work and Evidence
The completed result and its supporting evidence give review a basis for assessing what was done.
Review
Acceptance records what the reviewer approved against the task’s expectations.
Recognition
Eligible work can earn contribution credit. Acceptance and confirmed credit are separate milestones in that process.
Communications and Documentation Within a Project
Communications and documentation belong to the operations guilds, alongside facilitation, project management and finance. Guilds support the skills over time; working groups bring them into projects with the people building, designing and coordinating the work.
Communications work is scoped and reviewed like other eligible contribution. Its recognition can carry standing and governance weight. The credit is earned, cannot be bought, sold or transferred, and has no member cash-out. It is not pay, legal equity or a direct property share.
Describe the Milestone That Actually Happened
The merit-badge preview illustrates earned and locked recognition using sample data. Guild merit concerns craft proficiency. Membership rank concerns organizational responsibility. Review concerns the result of a defined task. Those meanings help explain what a visible sign of progress represents.
An accepted task may still be awaiting confirmed credit. In governance, a passed vote may still be awaiting execution. A clear account identifies the milestone reached, so readers can understand the progress without assuming the remaining steps have already happened.
The Foundry Remains a Physical Plan
The planned Foundry would bring material recovery, practical learning and construction together. Recovered materials would be prepared for building, while people would learn skills they could apply to the work. Images of those spaces explain intended uses.
Detroit and Chicago are the likely first two hub cities; no site has been chosen and no hub or member property is open. The physical activity remains ahead. The dashboard is the built organizational starting point.
