Built By DAO / Visual guides
Big ideas.
A clearer picture.
See how people, places, useful work and capital fit together. Explore the Built By DAO model, one clear picture at a time. Start with community ownership, then explore the work, the place and the capital that bring it together.
A neighborhood can build its own future.
People, places and resources come together around something worth owning together.
Start with the big picture

Useful work deserves a visible record.
Follow a contribution from a clear task to reviewed work and a lasting record of what you helped build.
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One place. Many ways to build.
See how materials, skills and shared space can become a neighborhood’s capacity to make things.
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Capital becomes a place that works.
Explore the $1.75M lead-hub planning budget: the place, the tools, the operating capacity and the first housing projects.
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An underused building. A working future.
Follow one place from an empty shell to an active Foundry—and see how its tools, skills and shared spaces can support the neighborhood around it.
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Your capital. A place in the build.
Explore project-level investments, QOF structures, token arrangements and negotiated partnerships—and see how the opportunity shapes the deal.
Explore the visual guideA good place to begin
Take the picture into a path
Bring your skills
See how makers, organizers and specialists can take part.
Explore this path LiveExplore a place to belong
Connect the housing vision to the people who could live there.
Explore this path PartnerBring a property or resource
Find a practical starting point for a neighborhood project.
Explore this path InvestExplore the capital path
See how a project-level opportunity can be shaped around a place.
Explore this pathReady to find your part in the picture?
Find your place