Your partner, not only your paperwork

How we walk it with you

For communities and organizations: the experience of running our own ventures, offered as a partnership.

Forming an entity takes an afternoon. Running a community well takes years. We work alongside you along the whole road, and we bring the parts of it we have already lived.

  1. Clarify
    What is the community for, who is in it, and what will it hold? We help you put it into words before anything is built. Purpose first, structure second.
  2. Structure
    Which decisions belong to the members, which to a steward, and how is the treasury protected? We share the patterns we use and why. Your counsel confirms the legal form.
  3. Build
    Contracts, sites, guides and checkout, built on audited standards. Engineering is delivered by our development partner, Squadleader Dev, and nothing goes live until you have seen it run.
  4. Launch
    Verification, publication and a launch that holds up to scrutiny: every contract readable, every claim checkable.
  5. Operate
    The part most services skip. Monitoring that watches your contracts, a decision record your members can read, publishing in several languages, and a guide that answers your community in its own.

The founders review every enquiry personally. We take on few projects, and we will tell you if we are not the right fit.

New to DAOs? Start with our plain guide →

How LightVessel itself is governed is separate from how your organization will be. LightVessel is member-managed by its founders. The structure we help you build is designed around your own community and circumstances, whether founder-led, member-voted, or something in between.

Plainly

What we do not do

Saying this up front protects you, and it protects the trust that makes a DAO worth building.

Let's start a conversation

Whether you are exploring a partnership, supporting a meaningful project, commissioning a work or developing something new, we would be glad to hear from you.