THE SYSTEM Overview CDS OAD ITC COS FRS
Integral / The System
The System

FIVE SYSTEMS.
ONE LOOP.

The complete architecture — how it works and why

Integral coordinates production, distribution, governance, and ecological accountability through five interdependent subsystems. No markets. No money. No central authority. A cybernetic feedback loop that closes the gap between what a community decides and what it actually does.

System Architecture — click any node to explore
// INTERACTIVE — click any system node to go to its page
mandates mandates designs labor events signals feedback loop → CDS COLLABORATIVE DECISION 10 modules // click to explore OAD OPEN ACCESS DESIGN 10 modules ITC INTEGRAL TIME CREDITS 9 modules COS COOPERATIVE ORGANIZATION 9 modules FRS FEEDBACK & REVIEW 7 modules // click to explore
01 // CDS
COLLABORATIVE
DECISION SYSTEM
Democratic governance. Issues are raised, deliberated, decided by weighted consensus, and dispatched — with a complete tamper-evident record.
10 modules
02 // OAD
OPEN ACCESS
DESIGN
Shared design commons. Production blueprints are authored collaboratively, ecologically assessed, certified, and freely available to all nodes.
10 modules
03 // ITC
INTEGRAL TIME
CREDITS
Contribution accounting without money. Non-transferable, time-decaying credits that reflect real labor, materials, and ecological cost — not market value.
9 modules
04 // COS
COOPERATIVE
ORGANIZATION
The engine room. Production plans are executed, labor coordinated, materials managed, quality assured — all generating the data the other systems need.
9 modules
05 // FRS
FEEDBACK &
REVIEW SYSTEM
The cybernetic nervous system. Reads operational reality, diagnoses drift from principles, generates recommendations, and routes them back to CDS — closing the loop.
7 modules
Key Data Flows Between Systems
From To What passes Data object
CDS OAD / COS / ITC Governance decisions dispatched as mandates to relevant systems DecisionPacket
OAD COS Certified design with bill of materials, production steps, and ecological flag CertifiedDesign
COS ITC Verified labor events and material consumption events trigger credit issuance LaborEvent · MaterialConsumptionEvent
COS + ITC + OAD FRS Operational signals — labor summaries, credit balances, ecological flags, QA results FRSSignalPacket
FRS CDS Diagnostic findings and recommendations routed back to governance — closing the loop DiagnosticFinding · Recommendation
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