Who am I?
Citizen
A drop
A sovereign citizen at the centre. Everyone is met as a citizen of the cosmos. No clients, no customers, no users.
The human at the core
Verify you are human
You have to choose to be human. That is the art of being. to confirm
Most sites ask you to prove you are human. This one turns the question around. Check that a real person is behind the work: amaryana.com.
The lowercase i is the human at the core.
It is the foundation of WAI as well.
Light
One light, all colours
It starts in light and returns to light.
In February 1672 a letter from Isaac Newton was printed in the Philosophical Transactions. He had darkened his room, made a small hole in the window shutter, and set a glass prism in the sunlight that came through. Colours stood on the far wall.
The glass had not made them. They were in the light all along, and the prism only spread them apart. He named seven, and between them an indefinite variety of Intermediate gradations
. Gathered again through a lens, they were white once more.
Isaac Newton, Philosophical Transactions, no. 80, 19 February 1671/72. The Newton Project. Read 4 October 2026.
A prism, held steady. The light is yours, and so is every colour in it.
A to Z
The first three letters are yours. So are the last three.
- A · B · C
- Principles, aims, maps. They are up to you, the human. WAI helps each citizen with these questions.
- AThe Anthropic Principle. We can only ever see a universe that can hold someone to see it. to confirmBrandon Carter gave it the name at a symposium in Kraków in 1973. Anthropic is from the Greek for human. As told on Wikipedia, read 5 October 2026.
- BBeing. You have to choose to be human. Verify you are human, above
- CCore. All the concentric circles: the map, the model, the whole story. SERENE, below
- D to W
- The twenty between. This is the work.
- X · Y · Z
- Results, experiences, meaning. Up to you again.
cosmOS is the offer for the twenty between: an integration with the AI you already use, guided by a sherpa.
TK · what cosmOS is today, and how a citizen adds it to the AI they use
Project Monarch
In time each citizen holds the prism for someone else.
Project Monarch is how that is opened to everyone. It begins as a council, called on this site. Meetings, public input and research come first. Then the council agrees two documents, and founds one thing.
- A council. A table, with open seats. Like the Council of Elrond, for a Fellowship of the Web.
- A Declaration of Interdependence.
- A Cosmopolitan Constitution. For citizens of the cosmos. Not users, not customers, not guests.
- A Commonwealth. To help the common man and the common woman. All for the common welfare of all beings.
The aim: open-weight, open-source, decentralized. None of this has happened yet.
TK · who sits at the first table with you
TK · what is open today, and what comes when, including which model weights are open
Ground to cloud
A spaceship for the self
WAI. Said aloud, it is why.
It reads seven ways, and each one is a layer. Five climb from the ground to the cloud. The sixth is the ethics. The seventh is the sum.
- Ground
Who am I?
The biggest question, and the most important.
A drop in the ocean. A drop, then a ripple, then a wave, then the ocean.
The citizen, at the core.
With AI.
With. Not for it, not by it, not of it, not from it.
Being fully human, guiding your future with AI helping you, rather than AI guiding the world with humans helping it. to confirm
Water.
In Hawaiian, fresh water is wai.
A wave is energy on the move: through water as surf, through air as sound, through space as light and radio. to confirm
World Architectural Infrastructure.
What gets built so the rest can stand: a sovereign stack for every citizen. Citizen, Cube, Circle. to confirm
- Cloud
We Are Intelligent.
The network that results when billions of citizens of the cosmos run sovereign stacks. That network is SERENE. to confirm
- The ethics
Wisdom, Agency, Integrity.
The Middle Way, as Siddhartha first laid it out. Be like water, in the Tao.
Wisdom orients. Agency decides. Integrity keeps the account: the reading moves only if something real moved. to confirm
- The sum
WAIWAI.
In Hawaiian, waiwai is wealth. When all six layers are aligned, it is the result: water that overflows and feeds everything and everyone. True wealth is a thriving planet.
The three-body problem
Three bodies, one orbit
Most small businesses buy design from one place, marketing from another and technology from a third, each on its own clock and its own bill. Three bodies pulling on each other, and nothing holding them in place. In physics that is the three-body problem. It has no general solution, and left alone most arrangements end with one body thrown out of the system.
There is a rare family of orbits where three bodies chase each other along one path and return to where they started, again and again. The figure eight was found in 1993 and proven in 2000. That is the work: finding the orbit where your design, marketing and technology hold each other in place, then handing it to you.
Business as usual · Business unusual
- Business as usual. The ouroboros: a serpent with its tail in its mouth, an emblem of ancient Egypt and Greece, forever eating itself and being born from itself again. Britannica Read as a business, it is the loop you pay into and never leave. to confirm
- One turn. Give the ring one turn and it crosses itself. Now it is the figure eight above, an orbit where three bodies hold each other. It is also the mark at the top of this page. to confirm
- Business unusual. Set it around a still centre and it rises. Two old pictures of that. The caduceus, the staff of Hermes, with its two serpents: a herald's badge and a sign of peace. Britannica And kundalini, in Tantric yoga: energy pictured as a serpent coiled at the base of the spine, which practice raises to the crown of the head. Britannica to confirm
The Stillness Model · The Stillness School · Move slow and grow things
Out of stillness
In August 1665 the plague closed Cambridge, and Isaac Newton went home to Woolsthorpe until April 1667. By his own account he bought his prism at the beginning of 1666. His work on light, on gravity and on the calculus began in those two years. The Principia came twenty years later, in 1687. Wikipedia · His letter, at the Newton Project · The prism, above
Steve Jobs had worked in the apple orchard of the All One Farm, a commune in Oregon. He came back from it, and the company he started with Steve Wozniak in 1976 was named Apple. Wikipedia to confirm
A company around giving people the tools they need, and the empowerment to manifest their highest self, for collective flourishing.
Flourishing is connected to water. The headwaters are in Waikapū, Maui: a real place, not a headquarters.
Waikapū is one of Nā Wai ʻEhā, the four great waters of Maui: Waiheʻe, Waiehu, Wailuku and Waikapū. One old telling of its name is the water of the conch. Peter T. Young, Images of Old Hawaiʻi · Maui, below to confirm
What is broken, at every layer
Design. Marketing. Technology.
Design
What you see and touch.
- Made by no one. In July 2026 Pew Research sampled ten thousand web pages. One in ten showed signs of being written by AI. Among pages published since late 2022, it was more than a third. Pew Research, 20 Aug 2026
- Built to trap. In 2024 regulators from 26 countries checked 642 subscription sites and apps. Nearly 76 percent used at least one possible dark pattern, a design made to steer people into paying or sharing more than they meant to. Nearly 67 percent used several. Federal Trade Commission, July 2024
- Closed to many. In February 2026 WebAIM tested the home pages of the top million websites. 95.9 percent failed basic accessibility checks, up from 94.8 percent the year before. WebAIM Million 2026, as reported
Marketing
How you are reached.
- Feeds people do not trust. On 1 October 2026 Pew reported that 64 percent of Americans say social media has been bad for democracy. Across 37 countries, that view is spreading. Pew Research, 1 Oct 2026
- Search that keeps the visitor. Pew tracked the Google searches of 900 Americans in March 2025. When an AI summary sat on the results page, people clicked through to a website on 8 percent of visits. Without one, 15 percent. Pew Research, 22 July 2025
- Ads that rob. Scams that began on social media took a reported 2.1 billion dollars from Americans in 2025, eight times the figure for 2020. Federal Trade Commission, April 2026
Technology
What you pay for and work beside.
- Rented. In 2026, 55 percent of Americans told NerdWallet they plan to cut back hard on subscriptions. NerdWallet survey, reported 7 Apr 2026
- Out of your hands. 57 percent of Americans say they have little or no control over whether AI is used in their lives. 61 percent want more. Pew Research, 17 Sept 2025
- Coming for the work. In June 2026, 71 percent of Americans told Pew they expect AI to mean fewer jobs over the next twenty years, up from 64 percent in 2024. Pew Research, 18 Aug 2026
- Eating its own tail. In January 2024 a Microsoft director of applied science wrote that the company's AI content strategy had started a doom loop: the product weakens the people whose work it is built on, and then weakens itself. The page stayed sealed until September 2026, when it came out in The New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft. Microsoft says its author was hired as a contrarian. 404 Media, Sept 2026
- Heavy on the land and the water. 54 percent of Americans now say data centers are bad for the environment, up from 39 percent in January. Six in ten would not want one nearby. On 2 October 2026 Amazon pledged a billion dollars to those communities and said its data centers will return more water than they take by 2030. Pew Research, 22 Sept 2026
People want sovereignty and serenity more than they want to be influenced or replaced.
Amazon's pledge: The Hill, 2 Oct 2026. Every figure above links to where it came from.
The solution
The Stillness Model
We are not into business. We are into stillness.
The symbol at the top of this page has four parts. Each one answers a question, starting at the core.
What do I do?
Cube
A ripple
Six faces around the citizen, read two ways. One is the work. One is the life the work is for.
The outer work
Rockets
Six faces of service. Building something real that can stand on its own.
- Sales Sorcery
- Agent Alchemy
- Web Wizardry
- Marketing Magic
- Ministry of Money
- Defense Against Darkness
Root · Orbit · Core · Kinship · Earthworks · Tectonic · Sovereignty
The inner work
Dragons
Six faces of flourishing. Becoming someone who can carry it.
- Physical
- Emotional
- Financial
- Relational
- Spiritual
- Planetary
Discover · Reflect · Align · Good as Gold · Open Ocean · Network · Serenity
Where ROCKETS and DRAGONS meet, SERENE is born.
The six faces of flourishing follow the six dimensions set out by researchers at Harvard's Human Flourishing Program in August 2026: physical, emotional, financial, relational, spiritual and planetary well-being. Ruan, Teubner and Bremen, Optimising for Flourishing. In June 2026 researchers at Oxford, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic argued that AI should actively support human flourishing, and named engagement hacking and the loss of human autonomy among the failures of the current approach. Laukkonen and others, Positive Alignment.
Who do I know?
Circle
A wave
One person, one place on the internet that is actually theirs. Circles together make a flower of life.
How do I live? How do I give?
Cosmos
The ocean
Lux is a unit of light. Here it measures signal, not noise. You find your way by the stars, not by a menu.
On 1 May 1976 the canoe Hōkūleʻa left Honolua Bay on Maui for Tahiti. Mau Piailug of Satawal guided her 2,500 miles by the stars, the wind and the swells, with no instruments. She made landfall in 31 days. Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 4 May 2026.
Where ROCKETS and DRAGONS meet
SERENE
The Self-Realization Network.
- Core
- Citizen
- Communities
- Cities
- Countries
- Civilization
It starts at the core and widens, one ring at a time. A drop, then a ripple, then a wave, then the ocean.
The name is inspired by the Self-Realization Fellowship, which Paramahansa Yogananda founded in 1920. SERENE is not part of it.
When Steve Jobs died in October 2011, everyone at his memorial was handed a small brown box on the way out. Inside was one book: Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi. He first read it as a teenager and read it again every year. It was the only book on his iPad, the last new device he introduced.
This is the one place on this site where his name appears. He made this work possible.
CNN Money, 10 Sept 2013, from Marc Benioff's account. Yogoda Satsanga Society, citing Walter Isaacson's biography.
The daily arrow
We all get the same amount of time every day. All we control is how we aim our daily arrow, and how we improve over time.
On your phone, this is the Manifest. WAI checks in every day.
On your phone
WAI
Find your wave.
A simple app. Pure signal in a world of noise.
WAI is a compass. It orients. It does not decide.
WAIManifest
- Where I am goingA site that is mine, in my own name.
- Where I amRenting. Three logins I do not control.
- The gapNo domain in my name.
- One next stepRegister the domain. Today.
- EvidenceThe receipt, saved.
The reading moves only if something real moved.
Manifest · the core loop
WAI checks every day.
A destination, stated in your own words. A check of where you actually are. The gap, named. One next step. Evidence back.
Every six and twelve months, one more question. Is the thing you said you wanted still standing? The answer gets written down either way.
Pure signal
- No ads, ever.
- No likes, no view counts, no ranking by attention.
- Free to join. Find your why.
- Lux is a unit of light. It is earned by making progress, or by helping someone else make theirs. It does not decay.
Rockets and Dragons, made real
ROCKETS and DRAGONS teach the concepts. WAI makes them manifest in a real life.
They are the same concepts the best books teach: Atomic Habits, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Principles, The TB12 Method, The 4-Hour Workweek. Here they are steps you walk, one day at a time.
A portal to the work
WAI is the portal to Earthworks and Expecto: two platforms for work, outer and inner.
- Earthworks
- The outer work. Where you earn.
- Expecto
- The inner work. Where you learn.
Both, at the scale of the planet, below
The wave
Find your wave.
By May it was written into the plan: every citizen a daily Find-Your-Wave manifester, with getWAI active.
A drop, then a ripple, then a wave, then the ocean. In the model above, the wave is your Circle.
Any model
With AI. Not for it, not by it, not of it, not from it.
WAI complements whichever AI you use. It keeps the aim in view: where you are going, where you are, and what moved today. That makes the AI more useful to each citizen, Cube, Circle and cosmOS, and to civilization as a whole.
Citizen · Cube · Circle · cosmOS · Civilization
getWAI
From Hawaii to Dubai, use WAI to find your WHY.
How it gets funded
WAI Combinator
Self-funded, the way Solgaard did it
Solgaard sold every product before it was made. Its first backpack reached its goal on Kickstarter in six hours. Nearly five million dollars came from backers, and later its customers were invited to own a part of the company.
Shopify, on Solgaard. StartEngine, the 2020 round.
- The agency pays the bills. Every planting funds the next one.
- WAIWAI is sold before it is finished. $108 a year.
- A backer buys a rung, never a share.
Ten thousand members at $108 a year is $1.08 million a year. A trillion dollar company, at ten times its revenue, takes in $100 billion a year. That is about 926 million people at $108. It starts with the first ten thousand.
On the ground
Maui
The work stands on a real place.
The islands
The main Hawaiian islands, to scale. Maui is lit. The sun marks Haleakalā, the house of the sun.
TK · what to mark on each island
Each island here is drawn to fit its frame. Coastlines from Natural Earth.
Why water
Ground to cloud, and back again.
The sun lifts water off the ocean. Wind carries it to the mountain. It falls as rain, runs down as a stream, sinks into the ground, and returns to the sea.
In Hawaiian, fresh water is wai. The word for wealth is waiwai.
Ridge to reef
An ahupuaʻa is a Hawaiian division of land that runs from the mountains to the sea, usually along a stream.
Three zones, joined by one water. Uka, the mountain. Kula, the plain. Kai, the ocean.
Channels called ʻauwai carried the stream to the fields. What the fields did not need went back to the stream.
With thanks to the Division of Aquatic Resources, whose account this follows.
Water starts on the mountain and ends in the ocean. Every stream on the way feeds the next one, and each pays its own way.
- Amaryana. The mountain.
- Healeakala. Retreats and gatherings, on the ground.
- Maui Gaia. The shop.
- goodvibes.me. The agency, and the circle around the three. Circles planted for good people doing good work.
- WAI. The network. Where every Circle meets.
getWAI.com
The network
The app's home, and the door for citizens. On the phone, WA\ shows the rung you are on and this month's fruit. In the portal, on any computer, you see the whole tree and edit the site that stands on it.
Healeakala
Healing House of the Sun
A community of healing on Maui for all walks of life, already here or on the way. The ask: list yours.
Maui Gaia
A market for what Maui makes
From the mountain to the sea, and for everyone beyond it. The ask: bring your stand. You make it. We bring it online. It stays yours.
The voice, the essays, the podcast and the record live at amaryana.com.
Strategy and execution
Play to win
This is where the rubber meets the road.
The cosmic chess cube. Eight by eight by eight. Every move is made in three directions at once: design, marketing, technology.
Strategy and execution come with all three. They are not sold separately. That is what the ladder below pays for.
The cube
A chessboard is eight squares by eight. The cube is eight boards deep: five hundred and twelve cells.
Six faces, a sovereign citizen at the centre, and a sherpa to help them.
The accounting
Each face has one number, agreed first.
- Sales Sorcery
- How many people reached out and never heard back.
- Agent Alchemy
- Hours returned each week.
- Web Wizardry
- Visitors who become enquiries.
- Marketing Magic
- Cost per booked job, not per click.
- Ministry of Money
- Time from yes to money received.
- Defense Against Darkness
- What happens if I disappear tomorrow.
In tournament chess, each player has to write down every move, their own and the other side's. The work is held the same way. The number is agreed before a move is made, and read again after.
Seven gates
A stage is passed at its gate. In order:
- A stated number.
- One thing running.
- Handover done.
- Someone else can pick it up.
- Six months measured.
- A published no.
- It stands without me.
In WAI, the Manifest keeps the same account for one person, every day. The reading moves only if something real moved.
The same three pieces, played two ways
Business as usualHere
DesignA template, and a designer who is gone after launch.Made for the one who owns it, and kept.
MarketingRented reach. Pay to be seen, every month.Found by the right people, and you can prove which ones.
TechnologySubscriptions stacked on subscriptions.One system, in your name.
StrategySold separately, by the hour.Included. Every move is made in all three at once.
The scoreClicks, likes and impressions.One number for each face, agreed first.
The wholeThree vendors, three clocks, three bills.One system, one orbit.
Where it has been played
The colours follow the clock around the planet. The pins are real. 1 Massachusetts · 2 Wyoming · 3 Florida · 4 Maui · 7 Georgia
A line joins a Circle to a place in its story. From 3, in Tallahassee: Princeton, where Guo Gu completed his Ph.D., and Taiwan, where he first learned meditation as a child. Guo Gu, in his own account. From 7, in Atlanta: New Orleans, Panama, Tanzania and Surat.
TK · what joins Myriann to each of the four places TK · where 5 and 6 sit on the map
Four solutions to the three-body problem
Every one of these had the same three bodies. Each found its own orbit.
Nick Atlas
Berkshire Mountains, Massachusetts
A friend since 2015. The first client, 2017. Still running.
Dr. Nick Atlas directs Evolutionary Education and chairs the Department of Transpersonal Psychology at Atlantic University. He has taught yoga nidra, dreamwork and meditation since 1998.
- Design
- Two old sites became one. Nine pages, his own photographs, his own mark.
- Marketing
- His words stand exactly as he writes them. Teachings, events and the shop sit in one place, with a real page for his facilitator training.
- Technology
- Plain files on ground he owns. A 131-point check runs at phone and desktop size before every handover.
Taken over in late 2017. Nine years on, the new site is in testflight and not yet public.
Emma Williams
Wild Country Oncology Services · Jackson Hole, Wyoming
A nonprofit, on ground it owns.
Emma Williams is an occupational therapist. Her nonprofit gives cancer survivors rehabilitation, wellness classes and time outdoors, free of charge.
- Design
- One page that says who it is for, then three paths: classes, therapy, the outdoors.
- Marketing
- Made for the two people who arrive: a survivor looking for help, and a doctor looking to refer one.
- Technology
- Moved off a rented site builder onto files she owns.
On 2 September 2026 the Jackson Hole News&Guide told the story of four cancer survivors from her classes setting out together to climb the Grand Teton. Jackson Hole News&Guide.
Her October changes went live on 3 October 2026, at www.wildcountryos.org.
Guo Gu
Dharma Relief · Tallahassee, Florida
Since 2020. Still carrying their projects six years on.
Guo Gu teaches at the Tallahassee Chan Center, in the Dharma Drum lineage of Chan. He studied under Chan master Sheng Yen, is a professor of religion at Florida State University, and has written three books for Shambhala.
- Design
- A site that said one thing: masks for the people working in the hospitals. Live on 31 March 2020, a day after the project began.
- Marketing
- One ask, carried by 24 Buddhist centres and 58 volunteers.
- Technology
- Online giving that took 2,766 donations in seven weeks.
The goal was $100,000. By the morning of 1 April, donations had passed it. In seven weeks Dharma Relief raised $649,555, of which $354,929 came through the site. More than 1.2 million masks went out: 620,000 to 173 hospitals across 34 states, Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico, and 627,000 through MedShare. Dharma Relief, in its own account.
Their footer still reads Made by goodvibes.me.
On 3 October 2026 a new Circle was built for Guo Gu, and one for Dharma Relief. They are shown here once he has seen them.
Hawaii By Storm
Maui, Hawaiʻi
Private tours to Hāna, Haleakalā and the Pipiwai Trail.
A tour company that only runs private days, in luxury Expeditions and open-air Broncos, with local guides.
- Design
- A theme built for this one company, now at version 1.0.157.
- Marketing
- Reviews shown with where they came from and the day they were checked. A history hub: a map of Maui in seven regions, with more than twenty researched chapters, each with its sources.
- Technology
- Live booking for six private tours, at flat rates per vehicle from $999.95 to $1,699.95.
As it stands on 2 October 2026: 4.9 and up across 872 reviews. That is 4.9 from 456 on Google, 5.0 from 369 on Tripadvisor and 4.9 from 47 on Yelp. Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice 2023. Leaders in Luxury 2024. hawaiibystorm.com and its history hub.
TK · the site before the fires, to set beside this one
Gifts
Three more, made as gifts.
Arjun Builds
TK · how Arjun is introduced
His first website.
A site for a kid who loves to build. It opens: “Hi, my name is Arjun and this is my first website.”
- Design
- A timeline of his builds, oldest first, and a gallery of one-of-one pieces.
- Marketing
- Commissions. Tell Arjun what you want built in bricks.
- Technology
- Requests go to his parents, who read every one and reply for him.
Built in September 2026, as a gift.
TK · what the gift opened
Art of Neha
TK · how Neha is introduced
A birthday present · 4 October 2026
A home for her sculpture and prints. Her shop stays where it is, and every piece opens in it.
- Design
- An arched doorway on a beige wall. Her Ganesha gathers in it, shape by shape, traced from her own piece.
- Marketing
- Her own two sentences, the verse to Ganesha, her five series and her prices.
- Technology
- Two scripts where her rented shop runs thirty.
Built on 3 October 2026 and planted the next day on an unlisted address. It is not on artofneha.com yet.
Myriann
Atlanta, Georgia
A gift · planted 4 October 2026
An agency in Atlanta. A new site, as a gift.
- Design
- Myriann's own crest gathers on a night sky: the badge, the M, seven letters, the globe.
- Marketing
- Its own words. Ten case studies with its own screens, three of them drawn out for their numbers.
- Technology
- Two scripts where myriann.com runs eighteen, and no 8.9 MB film to wait for.
Built on 3 October 2026 and planted the next day on an unlisted address. It is not on myriann.com yet.
The Cube, filled in
Myriann lists twenty-one services on its own site. Every one of them sits under one of the six faces.
- Sales Sorcery
- Consulting Site Audits
- Agent Alchemy
- Data Analytics Intranets & Dashboards
- Web Wizardry
- Web Design & Development App Design & Development UI/UX Design Graphics Design Package Design Custom Lego Builds
- Marketing Magic
- Creative Strategy Branding Social Media Strategy Email Marketing Targeted Marketing Video Podcasting Copywriting Digital Signage
- Ministry of Money
- Investor Presentations
- Defense Against Darkness
- Website Support
The twenty-one are named as myriann.com names them, read on 3 October 2026.
TK · a first sorting.
Planting seeds
Move slow and grow things
This is how the great regeneration gets done. One planting at a time.
It is also a new way of working with AI. With it. Not for it, not by it, not of it, not from it.
- Farmers
- Builders
- Healers
- Teachers
- Leaders
- Creators
How it is priced
Pay as you grow
Seed to sprout to sapling to sequoia. Start small. Pay for more only when you have grown into it.
Like a house or a car. Not like a subscription. A size is paid off, and then it is yours.
- What you get
- You end up as a citizen, with a Cube to build with you, a Circle to hold what and who matters most, and a part in the cosmOS.
- What it costs
- The size you are. A Seed is $1,111. The next size is paid for when you grow into it, and not before.
- What you keep
- All of it. Domain, code, data, list, logins, media. You can leave and take it with you.
The test drive
SELF$333
Citizen, cube and circle, onboarded and configured. Done with you. The first 108 cross with Self waived. If you go on, it counts toward what you buy. Nobody pays twice.
See it grow
You start out like Arjun Builds. You see the progression all the way up to something like HawaiiTours.com or Dharma Relief.
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Self $333
The test drive, above.
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Seed $1,111
A first website.
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Sapling $3,333
A nonprofit, on ground it owns.
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Sequoia from $5,555
TK · what was yours at Hawaii Tours, in your words, and their yes
With Nick Atlas, this process happened over 11 years. It began in 2015 and is still going.
The sizes
Seed
$1,111
The first size. After Self, $778 more.
Plant one real thing.
One face of the Cube, running, in your name.
- One service, built and working
- A place on your own domain
- One number, agreed before the work starts
At this sizeArjun Builds
Sapling
$3,333
From Seed, $2,222 more.
The build. The main offer.
All six faces of the Cube, around one Circle.
- Sales, agents, web, marketing, money and defense
- Agents that answer, book, invoice and follow up
- Every face measured against its own number
At this sizeWild Country
Sequoia
from $5,555
From Sapling, $2,222 more and up.
More than one place. More than one team.
Many Circles, standing together.
- Several properties or locations
- Groups inside groups
- A handover written for a whole team
At this sizeHawaiiTours.com · Dharma Relief
Ready to raise, below
What you paid for the size before counts toward the next. Nobody pays twice. proposed
How a size is paid
- A down paymentIt starts the work.
- The balance, over timeOr all at once, for less.
- Then it is paid offYou don't pay forever.
What goes on by the month is Roots, $9 a month or $108 a year: your own hosting, in your name. It keeps the thing on the road.
TK · the down payment, how long the balance runs, and what paying in full takes off
By Sequoia
Ready to raise.
By the time you get to Sequoia, you are ready to literally raise money from Sequoia Capital.
Sequoia Capital tells founders what to bring. Ten things. A Circle that has grown this far already holds eight of them. Two are yours to say.
- Company purposeRoot, the first step. Who this is, and what it is actually for.
- ProblemThe first screen of your Circle. Who it is for, and what was in their way.
- SolutionThe thing itself, built and running since Seed.
- Why now?Yours to say.
- Market potentialMarketing Magic. Who finds you, and what a booked job costs.
- Competition / alternativesYours to say.
- Business modelMinistry of Money. The time from yes to money received.
- TeamKinship, the fourth step. It holds more than one person.
- FinancialsOne number for each face, agreed first, checked at six months and at twelve.
- VisionYour stated destination, in your own words.
Ready is not a yes. What an investor decides is theirs. What can be made true is the list.
The ten headings are Sequoia Capital's own, from Writing a Business Plan, read on 5 October 2026. Sequoia Capital has no part in this work. Where each one lives in a Circle is a first proposal.
Standard on every size · the deed
- Everything in your name: domain, code, data, list, logins, media.
- One number per face, agreed before the work starts.
- A check at six months, and again at twelve.
- A written way to shut it off.
- Backups, restored at least once to prove they work.
- No per-seat anything.
- You can leave at any time and take all of it with you. That is the point.
The service plan · SHERPA
A sponsor gives their time. A fellow traveller walks beside you. A sherpa has climbed this mountain, walks it with you, and then, gradually, steps back, and the path holds.
$9a month, or $108 a yearRoots
Your own hosting, in your name: the ground a circle stands on. The alternative to renting it.
$99a monthSapphire
Stillness applied to a business or a team.
FreeforeverStar and Serene
The open network and the whole architecture, free to every citizen. The top of the Tree is open.
Renting, beside owning
Five years on Sutra's $99 plan comes to $5,940. Five years on Kajabi's entry plan comes to $10,740, and in January 2026 Kajabi raised every price it had. A Seed, with five years of Roots, comes to $1,651.
They are not the same thing. Those are software you rent. This is a place you own.
Prices read on 2 October 2026 at sutra.co/pricing, and for Kajabi from published reviews of its pricing page.
At the scale of the planet
Learn, then earn. ROCKETS and DRAGONS, applied to the whole world.
Expecto
The Stillness School · since 2017 · where you learn
DRAGONS at the scale of the planet. The fourteen steps, taught. Each one comes with something to read, something to practise and something to sit with.
- Lessons open to anyone.
- Circles that learn together.
- Then a school of your own: teach what you know, on ground you own.
Think of Khan Academy for the lessons, Skool for the circle around them and Kajabi for selling your own. Here you own the school.
Earthworks
Where you earn
ROCKETS at the scale of the planet. The slow shaping of the ground: water carving stone, roots splitting rock, terraces holding a hillside for centuries. A group of people working together is bigger than one Circle, and it begins to shape the ground around it.
- Offer what you know to other citizens, from your own Circle.
- Take on work as a sherpa, once you have walked the path yourself.
- Citizens become sherpas. That is what this is all about.
The rainbow bridge
Pyramid
The rainbow becomes a bridge, and the bridge leads to a pyramid.
It is assembled from citizens. Each one stands at the centre of a Cube, inside a Circle, with a sherpa beside them. Seven rows of stone, one for each step. Rockets launching up one side. Dragons scaling the other.
The stones without a letter carry a small mark: a citizen at the centre, a Cube around them, a Circle around that. The small dot on the circle is their sherpa. The first and last stone of each row are its two steps. Both words end in S, so the top is one stone. The colours are the seven Newton named, from the prism above. Press a row to read its step.
The bridge is the homework.
Each step has homework. The outer work is homework for Earthworks. The inner work is homework for Expecto. The steps are yours to walk.
1 of 7SELF
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1 of 7SELF
Rockets · the outer work
RRoot
Who is this, and what is it actually for?
Dragons · the inner work
DDiscover
Who am I, beneath everything I was told I am?
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2 of 7SEED
Rockets · the outer work
OOrbit
What is the smallest real thing, and is it planted?
Dragons · the inner work
RReflect
What is this pain trying to teach me?
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3 of 7SAPLING
Rockets · the outer work
CCore
Does it stand on its own ground?
Dragons · the inner work
AAlign
Where do what I love, what I am good at, what the world needs and what I can be paid for meet?
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4 of 7SEQUOIA
Rockets · the outer work
KKinship
Does it hold more than one person?
Dragons · the inner work
GGood as Gold
Is my work good, connected to something larger, and fairly exchanged?
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5 of 7SHERPA
Rockets · the outer work
EEarthworks
Does it keep working when nobody is watching it get built?
Dragons · the inner work
OOpen Ocean
What happens if I stop holding on?
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6 of 7SAPPHIRE
Rockets · the outer work
TTectonic
Is it true twelve months later, and does anyone else know?
Dragons · the inner work
NNetwork
Who am I connected to, and what flows between us?
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7 of 7STAR
Rockets · the outer work
SSovereignty
Can it stand without you?
Dragons · the inner work
SSerenity
Can I stay steady when life does not go my way?
TK · the homework beside each step, outer and inner, from any teacher
For everyday people with an idea and life experience. to confirm
TK · a way from each step here to its own page: what to practise, what to sit with, and when you are ready for the next
Income that grows over time
- Your own work, sold from your own ground.
- What you know, taught through the school.
- The path you walked, guided for someone else.
None of it is promised. It is built so that whatever grows is yours.
In WAI, lux is earned the same way: by making progress, or by helping someone else make theirs. WAI is free to join. It is where every Circle meets.
For organisations
Sapphire
$99a month
Many citizens, Circles, Cubes and sherpas, running inside one organisation. Together they form a cosmOS.
Sapphires form under heat and pressure, deep in the earth, over a very long time, until they are clear enough to see through.
Good as gold
Do good work. Stay connected to something larger than yourself. Let the gold follow, and receive it without apology.
“God” here is not a religion, and nothing on this site asks you to join one. It means something larger than yourself: nature, the cosmos, love, the mystery, the ocean you came from.
Good without the others burns out. Gold without the others hollows out. “God” without the others drifts away from ordinary life.
- A Circle and a Cube for each team, joined into one.
- A sherpa for the whole organisation.
- No per-seat anything.
- A check at twelve months, shared openly, including what came back no.
- Money is not the enemy of meaningful work. Hidden money is.
The pieces, rented
Podia, Circle, Kajabi, Skool, Sutra, Hylo, Basecamp, Airbnb, Fora. Each one has a piece. All of it is rented, not owned.
One example, from one day. On 3 October 2026 Podia was advertising itself as about half the price of Circle: $42 a month against $89, both billed by the year. Either way, it is rent.
Podia, its own pricing page · Circle, its own pricing page
TK · the full table, every price checked at its source
The centre
Sherpa
Every face of the work can be copied. The centre cannot, because the centre is a person.
That person is a sherpa. Seven ways of showing up, with room for a dozen people a year.
- Creative
- Your work, presented like the world-class organisation it is.
- Concierge
- A sherpa books the journey. Retreats, pilgrimages and gatherings, Hawaii to the Himalayas. Flights, stays and ground transport. One point of contact, before and during.
- Caregiver
- Someone steady beside you, at your pace.
- Chef
- Food cooked for you and the people you gather.
- Circle
- A real place on the internet that is actually yours.
- Cube
- An executive team made of AI, with a human on the loop.
- Chess
- Strategy and execution. Every move made in three directions at once: design, marketing, technology.
A sherpa can be any of these. The model is as versatile as the work people already find through Uber and Airbnb.
A sherpa is more than a subscription. It is hands-on training and coaching, between do-it-yourself at low cost and do-nothing at high cost.
That is the Middle Way, as Siddhartha first laid it out. It is be like water, in the Tao. It is wisdom, agency and integrity, in practice.
The standard is the care people know from an Amex Centurion concierge, a stay at an Aman, or the best host on Airbnb. Here it comes with the work.
In WAI, the guide you meet every day is Tara: a compass, not a driver. In person, the guide is a sherpa.