Member share
A co-op only works if we aggregate. Split the roof. Then, as we grow, buy bulk and divide that price too — so a five-person shop is not stuck paying list forever.
Founding share
Year in
Arbitrage, here, is the gap between what one shop pays at list and what a pile of shops can buy together.
A vendor sells the same seats, credits, or plan cheaper once the invoice is big. One shop cannot get that price. Fifty shops under one roof can. That difference is the arb.
Most companies pocket it. This door divides it. Roof first: hosting and login already cost less per shop as we grow. Then vendor bulk, only when we actually buy it, split among who opts in. No markup on the gap. If we have not bought the bulk yet, there is no arb to claim. The books stay quiet rather than invent a wholesale number.
This is not trading tokens and it is not flipping models. It is buying like a larger customer and handing the savings back.
Ten shops paying $19 is not the goal. Ten shops covering a $120 roof is. When the roster is large enough, we take bulk vendor pricing — seats, credits, plans — and divide it. Extra after the roof goes to lowering the next share, or to a bigger room, not to a quiet markup.
Two piles, both divided: the door, and whatever we can buy in bulk. Members who opt into a pool get the split rate. Members who keep their own keys keep their own keys.
Until the books show a real bulk buy, treat $19 as the founding door rate, not a promise of wholesale tokens tomorrow.