The Oghere Constitution

The Covenant

Oghere is never for sale. It will never go public, never take dilutive investment, never be owned by anyone who did not build it. The founder holds the stock so that no one can ever buy what the people built. What the people own is greater: the profit itself, distributed by constitution, not by discretion, not by negotiation, not by whoever shouts loudest in a boardroom. By law of the house.

Profit is not what's left over. Profit comes first. Every 60 days the books close, the pool is counted, and every dollar goes where the Constitution says it goes. We call it Profit Day, and it is the heartbeat of the company, six beats a year, forever.

The Allocation

Every dollar of profit already knows where it is going:

• 15% → 6% The Steward. The founder's share, which tapers as the house grows (see The Taper).
• 30% → 34% The Builders. Everyone who works here, paid by level and tenure.
• 0% → 5% The Legacy Pool. The pension, funded entirely by the Steward's taper.
• 20% The Space Between. The ecosystem fund that seeds companies our own builders found.
• 25% Expansion. Oghere's own growth: new capability, new markets, new builders.
• 10% The Pillars. Not charity. Community institutions built to sustain themselves.

The Taper: ownership that returns to the people

The Steward's share is 15% on the first $50M of annual profit, stepping down one point per $50M bracket until it floors at 6%, permanently. The nine points the founder releases do not disappear. The first five fund the Legacy Pool. The last four flow to the Builders. As Oghere grows, the founder's share literally becomes the elders' pension and the builders' raise. The founder always eats, a thinner slice of a far bigger pot, and no one can ever run the greedy-founder story on this house, because the math answers before we do.

The Ladder: five levels of builders

Builders rise by the scope of what they transform, not by title. Each level carries a share weight, and shares grow with every year of tenure, so loyalty compounds like equity would, without ever being equity.

1. Apprentice 1x Learning the craft. Owns tasks.
2. Practitioner 2x Owns outcomes. Delivers results without supervision.
3. Steward 3.5x Owns a system or a team. Makes others better.
4. Architect 5x Owns a P&L, product, or market. Creates new profit.
5. Founder-in-Residence 7x Has earned the right to spin out, and is building the next company in the ecosystem.

The Legacy Pool: you built this, you always eat

Any builder who serves three years earns a place in the Legacy Pool for life, weighted by years served. The pool is a fixed five points, funded by the founder's taper and bridged from reserves until the taper matures, split among all who qualify. It never becomes an unfunded promise, because the pool is fixed and the math is public. The one condition: you cannot eat from the house while working against it.

The Space Between: how we multiply instead of sell

Twenty cents of every profit dollar seeds new companies founded by our own Level 5s. Oghere takes a profit-share in each, never controlling equity, and every spinout adopts this same Constitution. We do not grow one company vertically until someone buys it. We replicate the DNA horizontally until the ecosystem is the economy. Oghere never sells itself; it multiplies itself.

The Pillars: infrastructure, not alms

Ten cents of every profit dollar builds community institutions designed to outlive the check: academies that graduate people into Oghere and its spinouts, spaces that earn their own keep, first-founder funds whose returns recycle. Each pillar carries a mandate to reach self-sustainability, and when it stands on its own, the ten cents moves on to raise the next one. We close gaps by building the bridge, not by tossing coins across it.

Governance

The founder holds the stock. The Builders hold the voice: a council of Level 3s and above with real say over the ecosystem fund's investments and the Pillars' mandates. A smoothing reserve holds back a share of every fat period so that no Profit Day ever pays zero. The Constitution's percentages may be amended only to give the people more, never less.