RegenHub, LCA · Legal Documents
The legal foundation.
The agreements and government filings that make up the cooperative, grouped in layers and marked with a status. Every document says what it is. LCA stands for Limited Cooperative Association, the kind of company Colorado law lets a cooperative be.
RegenHub, LCA
Colorado Limited Cooperative Association · Public Benefit
Filed February 6, 2026
SOS No. 20261163853
Filed Submitted to the state or federal government. In legal effect now.
Ratified Voted in by the members. In effect between the people it covers.
In effect Adopted by the board and operative now. No members' vote was needed to start it.
Drafted The document is written. The members have not voted it in.
Anticipated We know we need it. Nobody has written it yet.
Member Sign this and you become a member of the cooperative.
Not a member Sign this and you do not. No vote, no capital account (your own running tally of what you put in and what you are owed), no share of the results.
Every agreement you can sign carries both marks: how far along the document is, and what signing it makes you.
What remains open on the governing documents
The Bylaws were adopted by the board on August 14, 2026, the day it elected the first officers, and they are in effect from that adoption. The adoption is the steward's direction of 2026-09-03 and rests on his word alone; the founding record supports the meeting and its date, and records the Bylaws as drafted on the day. No minute records the adoption. The Membership Agreement is board-authorized, and it binds a member only on that member's execution, so it is pending execution rather than in force. What remains on the Bylaws are open items on the text, and the cooperative's own memo to its lawyer names three. The marks below describe the state of each step, not the state of a document.
Open Schedule A is not complete. The memo calls this blocking. Schedule A is the page of the Bylaws that carries the money figures, and some of its blanks are still empty, so it is an open item on the executed text until they are filled in. Two figures are settled: the Cooperative Member share price of $100.00, and dues of $100.00 a year.
Open No effective date is set on the executed copy. That date is the lawyer's to give for the signed copy, and it has not arrived. The instrument's force runs from board adoption.
Settled There is now a Secretary to sign it. The memo was written before the board met, so it records the officer assignments as still pending. The board then elected the first President, Secretary and Treasurer at the special meeting of August 14, 2026, and re-took each election as a separate motion on August 19, 2026, carrying six to zero with all six Directors present. The holders are named at The board and its officers. So the signature Schedule A waits on now has a hand to make it, and § 4.2 makes the President the cooperative's signer by default. The August 14 meeting also authorised the Secretary to fill in and sign Schedule A once counsel supplies the effective date and confirms the point about § 3.2.2. That is the authority the signature will rest on when the date arrives. This paragraph once said no officer had been elected; that was written before the meeting, corrected 2026-08-17, and updated with the August 19 confirmation on 2026-08-21.
None of this is hidden work. It is three acts by the board and the lawyer, and each one is listed for what it is in the memo to counsel, which also carries the questions counsel has not answered yet.
The first of those acts belongs to the board, and the steps for taking it are written down at The first meeting: how the board gathers, what it can decide, the wording of each motion, and what the minutes have to record. A minute is the written record of what a meeting decided. That walkthrough is Drafted and not yet adopted, like everything else here.
What turns a meeting into a minute, and a minute into the permanent record, is written at The minute protocol: the three documents a meeting produces and how much weight each carries, what a minute must contain and which rule asks for each item, the steps to follow, and a fill-in template. Also Drafted and not yet adopted.
The board and its officers
Until now this page named the offices without naming the people in them. The public record of the special meeting of August 14, 2026 and of the confirmation on August 19, 2026 names both, so they are published here.
Officers. Aaron Gabriel, President. Todd Youngblood, Secretary. Lucian Hymer, Treasurer. Elected by the board in session on August 14, 2026 at 1515 Walnut Street, five of six Directors present. Each election was re-taken as a separate motion on August 19, 2026, after each officer accepted the nomination aloud, and each carried six to zero with all six Directors present and a public witness in the room.
Directors. Aaron Gabriel, Todd Youngblood, Lucian Hymer, Benjamin Life, Kevin Owocki, and John Borichevskiy. Six Directors are seated. The organizers' written consent elected seven, so one seat is empty, and § 3.7 says how it gets filled. That gap is an open question, logged at DOC-01·08, and naming the seated board here does not close it.
What the August 19 confirmation was, and was not. Reading Robert's Rules of Order afterward, a widely used meeting rulebook, suggested a step had been skipped on August 14: each nominee saying aloud that they accepted the nomination before the vote. The board treated that as a mistake and fixed it. A later reading of the Bylaws found nothing to fix, because the Bylaws never adopt Robert's Rules or any other meeting rulebook, so the skipped step came from a book this cooperative never bound itself to. The August 19 votes therefore stand as confirmation, not repair. The August 14 minutes remain the August 14 minutes. Nothing was overwritten.
The August 19 confirmation changed nothing about the instruments; it was officer business only. The standing they hold comes from the board's own acts: the Bylaws are In effect on the board's adoption of August 14, 2026, and the Membership Agreement is authorized and waiting on signatures, which is why it still reads Drafted here. The adoption date is the steward's, given on 2026-09-03; the authorization date has not been stated. No minute records either act, which is the open question logged at DOC-01·08. Schedule A is still unexecuted and no member has been admitted.
Layer 0 · Instantiation: what made the cooperative exist
Articles of Organization
The filing that created the cooperative, submitted to the Colorado Secretary of State on February 6, 2026 (document 20261163853). It names the company, its Public Benefit purposes, its main office and its registered agent, and the eight organizers. It does not name directors: Article VII leaves who may serve, how many, for how long, and how they are elected to the Bylaws. The filing is public. To read it, look up that document number in the Secretary of State's business database. This site does not republish it, because the filing carries the organizers' home addresses and the cooperative does not need to copy those out to prove it exists.
Filed
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)
Issued by the IRS. Required for banking, payroll, and tax filings.
Filed
Trade Name registration for techne.coop
Statement of Trade Name of a Reporting Entity, filed with the Colorado Secretary of State on August 12, 2026 (document 20268011137) under C.R.S. §§ 7-71-103 and 7-71-107, with no delayed effective date. The registered name is techne.coop, and the true name of the entity transacting under it remains RegenHub, LCA. The described activities are coworking space, technology education and training, software development, and publishing services to members and the public.
Filed
Layer 1 · Constitution: the rules the cooperative runs by
The board adopted the Bylaws on August 14, 2026, the day it elected the first officers. The steward gave that on 2026-09-03, and his word is the whole of the authority for it. The
founding record of that meeting establishes the meeting and its date, not the adoption: the
record of the proceedings has the Bylaws still drafted on the day.
No minute records the adoption, and until one exists the date is the steward's word rather than the record's own, which is the open question logged at
DOC-01·08. Earlier accounts placed a verbal board act in mid-2026 and disagreed with each other: one said the board ratified on June 24, the meeting's own summary notes said only that the meeting reached readiness for ratification, another page dated it to July, and the steward's August 12 letter to counsel placed it at "our most recent board meetings" with no date. No minutes back up any of those either. Do not rely on them for the adoption; the date above is the one the cooperative now stands on.
Bylaws v2.1
In effect
The cooperative's governing rules: the kinds of membership, who sits on the board and how they are elected, committees, how meetings run, how the rules get changed, and the choice to be taxed as a partnership under Subchapter K, meaning the cooperative pays no income tax itself and profit or loss lands on each member's own return. Eighteen articles.
Colorado ULCAA, the state cooperative statute · C.R.S. Title 7, Art. 58 · Drafted with Jeff Pote (Pote Law Firm) · In effect on board adoption of August 14, 2026, on the steward's word of 2026-09-03 and no other authority; no minute records it (see the note above) · Open items on the text: counsel review and signature
Layer 2 · Contract: the agreements a person signs
The Membership Agreement below rests on a board act too, and on the same open question at
DOC-01·08: no minute records it. The steward's direction of 2026-09-03 dated the Bylaws' adoption to August 14, 2026 and said nothing about when this agreement was authorized, so that date stays unstated here rather than being inferred from the other. Its standing differs in any case: the board adopted the Bylaws, which put them in effect, and authorized this agreement, which makes it available to sign. It reaches a member only when that member executes it.
Signing does not make you a member. Under § 1.1 of the Membership Agreement, you join the Cooperative Member class by invitation. The Board will not admit you
without first establishing a relationship of approximately ninety (90) days, unless the Board votes to set a different period, and it has not. The cooperative also admits nobody
until the Stock Price, or an acceptable promissory note, has been received, meaning you have paid the buy-in or signed a written promise to pay it. So sign it and you start the process. You do not finish it, and so far nobody has been admitted under this agreement.
Admitting the first patron member starts a clock. Section 2.4 requires the Board to adopt a written Patronage Plan, the rules for turning your contribution into a share of the results,
within ninety (90) days of the Cooperative's admission of its first patron member. Patron members are Cooperative Members and Coworking Members (Bylaws § 1.4), so admitting a Community Participant or an Investor Member does not start that clock. The counting rules and the labor schedule that the plan depends on are drafted and not yet adopted. Both are listed on
the patronage page with what each is waiting on.
Membership Agreement v.2.3
DraftedMember
The standard contract every Cooperative Member (Class One) signs when admitted. It gives you the standing of a partner for tax purposes, a capital account, the right to see the cooperative's information, a set of obligations, and your agreement to be taxed as a partner.
Cooperative Member · Class One · Patron Track · Board-authorized, pending execution; the authorization date is not recorded and the steward's ruling of 2026-09-03 did not state one (see the note above) · Open items on the text: counsel review and signature · No member has signed it yet
Community Supporter Agreement
DraftedNot a member
A lightweight agreement for people who want to support the cooperative without taking on membership. Confers no membership rights, no vote, and no patronage. Not a membership instrument.
Contribution Agreement · ULCAA C.R.S. § 7-58-104 · Replaced in purpose, though no board vote has replaced it: the steward records, August 12, 2026, that Community Supporter was an early name for what is now the guild track. It stays listed here until the Guild Participation Terms exist and the board retires it. It is published as a blank template, its money terms are unfilled, and nothing on this site offers it for signature.
Hub Participation Agreement
Covers the access track: Co-working Participants (Class Two) and Community Participants (Class Three). The lawyer is reviewing it and it is not published yet. It was listed here as the Hub Membership Agreement until August 12, 2026. On that date the steward directed the access track to drop the word member, because signing this puts you on a path toward membership rather than admitting you to it, and because C.R.S. § 7-58-102(13) attaches specific legal rights to that word. The name above is a working name. The board picks the public name, with counsel, deciding the document and the class together.
DraftedNot a member
Guild Participation Terms
DraftedNot a member
The instrument for the virtual way in: Guild Participants, Class Three in the guild. Four self-chosen monthly tiers, dues never capital at any tier, and the ninety day pathway to an invitation to the patron class. Listed here as Anticipated until August 19, 2026, when the first text was drafted.
Investor Member Agreement rider
Specific terms for the Investor Member class (Class Four). Pending legal work. An Investor Member is a member of the cooperative under Bylaws § 1.1(d), holding a capital account and receiving a Schedule K-1; what an Investor Member does not hold is a vote.
AnticipatedMember
Layer 3 · Recognition: how your contribution gets counted
Participation Framework
How members take part in cooperative Programs, and how what you contribute earns recognition. It covers the six Contribution Primitives, the standard shapes a Program can take, and the route from doing work to getting credit in your capital account. The document itself is not published on this site. Until August 12, 2026 this entry linked to a page about participation levels instead of to the Framework, and a description pointing at the wrong document is exactly what this page exists to prevent. The amendment that sets up the guild levels and the invitation pathway is drafted and not yet adopted, and since August 19, 2026 it has a text:
Amendment No. 1 to the Participation Framework, a draft. Nobody could find the Framework's own text, so the amendment only adds and never edits, and it stands on two footings: if it turns out the Framework was never adopted, the amendment still holds as a Board policy resolution.
Drafted
The ways in
Not an instrument: the public presentation of the classes, their costs, and where the membership line falls. It reads across both tracks, so it is described by track rather than by any span of class numbers. The doors are at
techne.coop/participation; the comparison, the pathways, and the vocabulary are at
participation/detail.
Presentation
Understanding the Documents · Analysis and commentary
Summary of Changes
Commentary
The plain-language orientation: what the governing documents say, why they changed from v.1 to v.2.1, and what was decided. The best starting point for a member who wants to understand the legal foundation.
Prepared for the Board and Member Body · June 2026
Corrections and open readings
Log
Defects found in the drafts after they were published, and what closes each. A wrong cross-reference, an initial board this estate miscounted, a board on the page that is no longer the board in office, a wrong formation date inside a signed instrument, a class that both may and may not take part in governance, a trade name asserted before it was registered, and two names this site invented for things the instruments already named.
Opened August 12, 2026 · Corrected before execution, not amended after it
The audit remainder
Report
Two audits of this estate's published claims corrected what was false and left the rest as issues. This is the rest: the errors that could not be settled without a document nobody here holds, the claims left standing and the reason each was left, and the seven items whose fix is an act of the board, the steward, or counsel rather than a change to a page.
Opened August 17, 2026 · A report by the cooperative's agent, not a record of what the cooperative did
Counsel Memo
Commentary
The memo submitted to formation counsel presenting each proposed change to the Bylaws and Membership Agreement, with rationale and open questions. Legal conclusions defer to counsel's judgment.
First submission to counsel · Jeff Pote (Pote Law Firm) · July 1, 2026
Bylaws · Legal Analysis
Commentary
The annotated read of the Bylaws: statutory basis under the Colorado ULCAA, partnership tax structure, and the reasoning behind each proposed change.
Formation-era analysis · C.R.S. Title 7, Art. 58 · Not legal advice
Membership Agreement · Analysis
Commentary
The annotated read of the Membership Agreement: proposed modifications, capital account mechanics, and the four-class membership matrix analysis.
Formation-era analysis · May and June 2026 · Not legal advice
Bylaws · Changes Index
Commentary
Every proposed change to the Bylaws, serialized with a stable ID (BL-01 through BL-A07) for citation in board discussion and amendment motions.
Serialized change record · Companion to the Bylaws analysis
Membership Agreement · Changes Index
Commentary
Every proposed change to the Membership Agreement, serialized with a stable ID (MA-01 through MA-A04) for citation in board discussion and amendment motions.
Serialized change record · Companion to the Membership Agreement analysis
The pre-ratification change log
Log · DRAFT
The continuation of the two changes indexes above, for the period before final approval. It does not restate their entries: they remain the record of v.1 to v.2, and this carries the series forward from BL-09 and MA-08. It reports what the audit of August 19, 2026 found stale in them, and carries three seed entries.
DRAFT · August 19, 2026 · Unadopted. Entering a row changes nothing: only the board act a row refers to can change an instrument, and only a minute evidences that act
Site policies · Terms this estate holds itself to
These are not instruments and they are not governance. They are the operating terms of this website and the member services you reach through it, published so you can hold the cooperative to them. If one of these pages disagrees with a governing instrument, follow the instrument.
Privacy policy
Policy
What this cooperative collects from the people who use techne.coop, what it does with it, and what it will not do with it. Carries the terms governing text messaging: a number is bound only by the member who owns it and confirmed by one-time code, messages are replies or opted-into account notices, STOP unbinds, HELP helps, and mobile numbers and SMS consent are never sold, rented, or shared for marketing.
Effective August 19, 2026 · Describes current practice · A phone-binding ceremony runs on the line and verified bindings stand on the record (SMS-04, delivered); its signed-in intranet form is designed and not built (SMS-05, drafted). The policy text itself still reads that the flow is not yet built, and whether that representation is amended is the steward's act, not this shelf's; this line read not yet built until 2026-09-03 (X-36)
Terms of service
Policy
The operating terms of this site: who they bind, what may and may not be done here, that what you post stays yours while what the cooperative publishes is offered under CC BY-SA 4.0, that an automated agent's answer is not a record of any act, and that using the site makes nobody a member.
Effective August 19, 2026 · Describes current practice · Not an instrument: where it and an instrument disagree, the instrument governs
Board packet · August 19, 2026 · Drafts, none adopted
Four documents prepared for the board meeting of August 19, 2026, at the steward's request. Every one is a draft, and the board has adopted none of them. They are published unfinished for the same reason everything else here is: a cooperative whose members arrive after the decisions are made is not one anybody co-creates. Nothing in this group records a board decision. When the board decides something, the decision lives in the minutes the recorder keeps.
Memorandum to the Board · August 19, 2026
Memo · DRAFT
The three motions: establish the guild, adopt the Guild Participation Terms, and settle the Bylaws ratification premise at its root. With the mechanics of a lawful act, the elections left to the board, and seven disclosures including where the published record disagrees with itself.
Moves adoption · records none · Drafted by the cooperative's agent, not a record of what the cooperative did
Amendment No. 1 to the Participation Framework
DraftedNot a member
Establishment of the Guild Participant level within Class Three. Drafted additively, so it changes no existing sentence, and on a dual footing, so one vote adopts it whether or not the Framework itself was ever adopted.
DRAFT v0.2 · Nothing adopted by drafting · Five matters flagged for counsel and not resolved
Pre-Ratification Revision No. 1 to the draft Bylaws
Drafted
Section 1.1(c), and the word "member." A draft revision to a draft instrument, proposing that a Community Participant be defined as a participant and expressly not admitted as a member. It works only on a premise the board has not yet recited, and carries the fallback for the case where the premise fails.
DRAFT v0.2 · Conditioned on a board finding that the Bylaws remain a draft · Would be recorded as BL-09 in the change log
The Lens · Where the shapes came from
If you want to know why the member classes are cut this way, why belonging is drawn as rings rather than rungs, or why nothing on this site shows a score, you will not find the reasoning in any instrument above. It is in the formation record: what was said in the room between August 2025 and February 2026. That record binds nobody and gives nobody anything. Read it as a lens, not as a rule, and if it disagrees with an instrument, the instrument is right.
The Commonplace
Record
The formation record of the fifteen meetings in which this cooperative was worked out, in five movements. Among them: the decision that member classes should be a matrix and not a ladder, the picture of belonging as concentric circles, the choice of trust over reputation, and the November 2025 consultation at which counsel's multi-stakeholder warning was recorded and the answer to it left an open question.
August 2025 to February 2026 · Binds nothing, confers nothing, governs nothing
Additional documents are anticipated as the cooperative matures: Program policies for each designated Program, Coordinator Agreements, board election procedures, a Conflict of Interest policy, and the first Annual Public Benefit Report.
The v.1 drafts and the working copies used for counsel review remain published at techne.institute/legal.
Status marks change as documents are drafted, reviewed, and voted in. If you need to know where something stands, check here: this page is the source of truth.