The ways in, in detail
The short version is on the ways in. This page is the long one: what each way in carries, how ownership actually happens, and which instrument governs what. Nothing here is a different answer, only a fuller one.
The same four questions, for every way in
Ownership is the only thing that separates them. It is not a function of what you pay: the desk costs more than the share does.
| Way in | A vote in how it runs | A stake that grows | A share of what it earns | What it costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open to anyone. No invitation, no buy-in, cancel on reasonable notice. | ||||
| Community ParticipantClass Three, at the hub | No | No | No | $25, $50, or $100 a month |
| Co-working ParticipantClass Two | No | No | No | $250 a month at a hot desk; $500 and up for a dedicated desk or office |
| Guild ParticipantClass Three, virtual | No | No | No | $10, $25, $100, or $200 a month, self-chosen. Not open yet. |
| Everything below this line is ownershipAbove it you are not an owner, whatever you pay and however long you have been here. This is where the cooperative intends the ownership line to fall, and it is not a social ranking: nothing above it is junior, outer, or on the way to something better. | ||||
| Cooperative MemberClass One | Yes, one | Yes | Yes | $100 one-time share, plus $100 a year in dues |
| Investor MemberClass Four | Nounless also a Cooperative Member | Yes | Yes | A capital contribution. No dues, no fee. Terms set by the Board. |
On a narrow screen the table scrolls sideways.
In the words the instruments use: a stake that grows is a capital account, a share of the earnings arrives each year as a Schedule K-1 and makes the holder a partner under Subchapter K, and anyone below the line is a member of RegenHub, LCA within the meaning of C.R.S. § 7-58-102(13). Everyone above it is a participant. That is the vocabulary this page uses. The drafted Bylaws still call the access classes members too, at §§ 1.1(b) and 1.1(c); which vocabulary yields is before counsel, and the open readings are DOC-01·03 and DOC-01·09.
Putting money in
An Investor Member puts capital in and receives a share of the returns. What an Investor Member does not receive is a vote. This is not a rung above or below anything else: control follows people here, not money, and one member one vote is the cooperative's first rule. If you want to back the work rather than join it, this is the way.
Direct investment, not a progression from another class. No dues and no membership fee. Terms set by the Board under an Investor Agreement that is not yet drafted. Write to the board.
How ownership actually happens
It is not earned by accumulating something, and no threshold awards it. It begins when a member who knows your work invites you, and it completes when you agree. Both halves are acts of people. Roughly ninety days of being around is what makes the first half possible.
How participation becomes ownership the two pathways
At a desk: a Co-working Participant who reaches a board-established patronage threshold may be invited to apply for Cooperative Member status. On Board acceptance, the applicant executes the Membership Agreement, pays the $100 one-time share, and moves to the patron track. The credits earned at a desk inform the invitation; the threshold and the credit methodology are set by board resolution and specified in Schedule A of the Participation Framework, which is drafted and not published.
Anywhere on the access track: after ninety days of continuous participation in good standing, a participant becomes invitable. When two Cooperative Members have each recorded an invitation in the cooperative's record, the participant is eligible to apply. An invitation is a member's act, not a form's checkbox: it says a member knows this person's work and direction of travel. Board acceptance, the Membership Agreement, and the $100 share follow exactly as above. Eligibility opens the door and never pushes anyone through it; membership is chosen from both sides.
Nothing on this site will show you a score, a progress bar, or a percentage toward membership, and that is a design decision rather than an omission. A figure a person watches becomes a figure a person plays. What can be shown is what happened: days established, invitations recorded, and what remains, read from the record and never compared against anybody else.
The path most people walk, and nothing on it is a trapdoor: every step is reversible on notice.
The instrument governs
This page presents; the instruments decide. The rates and the tax distribution above are not set by any board resolution the record contains. Bylaws Schedule A reserves the access-class terms to a board resolution that has not been passed, and Membership Agreement section 3.3 says the cooperative intends to adopt a tax distribution policy rather than that it has. The Bylaws and the Membership Agreement are board-adopted and pending member ratification; whether the Participation Framework was adopted by the board on June 24, 2026 is an open question in the record, no minute records it, and the legal shelf lists it as drafted (this sentence counted it board-adopted until 2026-09-03, X-36); the amendment that would establish the guild levels and the invitation pathway is drafted and unadopted; the Hub Participation Agreement and the Investor Agreement are not published. Where this page and an instrument differ, the instrument is right and this page owes a correction. Every instrument on this site is indexed, with its status and whether signing it makes you a member, at the legal shelf.
Why the classes are cut this way, and why belonging here is drawn as circles rather than rungs, is in The Commonplace, the record of the fifteen meetings in which this cooperative was worked out. It binds nothing and governs nothing; where it and an instrument disagree, the instrument is right.
Back to the doors
If you have read enough, the two open ways in and the one that comes by invitation are on the ways in. If you would rather just talk to someone, write to us.