Business Law

What Exists

The platform is operational. The current members have an informal understanding of who owns what and how things work. Nobody has signed anything. Nothing has been formalised.

This is fine for friends building things together. It becomes a problem the moment the platform opens to more people, commercial arrangements are made, or anything goes wrong.

What We’d Love Help With

Commercial arrangements. When someone joins as a member and builds something, what is the arrangement? Equity? Revenue share? What percentage? Under what conditions? These questions are currently answered with “we’ll work it out.” That’s not good enough once real value is being created.

IP framework. Who owns what gets built on the platform? What happens to the patterns and learnings that flow into the shared brain — who has rights to those? If a member builds something that becomes a core platform pattern, what’s the arrangement? None of this is documented.

Data privacy. The platform stores user memory, agent interactions, and project data. As it opens to more people, there are real obligations — Australian privacy law, and potentially GDPR if members are in Europe. Someone needs to understand what those obligations are and make sure the platform meets them.

Terms of service and privacy policy. These don’t exist yet. Before CollectHive opens to the community, they need to.

Entity structure. Is CollectHive currently operating as a business? Should it be? What structure makes sense given the co-operative model and the mix of Australian and potentially international members?

If This Sounds Like You

The co-operative model is unusual enough that standard templates won’t cover everything — there’s real thinking to do here. If you have a legal or commercial background and want to help shape how a co-operative like this actually works in practice, we’d love to have you involved.