The Commonsent Dictionary

A compact disclosure indicating who produced a recommendation, which data and model classes were used, who benefits, what conflicts exist, and how the result can be challenged.

An audit designed to discover how a rule, model, market, or governance process could be manipulated by actors seeking advantage.

Measurement designed under the assumption that participants may optimize, conceal, or manipulate observable signals.

The requirement that automation reduce burden without silently replacing human choice, narrowing options, or making disengagement costly.

The closed adaptive cycle through which individual goals become structured intent, pooled coordination, governed execution, productive capacity, distributed value, and learning. Its six stages are individual agency, personal advocacy, coordination, governance, economic execution, and value distribution.

This is the main process model of the platform.

A federated set of specialized agents that cooperate under shared protocols while retaining distinct principals, permissions, and accountability.

Structured bargaining among user, supplier, civic, treasury, or specialist agents using declared constraints and auditable proposals.

The treatment of essential AI capabilities as accountable public-interest infrastructure rather than proprietary persuasion engines.

A historically compressed transition in which general-purpose cognitive systems scale faster than the institutions, laws, markets, and cultural norms meant to govern them.

Any structural control that limits concentrated power, such as rights separation, term limits, random audit, transparent conflicts, multi-model review, exit, or federated authority.

The economic immune system of Commonsent: a continuous monitor of concentration, dependency, lock-in, extraction, data control, labor leverage, and political influence that can trigger demand rerouting and structural remedies.

The automated redirection of pooled demand toward viable alternatives when concentration, dependency, lock-in, extraction, or abusive conduct exceeds community-defined thresholds.

A record in which new events may be added but prior entries cannot be silently overwritten, preserving an auditable history of decisions and transactions.

The augmented-reality interface through which Commonsent places relevant civic, economic, and cognitive context into the physical decision environment.

The wearable delivery form of the Civic Exo-Brain, providing low-friction context and feedback at real-world decision moments.

A spatial interface at checkout, contract, subscription, or procurement that displays total cost, rights, recirculation, alternatives, and user-rule conflicts.

Prosperity grounded in broad ownership of productive and appreciating assets rather than dependence only on wages, benefits, or consumption subsidies.

A condition in which institutions receive powerful AI augmentation while individuals receive primarily convenience, entertainment, or persuasion, widening rather than closing the coordination gap.

A bounded allowance for visual, auditory, or haptic interruption within a time or context, allocated according to user priorities and decision risk.

The ability to reconstruct what happened, under which rules, using which inputs, with whose authorization, and what remedies remain available.

A system designed to expand informed choice, competence, and self-direction rather than maximize compliance, retention, or dependence.

Continuous low-attention analysis performed by a user-aligned agent in the background, with human attention requested only when thresholds are crossed.

The use of behavioral data, cognitive biases, interface friction, or emotional triggers to steer people toward outcomes that primarily serve another party.

A context layer that detects likely bias-inducing conditions, such as urgency, anchoring, social proof, sunk cost, or one-sided framing, and introduces a proportionate corrective prompt.

Delegation limited by scope, duration, budget, risk, counterparty, or action type. It expires or returns to the user when the boundary is reached.

Protections for people who have not chosen to participate but may be captured by cameras, microphones, spatial mapping, or inferred social context.

An automatic pause on transactions, voting, allocation, or model execution when risk indicators exceed a defined threshold.

AI designed to improve public understanding, coordination, service access, accountability, or democratic capacity under explicit public-interest constraints.

An engineered decision point where individual or collective agency can materially alter a system outcome, such as a purchase, renewal, procurement choice, policy vote, or treasury allocation.

A decentralized or distributed governance body that manages civic resources, rules, or services under a public-interest constitution and transparent audit.

An external cognitive support system that filters overload, reveals system structure, preserves memory, compares evidence, and helps people coordinate action while leaving judgment and final authority with humans.

The capacity of a community to understand evidence, incentives, power relationships, public choices, and likely consequences well enough to coordinate legitimate action.

The non-financial return produced by an investment or policy, including resilience, trust, access, public capacity, optionality, knowledge, and reduced dependency.

AR designed for public-interest reliability, accessibility, auditability, privacy, low distraction, and graceful failure rather than advertising conversion or immersive novelty.

The trace of how a claim originated, changed wording, moved across sources, acquired or lost context, and influenced later claims.

A structured representation of a checkable assertion, including exact wording, speaker, time, scope, evidence, confidence, counterevidence, and revision history.

The power imbalance created when one side can externalize planning, prediction, persuasion, optimization, and memory into scalable AI while the other side remains cognitively bounded and fragmented.

A state in which repeated framing and information control narrow the range of options a person or group can meaningfully imagine or evaluate.

An interface that absorbs repetitive analysis and monitoring, then surfaces compact, decision-relevant summaries and exceptions.

A wearable or ambient interface that extends memory, attention, comparison, and situational understanding without claiming to replace human judgment.

A target condition in which individuals and communities possess AI capabilities comparable in strategic quality to those used by institutions acting upon them.

The layer connecting understanding to coordinated acts such as buying, voting, attending, petitioning, investing, mutual aid, or cooperative formation.

A market in which individuals voluntarily combine demand and negotiate as a group rather than entering separately into seller-designed transactions.

An economy in which communities deliberately build, govern, and benefit from shared productive assets, knowledge, infrastructure, and bargaining capacity.

The human-readable companion to the Commonsent Ontology, providing canonical definitions, aliases, formulas, status labels, and conceptual relationships.

The research, writing, protocol-design, and public-education engine of the Commonsent Platform, using a dark research-lab visual identity.

The formal vocabulary and relationship model that defines Commonsent entities, rules, events, rights, outcomes, and modules.

The civic intelligence division that connects multi-source issue comparison, claim evidence, influence detection, personal relevance, deliberation, calibration, and public memory.

The initial utility product: a local buycott map and merchant directory, values filters, a transparent community fund, and weekly impact verification.

The process by which recurring contributions, retained earnings, and reinvestment accumulate into community-owned assets that generate future income and productive capacity.

The durable ability of a community to solve problems through skills, institutions, relationships, infrastructure, assets, and legitimate governance.

Beneficial ownership shared among workers, users, residents, and a community treasury according to a disclosed allocation model.

A predeclared level of market share, dependency, ownership, voting power, data control, or infrastructure control that triggers review or corrective routing.

Access to a coordinated demand pool granted only when a supplier accepts defined conditions such as data limits, fair contract terms, interoperability, labor standards, or community contribution.

Participation that activates only under user-defined conditions, such as specific decisions, locations, budgets, or issue domains.

A graph of financial, organizational, professional, political, and personal relationships that may shape a source, expert, proposal, or recommendation.

A graded representation of support, reservations, acceptable compromise, principled objection, and uncertainty rather than a binary agree-disagree count.

Automation grounded in explicit, understandable, scoped, revocable, and auditable permission rather than broad one-time acceptance.

A legal, technical, or procedural protection that limits what majorities, administrators, investors, or automated systems may do.

Rights to vote, set rules, appoint stewards, approve strategic actions, or amend governance. These rights should not automatically scale with invested capital.

The structural condition in which capital, platforms, and large organizations coordinate cheaply and nearly instantly while ordinary people face high search, trust, communication, and decision costs.

The time, money, attention, trust, search, negotiation, and governance burden required to align participants around an action.

The change in successful collective action produced by an incremental reduction in coordination cost.

The privacy-preserving layer that detects compatible needs, aligned constraints, and opportunities for joint action across many participants without requiring centralized persuasion or ideological uniformity.

The underlying loss of collective agency beneath visible symptoms such as job displacement, stagnant wages, concentration, political distrust, and information overload.

Governance organized as a feedback system: set goals and constraints, act, measure outcomes, compare them with targets, and revise rules when evidence warrants.

A repeatable process for sourcing, evaluating, financing, acquiring, and converting viable businesses into community co-ownership while preserving operations and employment.

A Commonsent Treasury whose spending, investment, risk limits, and distributions are controlled by transparent rules and accountable governance processes.

The accumulation of participant data, identity, behavioral history, or derived knowledge in a form that gives one intermediary durable power over users or the network.

The practical ability of a person or community to control access, use, retention, derivation, portability, and deletion of data about them.

The interval in which information can still alter a meaningful choice, such as before checkout, renewal, signature, vote, or irreversible action.

The reuse of previously expressed values, rules, and delegations so users do not repeatedly reconsider routine choices from scratch.

A concise overlay activated when a high-impact, unusual, or irreversible commitment is imminent.

AR that appears in synchronization with a meaningful choice rather than continuously competing for attention.

The programmed reduction of an agent’s authority or confidence when a delegation is old, unused, contextually mismatched, or unsupported by recent user engagement.

A standardized sequence for issue framing, evidence assembly, stakeholder mapping, option generation, argument testing, revision, decision, and outcome review.

The conversion of vague desire or seller-framed choice into an explicit need, use case, constraints, and alternatives.

The design principle that systems should help people articulate underlying needs and constraints before exposing them to seller-optimized choices.

A privacy-preserving aggregation of compatible standing demand from multiple participants, used to create bargaining power, improve terms, or justify new production.

The structured expression of what buyers or citizens need, including price, quality, timing, privacy, labor, sustainability, ownership, and exclusion constraints.

A shorthand for Commonsent as the persistent operating layer through which buyers, citizens, workers, and households express intent, coordinate bargaining, route transactions, and accumulate shared ownership.

The developer layer for building interoperable agents, integrations, market modules, governance tools, and spatial interfaces for the Commonsent federated network.

The volunteer and professional ecosystem that incrementally builds, reviews, documents, and maintains Commonsent modules using open-development practices.

User-controlled automation for recurring personal and household decisions, records, subscriptions, permissions, and goals.

A representation of exactly where participants differ: facts, forecasts, values, priorities, causal models, risk tolerance, or distributional preferences.

A tiered process for contesting agent actions, supplier performance, data claims, treasury decisions, or governance outcomes through explanation, mediation, arbitration, or formal appeal.

The third commerce layer, ranking viable options according to user priorities such as local ownership, labor standards, privacy, environmental impact, and community recirculation.

The conversion of coordinated intent into real production, procurement, bargaining, investment, acquisition, service delivery, or infrastructure creation.

The combined monitoring, threshold, routing, audit, and remedy functions that detect unhealthy concentration or extraction and trigger proportionate corrective action.

A user-owned record of transactions, contracts, subscriptions, warranties, prices, outcomes, and supplier behavior that improves future decisions without becoming an advertising profile.

Rights to dividends, patronage returns, redemption value, or other financial benefits. Commonsent separates these from control rights to reduce plutocratic capture.

Bias correction delivered within the physical and temporal context that is producing the bias, such as urgency at a store shelf or social pressure in a meeting.

The boundary above which the system must interrupt the user, request confirmation, seek a second opinion, or send the issue to governance.

A network connecting claims, evidence, sources, actors, methods, conflicts, and downstream decisions so users can inspect how conclusions are supported.

A structured unit of supporting or contradicting material with provenance, method, date, scope, quality assessment, and links to relevant claims.

The practical right to leave a service, delegation, DAO, data-sharing arrangement, or federation without punitive lock-in and with portable identity and assets where legally possible.

A recommendation accompanied by the principal factors, alternatives, uncertainty, conflicts, and user rules that shaped it.

The cumulative share of an economic flow removed through rents, monopoly pricing, platform fees, financial charges, data appropriation, avoidable intermediation, and externalized costs.

Coordination among autonomous groups through shared rules, messages, credentials, and dispute procedures.

Governance divided among autonomous units that coordinate through a shared constitution, interoperability standards, and limited common institutions.

A network of locally governed cells and services that coordinate through shared protocols without surrendering all authority to a central operator.

A shared capability provided across cells, such as identity verification, model evaluation, treasury settlement, dispute resolution, security, or protocol governance.

The system-wide process of measuring results, comparing them with intended outcomes, detecting unintended effects or capture, and updating agents, rules, allocations, and interfaces.

Control of decision processes by a faction through wealth, turnout asymmetry, procedural complexity, delegate entrenchment, information control, or administrative access.

A rule that cannot be changed by ordinary governance because it protects foundational rights or system integrity, such as exit, data sovereignty, or separation of money and votes.

The cycle that turns candidate actions into legitimate decisions through simulation, disclosure, validation, delegation, voting where necessary, execution, audit, and revision.

Any formally represented item subject to rules or collective decision, including a proposal, budget, mandate, credential, threshold, or constitutional clause.

A design in which routine matters follow user-approved rules and bounded delegations, while human attention is reserved for exceptions, constitutional changes, and high-stakes choices.

The transfer of an automated process to a person with sufficient context, history, and options to continue without restarting.

The continuum from neutral information through recommendation, default setting, social pressure, and coercion. Commonsent requires stronger safeguards as influence moves toward the coercive end.

A required pause before an agent executes an action whose stake, uncertainty, irreversibility, or novelty exceeds the user’s threshold.

A local governance and trust unit small enough for social legibility, repeated interaction, and accountable leadership while connected to larger federation services.

The process of confirming whether claimed local, economic, civic, or environmental outcomes actually occurred using traceable evidence.

Collecting initial judgments or estimates before participants see group discussion, reducing conformity and cascade effects.

The starting state of the Commonsent system: a person’s goals, needs, constraints, capabilities, values, risk tolerance, and lived context. The architecture begins with the person rather than the institution.

Disclosure of the actors, money, organizational ties, targeting methods, amplification networks, and intended outcomes behind public communication.

The ability of identities, agents, rules, credentials, ledgers, and governance modules to exchange information and operate across implementations.

A unified representation of a public issue containing claims, evidence, actors, interests, forecasts, disagreements, decisions, and outcome history.

A translation layer that makes hidden incentives, ownership, dependencies, consequences, and uncertainty understandable at the moment they matter, without pretending complexity has disappeared.

The repeated movement of money and productive value among local households, workers, institutions, and businesses before it leaks outside the community.

The Commonsent layer that organizes place-specific information about budgets, housing, schools, services, businesses, risks, needs, and opportunities.

The preference for satisfying needs, governing resources, and building ownership at the smallest capable local level before escalating to larger federated structures.

The portion of spending, surplus, wages, taxes, ownership returns, and data value that remains within a defined community after a transaction.

An architecture in which raw personal data remains on user-controlled devices or storage whenever possible, with only necessary summaries or proofs shared outward.

Fragmentation sustained or amplified by systems that profit when people remain isolated, individually targeted, and unable to pool demand, knowledge, or bargaining power.

The rule-enforcement boundary between participant demand and suppliers. It determines which providers may bid, under what terms, and with what ongoing obligations.

Public reasoning that records claims, forecasts, confidence, changes of mind, decisions, and later outcomes so institutions can learn rather than merely debate.

The layer that tracks whether coordinated actions produced intended improvements and whether benefits were distributed fairly.

A correction process that evaluates structure, evidence, influence, and downstream effects regardless of the ideological identity or media brand involved.

A coordinating governance layer that sets interoperability, constitutional safeguards, dispute procedures, and federation-wide standards while leaving domain decisions to specialized DAOs.

The distortion of behavior toward improving a reported metric while undermining the underlying objective the metric was intended to represent.

The identification of persistent local demand that is not being met by viable local supply, indicating an opportunity for cooperative or community-owned production.

A legal and governance structure that prevents investors or future leaders from overriding the platform’s foundational public-interest purpose.

A system design in which agents, identity, markets, governance, treasuries, Signal, and AR are replaceable modules connected through defined interfaces.

Resource allocation based on multiple independent indicators rather than a single score, reducing gaming and model error.

A condition in which one side possesses much greater capacity to test, target, repeat, and distribute persuasive frames than affected individuals possess to evaluate them.

A decision-time layer that introduces missing context, alternative explanations, affected interests, or counterevidence in proportion to the detected imbalance.

A cost imposed when persuasive narratives alter public choices, institutional trust, market behavior, or social cohesion without the originator bearing the resulting harm.

The persistence of a frame after its evidence weakens because identity, repetition, institutions, or social costs make revision difficult.

The transformation of a claim or story as it is reframed, simplified, emotionally intensified, or detached from its original evidence.

The extraction of economic or political advantage by manipulating interpretation and attention rather than creating corresponding social value.

A compact indicator of provenance, ownership, funding, amplification pattern, conflicts, evidence quality, and uncertainty attached to a narrative or claim.

The first layer of the Sovereign Commerce Stack, where the system clarifies the underlying need, constraints, urgency, acceptable substitutes, and whether a purchase is necessary.

A mechanism that diverts a user-chosen fraction of ordinary transactions into participant-governed asset formation without favoring a network operator’s inventory or extracting additional hidden margin.

A fiduciary or constitutional custodian responsible for preserving mission, protocol integrity, and participant rights rather than maximizing short-term platform value.

The requirement that no investor, administrator, model provider, political faction, majority, or vendor can convert a bounded role into permanent constitutional control.

The extent to which an action cannot be undone or repaired at reasonable cost. High non-reversibility raises the need for explicit human confirmation.

The gradual concentration of informal or formal control among a small group because of expertise, time availability, wealth, network position, or accumulated delegation.

Participation based on affirmative, scoped choice rather than default enrollment or hidden bundling.

The risk that automated execution depends on inaccurate, manipulated, delayed, or ambiguously defined external data.

The right of a person to control which spatial information layers may observe, annotate, prioritize, or influence their field of view.

A representation of who ultimately owns, controls, finances, or benefits from an organization, asset, medium, supplier, or policy outcome.

The repeated conversion of participation, spending, labor, or savings into durable ownership claims rather than one-time discounts or transfers.

Infrastructure that gives individuals and communities organization-level capacity to analyze, negotiate, purchase, invest, and govern together. It is the demand-side counterpart to the coordination systems already used by large institutions.

The selective suppression, ranking, or highlighting of information according to a person’s goals, risk, and context rather than a platform’s engagement objective.

A user-controlled record of places, interactions, objects, and events retained only under explicit scope and retention rules to support future context.

A user-aligned AI agent that represents one person or household, interprets their rules, monitors relevant conditions, negotiates with other agents, and explains consequential recommendations.

The layer that filters information according to a person’s actual priorities and converts overload into a manageable understanding of choices.

The human or household whose interests a Personal Advocate Agent is legally and technically required to serve.

The degree to which a deliberation includes the materially different experiences, interests, causal models, and affected groups needed for a legitimate decision.

The combined data, targeting, content, testing, distribution, funding, and optimization systems used to shape behavior at scale.

The modeling of likely outcomes, distributional effects, uncertainty, and failure modes of a policy or rule before implementation.

A transition in which paid human labor becomes less central to production, income distribution, identity, and social coordination because AI and automation perform a growing share of economically valuable work.

The fifth commerce layer, managing receipts, warranties, maintenance, repair, return rights, subscriptions, resale, shared use, and end-of-life disposition.

The Commonsent layer that reveals how money, ownership, data, authority, and influence move through a system.

An AI system constrained by user-defined rules, permissions, values, and escalation thresholds instead of optimizing a single global objective.

The requirement that an agent’s primary duty is to the person or collective it represents, not to sellers, advertisers, model providers, or platform owners.

A specialized DAO that aggregates requirements, qualifies suppliers, conducts competitive bidding, awards contracts, and audits delivery.

The second commerce layer, comparing total cost, durability, repairability, warranties, price history, quality, and credible substitutes.

A specialized DAO that converts persistent unmet demand into shared productive capacity, including cooperatives, local manufacturing, service organizations, or digital infrastructure.

Ownership whose transfer, voting, dividend, lockup, mission, or redemption conditions are encoded in transparent legal and technical rules.

A structured, machine-readable governance item containing the problem, evidence, options, costs, beneficiaries, risks, conflicts, implementation plan, metrics, and amendment history.

A research-and-development practice that converts concepts into testable interfaces, simulations, protocols, and pilots.

A durable, queryable record of public claims, forecasts, decisions, promises, rationales, outcomes, and corrections.

The visible process by which a community connects evidence, values, tradeoffs, and consequences when justifying collective choices.

An algorithm whose objective, constraints, audit, appeal, and ownership are designed around participant or public benefit rather than engagement, extraction, or seller conversion.

The ability to surface the relevant structure of a system close enough to a decision that the user can still act on it.

A corrective change in routing, authority, allocation, ownership, or representation intended to restore system health after concentration or drift.

Capital deliberately structured to remain productive within a community or participant network through reinvestment, local procurement, shared ownership, and repeated distribution.

A practical mechanism to correct harm, reverse an action, compensate loss, restore access, amend a record, or change a rule after an error or violation.

The stable interface through which a person’s interests are represented across sellers, institutions, government processes, and AI services. Providers connect to the user-controlled representation layer rather than forcing users into provider-controlled interfaces.

The rule that reputation should apply only to the domain, time period, and behavior for which evidence is relevant.

A limited, time-bounded implementation used when uncertainty is high and the action can be safely tested before full adoption.