Classification is open by invitation while we refine the model. We're inviting a first group of aligned organizations and shaping the standard with them; it opens more broadly as the model settles.
I-Corp is not a legal structure or an ownership model. It is a classification for organizations that voluntarily commit to operating within the impact-based economic framework — and it is designed so that saying yes costs you none of your independence.
Classification represents alignment with Civicognita's principles. Organizations retain their independence while contributing to the collective infrastructure of the impact economy.
These are settled in principle. Exactly what evidence satisfies each one is being refined with the first organizations we invite.
Impact is what the organization optimizes for and reports on — not a side note beneath a financial result. Measurement is expected to be transparent enough that others can check it.
How people are compensated, credited, and treated is disclosed rather than assumed. Dignified contribution is a condition of alignment, not a marketing line.
Where agents and automated systems act on the organization’s behalf, the accountability trace stays intact and attributable — technology as instrument, never as authority.
Standards are living instruments. Classification carries an expectation of taking part in their revision, in the open, rather than treating a snapshot as permanent.
A standard that overstates its own readiness is exactly the kind of unmeasured claim Impactivism exists to end. So here is the honest state of it.
Civicognita stewards the classification as the non-profit governance organization. The review body is operating in an invitational capacity while the full, open process is built out.
The four commitments are settled in principle. What evidence satisfies each one — and where the threshold sits — is being refined with the organizations we invite.
How often alignment is re-examined, what happens when an organization drifts, and how a classification is withdrawn are still being designed as classification proceeds.
Classification is currently by invitation, and the organizations shaping the standard are helping refine it. Join the community to follow the work — or tell us what your organization would need from it.