Nonprofit · Human-Centered Futures

For Humans.
By Humans.

We build the communities, the economic alternatives, and the sovereign technology infrastructure needed to ensure humanity doesn't just survive the coming decades—but flourishes through them.

Why Prosper Foundation Exists

Survival and flourishing are choices we must make together.

→Wars fracture our world. Energy systems teeter on collapse.
→AI threatens to eliminate millions of jobs while concentrating wealth.
→Tech giants erode privacy, dignity, and human agency at scale.
→Economic systems leave billions trapped in cycles of dependency.

We exist because these are not distant threats—they are here, now, accelerating. And we refuse to stand idle while our species' future hangs in the balance.

At our core, we believe in the inherent goodness, compassion, and resilience of humanity. When we reconnect with our communal nature and reclaim our sense of universal human dignity, we unlock extraordinary collective power to overcome any obstacle.

"For Human by Human" is our line in the sand. We choose human creativity over dehumanizing automation, real relationships over synthetic substitutes, and tools that elevate people over systems that reduce them to metrics.

How We Work
Pillar 01

Community Revival

Rebuilding the local networks of mutual support, shared resources, and genuine human connection that form the bedrock of resilience.

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Pillar 02

Economic Liberation

Training and supporting people to achieve real economic sovereignty—self-employment skills, multiple income streams, escape from payroll dependency.

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Pillar 03

Sovereign Technology

Building and owning the digital infrastructure humanity needs—private, community-controlled, and designed to serve people, not extract from them.

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Launching Now First Initiative

Introducing Prosper Drive.

The first worker-owned ride-hailing cooperative built on the "For Human by Human" principle. A direct answer to Uber and Lyft—where drivers own the platform, keep more of what they earn, and communities stay in control.

~5M

US driving jobs at risk from automation by 2030

0%

Ownership drivers hold in current gig platforms

100%

Community-owned. Zero extraction logic.

Technology Infrastructure

Why we built our own digital infrastructure.

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We looked at today's tech giants—Google, Microsoft, Meta—and saw platforms built around surveillance, lock-in, and extraction. Every tool we use that we don't control is a vulnerability.

So we built our own. ProsperApps is our foundation-aligned software company, developing a complete sovereign stack: identity, authentication, cloud storage, mail, collaboration, creative tools, and more.

Not because it's easy. Because it's necessary. When the communities we build depend on digital infrastructure, that infrastructure must belong to them.

Part of the Prosper ecosystem · ProsperApps · ProsperID · ProsperMail · Prosper Productivity · ProsperSafe

The time for watching has passed.
The time for building has arrived.

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Mission

Empowering humanity to thrive
through existential uncertainty.

We exist at the intersection of community resilience, economic liberation, and human-centered technology—because solving humanity's challenges requires all three working together.

Our Mission

What we're here to do

To empower humanity to thrive through existential uncertainty by building resilient local communities, fostering self-reliance, and rekindling our collective belief in human dignity, compassion, and our capacity to solve critical challenges together.

We champion a "For Human by Human" future—protecting human creativity and genuine connection, and ensuring the systems we build strengthen human agency rather than replace it.

Our Vision

A world where thriving local communities form an unbreakable network of mutual support—where people are economically self-sufficient, socially connected, and united in their commitment to human flourishing and survival across all challenges we face.

Core Values
Human DignityEvery person possesses inherent worth and the capacity for greatness
Community Over IsolationWe are stronger together than apart, always
Action Over TalkCommitment means real investment of time, talent, and resources
Economic SovereigntyFreedom begins with self-reliance and escaping dependency
For Human by Human (FHB-H)Choosing human creativity and genuine interaction keeps us human
Radical HopeEven in dark times, we believe in humanity's goodness and future
Collective ResponsibilityCritical challenges require pooled resources and joint effort
Local-First, Global-AwareStrong local communities form the foundation for global resilience
Our Approach — Three Pillars
01 / Community Revival

Community Revival

We help people build and revitalize local communities that provide genuine social support, shared resources, and collective resilience. We believe the antidote to isolation and vulnerability is human connection at the local level.

02 / Economic Liberation

Economic Liberation

We train and support people to break free from the "payroll-to-payroll rat race" and develop self-employment skills, multiple income streams, and true economic sovereignty—so they can weather any storm.

03 / Sovereign Technology

Sovereign Technology

We build and own the digital infrastructure our communities depend on. When technology is controlled by aligned, community-owned organizations rather than extractive corporations, it becomes a pillar of resilience rather than a vulnerability. This is the philosophy behind ProsperApps.

Our approach is practical, not idealistic.

We invest real resources, build real skills, and create tangible safety nets that work when traditional systems fail. Across every pillar, we design communities, livelihoods, and technologies that preserve human agency, reward human contribution, and strengthen genuine in-person and peer-to-peer connection.

What We Do

A platform for initiatives,
not a single program.

Prosper Foundation operates across three interconnected domains: community revival, economic liberation, and the technology infrastructure that makes both possible at scale.

Focus Areas
01

Build Flourishing Local Communities

Through training, resources, and frameworks that help people create vital, resilient, and prosperous community networks wherever they live.

02

Provide Pathways to Self-Employment

Through education, mentorship, and economic tools that free people from dependency on fragile employment systems and build true economic sovereignty.

03

Create Coop-Tech Platforms

Worker-owned cooperative alternatives to extractive gig economy platforms (Uber, Lyft, Foodora, AirBnB). These platforms are "For Human by Human" by design—built to protect worker dignity, human relationships, and real community value creation, not extraction. Prosper Drive is our first.

04

Build & Own Sovereign Digital Infrastructure

We invest in our own technology stack so communities are not dependent on surveillance-driven corporations. Through ProsperApps, we are building identity, authentication, cloud storage, mail, collaboration, and more—controlled by us, not by Big Tech.

05

Pool Collective Resources

Financial, intellectual, and human capital pooled to fund and execute solutions to critical survival challenges—because no individual or isolated entity can solve existential problems alone.

06

Restore Faith in Humanity

Creating visible proof that compassion, cooperation, and human dignity can triumph over chaos and division—one community, one initiative at a time.

07

Create Safety Nets That Function

Building systems that work when traditional institutions falter or fail—practical, resilient, and genuinely community-owned.

We Work Through

Pilot Programs & Living Labs

Testing and iterating ideas in real communities before scaling.

Community Working Groups

Community-driven groups that own and advance specific initiative tracks.

Education & Workshops

Practical content building real skills for real outcomes.

Strategic Partnerships

Aligned organizations that amplify reach and deepen impact together.

Open Knowledge Sharing

Frameworks, lessons, and resources shared freely with the world.

Foundation-Aligned Software

ProsperApps provides the technology backbone for everything we build.

Technology

We refused to build on
someone else's extraction machine.

ProsperApps is our foundation-aligned software company — building the sovereign digital infrastructure our communities need. Not because it was easy. Because it was necessary.

Why We Built Our Own Stack

Privacy is not a feature. It's a human right.

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When we looked at how communities would rely on digital tools, we saw a fundamental problem: every mainstream platform—Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Meta, Uber, Stripe—is engineered to extract data, create dependency, and extract wealth from the communities that use them.

We believe this is not inevitable. The communities we build deserve digital infrastructure that belongs to them. Software without surveillance. Storage without lock-in. Identity without surveillance capitalism.

That's why we invested early and deeply in building ProsperApps—a complete sovereign software stack, aligned with the Foundation's declaration, and designed for the long horizon.

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No surveillance. No data harvesting.

Today's tech giants' business models depend on knowing everything about you. Our model depends on building software people trust. We have no incentive to harvest your data—and we've designed the system to prevent it architecturally.

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You own your identity.

ProsperID and ProsperAuth give users first-party identifiers and passkey-based access. No forced sign-in with Google. No third-party session surveillance. Your identity belongs to you.

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Your files stay yours.

ProsperSafe provides browser-encrypted preservation with vault-backed key custody. We literally cannot read your encrypted files. ProsperVault handles secret custody with explicit, governed access.

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Mail you control.

ProsperMail is a privacy-first mail infrastructure — root-owned delivery and mailbox seams used across the ecosystem. No advertising. No scanning your messages to serve you ads.

🏛️
Foundation-aligned ownership structure.

ProsperApps is structurally tied to the Prosper Foundation's declaration. The business model reinforces long-horizon quality, portability, and trust — not lock-in, extraction, or quality decline over time.

The SaaSpawn method: shared foundations, product specificity.

ProsperApps uses a shared platform backbone — identity, mail, storage, authentication, governance — that all products build on. This is how we achieve the depth of a large software portfolio with the discipline of a focused team. Everything is coherent. Nothing is siloed. Every product makes the next one better.

The Prosper Tech Ecosystem — Currently Operating
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ProsperAuth

Shared sign-in, session, passkey, recovery-email and recovery-phone controls, provider-aware hosted verification, delegated-access infrastructure, and public PKCE browser-client self-service. The identity backbone everything else depends on.

BuildingCore Platform
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ProsperID

Browser-facing identity surface for trust, shared recovery methods, account continuity, secondary-email management, and first-party Prosper subject identifiers — without becoming a forced prerequisite for end users.

BuildingAlpha live ↗
✉️

ProsperMail

Root-owned mail governance, delivery, and mailbox seam. Sender and template controls, governed delivery used by identity, productivity, creative, and org flows. The privacy-first mail infrastructure the ecosystem runs on.

BuildingAlpha live ↗
🗄️

ProsperSafe + ProsperVault

Encrypted preservation with browser-encrypted ingest, vault-backed key custody, shared safe memberships, and version timelines. ProsperVault handles secret custody, machine-access keys, and governed infrastructure access. Your files. Your keys. Full stop.

BuildingAlpha live ↗
💼

Prosper Productivity Suite

Auth-bound workspace and file APIs, isolated drive roots, direct sharing, invite lifecycle, shareable file routes, visible permission indicators, calendar, meetings — a full collaborative workspace, owned by us, not Microsoft.

BuildingAlpha live ↗
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Prosper CloudFiles

Files, folders, sharing, preview, permission, and share-link surfaces. The Preserve-to-Safe handoff makes it easy to move files into encrypted, long-term custody. Your data portability is a design constraint, not an afterthought.

BuildingAlpha live ↗
🎨

Prosper Creative Suite

Creative Hub and PhotoLab — auth-required hosted creative tools with root-owned creative API seams, team access, persisted documents, and ORA import/export. Creative freedom without Adobe's extraction model.

BuildingAlpha live ↗
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Prosper Calendar & Prosper Events

Calendar with event storage, reminders, attendees, hosted invite links, RSVP-by-token behavior, and ICS downloads. Prosper Events extends this to public discovery, organizer workflows, QR ticketing, and capacity management.

BuildingAlpha live ↗
🎤

Prosper Meet

Private small-room video meetings with room-scoped persistent chat, host-admit guest flows, and a dedicated realtime worker. No Zoom. No Google Meet. Your meetings, on infrastructure you trust.

BuildingAlpha live ↗
🏢

ProsperOrg

Organization operations, hosted spaces, and commercial multi-tenant infrastructure. ProsperAuth access, ProsperMail invite governance, shared drives, billing, and white-label needs — for communities and organizations of any size.

BuildingAlpha live ↗
🌐

Prosper Content Sites

Shared internal publishing platform for first-party Prosper properties. ProsperAuth-gated WYSIWYG editor, root content API, preview/publish releases, and CMS-backed alpha runtime — how we run our own sites without depending on WordPress or Squarespace.

BuildingInternal Platform
🎶

ChoirPower

The first live SaaS product built on the ProsperApps platform — operations, participation, repertoire, attendance, communication, and commercial workflows for choirs and membership-driven music organizations. Proof the model works.

OperatingAlpha live ↗
Planned Next Lines
Planned

Prosper CloudWrite

Collaborative writing and documents on top of the Prosper productivity backbone. No proprietary lock-in.

Planned

Prosper CloudCalc

Spreadsheets and structured calculation as part of the broader productivity environment, not an isolated silo.

Planned

Prosper Presentation

Sharing storage, collaboration, and portability assumptions with the wider Prosper productivity suite.

Planned

Prosper Whiteboard

Visual collaboration bridging productivity and creative workflows without trapping users in proprietary board formats.

Want to build on the Prosper platform?

ProsperApps offers selective bespoke SaaS development for organizations whose work aligns with the Foundation's declaration.

Talk to ProsperApps ↗
First Initiative · Coop-Tech Platform

Prosper Drive.
Ride-hailing, reimagined.

The world's first worker-owned ride-hailing cooperative. Built on the "For Human by Human" principle — where drivers own the platform, keep more of what they earn, and the community stays in control.

Launching Now For Human By Human Worker Owned
Why Prosper Drive Exists

The gig economy is the clearest case of extraction over dignity.

~5M

US driving jobs threatened by autonomous vehicles by early 2030s

25–40%

Average platform commission taken by Uber and Lyft on every ride

Nearly five million Americans work in driving occupations. As autonomous vehicle technology matures, these are among the most vulnerable jobs to automation—and the workers facing displacement have built their livelihoods, their families, and their communities on these earnings.

Meanwhile, Uber and Lyft extract 25–40% of every fare, provide zero ownership, zero benefits, and zero community investment. Drivers are reduced to components in a financial optimization engine. This is the exact opposite of "For Human by Human."

Prosper Drive is our answer. A cooperative where drivers are co-owners, earnings stay in communities, and the platform exists to serve people—not shareholders.

The "For Human by Human" Ride-Hailing Model

We believe a ride-hailing platform can be designed to protect worker dignity, human relationships, and real community value. Not by tweaking Uber's model at the margins — but by replacing the ownership structure, the incentives, and the purpose entirely. When drivers own the platform, everything changes.

How Prosper Drive Is Different
Worker Ownership

Drivers are co-owners of the cooperative. Profits are distributed to the workers who generate them — not extracted to shareholders.

Lower Commissions

Platform takes only what's needed to operate and reinvest. No extraction logic. No quarterly targets. Just fair economics for fair work.

Community Investment

Surplus stays in the communities where it's earned. Local drivers, local riders, local prosperity. Not funneled to Silicon Valley.

Human Relationships

Platform design that values the driver-rider relationship as human interaction — not anonymous transactions to be optimized away.

Transparent Governance

Driver-owners vote on platform decisions. No black-box algorithms. No unilateral pricing changes. Real democratic governance.

Sovereign Tech Stack

Built on ProsperApps infrastructure — private, community-controlled, with no dependency on Big Tech platforms or surveillance-driven data practices.

Built on ProsperApps Infrastructure

Why sovereign infrastructure makes Prosper Drive possible.

Prosper Drive doesn't run on AWS, Google Cloud, or Stripe's standard APIs. It runs on ProsperApps—our own identity, payment, organization, and communication infrastructure. This is why we invested in building ProsperApps first. The payment digital twins (WalletDT, StripeDT, VippsDT), ProsperAuth, ProsperOrg, ProsperMail, and ProsperSafe form the operational backbone of everything Prosper Drive needs—without the data harvesting, without the lock-in, without the extraction.

Payments

WalletDT & StripeDT

Digital twin payment surfaces for safe pre-production testing and governed live payment handoffs — without surrendering transaction data to third parties.

Identity

ProsperAuth + ProsperID

Driver and rider authentication with passkeys, session governance, and first-party identifiers. No Google login required. No Facebook.

Organization

ProsperOrg

Multi-tenant cooperative infrastructure — hosted spaces, invite governance, shared drives, and billing that supports the cooperative ownership model natively.

The Automation Response

Before automation arrives,
workers deserve a seat at the table.

Autonomous vehicles will arrive. The question is not whether driving jobs will transform—it's whether the workers facing that transformation will have had the opportunity to build ownership, savings, and community resilience before it happens.

Prosper Drive isn't just a better ride-hailing platform. It's a transitional economic structure — giving today's drivers the cooperative ownership and community foundations they'll need to navigate whatever comes next.

When drivers are owners, they participate in decisions about automation integration. They share in efficiency gains. They are part of the future, not discarded by it.

Drivers. Riders. Co-owners.
This is your platform.

Join the Prosper Drive movement — whether you drive, ride, or want to help build it.

Initiatives

Building from the ground up.

Prosper Foundation is in its foundational phase — establishing frameworks, recruiting co-founders, and launching the first initiatives. Prosper Drive is the first out of the gate.

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Foundational Phase

Current Status

We are in our foundational phase — establishing frameworks, principles, and pilot concepts. Co-founders joining now directly shape which initiatives launch first, how they're structured, and what impact they have.

Active Initiative
Launching NowFirst Initiative

Prosper Drive

Worker-owned ride-hailing cooperative. The first "For Human by Human" alternative to Uber and Lyft — where drivers own the platform, communities keep the wealth, and no one is just a metric.

Planned Initiative Categories
Planned

Cooperative Platforms & Co-ops

Worker-owned alternatives to extractive gig platforms across ride-hailing, delivery, hospitality, and more.

Planned

Education & Awareness Programs

Workshops, curricula, and content programs building practical community and economic resilience skills.

Planned

Local Community Labs

Pilot sites and living labs where community models are built, tested, and refined in real neighborhoods.

Planned

AI, XR & Technology for Good

Human-centered technology initiatives harnessing spatial computing and AI in service of community flourishing.

Planned

Wellness, Balance & Personal Growth

Programs supporting the physical, emotional, and social wellbeing of community members and co-founders alike.

Want to shape what comes next?

Co-founders joining now will directly determine which initiatives launch first and how they're structured. This is your invitation to help build something real.

Founders

The people behind
the movement.

Co-Founders
Jan-Erik Vinje
Co-Founder

Jan-Erik Vinje

Technologist, strategist, and advocate for open systems and interoperability. Jan-Erik brings deep experience in spatial computing, standards development, and collaborative ecosystems, with a strong belief in technology as an enabler of human potential and societal resilience. He is the architect behind ProsperApps and the sovereign technology infrastructure strategy.

Ali C. Hantal
Co-Founder

Ali C. Hantal

Serial entrepreneur, XR and spatial computing pioneer, and ecosystem builder. Ali has spent over two decades working at the intersection of technology, education, and global collaboration, with a strong focus on open standards, human-centered innovation, and future-ready communities. He leads the community strategy and initiative design behind Prosper Drive and the broader cooperative platform vision.

We're looking for more co-founders.

If you believe humanity is worth fighting for and you're ready to invest your time, talent, and resources — we need you.

Get Involved

This is about action,
investment, and commitment.

If you believe humanity is worth fighting for—and you're willing to invest your time, talent, and resources into ensuring our collective survival and flourishing—then we need you.

Two Ways to Join
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Invitation to Co-Founders

Help build from the ground up — minimum 2 hours/week
Active Now

What we seek

  • Deeply believe humanity can overcome existential challenges through cooperation
  • Willing to invest 2 hours a week
  • Think systemically about resilient communities and economic alternatives
  • Act with urgency while building for the long term
  • Believe in human goodness even when confronted with human flaws
  • Skills in community building, technology, economics, education, operations, or finance

The commitment

  • Help shape the foundation's strategy, structure, governance, and first programs
  • Minimum 2 hours per week to move the work forward
  • Biweekly 60-minute Co-Founders meeting until established
  • Take ownership of agreed responsibilities and deliver reliably
  • Invest resources (financial, network, expertise) commensurate with capacity

What we offer

  • A chance to help build something that could genuinely impact humanity's trajectory
  • Partnership with committed, action-oriented individuals
  • A role designing and implementing real solutions to existential challenges
  • The satisfaction of tangible impact — real communities, real economic freedom
  • A community of support for your own journey toward resilience and flourishing

Complete the Co-Founder Interest Form and we'll follow up to schedule an introductory call.

Complete Co-Founder Interest Form →
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Invitation to Members

Working Groups & General Community — join after we're established
Opening Soon

Not everyone can allocate active time during the setup phase — and that's okay. Working Groups meet every two weeks, focusing on cooperative income models, community training programs, local resilience projects, and "For Human by Human" coop-tech alternatives. A General Meeting is held once per month.

Your participation

  • Participate consistently in your selected biweekly Working Group
  • Attend the monthly General Meeting
  • Contribute ideas, feedback, and expertise in practical, action-oriented ways
  • Support pilot projects as they launch — testing, outreach, coordination

Working group tracks

  • Cooperative income models — including Prosper Drive
  • Community training programs
  • Local resilience projects
  • "For Human by Human" coop-tech alternatives

Get on the list for post-establishment participation. We'll reach out when Working Group seats open.

Join the Working Group Waitlist →
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