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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 face-to-face local life circles that give families real social, physical, and emotional resilience in a world shaped by screens and AI companions.

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Pillar 02

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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Pillar 03

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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Our Initiatives
Initiative 01 · Coming Soon Wellness & Retreats Platform

Prosper Platform for Wellness & Retreats.

A complete SaaS bundle for breathwork practitioners, yoga instructors, sound bath facilitators, and retreat organizers, purpose-built so they own their practice, their data, and their community. No extraction. No lock-in.

ProsperCalendar

Bookings, scheduling, recurring classes

ProsperEvents

Retreats, workshops, QR ticketing

ProsperMeet

Virtual sessions and online circles

ProsperMail

Community email, your domain

ProsperCloudFiles

Recordings, materials, secure storage

Prosper Content Sites

Your website and blog, fully owned

ProsperPay

Payments via Stripe, PayPal, Ko-fi and more

ProsperMessage

Private messaging for your community

Prosper Community

The anchor hub for all Prosper members

Explore the Platform → Early Access
Initiative 02 · Coming Soon Worker Owned

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 are building our own digital infrastructure.

Live Site ↗

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.

Join the movement. Invest your time, talent, and resources in something real.

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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
How We Execute

A deliberate sequence: community, then infrastructure, then economic power.

Prosper succeeds by following a deliberate sequence: community first, infrastructure second, economic power third. Online communities create belonging; local chapters convert belonging into trust; and trust is what makes cooperative enterprise possible.

Our sovereign technology platform, the Prosper Apps suite, removes dependency on corporate tech providers, so members own their data, their tools, and their digital presence. The third pillar brings independent trade communities into the new age as New Age Online Unions: member-owned guilds backed by open, human-centered technology rather than institutional gatekeepers. Inside each guild, members own 90% of their cooperative and earn greater equity through contribution.

Mass collaboration and collective consciousness are not abstract ideals here; they are structural: when thousands of craftspeople, healers, educators, and entrepreneurs share a platform, a legal framework, and a mission, individual effort compounds into collective wealth. The Foundation holds the remaining 10% in exchange for handling all technology, legal, financial, and operational management centrally, making the ecosystem radically cost-efficient.

AI is built into our technology development from day one, beginning with the world's most capable open models and evolving toward our own internal open-source LLM initiative, so that our intelligence, like our infrastructure, belongs to us. We use AI. We are not owned by it.

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 / 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.

03 / 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.

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.

Sovereign 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 Are Building Our Own Stack

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

Visit ProsperApps ↗

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, with root-owned delivery and mailbox seams used across the ecosystem. No advertising. No scanning your messages to serve you ads.

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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
🪪

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, and meetings: a full collaborative workspace, owned by us, not Microsoft.

BuildingAlpha live ↗
📁

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

BuildingAlpha live ↗
📅

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, covering 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 · Wellness & Retreats Platform

Prosper Platform for Wellness & Retreats.
Your practice, fully owned by you.

A complete SaaS bundle for breathwork practitioners, yoga instructors, sound bath facilitators, and retreat organizers. Your data. Your community. Your terms.

Coming Soon For Human By Human Data Sovereign
Why Prosper Platform for Wellness & Retreats Exists

The tools practitioners use were never built for them.

5+

Platforms a typical practitioner juggles

0%

Data ownership in typical SaaS tools

100%

Yours. Always. By design.

Practitioners of every modality (breathwork, sound bath, yoga, retreat facilitation) are being forced to stitch together five or more unrelated platforms to run their practice. Booking tools that take a cut. Email platforms that sell their list. Video tools that harvest their community data.

None of these tools were built with the practitioner's values in mind. They were built to extract from the practitioner and from the people they serve.

Prosper Platform for Wellness & Retreats is the "For Human by Human" answer. A complete, integrated suite of apps that puts practitioners in full ownership of their practice, their data, and their client relationships.

The "For Human by Human" Wellness & Retreats Platform

We believe a platform built for healing should itself be built with integrity. Not a marketplace that competes with you. Not a tool that monetises your community. A sovereign infrastructure you can trust with the most sensitive work you do, because you own it, not us.

Who It's For
Category 01

Wellness & Movement Practitioners

For breathwork practitioners, yoga instructors, Tai Chi practitioners, meditation guides, somatic practitioners, sound bath facilitators, holistic coaches, and other practitioners who hold space for wellbeing and transformation.

Host 1:1 sessions, online circles, recurring classes, workshops, and community offerings, with your bookings, content, client list, and communications fully owned by you.

Category 02

Retreat Organizers & Experience Hosts

For retreat leaders, wellness centers, workshop hosts, and community builders creating in-person, virtual, or hybrid healing experiences.

Manage retreats, workshops, ticketing, QR check-in, capacity, participant communication, shared materials, and follow-up, all on infrastructure aligned with your values.

The App Suite: One Membership, Every Tool You Need
Core · Scheduling

ProsperCalendar

Set availability, accept bookings, manage recurring classes, and send automated reminders, built for practitioners, not generic business users.

Core · Events

ProsperEvents

Publish retreats and workshops, sell tickets, manage capacity, and issue QR entry passes, without paying a third-party ticketing platform.

Core · Video

ProsperMeet

Host online healing sessions, breathwork circles, and group classes in small-room video meetings with persistent chat and host-admit controls.

Core · Communications

ProsperMail

Stay in touch with your clients and community. Your email, your list, delivered from your own domain, never sold to advertisers.

Suite · Storage

ProsperCloudFiles

Store session recordings, guided meditations, intake forms, and client materials. Portable, private, and always yours to export.

Suite · Website

Prosper Content Sites

Your public-facing presence: your story, offerings, events, and a blog section to share your practice's voice, all on infrastructure you own, with no third-party dependency.

Suite · Payments

ProsperPay

Accept payments through PayPal, Ko-fi, Stripe, and other international and domestic processors, all in one place. No extraction logic. You keep more of what you earn, and your clients have options that match their preferences.

Suite · Messaging

ProsperMessage

A private messaging module for your practice community (the equivalent of Slack or WhatsApp), built on Prosper infrastructure. Keep conversations with clients and community members in a space you control, not a corporate platform that harvests your data.

Identity

ProsperAuth + ProsperID

Secure sign-in, passkeys, session management, and a verified practitioner identity, the foundation that everything else builds on.

Suite · Creative

Prosper Creative Suite

Create promotional graphics, event visuals, and social content for your practice, without surrendering your creative assets to Adobe.

Anchor · Community Hub

Prosper Community

The central hub that ties everything together. Every Prosper member (practitioner, organizer, driver, or community builder) has access to Prosper Community: a shared space for connection, collaboration, mutual support, and collective resources. It is not just a feature; it is the foundation that makes the whole ecosystem more than the sum of its parts.

Four Commitments to Every Practitioner
01

You own your data

Every client list, recording, and piece of content belongs to you. Export everything, at any time, in open formats. No hostage-taking.

02

No extraction logic

We are a foundation, not a venture-backed company. We charge for the platform. We don't sell your data or take a cut of your bookings.

03

Open membership

Any practitioner, any modality, any tradition. Not gatekept by certification bodies or commercial partners. If you hold space for people, you belong here.

04

Privacy by design

Your clients trust you with sensitive moments. Portability and privacy are operating constraints enforced by our Declaration, not just marketing claims.

Built on ProsperApps Infrastructure

Why sovereign infrastructure makes this possible.

Prosper Platform for Wellness & Retreats doesn't run on Google Cloud, AWS, or Stripe's standard APIs. It runs on ProsperApps, our own identity, storage, mail, calendar, events, and video infrastructure. This is why we invested in building ProsperApps first. When your booking, communication, and session tools all share the same sovereign backbone, everything is coherent, everything is private, and nothing is siloed. The platform earns trust not by asking for it, but by being structurally incapable of betraying it.

Scheduling & Events

ProsperCalendar + ProsperEvents

Calendar, bookings, public event discovery, QR ticketing, and capacity management, on infrastructure you control.

Identity

ProsperAuth + ProsperID

Practitioner and client authentication with passkeys, session governance, and first-party identifiers. No Google login required.

Communications

ProsperMail + ProsperMeet

Privacy-first mail delivery and small-room video meetings, the two channels practitioners depend on most, owned by us not Big Tech.

Wellness & Retreat practitioners. Community builders.
This is your platform.

Join early to shape the platform, receive founding member pricing, and be part of the community that builds this from the ground up.

Join Early Access →
Second 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.

Coming Soon 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. ProsperPay, ProsperAuth, ProsperOrg, ProsperMail, ProsperMessage, and ProsperSafe form the operational backbone of everything Prosper Drive needs, without the data harvesting, without the lock-in, without the extraction.

Payments

ProsperPay

Integrated payment processing through PayPal, Stripe, and other domestic and international processors, all governed by Prosper infrastructure. Fair fare economics, transparent splits, and no third-party surveillance of transaction data.

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, with hosted spaces, invite governance, shared drives, and billing that supports the cooperative ownership model natively.

Communications

ProsperMail + ProsperMessage

Privacy-first mail and real-time messaging for driver communities, rider communication, and cooperative governance, on infrastructure the cooperative owns, not Big Tech.

Community Hub

Prosper Community

Drivers as co-owners are not just workers. They are members of a community. Prosper Community gives the cooperative its shared space for decision-making, peer support, and collective resources.

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 two active initiatives: Prosper Platform for Wellness & Retreats and Prosper Drive.

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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 Initiatives
Initiative 01 · Coming Soon

Prosper Platform for Wellness & Retreats

A purpose-built SaaS bundle for breathwork practitioners, yoga instructors, sound bath facilitators, and retreat organizers. Own your practice. Own your data. No extraction, no lock-in.

Explore the Platform → Join Early Access
Initiative 02 · Coming SoonWorker Owned

Prosper Drive

Worker-owned ride-hailing cooperative. The "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.

Declaration

The Guarantees We Uphold
for our products, solutions, and sovereign technology.

Our Declaration is structured in three levels, each one broader in scope than the last. Level 1 are the concrete promises we make to you as a user or customer. Level 2 are our commitments to the societies and world we all depend on. Level 3 is the structural proof that the first two aren't just words; it describes the ownership model that enforces our values by design. This declaration specifically governs our sovereign technology pillar and the products built under it, rather than replacing the broader community and economic mission of the Foundation.

Level 1: The Guarantees We Uphold

No Lock-In, No Lock-Out. Your data is yours. We guarantee full interoperability, data portability, and complete ownership and control of your information. If you choose to leave, nothing stands in your way. If you're coming from another solution, we support open standards to make bringing your data in just as seamless.

Privacy and Data Ownership Are Fundamental Rights. You will always have full control over who can see your data and why. We offer the option to fully encrypt personal data (files, emails, documents, and communications) so that neither we as your service provider, nor any third party or government, can access it.

Data Minimalism, Not Data Exploitation. We will never collect, request, or mine data beyond what is genuinely needed to deliver a great service. Our customers and users are human beings, not exploitable sources of data.

Healthy Design, Always. You will never encounter manipulative dark patterns designed to hijack your attention, foster addiction, distort perception, or cause mental harm.

Quality Without Compromise. We will never degrade the quality of any of our solutions to increase profit or to serve priorities unrelated to the solution's purpose, unless compelled by circumstances genuinely beyond our control.

Level 2: Our Commitment to the Society and World We All Depend On

Purpose Beyond Profit. We take care and pride in building solutions intended to make the world better, not solely to generate revenue.

People, Not Just Users. We care about the lives and wellbeing of our customers and users beyond the transactional interactions they have with us.

Own Our Impact. We are committed to minimizing negative externalities from our operations, product decisions, and supply chains.

Wider Responsibility. We care about the societies we operate in and the health of the planet.

Level 3: Foundation ownership and rejection of private excess

The third level changes who benefits from success and rejects the ownership logic that normally drives platform extraction. Significant profits from operations do not flow to an elite group of private owners, but to a public-benefit charity or foundation; in ProsperApps' case, the Prosper Foundation.

No corporate excesses or absurd executive compensation. People should be paid well for responsibility, competence, and contribution, but not funded into private-jet and megayacht absurdity.

A long-horizon operating model where mission integrity matters more than maximizing short-term extraction from customers and users.

We additionally welcome additions to our founding team. See the Founders page to learn more about joining.

Accreditation

The Prosper Accreditation Program

Organizations that formally adopt this Declaration by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Prosper Foundation are eligible for Prosper Accreditation. Accredited organizations may display the Prosper Accredited Seal publicly and are listed on the Accreditation page as recognized members of the program. Prosper Foundation verifies and enforces compliance on an ongoing basis; accreditation is a maintained commitment, not a one-time badge. Organizations building on ProsperApps infrastructure receive automatic accreditation eligibility, as the platform is architecturally designed to comply with this Declaration.

Economic Liberation

Breaking free from the
payroll-to-payroll trap.

This is our most ambitious pillar and our longest horizon. Economic liberation at scale is generational work. We are not claiming to solve it. We are committing to building toward it, one initiative and one community at a time.

We'll be honest: this is the hardest thing we're doing.

Community Revival can start tomorrow. Neighbors can meet face to face, share a meal, and begin building something real before the week is out. Sovereign Technology is being built now and already operating in alpha. Economic liberation, true sovereignty from payroll dependency at community scale, is a mid-to-long term goal. It requires changing deeply ingrained habits, building skills most people were never taught, and creating new economic structures where none currently exist. We know this. That is why we are starting now, with concrete first steps, rather than waiting until we have a complete theory of change.

Why It Matters

Billions of people are one crisis away from financial collapse.

→AI automation is eliminating millions of jobs, with no guarantee of replacement.
→Gig platforms extract up to 40% of worker earnings while providing zero ownership.
→Most people have one income stream, with no safety net when it disappears.
→Economic dependency is not just financial. It shapes what you can say, do, and become.

The prevailing model tells people to get a good job, stay loyal, and hope the payroll keeps coming. For generations, that worked well enough. It no longer does.

We believe economic sovereignty is a prerequisite for human dignity. When your income depends entirely on a single employer or a single platform, you are not free. You are compliant. And compliance under economic pressure is one of the most powerful forces keeping communities fragile.

Economic Liberation is the third pillar of Prosper Foundation's work because no community can be truly resilient when its members are economically trapped.

How Our Three Pillars Work Together
Pillar 01

Community Revival

When people form real local communities, economic mutual aid happens naturally. Prosper Community members refer work to each other, share opportunities, and pool skills. The "For Human by Human" principle is as much economic as it is social. Real human relationships are also economic relationships, grounded in trust rather than extraction.

Pillar 02

Sovereign Technology

ProsperApps was not built only for privacy. Every app in the ecosystem is designed to help practitioners, cooperatives, and small operators run their livelihoods without depending on platforms that extract from them. ProsperPay keeps more money with the worker. ProsperCalendar replaces a booking platform that takes a cut. Sovereign technology is economic liberation infrastructure.

Pillar 03

Economic Liberation

The outcome when the other two pillars work together. Community creates the relationships. Technology removes the extractive middlemen. Economic liberation is what happens when people have both: a community of mutual support and tools that do not take a cut of their livelihood.

Why We Chose These Two Initiatives
Initiative 01 · Coming Soon

Prosper Platform for Wellness & Retreats

"We saw wellness communities already forming. Practitioners already have a calling: breathwork, yoga, Tai Chi, sound bath, somatic work. But they were doing it without the business infrastructure to sustain it at scale. We are not creating a new category of worker. We are supporting one that already exists and deeply needs support."

The Prosper Platform for Wellness & Retreats provides a complete, sovereign SaaS bundle so practitioners can own their practice, their data, and their client relationships. No extraction. No lock-in. A platform for mass collaboration among the wellness and retreat community, built on infrastructure aligned with their values.

Explore the Platform →
Initiative 02 · Coming SoonWorker Owned

Prosper Drive

"We chose Prosper Drive because we believe one of the earliest large-scale job losses to AI will come to ride-hailing drivers. We are building now, before that displacement happens, so drivers can enter the transition as co-owners rather than casualties."

Prosper Drive is a worker-owned cooperative: drivers own the platform, keep more of what they earn, participate in governance, and share in any surplus. Built on ProsperApps infrastructure, it is the "For Human by Human" alternative to Uber and Lyft, designed to give workers cooperative resilience before automation arrives.

Full Prosper Drive story →
How We Approach It
Skills

Self-Employment Education

Practical training in freelancing, consulting, and running a small practice: the real skills that let people generate income on their own terms.

Income

Multiple Income Streams

Building portfolios of income sources (services, digital products, cooperative earnings) so that no single disruption can be catastrophic.

Ownership

Cooperative Alternatives

Worker-owned platforms where earnings stay with the people who generate them, and the community controls the infrastructure it depends on.

Tools

Sovereign Technology

Digital tools you own, not rent. Infrastructure that cannot be pulled away or repriced at the whim of a Silicon Valley board.

Community

Mutual Economic Support

Communities that share opportunities, refer work, pool expertise, and create local economic ecosystems that reward contribution.

Safety

Resilience Before Crisis

Building economic safety nets (savings habits, shared resources, community funds) while times are stable so they exist when they are needed.

Economic freedom starts with a decision to build it.

Join the co-founders shaping Prosper's economic liberation programs and initiatives.

Community Revival

Rebuilding the local ties that keep families human.

We believe the answer to screen dependence, AI companionship, and social pressure is not more isolation; it is stronger face-to-face local life.

Why It Matters

Children need real people, not only optimized engagement.

Children are spending more of their lives with tablets, game consoles, social media, and now AI agents that are designed to keep them engaged and never disagree. That may feel convenient, but it quietly removes the practice of handling conflict, patience, and real human friction.

At the same time, reading ability is declining, social and psychological patterns are shifting, and parents are under heavy pressure to buy phones and accept constant connectivity so their children are not left out at school.

Our response

We believe families should build local, face-to-face life circles in their own apartments, neighborhoods, towns, and cities, spending time together in nature, through sport, and in technology-free spaces where children and adults can learn how to live with one another again.

What Community Revival Means

Face-to-Face Belonging

Regular in-person contact that gives children and adults real social practice instead of only mediated interactions.

Low-Tech Shared Life

Spaces and routines that reduce dependence on phones, AI companions, and constant online attention.

Local Resilience

Families and neighbors supporting each other through shared time, shared responsibility, and shared presence.

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.

Co-Founder

Rolf Kruse

Academic pioneer, immersive media strategist, and champion for open spatial ecosystems. Rolf brings over three decades of leadership in 3D interactive design, virtual and augmented reality research, and transdisciplinary collaboration. With a deep focus on immersive learning environments and user-centered design, he bridges the gap between physical architecture and digital space. He helps guide the open standards framework and spatial mapping research behind Prosper’s shared reality infrastructure.

Co-Founder

Okan Baykal

Commercial strategist, business development leader, and advisor for international growth. Okan brings over three decades of executive experience designing and executing strategic initiatives within leading retail and commercial banks. With a foundational background in international law, he excels at navigating complex regulatory environments and building high-performing cross-border operations. He leads the commercial scaling strategy and financial framework behind the cooperative platform vision.

Co-Founder

Thomas Gramstad

Board member of FTU and Electronic Frontier Norway (efn.no), freelance writer, speaker, translator, amateur musician, and staff member at the University of Oslo Library. He serves as secretary for NUUG and was a member of the Creative Commons Norway working group from its founding until 2013.

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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Accreditation

The Prosper Accreditation
Program.

A formal recognition for organizations that adopt Prosper's Technology Sovereignty Declaration, committing to the same standards of privacy, data ownership, and human-centered design that we hold ourselves to.

What It Is

A seal that means something.

→Independently verified compliance with the Prosper Declaration
→Formally recognized and listed by Prosper Foundation
→Right to display the Prosper Accredited seal publicly
→Ongoing compliance monitored and enforced by Prosper

The Prosper Accreditation Program exists because declarations without accountability are just marketing. We believe organizations that genuinely uphold the principles of technology sovereignty, data ownership, and human-centered design should be able to demonstrate that in a way visitors and partners can trust.

Accredited organizations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Prosper Foundation, formally adopting our Technology Sovereignty Declaration and granting Prosper the right to verify and enforce compliance. In return, they earn the right to publish the Prosper Accredited Seal on their websites and to be publicly listed here.

How Accreditation Works

Step 1: Adopt the Declaration. The organization reviews and commits to Prosper's Technology Sovereignty Declaration: the standards around privacy, data ownership, portability, healthy design, and purpose beyond profit.

Step 2: Sign the MOU. A formal Memorandum of Understanding is signed with Prosper Foundation, granting us the right and responsibility to verify compliance over time.

Step 3: Earn the Seal. Accredited organizations may publish the Prosper Accredited Seal on their websites and are listed on this page as recognized members of the accreditation program.

Ongoing: Compliance Enforcement. Prosper Foundation monitors compliance. Accreditation is not a one-time checkmark; it is a maintained commitment. Organizations that fall out of compliance are delisted.

Two Paths to Accreditation
Path 01

Declaration-Based Accreditation

Any organization, regardless of what technology they use, may apply for accreditation by formally adopting the Prosper Technology Sovereignty Declaration and signing an MOU. Prosper reviews and verifies compliance on an ongoing basis.

Path 02

Automatic Accreditation

Organizations building on the ProsperApps platform are automatically eligible for accreditation. Because ProsperApps is structurally designed to comply with the Declaration, organizations using it inherit compliance by design, not just by promise.

The Prosper Accredited Seal

A mark the public can rely on

The Prosper Accredited Seal is not a self-reported badge. It is issued by Prosper Foundation only to organizations that have formally adopted the Declaration, signed an MOU, and passed our compliance review. When you see it on an organization's website, you can trust that Prosper stands behind that claim, and that we will remove it if the organization no longer meets the standard.

The seal name and visual identity are currently in development. If you have ideas or would like to be involved in shaping the program, reach out through the Get Involved page.

Accredited Organizations

Program launching soon

The Prosper Accreditation Program is in its design phase. The first accredited organizations will be listed here once the MOU framework and compliance review process are formalized. Organizations interested in early participation are encouraged to reach out.

Ready to adopt the Declaration?

If your organization is committed to technology sovereignty, data ownership, and human-centered design, we'd like to hear from you.