Alting is infrastructure for how communities organize, collaborate, and govern together — built from the bottom up.
The Problem
They optimize for extraction: spend, engagement, clicks, accumulation. The result is widening inequality, an epidemic of loneliness, echo chambers that fuel division, and eroding trust in institutions. AI will accelerate all of this exponentially.
Top-down is no longer working. Alting is the bottom-up alternative.
The Solution
At its core, Alting provides a modular, contextual framework for self-governed, trust-based, democratic collaborations — called Tings. A Ting can be anything people organize around: a neighborhood block group, a savings club, a water company, a housing cooperative, a local government. The pattern is always the same: members participate as equals, make decisions transparently, and build trust through structured collaboration.
Governance tied to personhood, not wealth or tokens
Real communities using this framework today
Designed in Altadena, California
How It Works
Alting does not start from a platform and add users. It starts from a neighbor and builds outward — person to household, household to block, block to zone.
Each Ting uses a templated toolkit for trust-based collaboration, grounded in Elinor Ostrom’s principles for managing shared resources, Scrum’s iterative structure, the trust mechanics of rotating savings clubs used by billions worldwide, and the democratic traditions of Swedish member-driven associations.
One person, one vote. Transparent, self-governed, accountable. Where current systems measure spend, clicks, and engagement, Tings measure belonging, trust, safety, and financial security.
What Can Be a Ting
Neighbors on a block making decisions together — from shared resources to local safety to how their street rebuilds after a disaster.
A mutual utility where every shareholder has one vote. Transparent governance for infrastructure, rates, and emergency response.
Local businesses and residents co-designing the future of their shared commercial spaces — development, public space, local economy.
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“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” bell hooks