PowerShift agreement templates (Ratification Agreement, Operating Agreement)
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Worksheet / tool · Several hours with legal counsel · For: Owners / executives
Open-licensed legal documents that let a company formally adopt a self-management constitution, so the owner's power is actually handed over on paper. Bring a lawyer; encode.org offers paid fitting to your entity and jurisdiction.
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Problems it helps with
- Our self-management practice has no legal standing; the owner can undo it any day
- I don't know how to write distributed authority into our company documents
- Our lawyer has never seen anything like this
What it covers
- Ratification Agreement: adopt the constitution in an existing company
- Operating Agreement template and its precedence rules
- Choosing between the two, or using both in sequence
Topics: Community and collective governance · Decision making · Ownership models