Root Who it works for
A tool in the hands of the people who use it.
Most AI is built to make money for whoever owns it. Root Compute is owned by its members, so it works for them.
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The members decide what it’s for
A company decides what its AI is for by asking what makes the most money. In Root Compute, the members decide. If they want it to help a nurse write up notes, a small shop answer its customers or a student learn to code, that is what it gets built for.
What it’s not for
This machine is open by default.
We don’t ban ideas for being unpopular, and we don’t punish everyone for one person’s mistake. If you owned a share of it, where would you draw the line? Most of us would draw it at harm to people who never agreed to it.
Members can add to this list. Nobody can quietly take from it.
- No surveillance. No license-plate readers, no face tracking, no scraping people’s lives.
- No selling members out. Members’ prompts and files are never sold.
- No work that helps the powerful dodge accountability.
Anyone found by members, after a review and appeal, to be using Root Compute this way loses access to the network. Anything else is judged case by case, by members, in the open.
The tool stays in the hands of the people doing the work.
It comes back to members, not shareholders
There are no outside shareholders to pay. Whatever the co-op takes in pays for running it, and any surplus goes back to members as credits or as more machines the co-op owns.
The books are public, so anyone can check.
- Lend your card, earn credits. Every hour of real work your GPU does earns credits you spend on the co-op’s computing.
- Everyone gets a base ration. Rig or no rig, every member gets free use whenever there’s capacity.
- No one can cash out the co-op. The charter locks it so it can’t be sold for private gain or turned for-profit.