The human-need categories that organize the Use Cases → Affordances → Tools navigation flow.
10 domains
Creates the foundational conditions for relational trust — verified identity, real presence, and data sovereignty.
Trust function
Creates the conditions for trust to develop. Without verified identity, real presence, and data sovereignty, relational trust has no ground to stand on.
Protects and deepens trust through privacy-respecting communication designed for relational depth, not performance or engagement.
Trust function
Protects trust through privacy and consent; deepens trust through communication modes designed for relational depth rather than performance.
Creates the relational container within which trust can develop — collaborative agreements, shared commitments, and slow deliberation.
Trust function
Creates the container within which trust can develop. The agreements that constitute a group are the behavioral commitments that make relational trust possible.
Deepens and repairs trust through the relational practices that move communities from transactional to relational trust.
Trust function
Deepens and repairs trust through the relational practices that constitute the transition from transactional to relational trust.
Deepens trust through collective intelligence — discovering together what no individual could produce alone.
Trust function
Deepens trust through the experience of collective intelligence — discovering that the group can produce something no individual could have produced alone.
Extends trust from small groups into larger coordination through nested sovereignty, not centralized control.
Trust function
Extends trust from small groups into larger coordination — proving that relational trust scales through nested sovereignty rather than centralized control.
Expresses trust through care — moving from transactional reciprocity to genuine mutuality.
Trust function
Expresses trust through care — mutual aid is relational trust made tangible. The transition from transactional reciprocity ("I do for you, you do for me") to genuine mutuality ("I care for you, you care for me") is visible here.
Develops the human capacities that make trust possible — perspective-taking, vulnerability, repair, and emotional responsiveness.
Trust function
Develops the human capacities that make trust possible — perspective-taking, vulnerability, repair, emotional responsiveness.
Ensures the technology itself is trustworthy — community-sovereign infrastructure where AI serves human connection, not surveillance.
Trust function
Ensures that the technology itself is trustworthy — that communities are sovereign over their own infrastructure, that AI serves human connection rather than surveillance, and that no community is ever locked into a dependency it did not choose.
Creates conditions for trust by making visible the shared geography, resources, and challenges that give people concrete reasons to coordinate.
Trust function
Creates conditions for trust by making visible the shared geography, shared resources, and shared challenges that give people concrete reasons to coordinate. Trust between people deepens when they can see what they share.