{
  "version": 8,
  "updated": "2026-10-04",
  "about": {
    "name": "ReGrowth Studio",
    "line": "Sovereign domain harnesses and malleable software for the regenerative economy.",
    "sentences": [
      "AGI is here.",
      "AI is the Audit.",
      "ReGrowth is how AI should be applied, for people and the planet."
    ],
    "stack": [
      {
        "name": "Model",
        "line": "AGI, rented and swappable."
      },
      {
        "name": "Harness",
        "line": "A desk for one domain: skills, sources, evals."
      },
      {
        "name": "Loop",
        "line": "It keeps harnessing each new model into the work. Agents are its bees."
      },
      {
        "name": "Commons",
        "line": "Malleable software you can fork, run and own."
      }
    ],
    "principles": [
      {
        "name": "Conway Debt",
        "line": "Point AI at the institution, not the task, and you find the inherited shape of old decisions, still running. Clear it first."
      },
      {
        "name": "At right angles",
        "line": "Accelerate or degrow, e/acc or EA, capitalism or Marxism: false dichotomies on the same plane. ReGrowth stands at right angles to all of them. The technology is the same; the substrate is the variable."
      }
    ]
  },
  "status": {
    "live": "",
    "soon": "coming soon",
    "making": "in the making"
  },
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    "permissioned": "members",
    "private": "yours alone"
  },
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        "label": "Garden",
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        "line": "Bloom your own, in preview: your lotus in the pond, kept in this browser."
      },
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        "id": "cafe",
        "label": "Café",
        "name": "ReGrowth Café",
        "href": "cafe.html",
        "line": "Where Rhythm Residents will meet, and the founding seats."
      },
      {
        "id": "theory",
        "label": "Theory",
        "name": "Theory of ReGrowth",
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        "line": "The library: films in the making, the journal and the live book."
      },
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        "id": "labs",
        "label": "Labs",
        "name": "The Labs",
        "href": "labs.html",
        "line": "The Research Lab explores; three labs make it real. How to work with us."
      },
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        "id": "sutradhaars",
        "label": "Sutradhaars",
        "name": "Sutradhaars",
        "href": "sutradhaars.html",
        "line": "Fellows and ReGrowth Patrons. Register interest."
      },
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        "id": "rhythms",
        "label": "Rhythms",
        "name": "ReGrowth Rhythms",
        "href": "rhythms.html",
        "line": "The live book, written in public: every chapter shows how far along it is."
      },
      {
        "id": "glossary",
        "label": "Glossary",
        "name": "Glossary",
        "href": "glossary.html",
        "line": "The theory's words, each in a line or two, with where to read more."
      },
      {
        "id": "commons",
        "label": "The studio, as data",
        "name": "The studio, as data",
        "href": "commons.html",
        "line": "Every initiative through four lenses. Your agent can read it too."
      }
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        "id": "cafe",
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        "note": "Every Café event will count: talks, working tables, meetups. One a month will keep your lotus open. Online first, chartered rooms later."
      },
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        "id": "fellowships",
        "label": "Fellowships",
        "note": "No fee. A Fellow never pays; there are no terms or commitments yet."
      }
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    "seats": 1000,
    "fee": 8000,
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      "note": "From free to belonging to building, in order. Each door opens the next.",
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          "name": "Belong"
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        {
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          "name": "Build"
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      "label": "Labs",
      "note": "Three labs in the plane, Kṣetra, Karm and Kula, with anchor projects of varying scale where the mandate fits; one Kośa around them: below, Piṇḍa, the Research Lab and the development desks (the Research Lab explores Theory of ReGrowth, the Sāmatvārtha Stack, Network State and Interchain); above, Brahmāṇḍa, the actions and every project that blooms there.",
      "groups": [
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          "id": "ksetra",
          "name": "Kṣetra · Policy"
        },
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          "id": "karm",
          "name": "Karm · Venture"
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        {
          "id": "kula",
          "name": "Kula · Community"
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      "note": "The same studio as places: the garden you will one day sign in to.",
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          "name": "Your Garden"
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      "note": "How the work moves: explore (the Research Lab, across all three labs), incubate (a product), consult, roll-up (later). What ships is commons.",
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          "id": "consult",
          "name": "Consult"
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          "id": "rollup",
          "name": "Roll-up · later"
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          "name": "Commons"
        }
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      "name": "Theory of ReGrowth",
      "line": "A Research Lab exploration, in the making: the absurd project, filmed as it happens.",
      "detail": "Bites of a minute, Minisodes of seven to fourteen minutes, Epicasts of an hour or two. Each carries one idea, one thing to do with AI tonight, and one tool to take with you.",
      "price": "Free",
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      "door": "watch",
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      "place": "theatre",
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          "label": "Watch on YouTube",
          "href": "https://www.youtube.com/@regrowth.studio"
        }
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    },
    {
      "id": "explainer",
      "name": "The Sāmatvārtha explainer",
      "line": "The starting argument, in one film.",
      "detail": "The polycrisis as symptom, Conway Debt as diagnosis, and the architecture being built in response.",
      "price": "Free",
      "status": "live",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "watch",
      "lab": "kosa",
      "place": "theatre",
      "mode": "commons",
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    {
      "id": "livebook",
      "name": "ReGrowth Rhythms · Sāmatvārtha Sutra",
      "line": "A live book, written in public; every chapter shows how far along it is.",
      "detail": "The Theory of ReGrowth as a live book: each chapter is marked seed, sprout or rooted as it grows, and every page carries its own setting: private, permissioned or public. Reading is open now; comments and feedback from readers come later.",
      "price": "Free",
      "status": "making",
      "when": "seed",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "watch",
      "lab": "kosa",
      "place": "library",
      "mode": "commons",
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        {
          "label": "Read the index",
          "href": "rhythms.html"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "magazine",
      "name": "The magazine",
      "line": "The newsletter: dispatches from the studio.",
      "detail": "Free to read. A paid tier may follow; nothing is sold yet.",
      "price": "Free",
      "status": "making",
      "when": "seed",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "watch",
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      "place": "library",
      "mode": "commons",
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      "name": "ReGrowth Café",
      "line": "Where Rhythm Residents will meet: talks, working tables, meetups.",
      "detail": "At least one event a month, online to begin with, in chartered rooms later; one member per profession at each table as chapters grow. It will meet once its first Residents are confirmed.",
      "price": "Free",
      "status": "making",
      "realm": "permissioned",
      "door": "meet",
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      "place": "cafe",
      "mode": "incubate",
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          "label": "Become a Resident",
          "enquire": "resident"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "resident",
      "name": "Rhythm Residents",
      "line": "Membership of the ReGrowth Guild, through the Café.",
      "detail": "Free and open to anyone, anywhere: once a Café meets you join it, virtual to begin with, and you are a Resident by taking part. No joining fee, no monthly fee, no seat number. Every Café event and every room of the Guild as it opens. Once the Café meets: come to one event a month, and a pass every three months will cover the month life gets in the way.",
      "price": "Free · register interest",
      "status": "making",
      "realm": "permissioned",
      "door": "belong",
      "lab": "kula",
      "place": "guild",
      "mode": "incubate",
      "cta": [
        {
          "label": "Become a Resident",
          "enquire": "resident"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "founding",
      "name": "The founding circle",
      "line": "The first thousand ReGrowth Patrons join for less.",
      "detail": "Seat 1 joins free; each seat after pays ₹8 more to join, so seat 1,000 pays ₹7,992. The monthly ₹2,000 is the same for every Patron. The early bird pays 10 × the next seat's joining fee once for the whole first year, with no joining fee: 100 seats inside the first 1,000, shown only while it is cheaper than monthly, and gone in year two.",
      "price": "Seat n pays ₹8 × (n − 1) to join",
      "status": "making",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "belong",
      "lab": "kula",
      "place": "guild",
      "mode": "incubate",
      "cta": [
        {
          "label": "Find your seat",
          "href": "cafe.html#founding"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fellowships",
      "name": "ReGrowth Fellowships",
      "line": "For people who bring a capability and want a question worth working on.",
      "detail": "Students and seasoned professionals alike, bringing a capability to a scoped question in one of the Labs. A Fellow never pays a fee; there are no terms or commitments yet, so for now this is a register of interest.",
      "price": "No fee · register interest",
      "status": "making",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "build",
      "lab": "kosa",
      "place": "guild",
      "mode": "commons",
      "cta": [
        {
          "label": "Register interest",
          "enquire": "fellow"
        },
        {
          "label": "Compose your part",
          "href": "sutradhaars.html#compose"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "patrons",
      "name": "ReGrowth Patrons",
      "line": "They will sponsor the commons and the Fellows.",
      "detail": "A seat, a film, a research question, a Café chapter. Invoiced sponsorship: no equity, no return, no editorial control. A Patron gets what a Rhythm Resident gets and early access, and joins on the founding ladder.",
      "price": "₹2,000 a month · seat n joins for ₹8 × (n − 1) · proposed",
      "status": "making",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "count",
      "lab": "kula",
      "place": "guild",
      "mode": "commons",
      "cta": [
        {
          "label": "Sponsor the work",
          "enquire": "patron"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "garden",
      "name": "Bloom your own",
      "line": "Your own lotus in the pond, kept in your browser. Coming soon; the preview is open now.",
      "detail": "It will be your second brain and your agents' chaupal. The preview is free, needs no account and stays in your browser; Bloom your own is coming soon, and roots when you sign in.",
      "price": "Free",
      "status": "soon",
      "realm": "private",
      "door": "belong",
      "lab": "kosa",
      "place": "garden",
      "mode": "commons",
      "cta": [
        {
          "label": "See the preview",
          "href": "garden.html?arrive=bloom"
        },
        {
          "label": "Join the waitlist",
          "enquire": "waitlist"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "guild",
      "name": "The ReGrowth Guild",
      "line": "ReGrowth Studio as a company, with its own policy, venture and community; for a visitor, your guild: your lotus as your own work-life city, in the making.",
      "detail": "Its rooms open as they are ready, the ReGrowth Café first; Rhythm Residents are its members. Your guild is one zoom into your lotus in the pond.",
      "price": "",
      "status": "making",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "belong",
      "lab": "kosa",
      "place": "guild",
      "mode": "incubate",
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        {
          "label": "Become a Resident",
          "enquire": "resident"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "stack",
      "name": "The Sāmatvārtha Stack",
      "line": "A Research Lab exploration, in the making: policy research on the rules underneath.",
      "detail": "Contract density, price-signal repair, regenerative urbanism. In the making.",
      "price": "",
      "status": "making",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "build",
      "lab": "kosa",
      "place": "labs",
      "mode": "explore",
      "cta": []
    },
    {
      "id": "networkstate",
      "name": "The Sāmatvārtha Network State",
      "line": "A Research Lab exploration, in the making: rooms that become chapters, chapters that become a network.",
      "detail": "It begins as the ReGrowth Café and the founding circle. In the making.",
      "price": "",
      "status": "making",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "meet",
      "lab": "kosa",
      "place": "cafe",
      "mode": "explore",
      "cta": []
    },
    {
      "id": "interchain",
      "name": "The Sāmatvārtha Interchain",
      "line": "A Research Lab exploration, in the making: ventures that interlock and share their rails.",
      "detail": "On the bench now: Intercamp and KYRM. In the making.",
      "price": "",
      "status": "making",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "build",
      "lab": "kosa",
      "place": "labs",
      "mode": "explore",
      "cta": []
    },
    {
      "id": "audit",
      "name": "The Audit",
      "line": "Point AI at your institution, not the task.",
      "detail": "Find the Conway Debt, then build the harness that clears it: the product the Audit feeds. For institutions, public systems and firms.",
      "price": "By brief",
      "status": "making",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "build",
      "lab": "ksetra",
      "place": "labs",
      "mode": "consult",
      "cta": [
        {
          "label": "Bring a brief",
          "enquire": "brief"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "desks",
      "name": "Desks and agents",
      "line": "Persistent harnesses on a model and a domain.",
      "detail": "A desk is a folder: instructions, skills, sources, evals. Agents run it. The loop keeps it current as models change.",
      "price": "",
      "status": "making",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "build",
      "lab": "kosa",
      "place": "labs",
      "mode": "commons",
      "cta": []
    },
    {
      "id": "intercamp",
      "name": "Intercamp",
      "line": "How independent people collaborate, contribute and get credit for what they make.",
      "detail": "A venture of the ReGrowth Interchain.",
      "price": "",
      "status": "soon",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "build",
      "lab": "karm",
      "place": "labs",
      "mode": "incubate",
      "cta": []
    },
    {
      "id": "kyrm",
      "name": "KYRM",
      "line": "How work and its proof could travel across borders.",
      "detail": "A venture of the ReGrowth Interchain. Kept apart from any loyalty programme.",
      "price": "",
      "status": "making",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "build",
      "lab": "karm",
      "place": "labs",
      "mode": "incubate",
      "cta": []
    },
    {
      "id": "rollup",
      "name": "Roll-ups",
      "line": "An existing business, rebuilt with its owners.",
      "detail": "Regenerative businesses, federated, as franchises or by merger. The business keeps its people and its name; the harnesses change how it works.",
      "price": "",
      "status": "making",
      "when": "later",
      "realm": "public",
      "door": "build",
      "lab": "karm",
      "place": "labs",
      "mode": "rollup",
      "cta": []
    }
  ],
  "sutradhaar": {
    "note": "Pick what you would bring and where, and your email says it for you. It registers interest only: no terms or commitments yet.",
    "dims": [
      {
        "id": "role",
        "name": "As a",
        "options": [
          "Fellow",
          "ReGrowth Patron"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "lab",
        "name": "In",
        "options": [
          "Kṣetra · Policy",
          "Karm · Venture",
          "Kula · Community",
          "the Research Lab and the desks"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "craft",
        "name": "To",
        "options": [
          "research",
          "build",
          "tell the story",
          "convene a room"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "after": {
      "fellow": "Register interest only. A Fellow never pays a fee; when a mission exists, its terms come first, in writing.",
      "patron": "Invoiced sponsorship, once there is work to sponsor. No equity, no return, no editorial control."
    }
  },
  "faq": [
    {
      "q": "Is anything charged here?",
      "a": "No. Every sign-up button opens an email draft; the preview opens in your browser. We confirm your seat, the start date and the full terms before anyone pays, and nothing is taken until then."
    },
    {
      "q": "Is there a coin or a token?",
      "a": "No. If rewards come, they will be loyalty points, spent only on what the studio itself sells. Never a token, never cash, never transferable."
    },
    {
      "q": "Does membership or patronage give me ownership?",
      "a": "No. Membership is participation; patronage is sponsorship. Neither buys equity, a return or editorial control. Any venture role needs its own agreement."
    },
    {
      "q": "Where does my data go?",
      "a": "Nowhere, from this site: no accounts, no analytics, no form that submits. Your email app sends only what you choose to send."
    }
  ]
}