Charter commitments
The lines we will not cross.
- Document
- Charter principles
- Status
- In effect at incorporation
- Reviewed
- Annually, in public
Principle I of 8
Free at the core.
The companion, the communities, the connections, the wellbeing tools: free forever. Membership tiers recognize those who give back. They never gate what matters.
Principle II of 8
No behavioral advertising.
No third-party ad networks. Not now, not later. The Foundation charter forbids it so a future board cannot quietly switch it on.
Principle III of 8
No selling of individual data.
Aggregated, anonymized research only, with explicit opt-in, reviewed by an independent research committee.
Principle IV of 8
Outcomes before engagement.
We measure whether people's lives get better, not whether they spend more time in the app. Funders hold us to that on the record every year.
Principle V of 8
No dark patterns.
No manufactured urgency. No roach motels. No confirm-shaming. Right to export and right to delete are honored with real work.
Principle VI of 8
The community governs.
Members get a yearly meeting and a standing advisory council. Advisory, not binding, and written down. We would rather be slow than drift.
Principle VII of 8
Transparent by default.
Audited financials, Form 990, executive compensation, and partner lists published annually. If it is public at another foundation, it is public here.
Principle VIII of 8
Mission drift is not allowed.
The things that matter most are locked into the Foundation charter. Operating flexibility lives in policy. The commitments do not.
“Every foundation that has kept its promises wrote the promises down first, and let the world see them before they were tested.”
How these are enforced
Each principle sits in the charter as a binding commitment, not a preamble. Changing one requires a supermajority of an independent Board and a published public comment period. We cannot change them quickly, and we cannot change them quietly. Both of those are intentional.
We also audit ourselves against these commitments every year and publish the audit. When we fall short, we will say so, in the same document, in the same type size.
Hold us to these.
If you see us drift, tell us. The point of writing the commitments in public is to make them enforceable, in public.