Business Model Canvas · Investigation
Federated consortia
A governance variant — what if SPF was a federation of regional maker consortia rather than a single entity? The schema stays open; the operational layer becomes distributed. A horizontal-society interpretation of the same hypothesis.
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Key Partners I
- Regional maker consortia (3-5 per major market)
- The schema steering committee (cross-consortium)
- Each consortium's local logistics partners
- Open-standards bodies (Schema.org, JSON-LD)
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Key Activities II
- Schema stewardship (committee-based, cross-region)
- Local consortium operations (per region)
- Cross-consortium coordination meetings (quarterly)
- Maker education within each consortium
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Key Resources III
- The SPF open schema (shared)
- Per-consortium maker networks (3-5 regional groups)
- Cross-consortium trust and reputation
- Local-market knowledge per consortium
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Value Propositions IV
- Schema ownership + agent-readable feeds (same as v1)
- Locally-governed operational layer
- Makers have a voice in their consortium's evolution
- No central rent extraction (structural commitment)
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Customer Relationships V
- Makers ↔ their consortium (peer relationships)
- Consortia ↔ federation (governance representation)
- Buyers ↔ individual maker domains (unchanged from v1)
- No buyer ↔ central platform relationship
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Channels VI
- Seller-owned domains (primary)
- AI assistants + search (federated reading)
- Consortium-level documentation and maker marketing
- No central marketplace destination
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Customer Segments VII
- Makers join via consortium membership (regional)
- Discriminating-attribute categories (same as v1)
- Excludes: commodity sellers (same as v1)
- Adds filter — makers willing to participate in governance
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Cost Structure VIII
- Per-consortium operational costs (distributed, largest line)
- Federation coordination overhead (real, ongoing)
- Schema stewardship (cross-consortium)
- No platform engineering at the central level
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Revenue Streams IX
- Per-consortium maker fees (set by each consortium)
- Federation dues from consortia (modest, by design)
- No transaction take at the federation level
- Optional cross-consortium services (small)
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Refinement history
How this model has changed over time. Newest first.
- Ideation 2026·05·28
Initial sketch. Each region's makers form a consortium that runs its own SPF instance; the schema steering committee is the only cross-consortium body. Drafted to explore whether the horizontal-society architecture is more durable than v1's single-entity structure.