The split
- 60%: Ambassador wages. The person who hand-assembled your device would be paid a living wage for skilled hardware assembly work, hourly plus a per-unit bonus. Their signature would be engraved inside your device.
- 10%: PrideFund HYSA. A planned community-held high-yield savings account. Interest would accrue for Ambassador-voted initiatives, small grants for survivors, translation projects, harm-reduction.
- 30%: Community Pool. 30% of every sale would fund LGBTQ+ community programs, free-device donations to survivors and undocumented users, translator grants, and harm-reduction reach. Who would hold the pool is not decided.
The 60/35 rule
Within the Community Pool, a planned charter rule would split each year's inflow:
- ≤ 65% Layer 1 (operations). Salaries, certifications, factory deposits, the operating cost of running a hardware company.
- ≥ 35% Layer 2 (Ambassador-voted programs). The Ambassador network would vote on which community programs get funded, directly. They are the people closest to who needs help; they decide.
What the founder gets
Michael Eisinger would receive a W-2 salary from the company, capped at a public-posted multiple of the local living-wage calculator for his geography. He would not draw from the Community Pool. He would not own equity that pays out from product sales beyond his salary. The LLC is planned to convert to a Public Benefit Corporation.
Quarterly transparency report
Once sales begin, the plan is to publish every quarter:
- Total Community Pool inflows by product line
- Ambassador wages paid (aggregate, anonymized by region)
- Devices manufactured, by tier and product
- Compliance certifications in flight, with budget consumed
- An anonymized aggregate count of panic-mode activations across the network, never who, never where, just the volume signal that the survivor-safe features are being used.
What you'd ask if you were a skeptic
"What if Michael wants more money than the cap allows?"
He would have to raise the cap publicly, with a 60-day notice and a justification document, or leaves. The cap would be enforced by board oversight and external audit.
"What stops a future board from removing the 30%?"
Nothing yet. A charter rule protecting the split is an idea only. No board has adopted it.
"What if the LLC fails?"
Not decided yet. The design files are planned to be public (open STL files), so devices could still be repaired.