Executive Summary: TrustRosie Partnership Model
For: Cooperative Governing Boards and Membership Organizations
Purpose: Strategic alignment and revenue opportunities
Vision: Incentivize members along the trust layer journey, not at the end.
The Challenge
Cooperatives and membership organizations face three critical hurdles:
- Initial Capital Gap - All-volunteer effort struggling to secure funding while ideologically opposed to investor-stakeholder profit models
- Revenue Generation - Need sustainable income to support operations without external dependence
- Competitive Positioning - Limited pricing advantage against hyperscalers in early phases
What is TrustRosie?
TrustRosie is an AI Assistant that transforms cooperatives from long-game volunteer efforts into immediate business opportunities for members. It makes organizational knowledge instantly accessible, actionable, and monetizable from Day One.
Members upload content, TrustRosie learns from it, anyone asks questions, TrustRosie provides precise answers with cited sources, and contributors earn rewards when their content helps others.
The Business Opportunity Starts Today—Not in Years:
- Build reputation on the members leaderboard as recognized experts
- Receive business inquiries via secure messaging from people seeking expertise
- Transform consulting practices from billable hours to scalable licensing revenue
- Build sustainable associations that generate revenue beyond membership dues
The journey IS the product. Contributors start earning reputation, connections, and business development opportunities immediately—not years from now when the project is "complete."
Built on Cooperative Principles
TrustRosie operates on a Contributory Ecosystem Model that naturally aligns with cooperative values:
- Patronage-Based - Economic benefits flow to contributors based on participation, not capital
- Transparent Economics - All costs and rewards are clearly calculated and visible
- Member-Centric - Value flows to members who create it, not external investors
- Self-Sustaining - Contributors earn credits and revenue, reducing external dependency
- Creator Control - IP creators maintain ownership and set their own licensing terms
This isn't just an AI assistant—it's a cooperative business model that ensures members prosper from the value they create.
The TrustRosie Ecosystem
Member Roles (Cumulative Progression)
All Members:
- Consume member-only content
- Access licensed content they own
Contributors (builds on All Members):
- Submit generic content
- Earn Return on Contributions
- Build reputation on leaderboard
IPR Owners (builds on Contributors):
- Create IPR-protected frameworks
- Set AI Assistant hourly rate
- Earn IPR usage revenue
Member roles are cumulative: All Contributors are Members, all IPR Owners are Contributors.
Organizations & Licensing
Licensee Organizations:
- License IPR-protected frameworks for implementation
- Pay TrustRosie Hourly Rate + IPR Owners' hourly rates when querying
Downstream Organizations:
- License frameworks WITH derivative work rights
- Extend and redistribute to their members
- Pay upstream rates + Earn IPR revenue from downstream
- TrustRosie's Innovation: Automatic cascading updates—upstream improvements flow downstream instantly
Example: National Association creates framework → Provincial extends for local regulations → Local implements. Updates cascade automatically. Revenue flows upstream. Everyone stays current.
Value Proposition
| Stakeholder | Benefits |
|---|---|
| Individual Members | Immediate business opportunities, time-credits reduce costs, scalable IPR revenue, build authority as experts |
| Cooperative | Recurring revenue from AI usage + IPR licensing fees, self-sustaining funding without external investors, productization opportunities |
| Board Members | Incentivize sustained contribution, demonstrate cooperative innovation, create defensible competitive advantage, attract mission-aligned funding |
| Cooperative Protection | Business Source License 1.1 ensures source transparency while preventing hyperscaler exploitation—automatically converts to open source after 4 years |
Revenue Model
Members Pay: AI Provider Tokens (BYOT) + TrustRosie Hourly Rate (pay-per-use)
Organization Earns: Revenue share from TrustRosie hourly rates + Revenue share from IPR licensing fees
Result: Organization generates recurring revenue without managing AI infrastructure, creating a self-sustaining cooperative model.
The Bottom Line
Volunteers need incentives to stay engaged long-term. Help members prosper along the journey, not wait years for the project to be "complete."
Make the Journey the Product.
Transform your organization from:
- All-volunteer effort → Contributor prosperity ecosystem
- External funding dependency → Self-sustaining revenue model
- Years-until-value → Immediate business benefits
Early adopter advantages: First-mover authority, ecosystem ownership, revenue priority, relationship capital with core team
Next Step: Schedule a call to learn how we can get started now.
Learn More: Explainer | Contributory Ecosystem Model | Service Provider Specialization | Ecosystem Specialization