Stdlib-only pipeline for the pre-meeting braindump: CryptPad Form CSV in, review.md + synthesis.json out. Two model stages (tag atomic points with verbatim quotes, cluster into themes/novel/dissent) wrapped in deterministic Python that verifies every quote against the source and computes counts from item ids, so the model never writes the final document. Defaults to tinfoil/glm-5.3 with reasoning_effort=low: without it the model spent the whole 8000-token budget on hidden reasoning and returned nothing (probed 2026-10-19; findings in README). Refuses non-TEE models without a flag. Content-hash cache so prompt tuning reruns are free. Offline unittest suite with a fake gateway; smoke-tested live on 5 synthetic responses for ~$0.03. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| 1 | What drew you to the co-op, and what do you use it for today? | Ideas. What should the co-op build, try, or offer next? | Wants. What would make membership more valuable to you personally? | Needs. What is missing, broken, or in your way right now? | Goals. Where should the co-op be a year from now? | Priorities (pick up to 3) | Dissent. What worries you, what do you disagree with, or what are we getting wrong? | Anything else? |
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| 2 | Privacy. I wanted an AI I could use for client work without feeding a big vendor. Mostly chat, some API from scripts. | A shared prompt library members can contribute to. Also a Matrix bot that answers questions about the docs. | A cheaper tier for light users; I barely touch my allowance most months. | The chat loses my place on mobile when I switch apps. Also the model picker names are confusing (dotted vs dashed slugs). | Fifty members, real elections, and at least one model we host ourselves. | privacy, pricing and fairness, owning our own infrastructure | I worry we are spreading across too many providers. Three providers is already hard to explain to a new member. | |
| 3 | Green energy mostly. I teach and wanted something I could recommend to students with a straight face. | Classroom or group accounts: one payment, several seats, shared budget. | Being able to see the energy and emissions per conversation, not just tokens. | Onboarding email landed in spam for two of my students. The email-must-match rule tripped one of them. | A recognized option for universities and nonprofits, with an institutional tier. | green energy, docs and onboarding, governance and participation | Not dissent exactly, but the Loomio threads are long and I cannot keep up. | Thank you for doing this. |
| 4 | Curiosity about co-op governance. I use the API from a small writing tool I maintain. | An institutional or app-partner membership so projects like mine can buy inference for their users through the co-op instead of each user joining separately. | Stable model names. When tinfoil/glm-5-3-flash disappeared my app broke. | No deprecation notice period for models. No status page. | A documented SLA-ish commitment, even an informal one, and a changelog members can subscribe to. | API and developer tooling, model choice, privacy | I think the terms forbidding any redistribution of access will block exactly the kind of mission-aligned projects we say we want. | |
| 5 | A friend invited me. I mostly use the chat for drafting emails. | Voice mode on the phone app. | Honestly it is fine as is. | More members so it keeps existing. | community and chat | |||
| 6 | Wanted to support a cooperative alternative. I use it daily for coding help. | Self-host at least one open model on our own hardware so we are not just reselling other people's APIs. | Higher allowance for people who pay more; the flat $15 cap makes paying extra feel pointless. | Tool calling is flaky on some models and there is no doc saying which ones support it. | Our own GPU box, even a small one, and a path to more. | owning our own infrastructure, model choice, API and developer tooling | Self-hosting will cost more than buying tokens and we should be honest about that before voting for it. | Happy to help with ops. |
| 7 | Privacy and the TEE story. Chat only. | Private web search inside the enclave instead of our own SearXNG. | Nothing specific. | The chat is slow to start on voice sometimes. | Keep it small and trustworthy. Growth is not a goal for me. | privacy | I disagree with adding providers that are only policy-private. It dilutes the one thing that made me join. | |
| 8 | I run a small nonprofit and we needed shared AI access we could justify ethically. | Group accounts with a shared budget and an admin who can see spend per seat. | An invoice I can hand to our bookkeeper instead of an Open Collective receipt. | The dashboard shows my usage but not my organization's. | An institutional tier with clear terms and pricing. | pricing and fairness, governance and participation, docs and onboarding | The pay-what-you-can model is lovely but I suspect it is not covering costs. Show us the numbers. | |
| 9 | Governance nerd. I barely use the models; I joined for the experiment. | Publish a monthly financial and usage report and discuss it on Loomio. | Real decision rights, not advisory votes. | The charter still says decisions are not binding. | A functioning member-elected board and a budget members approve. | governance and participation, pricing and fairness | We keep adding features before we have governance. Build the decision process first. | Could we do these braindumps every quarter? |
| 10 | Needed an API for a side project and liked the values. | An Anthropic-compatible /v1/messages endpoint that is actually documented and tested, so Claude-style clients just work. | Per-key spend limits so one script cannot burn my whole month. | Budget exceeded errors arrive mid-stream with no warning beforehand. | A developer-friendly gateway people choose on merit, not only on values. | API and developer tooling, privacy | ||
| 11 | Climate reasons. | Default every new member to the greenest model, not the fastest. | A badge or summary of emissions avoided versus a mainstream provider. | Carbon accounting published per month. | green energy | Tinfoil is not green and we should say so more plainly on the models page. | ||
| 12 | Wanted to try open-weight models without setting up my own box. Mostly chat and a bit of API. | Image generation in the chat picker, not hidden behind an integration button. | Longer memory across chats. | Image models in the picker caused 500 errors and then got removed with no explanation. | More models, including vision, at the same price. | model choice, community and chat | I do not think self-hosting is worth it at our size. | |
| 13 | Someone mentioned it at a Metagov call. | A quarterly braindump like this one, and a public roadmap page built from it. | Knowing what other members are working on; a members directory people opt into. | Matrix invites arrived before I knew what Matrix was. A one-page explainer would help. | A community that knows itself, not just a service. | community and chat, governance and participation, docs and onboarding | Nice work on the dashboard. |