The nine Management Hubs are the day-to-day governance spaces of the COG$ of Australia Foundation. Each hub covers a distinct area of Foundation activity. When you join a hub, you gain the ability to create projects, participate in discussions, cast votes, and raise governance questions — all within that area of the Foundation's work.

Everything you do in a hub is recorded with a cryptographic timestamp as part of your Member participation record. The hubs are not a discussion forum. They are the operational expression of your rights as a Joint Venture Partner under the JVPA.

The Mainspring hub gives you an at-a-glance view across all nine areas — project phase counts, recent activity, and links to each hub.

Every project in a hub moves through a defined sequence of phases. The phases reflect the governance process required by the Joint Venture Participation Agreement — ensuring that important matters receive proper deliberation before any decision is made.

To create a project you must first activate participation in the hub by clicking ⬡ Activate Participation in the banner at the top of the page. Once enrolled, click + New Project in the Management Projects section.

1. Click + New Project.

2. Enter a title (required), summary, full description, and optional target close date.

3. Click Create Project. The project is created in Draft phase.

4. Open the project and click Open for Input in the Phase panel when your proposal is ready to share.

Only the project coordinator (the member who created the project) can advance to the next phase. The Phase panel at the top of the project detail page shows the current phase, the target end date, and — for the coordinator — an advance button labelled with the next phase name.

Other members can comment at any stage, join the project as a participant, and — once the Vote phase opens — cast their consent vote.

When a project reaches the Vote Open phase, enrolled members cast a consent vote. COG$ uses a consent model — not a simple majority poll — because it surfaces genuine objections that majority systems can override. A consent decision is one that no member has a paramount objection to, not one that everyone enthusiastically supports.

1. Open the project — click its card in the Management Projects section.

2. Scroll to the Consent Vote section (visible only when the project is in Vote Open phase).

3. Click your position button. If you click Block, a reasoning text box appears — this field is required.

4. The tally updates live. You may change your vote at any time while voting is open.

When a project is adopted and moves to the Accountability phase, the coordinator can add delivery milestones — specific deliverables with target dates. All enrolled members can see the milestone list at all times and can comment on progress.

The accountability milestone system exists for one reason: decisions should produce outcomes. An adopted proposal that disappears without a delivery record destroys the trust that makes governance worth participating in.

1. Open the project in Accountability phase.

2. Scroll to the Delivery Milestones section.

3. Enter a label describing the deliverable and an optional target date.

4. Click Add. The milestone appears in the list immediately.

Click Mark done next to a milestone. The ○ indicator becomes ✓ and the label is struck through. Click Reopen to reverse this if the deliverable needs revision.

The hubs are asynchronous — you do not need to check in every day. Once a week, on Friday evening (Australian Eastern time), you receive a single email summarising what moved in the hubs you belong to.

The digest shows, per hub: how many projects entered each phase, and the titles of the most notable proposals in deliberation. It is a navigation signal — a reason to open Mainspring and drill into what needs your attention.

You receive a digest only if at least one of your enrolled hubs had project activity in the past 7 days. In quiet weeks, no email is sent.

To stop receiving the digest, visit your Vault settings and turn off the weekly hub digest toggle. This does not affect your participation rights in any way.

Each hub includes a query system for raising governance questions — about how a hub operates, how a decision was made, or how a matter should be interpreted under the Foundation's governing instruments.

1. Click + New Query in the Raise a Query section at the bottom of any hub page.

2. Write a subject line and your question in full.

3. Choose your transparency level — this determines who sees the query and its resolution.

4. Submit. Your query is received by the Foundation for review.

• 🔒 Private — only you and administrators see this query and its resolution.
• 👥 Hub Members — all members enrolled in this hub can see the query and the resolution summary.
• 📢 Public Record — the query and resolution appear in the hub record for all Foundation members.

At the top of the Management Projects section, a green ✓ Resolved this month block appears when any hub_members or public_record queries have been resolved in the past 30 days. Private queries never appear here — only those where the member chose to share the answer.

• Draft — no minimum. Advance when ready.
• Open for Input — 7 days minimum.
• Deliberation — 7 days minimum.
• Vote Open — 7 days minimum (48 hours if urgency certified under JVPA cl. 6.3).
• Accountability — no fixed end date. Ongoing until milestones are complete.