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BenBiz Reading Area · Living guide and source archive

Read together
to meet on
shared ground.

Begin with the philosophy, method and principles BenBiz uses today. Then go as deeply as you need into English guides spanning participation, living community, ObaNova, founding texts, DÇM‑0.3, scenarios and working documents.

9 current entries25 bilingual web guides3 reading paths
Adults across generations studying books and notes together in a library courtyard; conceptual illustration
Not simply agreeing with an idea, but learning how to understand and question it together.
A previous workshop photograph shared by the educators

Istanbul Education Solidarity Circle

Nörokripto, in the educators’ own words.

Educational texts, two posters and three original PDFs supplied by Şeref Gökmen and Elif Özcan. Read the original Turkish texts, view workshop photographs and explore the Istanbul circle.

Adults across generations listening around the same table; representative illustration
A shared table with room for every voice · Representative illustration

The ground for participation · Shared Decisions

Your voice can
change something here.

Make a question visible, improve a proposal together, cast your vote and follow what the decision becomes. Shared Decisions is where BenBiz finds its direction together.

Voices and viewsVotes and reasonsWork and shared memory

Concrete examples, a 60% / 60% calculation to explore and a step-by-step participation route.

The current shared foundation comes first

What guides
the work today?

The founding documents preserve how the thinking developed. These bilingual web journeys are the current starting points for BenBiz’s language, readiness distinctions and public paths.

01

Current bilingual journey

Why BenBiz?

Begin with the problems of our time and why BenBiz proposes a fairer foundation for working and living together.

Open Why BenBiz?
02

Current bilingual journey

The Method

Follow the path from a real need to clear agreement, tasks, contribution records and reasoned evaluation.

Open The Method

Real questions instead of a long table of contents

Approach the answer
you actually need.

You do not have to read everything from beginning to end. Open your question, see the short answer and continue only to the current page or source guide that helps.

01How can I influence decisions here?

In Shared Decisions, propose, discuss, vote and follow implementation across BenBiz, a circle or a learning group. The starting rule is 60% participation and 60% approval; explore it through examples.

02Why does BenBiz exist?

The purpose is not merely to launch new projects. It is to connect people, work, ownership, decisions and nature through a fairer foundation.

03What is a Solidarity Circle, and how does one form?

It is a small working structure around a real need, a clear purpose, complementary resources and working terms discussed from the start.

04How are fair compensation and voluntary contribution kept distinct?

Pay, expenses, a possible share of value created together and freely offered support do not disappear under one label. Each remains visible through its own terms and records.

05How does the Value and Justice Engine work today?

DÇM‑0.3 evaluates one contribution event, not a person. Rights, value channels and scope are separated first; twenty criteria, evidence, two blind reviews and Justice Gates then prepare a reasoned human decision.

06What did the calibration results teach us?

Ten hypothetical cases tested why pay, donation, care work, residual risk, high scores and founding work must not be pushed into the same pool. They show concretely why a score is never a decision by itself.

07How are decisions, assessments and objections handled?

Criteria are known in advance, reasons enter the record and human approval remains essential. The right to challenge a result affecting someone is part of the method, not an exception.

08Which project is the current pilot?

Bursa Şifahane is the historical application example in the founding texts. Today’s preparation focuses on the Istanbul Education Solidarity Circle; terms will appear on its page as they are verified.

09What can the app do today, and may I contribute without joining a circle?

Yes. The Guest area is account-free. Every Explorer Member has a personal BenBiz identity and can follow open circle developments or contribute to the website, Reading Area and ObaNova without joining a circle. Private tasks and communication open only inside a circle that has approved you.

10Are BenAkçe, BenGram and the Store available today?

Store 0.4 is available today as an open-record catalogue and identity-bound contribution route, while prices, stock, baskets, orders and payments remain closed. BenAkçe and BenGram are not yet available money, gold, investment or payment products.

11What should I follow when an older document and a current page differ?

The original PDF preserves the history of the thinking; it is not a current list of rules or features. Use the dated web guide and the linked current page for today’s position while keeping the source unchanged beside them.

12How can BenBiz become a living community?

It stays alive when people can share their intentions and limits, complete small pieces of work together, see where their effort goes and return what they learn to the shared memory.

13Will ObaNova fit everything into one settlement?

No. ObaNova is not a finished list of activities. The places, needs, knowledge and work people bring can become real small steps through Solidarity Circles. As needs emerge, different obas may grow in their own colours; shared principles, mutual help and learning keep them connected.

Three easy guides · two picture-first maps

Begin without
getting lost.

Small, clear steps show which account you need and where to tap on the website and in the application—without burying you in a long manual.

R1Easy start

Joining BenBiz

See the difference between Guest, Explorer and circle member, including the conversation and approval path.

Open guide
R2Picture-first map

BenBiz Application Route Guide

Follow education requests, personal QR links, source checks, tasks and account tracking step by step.

Open guide
R3Picture-first map

How to Use the BenBiz Website

Find the Istanbul education pilot, original sources and the route into the app.

Open guide

An ecosystem that lives together

A place that breathes
with every colour.

BenBiz stays alive when people are truly heard, take only what they can carry and can see who was helped by what they offered.

Being alive together does not mean everyone is always working. It means a need can be heard, the right people can meet freely and even a tiny step can leave something useful in our shared memory.

  1. 01

    Share your intention

    What do you have strength for, and what do you need today?

  2. 02

    Find one another

    Let the right person, need or circle come into view.

  3. 03

    Take one small step

    Choose work you can carry without making a grand promise.

  4. 04

    See what changed

    Learn where what you offered became useful.

  5. 05

    Learn together

    Let the result return to the Reading Area and the next step.

Our first living project dossier

Shape ObaNova
together.

We do not hand people a ready-made list of activities. We keep the shared principles clear and look together for ways to connect a place, need, skill, work or idea with the right people.

A conceptual ObaNova illustration showing a possible path from hemp fields to fibre, weaving and building components
Hemp is one of the paths BenBiz openly supports; it is not ObaNova’s only subject.

Seven short headings show both today’s shared ground and an easy path into participation. You do not need to arrive with a finished project; saying what you hold and what is missing is enough.

01Open ground, clear principles02Connected obas, different colours03A first small step in Yazır04From a resource to a Solidarity Circle05Hemp: an open direction06Every colour of living and production07From a contribution to a new edition
Reading is open to everyone. An Explorer Member account is enough to leave a note; your BenBiz identity preserves its trace and circle membership is not required. Its editorial response and edition outcome remain visible in the app.

A new current source cluster

Read the living laboratory
through five distinct doors.

We did not compress the philosophy, screen journey, test results, change memory and current technical boundary into one text. Each guide answers a different question; together they form the whole DÇM‑0.3 account.

  1. 01Principle

    Value and Justice Engine · DÇM‑0.3

    See what the engine assesses, which rights remain outside scoring and how its four dimensions work.

    Open guide
  2. 02Journey

    Live Laboratory Guide

    Follow the path from a contribution event and evidence through two blind reviews and the Justice Gates.

    Open guide
  3. 03Testing

    Calibration and Scenario Notebook

    Compare how one rule set distinguishes pay, donation, care, finance and founding work across S1–S10.

    Open guide
  4. 04Memory

    Living Working Notebook

    Read the shift from DÇM‑0.2 to DÇM‑0.3, the CAL‑001 decision and the version trail that preserves history.

    Open guide
  5. 05Boundary

    Live Application Status

    Separate what the laboratory actually does today from the entitlement and payment functions it does not yet perform.

    Open guide

A reading area is more than something to consume

From one question
to a new edition.

Reading remains open to everyone. An Explorer Member account is enough to bring a gap, error, alternative interpretation or field example into shared memory; you do not need acceptance into a circle or an active task.

Open Reading Area contributions ↗
  1. 01

    Locate your note

    Connect it to a guide and, if useful, a specific section; identify it as a question, clarity proposal, correction, objection, experience or source.

  2. 02

    Follow the response

    “My Reading Contributions” shows the editorial reply, requests for clarification, the result and the route for reconsideration.

  3. 03

    Preserve the change

    A principle-level decision needs two independent reviewers; Turkish and English change together, while earlier editions remain in memory.

The public sees only approved notes, the contributor’s chosen attribution and the reasoned result. This path creates no likes, ranking, DÇM score, entitlement or payment.

Three paths from the founding texts to the living laboratory

How deeply do
you need to go?

A first-time reader and a team preparing to apply the method need different levels of detail. Begin with the current account, then move from the archive into current testing through the path that matches your question and time.

0130–45 minutes

Quick introduction

For first-time readers

See the need, understand the circle and discover what the invitation asks of you.

4 guides · in reading order

Begin this path
021.5–2.5 hours

Whole-system understanding

For people who want to discuss the model

Connect the seven parts and test the approach to rights and sharing through an example.

9 guides · in reading order

Begin this path
036–7 hours

Practice and living projects

For teams and facilitators

Connect the principles, digital design, DÇM‑0.3 laboratory, ObaNova and the current participation guides in one sequence.

24 guides · in reading order

Begin this path

Durations are approximate reading and working times. Every English guide is public; the unchanged source PDFs remain in Turkish.

Fourteen founding sources · five living laboratory guides · one shared-life guide · one living project dossier · three getting-started guides

The traces of
an evolving idea.

The getting-started guides make the path between website and application easier. The shared-life guide explores how BenBiz stays alive, the ObaNova dossier asks how that intention can touch the earth, and the archive preserves how the thinking developed.

25 authored English guides

Participation and shared decisions1
OKParticipation and shared decisionsEN · Living guide

Living account 0.1 · 10 September 2026

Shared Decisions · From a voice to shared work

Discover how a proposal is heard, how 60% participation and 60% approval shape a decision, and how shared work is followed through.

VotingParticipationAbstentionProposalsDAOShared decisions
Illustrated account · Teaching calculationOpen guide
Getting started1
00Getting startedEN · Current web guide

Working guide

Reading and Working Guide

Where should we begin, in what order should we read, and how can we test what we understand together?

ReadingShared language
2 min web guide
9 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
Core narrative7
01Core narrativeEN · Current web guide

Part 1 of 7

Why Do We Need a New Foundation?

Why do good intentions also need fair relationships to support them from the very beginning?

JusticeShared foundation
2 min web guide
32 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
02Core narrativeEN · Current web guide

Part 2 of 7

What Is a Solidarity Circle?

A working foundation that brings different resources around a shared purpose and clear responsibilities.

Completing resourcesFairness
2 min web guide
42 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
04Core narrativeEN · Current web guide

Part 4 of 7

How Does the System Actually Work?

Connecting purpose, need, contribution, records, decisions and sharing in a traceable cycle.

WorkflowContribution assessmentAgreement
3 min web guide
43 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
06Core narrativeEN · Current web guide

Part 6 of 7 · Not today’s pilot

Historical Practice Example: Bursa Şifahane

An example exploring how a place, specialist knowledge and social trust could connect through one shared way of working.

BursaHistorical exampleContinuity
2 min web guide
41 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
07Core narrativeEN · Current web guide

Part 7 of 7

Invitation and Shared Responsibility

Moving from liking an idea to carrying a defined and sustainable contribution together.

ParticipationResponsibilityObjection
2 min web guide
42 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
Practice1
08PracticeEN · Current web guide

Hypothetical example

Applied Simulation

Using one example month to distinguish direct rights, operating needs, the common pool and shared funds.

Contribution assessmentDouble countingCalculation
2 min web guide
35 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
Digital design2
09Digital designEN · Current web guide

Design document 0.1 · August 2026

Digital Ecosystem: Core Architecture

Identity, need, work, rights and decision layers connecting autonomous circles through a shared protocol.

DigitalPrivacyArchitecture
2 min web guide
30 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
10Digital designEN · Current web guide

Design document 0.1 · August 2026

User Journey 01

A human journey from discovery and mutual fit to a first task and visible contribution and rights.

ParticipationAgreementDigital
2 min web guide
19 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
Working annexes3
AWorking annexesEN · Current web guide

Summary presentation for the core team

The Story of a Shared Foundation

Explaining together why we began, what we are building and how first responsibilities can be shared.

Shared languageIntroduction
2 min web guide
18 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
BWorking annexesEN · Current web guide

Preliminary introduction · August 2026

Digital App · Core Team

An early account of how principles about people, work and trust could become functions in a mobile experience.

PilotDigitalIstanbul
2 min web guide
15 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
CWorking annexesEN · Current web guide

Pilot 0.1 · August 2026

Digital App · Technical Annex

A technical frame connecting the mobile surface, operating rules and the memory of records.

TechnicalTrustPilot
2 min web guide
15 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
Current shared ground1
Y1Current shared groundEN · Current web guide

Living design guide · 6 September 2026

BenBiz · Like a Living Organism

How can we build a shared place where everyone brings their own colour, joins as their intention and strength allow, and sees where their contribution goes?

Living communityIntentionCompleting one another
6 min web guide
30 page original PDF · Turkish
Open guide
Living laboratory5
L1Living laboratoryEN · Living guide

Current experimental model · 5 September 2026

Value and Justice Engine · DÇM‑0.3

The current engine framework for making unlike contributions visible while protecting direct rights, human dignity and reasoned shared decisions.

DÇM‑0.3JusticeContribution
4 min web guide
9 page reference PDF · living record
Open guide
L2Living laboratoryEN · Living guide

Practice guide · DÇM‑0.3 / CAL‑001

How to Use and Read the Live Laboratory

A guide to the laboratory journey from a contribution event through blind reviews and Justice Gates to an explained result.

LaboratoryJustice GatesObjection
3 min web guide
9 page reference PDF · living record
Open guide
L3Living laboratoryEN · Living guide

Calibration 0.1 · Ten hypothetical cases

Calibration and Scenario Notebook

The first comparison testing whether the engine sends the right value to the right channel across ten different tensions.

ScenariosCalibrationCAL‑001
3 min web guide
23 page reference PDF · living record
Open guide
L4Living laboratoryEN · Living guide

Living record · since 5 September 2026

Living Working Notebook and Version Memory

The memory that preserves settled principles, experimental decisions, scenario outcomes and application rules without erasing their history.

VersioningShared memoryRecords
3 min web guide
9 page reference PDF · living record
Open guide
L5Living laboratoryEN · Living guide

Working laboratory · released 5 September 2026

Live Application: What It Does and Does Not Do

A status record separating the experience the DÇM‑0.3 interface actually offers today from the economic and governance layers not yet opened.

Live statusApplicationBoundaries
3 min web guide
9 page reference PDF · living record
Open guide
Living projects1
O1Living projectsEN · Living guide

Shared design 0.2 · 7 September 2026

ObaNova · Living Project Dossier

A seven-heading shared working dossier for ObaNova: clear principles, with its form shaped by people’s resources, needs, knowledge and imagination.

ObaNovaHempConnected obasShared design
6 min web guide
7 page reference PDF · living record
Open guide
Getting-started guides3
R1Getting-started guidesEN · Living guide

Living guide 1.0 · 7 September 2026

Joining BenBiz

A clear path from account-free discovery to Explorer Membership, website and Reading Area contributions, and circle membership.

ExplorerMembershipParticipation path
3 min web guide
19 page reference PDF · living record
Open guide
R2Getting-started guidesEN · Living guide

Living guide 1.4 · 10 September 2026

BenBiz Application Route Guide

Find your route from membership and tasks to Istanbul education requests, personal QR links, source confirmation, group preparation and account tracking.

ApplicationExplorerCircle workspace
14 min web guide
15 page reference PDF · living record
Open guide
R3Getting-started guidesEN · Living guide

Living guide 1.4 · 10 September 2026

How to Use the BenBiz Website

Find the current route from the homepage to the Istanbul education pilot, original educational sources and application tracking in the app.

WebsiteResourcesContribution
7 min web guide
9 page reference PDF · living record
Open guide

Shared language

Use the same word
for the same idea.

The point is not to memorise terminology, but to preserve the differences between concepts. Each definition opens the relevant guide.

Shared purpose

The common direction describing for whom, for which need and within which limits a circle works.

Read the related guide →
Completing resources

Connecting a real need not only with money, but with work, knowledge, time, space, equipment and relationships.

Read the related guide →
Agreement

A clear mutual understanding of contribution, duration, compensation, support, limits and leaving conditions.

Read the related guide →
Direct right

A separately defined counterpart such as pay, a service fee, expense reimbursement or a usage fee.

Read the related guide →
Contribution assessment · “TKP” in earlier Turkish documents

A reasoned assessment of work, risk, value created and continuity in one project and period. It is not human worth, money, an automatic entitlement or permanent status.

Read the related guide →
Common contribution pool

Value kept separate from direct rights and other obligations, then shared among contributions under rules agreed in advance.

Read the related guide →
Contribution event

One bounded record with a contributor, period, scope, type, value channels and evidence.

Read the related guide →
Justice Gates

Checks for economic separation, double-counting, impartial review, and participant visibility and objection.

Read the related guide →
Not Applicable

A reasoned statement that a criterion does not belong to this contribution; it is not zero and leaves the average.

Read the related guide →
Evidence confidence

A separate view of how strongly a score is supported by statements, outputs, traces, testimony or verification.

Read the related guide →
Version memory

Recording a new decision with its date, reasons, rule version and linked events without erasing the earlier one.

Read the related guide →
Infak and voluntary contribution

Sharing through free consent and clear limits. It cannot be presumed in place of a person’s right to fair compensation.

Read the related guide →
Filiz · a developing project

A concrete work area in education, production or another field growing from the shared method.

Read the related guide →

From the text to the table

Test what we read together.

The aim is not to persuade everyone. First understand the same thing; then discuss objections, proposals and practice.

  1. 01

    State the essence

    Explain the central idea in your own words. Distinguish understanding from repetition.

  2. 02

    Make the connection

    Which open question from the previous text does this guide complete?

  3. 03

    Name the doubt

    An unclear point, a risk and an objection are not the same. Discuss them separately.

  4. 04

    Bring it into practice

    What behaviour, rule, task or screen should make this principle real?

Let a meeting leave behind more than a good conversation: shared understanding, open questions and clarity about who carries the next step.

Open the working guide →

From reading to shared work

Your remaining question
can improve our shared memory.

If a concept is unclear, an older expression no longer fits today’s method or a new example could strengthen the account, use the path that lets you see what becomes of your contribution.