BioConomy

BioHub Identity Template

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The first template in the founding suite. Establishes the BioHub itself: its name, its cohort, its entity form, its patronage architecture, its position in the emerging global field, its intellectual lineage, and its governance. Produces three outputs: the Identity Statement, the Field and Lineage Positioning, and the Founding Compact.

Overview

A BioHub is a coordination body anchored in a specific BioRegion. Coordination requires a body with standing. The Identity Template is what gives the body standing at its founding: a name that reads as legitimate to counterparties and peers, an entity form that can hold the kinds of capital and commitments the coordination work requires, a patronage architecture that funds the work without collapsing the coordination form, a cohort framing that specifies who commits what to whom, and a positioning statement that places the BioHub inside the emerging global field rather than as a curiosity.

The template runs alongside the TIME Diagnostic. Where TIME output is available before Prompt 2, attach it. Where it is not, run Prompt 1 without it and attach it later.

When to run this template

Run this template at the founding of the BioHub. The cohort should already be assembled (at minimum, a coordinator and two to five founding participants who have committed to the founding work). The anchor location should be settled. The cohort should have preliminary agreement that a BioHub is what is being founded.

Do not run this template with a solo coordinator. The Founding Compact requires a cohort to have standing. A solo coordinator can use the template as a working draft to bring to the cohort once assembled.

Prerequisite documents

  • BioStack and BioConomy foundational document (definitions and dependency direction).
  • Framework of coordination forms (TIME, or an equivalent).
  • The Metabolic BioHubs Best Practices Research Brief (May 2026), or the equivalent global field baseline document.
  • Any bioregional field-mapping documents in use (P4P Archipelago positioning, Design School for Regenerating Earth mappings, or equivalents).
  • Any published essays, briefs, or research the coordinator or cohort has produced.
  • TIME Diagnostic output where available.

The three prompts

Prompt 1: Candidate identity proposals. Produces two to four candidate options across five identity dimensions (name, entity form, patronage architecture, cohort framing, positioning statement) with a recommendation on each. The cohort then reviews the candidates and makes selections.

Prompt 2: Field, lineage, and working reference pack. Takes the cohort’s selections and builds a ten-section reference pack: global BioHub field mapping, intellectual lineage, research base, cohort published work, contribution to the field, entity form precedents, patronage architecture precedents, multi-BioHub context, naming and domain research, and cross-pack synthesis.

Prompt 3: The three final documents. Produces the Identity Statement, the Field and Lineage Positioning, and the Founding Compact.

The three outputs

Identity Statement. Short, formal, foundational reference document. Five to ten pages. States who the BioHub is: name, founding cohort, anchor location, purpose, position within the field in brief, intellectual lineage in brief, entity form, and its forward relationship to the BioRegion (completed once the second template runs). This is the document the BioHub uses to introduce itself.

Field and Lineage Positioning. Long, structured referential document. Thirty to fifty pages. Compiles the global BioHub field mapping, the intellectual lineage with full citations, the research base, the cohort’s published work, and the specific contribution the BioHub makes to the field. Used to engage with the global field, defend the positioning, and orient new cohort members.

Founding Compact. Governance and commitment document. Five to ten pages. Co-signed by the founding cohort. Establishes the BioHub as a coordination body worthy of commitment, articulates the cohort’s commitments to each other, establishes the entity form and patronage architecture, and sets out provisions for cohort expansion, revision, dissent, and dissolution. Used to convene formal coordination relationships and to demonstrate governance standing.

Cohort work between prompts

Between Prompts 1 and 2, the coordinator convenes the founding cohort to review candidate proposals and make selections across the five identity dimensions. Selections are documented with reasoning for use in Prompt 2.

Between Prompts 2 and 3, the coordinator convenes the cohort to review the reference pack and make final adjustments before document production. Adjustments cover intellectual lineage, positioning refinements, multi-BioHub protocol decisions, and any other tensions the reference pack has surfaced.

Both cohort review steps operate under the decision-making forms the cohort agreed to at the outset. Neither can be delegated to the AI. See Running a Template for the shared conventions.

The five identity dimensions

Prompt 1 produces candidates on five dimensions. Each shapes what the BioHub can hold and how it will operate.

Name. Candidates with domain availability across .earth, .org, and any country-specific TLDs the coordinator specifies; cultural resonance in the anchor location; field legibility in the emerging BioHub vocabulary; trademark or registered-mark risk.

Entity form. Non-profit company, cooperative, foundation, informal association, hybrid stack. Each with its governance implications, patronage-holding implications, cost and complexity, and jurisdiction-specific precedents.

Patronage architecture. Mycelial Patronage (transvestment-based, capital held in the commons substrate); conventional grant model; member-funded; corporate partnership; hybrid architectures. Each with what it enables, what it constrains, and what it demands of the cohort.

Cohort framing. Solo coordinator with advisory circle; equal founding cohort with rotating coordination; tiered cohort with distinct roles; formal board plus operational team. Each with implications for decision-making, accountability, cohort expansion, and succession.

Positioning statement. Finance-and-governance-first; heritage-anchored; catchment-service-provider; cosmo-local research node; or another framing that fits the BioHub. Each with the audience it is aimed at and the trade-off it makes.

Multi-BioHub context

More than one BioHub can operate within a single BioRegion. The Identity Template treats this as the default case. The Founding Compact’s multi-BioHub coordination protocols are working protocols that will be refined once the BioRegion Establishment Template has run and any adjacent BioHubs have been identified. The Using Templates Across BioHubs page covers the shared conventions.

Handoff to the BioRegion Establishment Template

The three Identity outputs become prerequisite inputs to the second template. Attach all three to the first prompt of the BioRegion Establishment Template.

The Identity Statement supplies the anchor location, the coordinator and cohort profile, the purpose statement, and (where identified) the working BioRegion candidate. The Field and Lineage Positioning supplies the global BioHub field baseline, the intellectual lineage, and the known adjacent BioHubs. The Founding Compact supplies the cohort structure, the decision-making forms, the multi-BioHub coordination protocols, and the custodial and consent principles.

Preserve the vocabulary and conventions established here across the suite.

Sources

Provenance

Extracted from BioHub Identity Template v0.2 (August 22, 2026) in the VoG as Patron Project Prototype knowledge base. Full prompt text, output specifications, evidentiary discipline (IC / MS / TBV tagging), constraints, and flags remain in the source document. This page presents the shape of the template, its position in the suite, the cohort work it requires, and the three documents it produces, in a form legible to a coordinator arriving at the wiki without prior context.

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