Across Europe and beyond, people experience rising precarity: insecure wages, unaffordable housing, volatile energy costs, strained healthcare systems, and a growing sense that the institutions shaping daily life are no longer oriented toward the long term.

At the same time, something historically unusual is occurring.

For the first time, a set of general-purpose technologies — AI, robotics, renewable energy, advanced materials, and large-scale digital coordination — make it technically possible to produce essential goods with far less human labour, far greater efficiency, and far lower marginal cost than ever before.

The contradiction of our moment is that extraordinary productive capability exists, yet the cost of living continues to rise and systems feel increasingly fragile.

Abundance exists to resolve that contradiction by building durable public wealth in essential systems.

What Abundance is

Abundance is a long-term effort to build shared productive capacity in the areas people depend on most.

It is:

• not welfare

• not redistribution

• and not a single organisation

Abundance is a federation: a growing network of mission-locked cooperatives, digital platforms, and local projects that produce essential goods — food, energy, housing, healthcare tools, AI, robotics, and civic digital infrastructure — as durable public assets.

These assets are governed so that:

• value is reinvested rather than extracted

• costs fall over time rather than rise

• resilience increases as systems grow

• benefits remain broadly accessible

The aim is not to replace markets or governments, but to rebuild a layer that both increasingly struggle to sustain: long-term productive capacity held in the public interest.

The federation in practical terms

Abundance is not a single organisation and not a holding company.

It is a federation of independent entities, designed so that productive systems can be built locally while sharing infrastructure, learning, and governance where doing so lowers cost and increases resilience.

The federation has three distinct layers.

1. Domain cooperatives: local and operational

At the foundation of the federation are domain-specific cooperatives operating in real, physical and service domains, such as:

• food and agriculture

• energy generation and storage

• housing and construction

• logistics and resource recovery

• healthcare tools and services

These cooperatives are:

• locally governed

• legally independent

• responsible for their own operations, hiring, and finances

• accountable for delivering real goods and services

They have their own balance sheets and make decisions close to the communities and environments they operate in. If a cooperative fails, that failure remains contained. It does not threaten the wider federation.

2. Shared enabling systems: cross-cutting and reusable

Alongside local cooperatives, Abundance builds shared systems that are not specific to any single place or domain, but support many of them at once.

These include:

• AI and data infrastructure

• robotics platforms and tooling

• digital coordination and identity systems

• financial and accounting infrastructure

• governance, auditability, and stewardship frameworks

These systems are built once and reused across the federation. Their purpose is to:

• avoid duplication

• reduce costs for every cooperative

• allow learning and capability to compound over time

They do not replace local decision-making. They exist to make cooperation cheaper, faster, and more reliable than fragmentation.

3. The federation layer: coordination without control

The federation layer exists to connect these independent entities without centralising power.

Its role is to:

• define shared standards and interfaces

• steward shared intellectual property and infrastructure

• ensure mission-locking and long-term governance

• enable reuse of successful approaches across domains and regions

It does not run local operations, control budgets, or dictate outcomes. Authority remains with the cooperatives themselves.

This structure allows Abundance to grow without becoming brittle: experimentation can happen locally, successes can propagate, and failures do not cascade.

Why this structure matters

This federated design combines the advantages of local autonomy with the benefits of shared infrastructure.

It allows:

• systems to be resilient rather than fragile

• innovation to spread without centralisation

• public wealth to be built incrementally and held durably

The result is an ecosystem where productive capacity can grow over time without requiring uniform control, ideological alignment, or constant intervention.

From expertise to real systems

Abundance is deliberately sequenced.

The work begins with domain experts — agronomists, roboticists, AI researchers, economists, cooperative lawyers, energy specialists, and community practitioners — identifying narrow, high-leverage problems that can credibly be tackled first.

These become small, real projects:

• early AI and robotics applications in farming, energy, and resource recovery

• shared datasets and tooling that improve through use

• cooperatives that generate real output and cash flow

Nothing is built speculatively. Feasibility precedes scale.

Civic participation — through volunteering, contribution, and use — feeds directly into these systems. Crucially, that effort does not disappear. It accumulates as permanent intelligence and infrastructure. Because Abundance is structured as a federation, individual failures remain contained while successful approaches can be reused across domains and regions.

How the system works in practice (illustrative pathway)

What follows is not a promise or a fixed plan. It is an illustrative pathway showing how the systems Abundance is building are designed to compound over time, using ordinary participation and durable structures.

Phase One: Small contributions become shared capacity

Participation begins in modest, voluntary ways.

Some people contribute small, regular amounts to cooperative funds. Others contribute time — occasionally or consistently — through structured tasks on the participation platform. These tasks are not abstract. They are aligned to real domains being built within the federation, such as agriculture, energy systems, logistics, and resource recovery.

For example, contributors may:

• collect or label datasets used to train agricultural or energy AI systems

• validate data quality

• improve tooling that supports reuse and auditability

Individually, these contributions are small. Collectively, they accumulate into shared technical capacity: datasets, models, workflows, and infrastructure that do not disappear when a task ends.

At the same time, pooled financial contributions are deployed into productive assets — such as farmland or energy generation — governed so that output is delivered at cost rather than maximising margin.

Phase Two: Shared capacity reduces operating costs

As datasets improve, AI systems become more accurate.
As AI systems improve, robotics and optimisation tools become more effective.
As those tools become more effective, the cost of producing essential goods begins to fall.

In agriculture, this can mean:

• less labour required for tasks like weeding or monitoring

• lower input costs

• more predictable yields

In energy systems, it can mean:

• better forecasting

• improved utilisation of infrastructure

• lower operating and maintenance costs

These efficiency gains are not extracted. They remain inside the cooperative systems that produced them.

Phase Three: Cost reduction reinforces ownership and access

Lower operating costs change the economics of cooperative ownership.

Rather than value being realised primarily through cash returns, it is realised through ongoing access to essential goods at cost — food, energy, and other services — insulated from much of the volatility present in market pricing.

As systems become more efficient:

• cooperative output becomes cheaper and more reliable

• surplus can be reinvested into better tools and infrastructure

• participants’ effective ownership becomes more meaningful over time

This creates a reinforcing loop: improved systems reduce costs; reduced costs strengthen the cooperative; stronger cooperatives support further improvement.

Phase Four: Time turns modest effort into lasting security

Over longer horizons, this reinforcement compounds.

Someone who begins participating early, contributes modestly, and adds time when life allows is not speculating on asset appreciation. They are gradually building durable access to productive capacity.

Work done years earlier continues to operate:

• datasets still train models

• tools continue to run

• infrastructure continues to produce

Participation does not have to be constant. People step back when life becomes busy and return when capacity allows. Earlier contributions are not erased.

This is the difference between volunteering that ends and infrastructure that lasts.

Phase Five: Expansion strengthens existing domains

As Abundance expands into additional domains — housing, health, construction, resource recovery — the benefits do not remain siloed.

AI systems trained in one domain improve performance in others.
Robotics platforms developed for construction reduce costs in agriculture.
Energy optimisation developed for housing lowers costs across the federation.

Each new domain added:

• shares tooling and infrastructure

• increases the total budget available for research and deployment

• improves the performance of systems already in place

Growth does not dilute earlier efforts. It reinforces them. Even participants who never engage directly in a new domain can benefit from its inclusion because shared systems improve everywhere.

Phase Six: Scale through external demand, not universal participation

Abundance does not depend on universal participation.

Once cooperative systems establish domain leadership — for example in agricultural AI, energy optimisation, or robotics — their tools and capabilities become valuable beyond the federation itself.

External users — private firms, public institutions, and other organisations — can access these systems under clear commercial terms. This external demand serves two functions simultaneously:

• it funds continued development, including compute and frontier research

• it allows publicly built capability to diffuse into the wider economy

Crucially, this does not require transferring ownership or enclosing the underlying infrastructure. Commercial access is a revenue stream, not an exit. Value flows back into shared systems rather than being extracted from them.

Commercial access is governed so that ownership, control, and long-term direction remain mission-locked within the federation. At this stage, participation becomes one input among many. The system sustains itself through usefulness.

This work is early by design. The systems described here are not being rolled out all at once, but built incrementally — beginning with narrow domains, real infrastructure, and expert-led feasibility rather than broad deployment. What exists today is the foundation, not the finished system.

What this adds up to

Across these phases, the underlying mechanism remains consistent:

productive assets are built → costs fall → access stabilises → surplus is reinvested → capability compounds.

Not every project succeeds. Some domains mature faster than others. Sequencing differs by region and circumstance.

What matters is that value persists, systems improve with use, and gains are held in structures designed to last.

That is what allows public wealth to grow over time — not through constant mobilisation, but through systems that reward patience, competence, and reinvestment.