Robots in. Members own the loop.
One picture of the cooperative's planned operating loop. Co-op-issued hardware enters as feedstock, gets deployed, generates patronage, and its material is recovered back to the people who used it.
Scope of this diagram: co-op-issued units only (Direct, Lease, BYO). Orphan third-party hardware follows the separate Bounty program; upstream brine extraction is shown on the Lithium Lifecycle page.
- Stage 01Feedstock In
- • Direct purchase
- • Lease (customer or Privateer)
- • BYO registration
- • Core Charge: 10% of wholesale
- Stage 02Deployment
- • Pod = 1 Runner + 4 Apprentices
- • 200 properties per pod
- • Hub serves 1:40
- • Telemetry to the co-op
- Stage 03Service
- • Member subscriptions
- • Patronage tracked (APE)
- • Cross-subsidy: Muni/Estate fund Residential
- Stage 04Settlement
- • Splits by profile
- • BYO 10/10/0/80
- • Lease 10/10/10/70
- • Direct 10/20/70/0
- Stage 05End-of-Life
- • Core Charge refund
- • OR 30-day forfeiture cure
- • Unit returns to the co-op
- Stage 06Recovery
- • Disassembly under JIT recycling
- • Li · Co · Ni recovered
- • Material owned by the co-op = members
- CenterSovereign OS — the rails
The data and trust layer that connects all six stages: read, identity, agents, write.
10% of wholesale, refundable. Posted at Stage 01, returned at Stage 05 if the unit comes back in spec.
Tracked at Stage 03 in USD-pegged member accounts. Allocated 20% retained / 80% distributed.
The loop closes when recovered Li/Co/Ni from Stage 06 belongs to the co-op — and therefore to members.
Pre-launch. Every stage shown is the planned design of the cooperative — not a current operating capability. See Forward-Looking for details, and Lithium Lifecycle for the upstream Smackover stages.