Ecosystem Governance

The Ganjier Guild does not operate alone. It coordinates with affiliated entities through written agreements that keep each entity legally separate while letting them share infrastructure, brand, and program work where it makes sense.

This section is the public overview of how that ecosystem is structured. Inter-entity license terms, cost-sharing rates, and entity-specific strategic plans are not published here — those live in the signature packet held by counsel and the boards of the participating entities.

Affiliated entities

The Guild's affiliated entity structure includes:

• The Ganjier Guild — the 501©(6) trade association at the center of the ecosystem.
• A for-profit operating company (LLC) — independently owned, licenses certain Guild IP under written terms, and may provide services back to the Guild under a shared-services agreement.
• A cooperative (planned) — for member-owned commercial activity that doesn't fit cleanly inside a trade association.

Each entity has its own board or governing body, its own EIN, its own bank accounts, and its own books. They are not a parent/subsidiary structure — they are peers tied together by written agreements.

What ties them together

Four written instruments govern the relationships:

1. Intellectual Property License & Funding Terms — what Guild IP can be used by which entities, for what fields of use, under what brand-control conditions, and how license consideration flows back to the Guild.
2. Shared Services Agreement — which entity provides which operational services to the others (IT, accounting, brand stewardship, member-facing infrastructure), how costs are allocated, and how decisions are made when services touch more than one entity.
3. Ecosystem Operating Manual (Exhibit A) — the day-to-day operating policies the entities adopt in common (records retention, incident response, data governance, code of conduct, conflict of interest, communications).
4. Schedules — the IP License Schedule, Shared Services Matrix, Signatory Authority Schedule, Digital Asset Ownership & Billing Schedule, and Initial Implementation Checklist.

The full text of these instruments is held in the signature packet, distributed to counsel and board members for review and signature.

Public-facing components

What the Guild publishes here, in the working document repository, includes:

• Domains and web presence — how the entities use separate domains, how cross-linking and disclosures work, and the brand-control posture between sites.
• Forms library — the 22 governance, operations, and compliance forms (Form A through Form V) referenced throughout the Operational Manual. Each form renders as a downloadable PDF.

These are the parts of the ecosystem framework that need to be publicly visible so members, partners, and the public understand who's who and how the entities relate.

What's not here, and why

This page does not list:

• License fee structures or royalty rates.
• Cost-sharing percentages or specific dollar allocations.
• LLC product strategy, partnership pipelines, or pilot details.
• Signatory tables or individual board-member compensation.

That information is not appropriate for an openly browseable repository or for the in-portal library surfaces. It lives in the signed packet, in counsel's working files, and in entity-board meeting minutes.

Maintenance

The public summary pages here are hand-curated. The underlying packet is held privately on the operations team's local working copies and in counsel's files — it is not committed to this repository or published on this site.