Genesis Cohort · Phase 1 (Pre-Attestation)
Semios Membership Terms
Semios reads with you
Semios is going to read these terms with you, on camera. This is how we make sure no one ever changes what you agreed to. The recording stays on your phone until you sign. When you sign, only a short proof of the recording is tied to your signature. The video itself is yours to keep, share, or delete.
Your phone will ask for camera and microphone when you tap below.
Recording while you read. The proof is taken when you sign.
Reading without recording. You can still sign these terms.
This browser cannot record voice and video here. You can still sign these terms. The signature will land without the recording proof.
This is the full document. Every member signs the same text. The walk you took on the way here teaches what is in this document. It does not replace it. The signature is on this document.
1. What Semios is
Semios is a private place for people who hold their own presence, what they see and do, and the record of it, as their own. It is built so that you come first. Every part of it, from the computer it runs on up to how groups work together, treats you as the start and adapts to you.
You are not a row in a database. You are not a node in a graph. You are the origin.
2. What you are agreeing to
You are agreeing to be a member of the founding group. Membership is what you own here. The value that builds up over time comes from what your group does together, counted inside the group. Your place in the group is the thing. Your record is the proof.
Membership is held, not traded. Your group decides if and how it can be passed on, how value is counted, and what happens when someone leaves. Semios carries out what the group agrees to.
How membership and any value tied to it are treated under tax, securities, or other laws is up to the rules where you live. Semios does not call this for you. You handle your own reporting during the early period described in Section 6.
If you leave, your record comes with you. Your group settles your departure under its own rules.
3. The handshake
Every member joins by two signatures. You sign. Your sponsor signs. Semios holds both. This is the moment that matters. Understanding is on you, against the words in this document.
If you cannot sign with full understanding, do not sign.
4. Confidentiality
What goes on inside Semios stays inside Semios. That includes who else is a member, how Semios is built, what the group decides in its own meetings, and any work that is not yet public.
The one exception is your own work and your own record. Those are always yours to carry.
5. Your presence, what you see, and your record
Semios holds your data. It does not own it. Anything you make inside is yours by default. Any value that comes from your part in the group is yours too, alongside your data, counted by your group.
Semios is built so this stays true by how it is built, not by promise alone. You can take your record out at any time. You can end Semios's custody of it at any time.
6. Privacy and reporting during the early period
Semios is built to follow US state privacy law by default. Over time, more of the legal work will be built into Semios itself.
Until that is finished, Semios cannot speak for you in legal matters or file on your behalf. You handle your own reporting where you live and work.
If your group needs group-level reporting, the group organizes it together until Semios can carry it. You are signing into something that is still being built. Not something that is finished.
7. Governance
Groups take part in their own decisions. Members handle the big calls together, with the group coming first. You will hear about any changes that affect you. You can turn them down. Semios is built so you can leave whole if you do.
8. Termination
You can leave at any time. Your record comes with you. Your share of group value comes with you under your group's rules.
Semios can end your membership for breaking confidentiality, for breaking the handshake, or for acting against other members. We tell you why. Disputes are heard before you are out for good.
9. Changes to these terms
These terms only change in the open. You see what changed, the proof of the new version, and why. If you do not accept the new version, the one you signed stays valid until you leave.
10. Who runs Semios and holds the IP
Walsh Karra Holdings LLC runs Semios during this early period. WKH holds the IP until Semios can carry that role itself. Nothing in this document gives WKH any right over your record or your share of group value beyond what these terms allow.
Signature block
By signing, you affirm that you have read this document, understood it in your own frame, and accept the handshake.
Walk the eight chambers first. Once you have recorded your voice on each one, you can sign. Start at chamber one
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Canonical URL: semios.global/legal/terms
Version 1.0 · Genesis Cohort · Phase 1