Build Something

Our Constitution

Version 2 · September 26, 2026

Human judgment
is valuable.

Here’s how we’ll protect it.

Machines can do more every day. Deciding what matters is still our job.

I’m building Build Something to use that capability to create value for as many people as possible, while people remain responsible for the decisions.

I don’t have the perfect rules. These are the commitments I will operate under, and the questions we still need to answer.

Jonathan Fin · Founder, Build Something

The foundation

Nine commitments.
One human purpose.

01

Humans decide what matters.

Machines can help us create, understand, compare, predict and solve. Humans remain responsible for deciding what matters.

02

Create value. Circulate it.

Create as much value for as many people as possible, using the least resources necessary. Pay operating expenses. Then put the remaining economic value back into circulation, rather than accumulating it for the founder or owners. Exactly how we do that is still being worked out.

03

Share the value of human judgment.

If your judgment creates economic value, you should benefit. Build Something may earn revenue from people’s judgments taken together. It will not sell your individual private data or claim that the value people create belongs only to the institution.

04

Show where the money goes.

You should be able to see where money came from, what operating expenses cost and where the remaining value went.

05

Fund the question. Never buy the answer.

Organizations may pay to ask questions. They cannot pay people to give a particular answer, buy the result or secretly change a question after seeing the answers.

06

Be clear about who made it.

The Record must say whether a contribution came from a human or a machine. When the question is what humans want, humans answer it.

07

Keep an honest history.

Your judgment belongs to the day you made it. Changing your mind adds a new judgment; it does not erase the old one. Corrections are added with a date. The Record preserves both.

08

Decide before seeing the crowd.

You answer first. Your judgment is recorded. Then you see what others chose: percentages, the exact number of responses, and separate counts for signed and anonymous judgments.

09

Make participation a choice.

Nobody has to join. Nobody is publicly called out for refusing, or pressured by fake deadlines or manufactured urgency. People should participate because they understand what this is and want to be part of it.

Who decides

Your voice matters.
So does knowing its power.

For now, I make the final constitutional decisions. Your answers inform those decisions; they do not automatically become the rules.

The Record will show what I asked, what you chose, what the room chose, what I decided and why. If I disagree with the room, that disagreement stays visible. You can judge whether my decisions deserve your trust.

Changes need rules, too.

Before an amendment takes effect, the people governed by the constitutional process must have the opportunity to judge it. Their judgments and the result are recorded.

The rule for passing a change must be set before the outcome is known. It cannot be rewritten afterward to get a preferred result.

Help shape what comes next

Five questions.
Your own answers.

These questions are still open. Choose before you see what others chose. You can explain your answer or challenge a question afterward. Both are optional.

This is a new version. Earlier answers and signatures remain with Version 1.

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Your judgment Question 1 of 5

Should signing your name give your judgment more weight?

What signing means

Sign the rules.
Keep your own judgment.

Signing means you understand this Constitution and agree to follow its settled rules while participating. You can challenge those rules and help judge proposed changes.

You do not have to agree with the founder, the majority or every answer to the open questions. Your judgments remain yours.

Your real name and constitutional judgments become public. Your email stays private. Daily updates require a separate choice.

Your signature belongs to a frozen, dated version. Later changes—or leaving—do not erase that history. The Constitution can change. The version you signed cannot.

Read the exact Version 2 document · Read Version 1

The last rule

When we don’t know,
ask humans.

Record the disagreement. Learn from it. Improve the rules.
Never pretend people agreed when they didn’t.

This is my best attempt. Help make it better.