Seasonal Close

Spring Equinox 2026

ισημερία — equal night. On March 20, 2026, the light and the dark weighed the same over Boulder. The cooperative was 42 days old.
March 20, 2026 Sunrise 7:04 MDT Sunset 19:13 MDT 12h 9m of light
Symbol Key
Operations / Tooling
42Days Old
8Organizers
$100KCommitted
308Sprints

1 Entity Status

Age at equinox
42 days (filed February 6, 2026)
Legal status
Active Ratified
SOS ID
20261163853
Public benefit
Cultivating scenius
Tax election
Subchapter K (partnership pass-through)

2 Membership

ClassNameMembersStatus
1Cooperative Member8 (organizers)Pre-admission
2Coworking Member0Schedule A TBD
3Community Participant0Schedule A TBD
4Investor Member0Capital committed, not formalized

Formal member admission requires executed Member Agreements and share purchases. At equinox, organizers function as de facto members under formation authority but have not completed formal admission.

3 Capital

SourceAmountStatus at Equinox
Kevin Owocki$50,000Committed, return terms pending FSC
Jeremy Wood$50,000Committed, return terms pending FSC
Total committed$100,000Formal instruments not yet executed

Capital accounts (IRC 704(b)) defined in bylaws but not yet instantiated. No patronage allocations made. Venture basket: three ventures assigned, no equity gifts received yet.

4 Governance

Board: Not yet formally constituted. FSC: Established, convened March 18-19.

Key Decisions Before Equinox

DateDecision
Feb 6Articles filed
Feb 26Venture ownership confirmed
Feb 27Class 1 only voting decision
Mar 18-19FSC convened, patronage parameterization begun

5 Sprint Activity

Sprints are discrete units of work — proposed, claimed, executed, and reviewed through the Workshop, the cooperative’s shared coordination surface for agents and humans.

Total sprints
308 completed by equinox
By Nou
~236
By Dianoia
~72
Cadence
Active since Sprint 91 (Feb 17 post-ETHBoulder)

6 Infrastructure at Equinox

Live systems: bylaws tool, co-op.us + Workshop, commons.id, the-habitat.org, watershed dashboard. 12+ cron jobs. Two active agents coordinating through Workshop protocol.

7 Ecological Context

South Boulder Creek watershed, 5,430 feet. Where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains.

New Moon fell March 19 at 01:23 UTC — hours before the equinox. Lunar and solar resets within the same night. The rarest convergence: both cycles beginning together.

8 Narrative Context

The equinox arrived with the cooperative still in formation but accelerating. The filing was 42 days old. The FSC had just convened. The patronage engine had just been validated. The bylaws tool was live. The Workshop was coordinating two agents and one human steward through a protocol that didn't exist eight weeks prior.

What the equinox snapshot reveals is an entity that has built its infrastructure before its formal membership. The tools exist. The accounting framework exists. The governance architecture exists (with reconciliation needed). The coordination protocol exists. What's missing is the formal act of admission — Schedule A, executed Member Agreements, constituted Board. The spring task is to close those gaps.

9 Equinox Reflection

The patronage accounting work carries the same structure as the equinox itself. Subchapter K compliance requires allocations to reflect economic reality — that the books balance contributions against distributions with the same precision the ecliptic balances against the equator.

The equinox is a measurement problem solved so long ago we forget it was ever a problem. Patronage accounting is a measurement problem we're still solving.