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The Point Seven Platform Will — DRAFT

Status: DRAFT for founder review + attorney formalization (2026-07-27). A one-page succession directive — the founder's stated intent for how Point Seven Studio should behave when the founder can no longer decide. It is subordinate to and interpreted alongside the Stewardship Charter (Article VI). It is not a substitute for the founder's personal estate documents; it must be executed alongside them so the two do not conflict. Written in the founder's voice; [FOUNDER: finalize the bracketed items and the wording.]

To the Stewardship Council of Point Seven Studio, and to anyone who would inherit, buy, or contest control of it:

1. When this takes effect. This directive activates on my death, my certified medical incapacity, or my prolonged and verified unreachability as defined in the Charter and my estate documents. [ATTORNEY: align these triggers with the Charter Art. VI and my personal will/POA.]

2. Control does not pass to me to give away — it is already the structure's. By design, control of Point Seven sits with the purpose vehicle and the Golden Share sits with the Stewardship Council before this moment. Nothing about my absence opens a controlling stake to inherit, purchase, or fight over. My family inherits my personal estate per my personal will; they do not inherit control of the mission, and this is deliberate and for their protection as much as the platform's.

3. What I am asking the Council to protect. Guard the Protected Core (Charter Article I) above all: art-first over profit; consent and read-only-for-the-dead; no impersonation of real people; honesty; the user is never the product; the story is never bent to serve a sponsor, a party, a government, or an engagement metric. When a hard call arises that the Core does not clearly settle, choose the reading that keeps Point Seven true to the art and honest with the people who trust it, even at a cost to growth.

4. Do not puppet me. I built voice and likeness cloning; I know exactly how it could be misused here. My recorded words are a fixed text for you to interpret — never a living authority to invent new positions. No one may use my cloned voice, image, or persona to announce decisions, endorse a faction, break a tie, or lend my authority to anything I did not actually say. Treat any such attempt as a Core violation.

5. Prefer dissolution to corruption. If keeping Point Seven alive would require betraying the Core — if capture becomes inevitable and irreversible — I would rather you wind it down, open its work to the public, or hand it to a mission-aligned successor than let it continue in my name as a corrupted thing. [FOUNDER: confirm you commit to this in writing — it is the strongest deterrent and the hardest promise.]

6. What I am not trying to freeze. Run the businesses boldly. Change the product, the pricing, the strategy, the branding, whatever the times demand. I am binding the core values, not the tactics — a platform strangled by my dead hand would fail as surely as one that sold out. Keep the Core small and the freedom to operate wide.

7. Who guards it, and where the instruments live.

  • Initial stewards: [FOUNDER: names + why you trust each.]
  • If a steward seat is vacant on the trigger: fill it by the Charter's values-tested process, never by whoever holds the most money or the highest office.
  • The governing documents (Charter, trust deed, PBC charters, Golden Share terms, Council bylaws) are held at [FOUNDER/ATTORNEY: location + custodian] and with counsel of record [ATTORNEY].
  • First contact on the trigger: [FOUNDER: named person/attorney to convene the Council.]

8. Why I did this now. Because the power to bind these protections was highest while I still held the company alone, and it evaporates with growth and outside money. I chose to spend that power on the mission's durability rather than keep it for myself. If you are reading this, that choice is now yours to honor.

  • Founder: ______________________ Date: ____________
  • Witnessed / executed per estate formalities: [ATTORNEY: execution requirements so this is legally operative alongside my personal will.]

This is a design draft, not an executed legal instrument. Have it drafted and executed by counsel together with the Stewardship Charter and your personal estate plan so the three instruments reinforce rather than contradict each other.

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