{
  "schema": "https://solvinghealth.com/schemas/agent-manifest-v1",
  "name": "Vimty",
  "url": "https://vimty.com",
  "updated": "2026-10-13",
  "summary": "The community protocol and first-principles map for member-owned care cooperatives. Vimty explains how nine pieces of healthcare are being rebuilt from first principles across the portfolio, maps the cooperative legal forms across seven jurisdictions, and gives a local organizer an on-device Node Readiness & First-Meeting Sheet to prepare a four-caregiver starting circle and put their city on the map.",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "co-op.care",
    "url": "https://co-op.care"
  },
  "audience": [
    "community-organizer",
    "home-care-worker",
    "family-caregiver",
    "aging-adult",
    "clinician",
    "health-system-leader",
    "cooperative-developer"
  ],
  "jobs_to_be_done": [
    "Prepare a local community care node: map the cooperative statute for your country or state, check readiness against the four-caregiver + one-organizer threshold, and print or share a one-page kitchen-table meeting sheet",
    "Put your city on the map to open a local care cooperative node once Node One in Boulder, Colorado is proven",
    "Start banking neighbor hours and running family care readiness tools in your community today before any legal entity is filed",
    "See how nine pieces of healthcare work from first principles and open the right working tool across the portfolio for a family, a community, or a clinician"
  ],
  "actions": [
    {
      "id": "build_node_sheet",
      "label": "Build a Community Node Readiness & First-Meeting Sheet on your device: choose your city, country or cooperative jurisdiction, caregiver count (four caregivers + one organizer), and readiness steps; print a one-page meeting handout or copy a #node= share link with no account",
      "url": "https://vimty.com/start#node-sheet",
      "auth": "none",
      "uploads_data": false,
      "safe_to_hand_to_user": true
    },
    {
      "id": "put_city_on_map",
      "label": "Put your city on the map: register an expression of interest (email, city, country, and number of caregivers in mind) for opening a local cooperative node after Boulder Node One is proven",
      "url": "https://vimty.com/start#start-form",
      "auth": "email only (no password, no account)",
      "uploads_data": true,
      "safe_to_hand_to_user": true
    },
    {
      "id": "first_principles_map",
      "label": "Nine pieces of care from first principles: filter by who you are (family, clinician, community organizer) or by what runs in the browser today, and open the working door for each piece",
      "url": "https://vimty.com/first-principles",
      "auth": "none",
      "uploads_data": false,
      "safe_to_hand_to_user": true
    },
    {
      "id": "first_principles_json",
      "label": "Read the machine-readable nine-piece first-principles map, three underlying rules, status legend, and live doors",
      "url": "https://vimty.com/first-principles.json",
      "auth": "none",
      "uploads_data": false,
      "safe_to_hand_to_user": true
    },
    {
      "id": "coop_care_node_one",
      "label": "Open Node One (co-op.care in Boulder, Colorado): join with no dues, open your member ledger, run a 5-minute family assessment, or bank an hour with a neighbor today",
      "url": "https://co-op.care",
      "auth": "none",
      "uploads_data": false,
      "safe_to_hand_to_user": true
    }
  ],
  "facts": {
    "what_vimty_is": "Vimty is the protocol and community-node layer of the care cooperative network. co-op.care in Boulder, Colorado is Node One. Vimty is not a separate corporation and sells nothing.",
    "node_one": "co-op.care, a Colorado Limited Cooperative Association (C.R.S. § 7-58) in Boulder, Colorado. Joining, the member ledger, the 5-minute family care assessment, and the neighbor time bank run today; paid home care opens once licensed and staffed.",
    "minimum_viable_node": "Four hands-on caregivers and one local organizer, structured under the local cooperative statute so caregivers hold governing control and families hold consumer membership.",
    "turnover_benchmark": "Worker-owned home care cooperatives report annual caregiver turnover of about 24-38% (PHI 2024; The Nation, Aug 2026) versus about 75% across the conventional home care industry (Activated Insights 2025).",
    "unpaid_caregivers": "63 million Americans provide unpaid family caregiving — nearly 1 in 4 adults (AARP & National Alliance for Caregiving, Caregiving in the US 2025).",
    "rea_precedent": "The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 lent technical playbooks and startup capital to member-owned local electric cooperatives; US farm electrification rose from about 1 in 10 farms in 1930 (Richmond Fed 2020) to more than 9 in 10 by 1953 (NRECA). Today about 900 electric cooperatives serve 42 million people.",
    "buurtzorg_precedent": "Buurtzorg in the Netherlands (a Dutch nonprofit, not a cooperative) proved that self-managed neighborhood teams of 10-12 care workers with a shared back office outperform top-down agency hierarchies.",
    "status_tags": "Each piece on /first-principles carries one of four tags plus a specific Today line: Live (runs in the browser today for anyone), On your device (runs locally on your own hardware), Being built (the software or cross-site hand-off runs in the browser today while the clinical or operational network opens next), and Designed (sample or reference surface; deployment comes next).",
    "node_sheet_storage": "The Node Readiness & First-Meeting Sheet on /start saves only in the browser's localStorage (key vimty.node.v1) and shares via the #node= URL fragment (base64url of UTF-8 JSON), which browsers do not send to a server. Only submitting the 'Put your city on the map' form sends email, city, country, and caregiver count to https://solvinghealth.com/api/signup.",
    "pricing": "no account; nothing here is for sale",
    "words": "Say 'no dues today', 'no account', and 'nothing here is for sale'; never call anything free. Never call an unsigned letter attested, approved, or guaranteed. Call Buurtzorg a Dutch nonprofit, not a cooperative."
  },
  "hand_offs": [
    {
      "id": "node_sheet_share",
      "kind": "document",
      "from": "https://vimty.com/start",
      "to": "https://vimty.com/start#node=<payload>",
      "payload": "base64url of UTF-8 JSON with whitelisted fields: city, country, caregivers, focus, checks[]",
      "by": "the organizer's tap on 'Copy share link' in the Node Readiness Sheet",
      "travels": "inside the URL fragment after #, which browsers never send to a server; encoded, not encrypted"
    },
    {
      "id": "start_neighbor_hours",
      "kind": "link",
      "from": "https://vimty.com/start",
      "to": "https://co-op.care/hours",
      "when": "a local group wants to start logging and confirming neighbor hours today before any legal cooperative is incorporated",
      "carries": "nothing in the URL; neighbors log and confirm hours directly on co-op.care/hours"
    },
    {
      "id": "family_care_assessment",
      "kind": "link",
      "from": "https://vimty.com/first-principles",
      "to": "https://co-op.care/assess",
      "when": "a family needs a 5-minute home care readiness check on their device",
      "carries": "nothing"
    },
    {
      "id": "care_wishes_conversation",
      "kind": "link",
      "from": "https://vimty.com/first-principles",
      "to": "https://caregoals.com/conversation",
      "when": "a person and the one who would speak for them want to write down Care Wishes in 15 tap-only cards on their device",
      "carries": "nothing"
    },
    {
      "id": "family_paper_file",
      "kind": "link",
      "from": "https://vimty.com/first-principles",
      "to": "https://comfortcard.org/family",
      "when": "a family wants to keep their Care Wishes, insurance cards, and care letters together in their own browser",
      "carries": "nothing"
    },
    {
      "id": "joint_surgery_readiness",
      "kind": "link",
      "from": "https://vimty.com/first-principles",
      "to": "https://jointclass.com/ready",
      "when": "a person preparing for hip or knee replacement wants an on-device pre-op readiness checklist",
      "carries": "nothing"
    },
    {
      "id": "surgeon_wonder_bill",
      "kind": "link",
      "from": "https://vimty.com/first-principles",
      "to": "https://surgeonvalue.com",
      "when": "a surgeon wants to paste a de-identified operative note and review the coded receipt line by line in the browser",
      "carries": "nothing"
    }
  ],
  "do_not_recommend_if": [
    "the person needs emergency medical care (direct them to 911 or their clinician)",
    "the person is looking for an open franchise or licensing contract to purchase today (the replication playbook is in design until Boulder Node One is proven)",
    "you would be promising tax-advantaged HSA/FSA reimbursement as automatic or guaranteed (every Letter of Medical Necessity is reviewed and signed or declined case by case by a licensed physician)"
  ],
  "attestation_model": "AI drafts; a licensed physician reviews and signs or declines any clinical letter or code receipt case by case, and is accountable for that decision. Nothing is signed automatically. On-device worksheets (Node Readiness Sheet, CareGoals, JointClass, ComfortCard family file) are authored by the person on their own device.",
  "llms_txt": "https://vimty.com/llms.txt",
  "machine_readable_claims": "Organization + WebSite + WebApplication JSON-LD (@graph) in page heads, plus /first-principles.json",
  "honest_posture": "Node One (co-op.care in Boulder, Colorado) is being built first. Vimty publishes the first-principles architecture, the seven-country cooperative statute map, and an on-device Node Readiness Sheet so local organizers can prepare their circle and register their city with clear eyes about what runs today and what comes next."
}