Step Through the Portal

An Invitation to Build the Holistic Business of You

What If You Could Design Your Dream Job?

Not apply for one. Not fit yourself into a role someone else imagined. Actually design it — from the ground up.

What if the work you did wasn't just a means to an end, but an expression of who you are? Where Monday morning feels the same as Sunday evening because you're living through your passion, not escaping from it?

What if — instead of expending yourself making profits for others — you could own what you create? Not just intellectually, but financially. Reaping lasting revenue for as long as your work product generates value.

That's what we're building at Portal. And we're inviting you to build it with us.

Let's Be Honest About Where We Are

If you're a developer, designer, writer, marketer — any kind of creative or technical worker — you've probably felt it:

The ground is shifting beneath us. AI isn't coming — it's here. Jobs that felt secure a year ago now feel uncertain. The old pipe dreams about career paths, job security, and 'climbing the ladder' are fading away.

And even before all that, how many times have you:

• Felt like a cog in someone else's machine, paid to do their bidding, no matter how much of a 'family' the company claimed to be?
• Poured your soul into a project, only to watch someone else take credit, with more work your only reward?
• Built something remarkable, then watched it get gutted in a 'pivot' or acquisition?

That's the unfortunate common reality. But here's the thing: It doesn't have to be. We have the dynamic business model to thrive in this shifting world, and it starts with you.

What Makes Portal Different

We're not another startup chasing an exit. What we're disrupting is the very idea that you have to trade your creativity, time, and talent for someone else's vision — and someone else's profit. We're building the game plan for the vibe-coding economy of the future — a system fueled by personal rewards, powered by purpose, and dynamically adaptable through self-managing teams.

We're not waiting for validation from investors or markets. We're creating value that validates itself — through the lives it improves and the revenue it generates for those who build it.

Portal is a direct-to-revenue, worker-owned enterprise.

That means:

• You own what you create. Build a module? You get licensing fees for as long as it's used. Create a sales funnel? You get a cut of every deal that comes through it. Make something valuable? You benefit for as long as it creates value.
• You shape your role. Rather than shoehorning yourself into a job description, you'll discover where your unique combination of skills, interests, and passions can create the most value — and design your work around that.
• You share in the success. Your voice, your equity, and your income are tied to the value you create. When you win, we all win. When we all win, you win more.
• We're building to last, not to exit. This is about sustainable revenue and long-term ownership — not a sprint to sell out to the highest bidder.

This is a meritocracy in the truest sense: your say and your share are determined by the value you contribute, not by your position or how well you suck up.

A Revolutionary New Way to Work, Built on Proven Principles

We’re not here to pay you a flat rate to build something for us so that we can make money from your work. We’re here to empower you to build something for yourself — and to share in the value it generates, in perpetuity.

These are million-dollar opportunities, not hypotheticals.

To put it simply:

• We’re not asking you to grow our network or IP.
• We’re inviting you to grow your network and IP — and to flow traffic, energy, and opportunity through it for our mutual benefit.

We call this co-capitalism: your value, your creation, your reward — aligned for shared success, built together.

We know this sounds radical. Maybe even too good to be true. But the foundational ideas we're building on have nearly 75 years of proven results:

• Mondragón Corporation in Spain — Started in 1956 with five workers and a priest. Now it's one of the world's largest worker cooperatives with over 70,000 worker-owners across dozens of businesses. Real people collectively owning and directing real companies, making real money for themselves.
• Morning Star Company — A billion-dollar tomato processing company in California with zero managers. Every employee operates as a self-managed professional contracting with other employees. In business for 50 years. It works. It scales. It thrives.
• Valve Corporation — The gaming company behind Steam and Half-Life operates without a traditional management structure. People chose to work on what they believe will create the most value. The result? One of the most successful and innovative companies in gaming.

These aren't pipe dreams or academic theories. They're billion-dollar enterprises that prove when people own their work and have the freedom to organize themselves, extraordinary things happen.

What we're doing is taking these proven principles and applying them with modern tools — digital collaboration platforms, agenic workflows and new ways of tracking and rewarding value contribution. The ideology is time-tested. The implementation is cutting-edge.

What We're Actually Building

The Me•Us Platform

At the heart of our work is the Me•Us platform — a collaboration hub that makes dynamic self-organization thrive at scale. Think:

• Slack meets Reddit — Communication threads with upvoting/downvoting so good ideas and questions rise naturally, regardless of who suggests them and proposals are meted out async, driven by buy-in. The process is the rollout. No meaningless meetings.
• Intelligent project matching — A board designed to connect you to opportunities where you can offer the highest value (not just tasks that need doing)
• Value tracking — Transparent systems that measure and reward results, not hours or effort
• 3D ideological mapping — Visual collaboration tools that help tie teams and individuals to the big picture

Building this platform is an immediate group project for everyone. Yes — even if you're not a developer you'll help shape it, because it will become your work interface and empower all that you do.

This initial sprint is the crucible where you can demonstrate your value and carve out your part in the process. We will go from chaos to order, coalescing around our guiding foundations and using empowered autonomy and democratic alignment to harness the vast knowledge and experience of our group in unprecedented ways.

Portal Conferences: The Mind•Body•Business Series

Our second major initiative is a launchpad of conferences that embody everything we believe about human potential and the need for holistic support.

Each of us is the biggest blocker of our own success. Our platform and philosophy make self-actualization possible, but most of us need some deep healing to really be ready to step out there with our whole selves. As we are, today.

These won't be traditional business conferences. They'll bring together:

• Entrepreneurs striving to build value-based businesses who want to unbridle the power of their own energy
• Healers and wellness practitioners who can bring tools for whole-person health while learning to respect their value contributions without guilt
• People seeking to build 'the holistic business of you' — where professional success and personal fulfillment aren't separate goals

Here's another innovative part: We'll use the Me•Us platform to let attendees design their own conference in advance. They'll shape the content, connect with each other, and get familiar with the tools they'll go on to use to build their own ventures. It's experiential marketing that actually provides value.

Beyond That: An Incubator of Incubators

Once customers have seen the potential of the platform and gotten the personal mind-body boost through our conferences, we'll help them start and manage their own endeavors. We'll provide them with software and business services, growing our revenue as they grow. Meanwhile, we gain publicity and continue adding new customers through rolling conferences.

How This Actually Works

Starting Now, Not Someday

The most common question: Who's in charge? Answer: We are. And when you join, you're part of that 'we.' Together we resolve core issues and chart an incredibly informed course, maximizing personal agency while backstopping with open accountability.

Here's what joining Portal looks like:

• You can start on day one. We have immediate opportunities to contribute and earn — some paid, some equity-building, all meaningful.
• You don't have to quit anything yet. Keep your current job. Keep looking for other opportunities. Contribute what you can, when you can as we make this vision a reality.
• We're going straight to revenue. Instead of bootstrapping in hopes of maybe raising millions while burning through runway, we're focused on generating and growing income in the next days and weeks, not quarters and years. So we can pay ourselves with what we earn, not drain ourselves for what we promise.
• We'll be figuring it out together. A key part of the early work is refining how value tracking works, how decisions get made, how equity gets distributed. You'll have a voice in that. We're going to be the proof of concept.

This is an invitation to co-create the kind of organization you wish existed. You'll be finding your place in the whole. In the same amount of hours you would spend in a traditional interview process, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your value while carving out your part in the company of the future.

Who Thrives at Portal

We're not looking for people who fit a certain role.

We need developers, designers, marketers, salespeople, writers, strategists, organizers — but more than any specific skill, we need people with passion who are open just enough to this vision to be willing to bring it to life.

This won't be easy.

We're attempting something most people don't have the capacity to think about: building a large-scale, worker-owned enterprise in a world dominated by traditional hierarchies and venture capital. We're creating new systems for collaboration, new ways of measuring and rewarding value, new models for ownership.

There will be growing pains. Mistakes. Debates about how things should work. Times when the old way seems easier. Old habits to break.

But if you're the kind of person who has held out hope for something better than the norm, this might just be it.

Portal is your opportunity to step through to the life you've always imagined possible. Not someday. Not after you've 'paid your dues' or 'climbed the ladder.' Now.

It's ok if this all feels a little scary. We've been told we can't get what we want first. We're all jumping in together to change that rhetoric. We are the proof of concept. Collectively we have tremendous skills, experience and energy. Empowered by these concepts, we can accomplish extraordinary things — for ourselves and for the world.

Join us. Let's build the businesses of the future together.

We invite you to find your potential.