What a Village distributor does
You do
- Bring a market we don't reach — a professional sector, an industry body, a region or a diaspora — with the relationships and the sector-specific framing.
- Take Village, or a Village-derived product, to that market under written terms, and go to market in your sector.
- Stay the trusted local channel — pricing, onboarding and support shaped for the people you serve.
You do not
- Own the platform, the IP, or members' records — the member always holds their own records, and portability is the trust anchor.
- Build or host anything — sovereign infrastructure in NZ and the EU is run by My Digital Sovereignty.
- Make evidentiary or "defence-grade" claims without independent legal sign-off.
Who this is for
This suits organisations and people with a real market we don't serve — a professional sector, an industry body, a region or a diaspora — who are values-aligned: member-held records over lock-in, sovereignty over surveillance, and no US-owned cloud anywhere in the chain. You bring the market and the relationships; we bring the substrate and the sovereignty guarantees.
A few things never change, whoever distributes: the member or tenant is the sovereign record-holder — not the distributor, and not us; tenant isolation and the no-US-cloud vendor rule bind anything shipped on Village; and Māori governance (kāhui, marae, iwi, rūnanga) stays with My Digital Sovereignty, by relationship, and is not part of any distributor's market.
How it works
- Conversation — we talk about your market, your relationships, and whether the values fit.
- Pilot — a working sovereign artefact and a pilot tenant in your market, so both sides see it real.
- Accreditation — a written agreement and a path from Provisional to Accredited to Master as the channel proves itself.
- Channel — you go to market in your sector or region; we keep running the substrate and the sovereignty governance.
There is no cost to express interest, and no commitment until both sides are sure.