Discovery Call
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Title:

Planetary Party Technology Vision & Guild Formation

Engagement:

Planetary Party Technology

Client:

Planetary Party

Meeting Date:
February 12, 2026
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People
James Redenbaugh
Juan Carlos Kaiten
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Meeting Summary

🌍 The Convergence & Planetary Party Vision

Juan Carlos Kaiten opened the conversation with an expansive vision for what he calls "the great convergence" — a moment of unification where strategic alliances, financial infrastructure, and community-level projects are accelerating simultaneously. He shared that he's been building partnerships with spiritual and community leaders across Hawaii, Jamaica, and Mexico, and that visitors at his home are actively constructing the financial infrastructure needed to fund an ecosystem of projects under the Planetary Party banner.

The core philosophy: technology must serve a social architecture rooted in sacred principles, not the other way around. Juan Carlos emphasized that the Planetary Party Protocol is a collection of social functions designed to help communities see themselves, strengthen bonds of trust, and make wise collective decisions — what he's calling the Bioregional Intelligence Dashboard (01:39).

🔗 Holo Movement App & Existing Technology

James Redenbaugh demonstrated the app he's building for the Holo Movement, which is already functional with user profiles, a directory, and a highly interactive map where people can explore connections between profiles, view Holons, and switch between map and flat views (11:22). The platform is funded by the Holo Movement and designed so that everything being built contributes to an evolving suite of technologies that can be spun up in different versions and potentially interconnected, allowing people to show up in multiple networks simultaneously (12:36).

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🏗️ Social Architecture Before Software

A key philosophical alignment emerged between both participants. James articulated that technology needs to be in sync with social architecture, not the reverse — "as soon as we think that the app is the thing, then we're lost" (16:18). He emphasized that the best tools should work even for people who never log in directly. If a farmer doesn't want to create a profile, the system should still serve them through WhatsApp conversations, Zoom calls, or community envoys who bridge the analog and digital worlds (17:42).

Juan Carlos reinforced this, explaining that the Planetary Party works at three levels: online tools, on-life social interactions, and what he calls the OM-line — the morphogenetic field of collective consciousness. The ultimate metric isn't engagement or throughput but coherence, joy, and well-being (41:21).

👥 The Guild Model: Cooperation Over Competition

Juan Carlos proposed forming curated Technology Guilds — small groups of 3 to 5 (no more than 12) organizations or developers building complementary social synergy tools. He identified several players in this space: James with his directory and CRM work, Adam Apollo with Cornet Nexus, and France Almayer with Haifa (09:47). The central question he's bringing to the guild is whether these builders can move beyond competition and sit around a table to join genius in service of something greater than any individual creation (24:56).

James strongly agreed, arguing that the era of building monolithic "Goliath apps" to capture market segments is over. AI has fundamentally changed the landscape — big juggernauts will be too easily disrupted by swarms of new tools created by anyone. The future is about modular, open-source ecologies of interconnected relationships between creators who can sense and respond together, assembling "like Power Rangers" into whatever form is needed (26:17). He noted that while Adam Apollo's vision is compelling, it may lean too heavily toward the old paradigm of building one unified replacement for Facebook — something that won't move or adapt fast enough for the diversity of cultures and contexts that need to be served (28:41).

Users as Functions

James introduced an important concept: users as functions within the social circuitry. Not everyone needs to be a power user of a CRM or project management system — it's enough if one or two people in a group manage those tools, so long as the tools serve the whole group. The real challenge is empowering real people to make real connections, with the software layer supporting and learning from what's happening on the ground rather than trying to replace it (18:54).

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💰 Unified Funding Strategy

Juan Carlos described efforts to build a "mothership fund of funds" — a unified financial mechanism that aggregates funding capacity and channels it toward specific social functions rather than having dozens of overlapping groups competing for the same philanthropic wallets. The idea is that a coherent ecosystem with clear granularity becomes far more attractive to major funders than ten separate groups pitching similar visions (34:00). He floated a scenario of bringing $10 million to the center, then backcasting from the social architecture to determine which tools and functions need funding and how builders can best synergize — whether through cooperation, merging, or maintaining sovereign roles within a shared framework.

🔄 CRM & Practical Next Steps

Juan Carlos expressed strong interest in the CRM system James demonstrated in a previous meeting, asking about cost and what would be needed to become an active user. James explained that his CRM is a custom system he's built incrementally over the years, and that the profile and authentication work completed for the Holo Movement app now makes it possible to evolve the CRM so that anyone can log in, add records, and interact with it — not just James as the sole administrator (39:33). He proposed a practical path forward: Juan Carlos provides a summary of needed functions, James responds with what's possible, estimated costs, and what could be set up quickly. In the interim, James offered to get things started with Airtable [tag="airtable"] structures as a backend while the more polished front-end is developed (41:21).

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🎨 Collective Awakening Art Project

James shared that he'll be the featured artist next month in Jeff Carrera's Artist of Possibility magazine, with the theme of collective awakening. He's considering creating a simple website where people worldwide can share what collective awakening means to them — through words or images — and then mapping those contributions onto a globe visualization, similar to the Holo Movement map (43:59). He asked Juan Carlos to help spread the call through his networks.

Juan Carlos offered enthusiastic support but stressed a nuance he wants reflected: "The planetary awakening is a personal experience shared collectively." He cautioned against framing collective awakening as purely an external event, arguing that the compass should be the level of joy and love an individual radiates — "you can determine the level of enlightenment of a person in relation to the level of joy and happiness they spread when they interact with other people" (45:32).

Action Items

Juan Carlos Kaiten

  • Follow up on the MOU with Holo Movement to formalize partnership and include James's technology work within the synergy agreement (38:14)
  • Prepare a summary of needed social functions and user experience requirements for the technology guild to guide development priorities (39:33)
  • Continue building the fund of funds financial mechanism with current collaborators to support ecosystem-wide tool development (34:00)
  • Curate and onboard guild members — prioritizing trust, compatibility, and complementary capabilities (32:00)
  • Support outreach for James's collective awakening art project through Planetary Party networks (45:32)

James Redenbaugh

  • Respond to Juan Carlos's function summary with a proposal covering capabilities, costs, and quick-start options (39:33)
  • Set up initial Airtable [tag="airtable"] backend structures for Planetary Party to begin testing CRM-like functionality (41:21)
  • Continue evolving the Holo Movement app — interactive profiles, map visualization, and multi-network architecture (11:22)
  • Create six art pieces for the Artist of Possibility collective awakening issue and build a simple website for gathering global contributions (43:59)
Relevant Initiatives

Technology Guild Formation

Priority: 
High
Size: 
M
Planning Stage

CRM System Setup

Priority: 
High
Size: 
M
Planning Stage

Bioregional Intelligence Dashboard

Priority: 
Medium
Size: 
L
Idea Stage

Collective Awakening Art Project

Priority: 
Medium
Size: 
S
Planning Stage
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