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The GM Platform Circle

Every other circle nests under this one.

At the root of the canon hierarchy: the Grand Matriarchy platform itself is a circle. Every World, every member's FAM, every coaching cohort, every library partner — they all live inside this circle, with templates that give them their shape. This card is the meta-view: what the platform is from the architecture down.

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What Lives Inside the Platform Circle

9 Worlds (top-level circles)

FAM, VA, Elder, Family & Friends, Parents, Creator, Relationship, Writers, Philippines. Each its own project home; each its own sub-circles.

Topical Circles

Caregivers, Thursday Table, Grief, Games, Faith, Library Partners, Welcome Village — cross-cutting circles that any member can join from any World.

Vendor Circles

GMA Daisy Inc (profit), Grandma Daisy Inc 501c3, future selling circles. The commerce layer respects the FAM/PRO firewall.

Project Team-Circles

JNY team, DAISY team, AEGIS team — the work-side circles that hold the code, hardware, and people building each project.

Self-Circles

Every member has one (size 1). Holds their personal Bookshelf, Life Board, Cart, Account. ENT personas (Daisy, Jenny) each own one too — visitable.

Substrate

Identity (Keycloak gmad realm), comm (Matrix), payments (Authorize.net + ERPNext), telephony (Asterisk PBX), storage (IONOS + Bunny). All circle-bound.

The Circle Hierarchy (Top-Down)

Per project_circle_is_universal_primitive.md: everything is a circle. Templates parameterize them. Nesting is recursive DAG.

GM Platform circle (root)
├── Worlds (top-level circles)
│   ├── FAM World
│   │   └── each member's FAM circle (size 25-ish)
│   ├── VA World
│   │   └── per-MOS / per-FR-type sub-circles
│   ├── Elder, Parents, Creator, Relationship, Writers
│   ├── Family & Friends World (default everyday)
│   └── Countries → Philippines (etc.)
├── Topical Circles (cross-world)
│   ├── Welcome Village, Thursday Table
│   ├── Caregivers, Grief & Rebuilding
│   ├── Games & Good Company, Faith & Community
│   └── Library Partners (institutional)
├── Vendor Circles (commerce capability)
│   ├── GMA Daisy Inc (profit)
│   └── Grandma Daisy Inc 501c3
├── Project Team-Circles (work side)
│   ├── JNY, DAISY, JENNY, AEGIS, VAULT...
│   └── (holds code, hardware, software, members)
└── Self-Circles (one per cluster)
    ├── Members' personal circles (size 1)
    └── ENT persona circles (Daisy, Jenny — visitable)

What This Circle Promises Members

"Friends with each other, not us." Platform-level test for every feature: does it bring members closer to each other or closer to the platform? If the latter, push back.

Enable + maintain, don't curate. Hosts get the full toolbox without bias toward intimate-vs-broadcast style. Reliability matters more than opinion.

Parts first, no master journey. Each circle/Mini is a standalone product. Navigation/composition adapts to user context; no canonical "user journey" enforced.

Per the doctrines: friends with each other, enable not curate, parts-first, everything is a circle, granularity over aggregation. These are the standing rules; this card surfaces them.