Economic mechanism
The Capability Dividend
When an admitted offer creates verified economic advantage against a governed market reference, customers receive at least 75% of that advantage.
01
Market price
Establish the qualified competitive floor.
02
Efficient route
Deliver equivalent compute sustainably below it.
03
Verified advantage
Measure what remains after approved recurring cost.
04
Customer Dividend
Allocate the governed customer share into the price.
When Pleroma can sustainably deliver equivalent compute below the qualified competitive market floor, most of that verified efficiency advantage goes to the customer.
What the variables mean
- Active QCF
- The current durable, orderable price of genuinely equivalent useful capability under the governed benchmark rules.
- Sustainable fully loaded cost
- Supplier, fulfillment, expected loss, support, financing, infrastructure, sustainable labor, and other recurring costs required to offer the product responsibly.
- VEA
- Verified Efficiency Advantage: realized, attributable, nonduplicative economic advantage remaining after sustainable fully loaded cost.
- Customer price
- The total mandatory amount paid to Pleroma under the generally available no-surcharge acquisition method, excluding government-imposed sales tax.
The founding sharing rule
Economic admission requires conservative verified VEA to remain positive after approved sustainable fully loaded cost. For positive allocable VEA, the controlling prospective allocation is 75% customer Capability Dividend, up to 10% Founding Operations Reserve, and up to 15% Pleroma Profit Allocation.
Economic admission
Verified Efficiency Advantage must remain greater than zero under the approved conservative record.
VEA allocation
75% customer · up to 10% operations reserve · up to 15% Pleroma allocation.
Listing eligibility
Customer Alpha must be strictly greater than 2% under the current listing policy; exactly 2% does not qualify.
Unit count does not set the Dividend rate. There is no 10% Customer Milestone or catch-up region in the current prospective allocation policy. Reserve and profit allocations are internal maximums, not checkout fees or owner distributions.
Illustrative example — not a current offer
If Active QCF were $5,500 and sustainable fully loaded cost were $4,950, VEA would be $550 or 10%. In the standard allocation, the customer would receive $412.50, producing a 7.5% Capability Dividend and an implied no-surcharge price of $5,087.50 before applicable tax.
This is policy arithmetic, not a current benchmark, verified VEA, offer, advertised price, price guarantee, preorder, or promise of availability. No product has cleared the admission and claim gates.
Customer value remains the test.
Across each product family, aggregate realized customer Dividend must exceed Pleroma program net profit while program net profit remains nonnegative. Reserve or profit capacity above its governed need moves prospectively toward future customer value rather than creating a hidden fee or retroactive promise.