Stay in the Loop
Stay in the Loop
Alting is a framework for communities that govern from within.
The Problem
A community is rebuilding after a wildfire. Utility companies, developers, and government agencies are making decisions about our streets, our infrastructure, and our future. Too often, those decisions follow the money, not the people. The people of Altadena want a say in what gets rebuilt and how.
There’s no shortage of opinions. The hard part is bringing them together. How do you take thousands of voices, weigh what matters against what’s profitable, and land on something everyone can stand behind? That’s what’s missing. A transparent process that puts human needs at the center.
What Is a Ting
A Ting can be as small as friends sharing an apartment or as large as a neighborhood deciding its future. What makes it a Ting isn’t the topic. It’s the commitment: one person, one vote, and a transparent process everyone can stand behind.
A burned neighborhood making decisions about what gets rebuilt and how. Infrastructure, utilities, street design.
An unburned block building connection with their neighbors. Mutual aid, shared resources, community priorities.
Local businesses and residents making rebuilding decisions together. Streetscape, public space, climate resilience.
Shared growing space managed collectively. Who gets a plot, how costs are split, what gets planted.
Trust-based rotating savings. Friends or neighbors pooling money and taking turns. Transparent, fair, no bank.
Co-owning a car, a tool library, a workshop. Any shared asset that needs transparent rules.
How It Works
Someone frames a decision. The group talks it through. Concerns are raised and addressed before anyone votes. Then people vote: one person, one vote. The result is a decision record: what was proposed, who participated, what concerns were raised, and what the group decided.
That record is the product. It starts on paper. The tools to support it at scale are being built. A document your group can hand to a landlord, a city council, a utility company, or a board. Or just keep for yourselves. Proof that you decided together.
What are we solving, and for whom?
Name the options. Clarify the outcomes.
Every voice is heard before anyone votes.
One person, one vote. Any format.
Proof that we decided together.
Where We Are
Alting is being built in Altadena, California, a community rebuilding after the Eaton Fire. We’re testing the framework in three contexts right now: a burned neighborhood deciding on infrastructure, an unburned block building community, and a commercial corridor designing its future.
The toolkit is not finished. But the decisions are real, and the need isn’t waiting.
We’re building this with the community, not for it. Tell us what you need. What decisions aren’t being made? What tools are missing? Leave your email and help shape what comes next.
No spam. No tracking. Just an invitation when the time comes.
We’ll be in touch when it’s time.
Block captain? Business owner? Neighbor with ideas? We’re building this together.
“Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.” Octavia Butler