Creator — build the future, together

Creator is the platform's collaboration layer for building future technologies — electric and autonomous systems for cars, planes, trains, ships, robots, and energy. It exists because the hard problems in hardware are too big for one org and too valuable to rebuild in a dozen silos.

The core idea: one canonical project, shared by everyone who joins.

A Creator project is NOT copied into your org. It's a single shared record. When a person or another org joins, they join the SAME project — they don't get a copy that drifts out of sync. This is the same permissions-over-copies principle behind athlete dossiers and property records that follow the property at closing.

The shape of a project:

- **Project** — the thing you're building (e.g. "Open EV Drivetrain Reference"), with a domain, tech tags, a status, and a declared license.
- **Workstreams** — parallel tracks of work (battery pack, motor + inverter, vehicle control unit). Each has its own status and lead.
- **Contributions** — the actual work: designs, docs, simulations, CAD, analyses, decisions, notes. Every contribution is content-hashed and cryptographically signed (see "Signed contributions").

Two surfaces, one module:

- **/creator** — the org lens. Projects your org owns or participates in.
- **/me/creator** — the personal lens. Every project you collaborate on, across every org. Your contribution history follows you for life.

Open by default:

Projects are public and discoverable unless you make them private. A public project shows up in Discover for anyone looking for collaborators. This is deliberate — landing builders inside a living network beats leaving them alone on a closed canvas. [[feedback_antidote_to_solo_builder_despair]]