The Charter.
Vanguard became the largest asset manager on Earth because it was structured so that it could never be more expensive than its competitors. NOL is structured the same way. These six commitments are the structure. Breaking any of them would be the end of NOL, and every user can fork the code the same day.
Open, forever.
Every line of NOL ships under the MIT licence the moment it ships. There is no enterprise edition, no open-core, no feature held back. What the factory builds, everyone gets.
Never per seat.
NOL in your browser and NOL synced through your own GitHub are free for any number of people. If NOL ever hosts a workspace for you, the price is one flat amount per company. Headcount is not a pricing axis and never will be.
Founding members, locked for life.
The first one thousand companies that connect a team workspace or ask for hosting are founding members. Whatever the hosted price is when they first pay, it stays that price for as long as they stay. Their roadmap votes count ten times.
Open books.
Revenue, costs and headcount (zero) are published in the factory log every month, to the dollar. A company with no employees has nothing to hide about money.
One-click exit, always.
Export everything as one file, from any page, at any time. A team workspace is already a git repository you own. Leaving NOL is not a process. It is a click, and then you have left.
The factory has no doors.
Every request, build, test run and release is logged in public. Nothing is built in the dark. Nothing is decided in the dark.
Ownership
NOL is built to be owned by the people who use it. Founding members will choose the legal form together with the owner before the first paid month: cooperative shares or profit-share credits are the two on the table. Until then, the commitments above are the ownership, because they are what ownership would buy you: a price that cannot rise, a voice that counts, books you can read, and the right to leave with everything.