Sovereign Economics Foundation / Phase 0 / 2026
SEF builds and operates the software that member organisations use to publish in public, organise directly, convene people, cite a shared knowledge layer, and pursue the grants that keep them running. Built once, used across the network.
01 / Framework
How monetary and fiscal systems actually work in countries that issue their own currency.
The Sovereign Economics Foundation works from how monetary and fiscal systems actually operate in countries that issue their own currency: central bank mechanics, sectoral balances, currency sovereignty. We call this operational monetary reality, because it describes how the system runs rather than how a textbook says it should.
This is the framework that connects Modern Monetary Theory, post-Keynesian endogenous money, functional finance, and credit-cycle analysis. Different schools, one operational picture.
SEF does not develop this theory. We build the technical and organisational infrastructure that lets the organisations who use it work effectively.
02 / What SEF is for
Built once. Used by many.
03 / Product studios
Social Studio turns source material into approved public posts. Outreach Studio coordinates direct relationships, messages, replies, and opt-outs. Event Studio runs the full event lifecycle from planning through to post-event surveys. The Knowledge Graph holds the canonical concepts, sourced explanations, and shareable answers the other studios cite, now in any language native speakers contribute. Funding Studio supports grant research and writing so the organisations doing the work can stay funded. All five are multi-tenant, human-approved, and built for aligned organisations rather than generic marketing teams.
Social Studio
Ingest sources, generate organisation-specific drafts, approve them, and publish across social channels with branded assets and audit trails.
Outreach Studio
Coordinate contact lists, compose outreach, track sends, parse replies, and respect opt-outs so sibling organisations do not accidentally work against each other.
Event Studio
Run an event from planning through promotion to impact: seven-stage checklist, shared speaker roster with explicit consent, reusable kits, and a Haiku-powered survey conversation on every QR code.
Knowledge Graph
Canonical concepts, sourced explanations, and shareable answers that ground Social Studio drafts, supply Outreach Studio merge tags, and give journalists, policymakers, and allied organisations a single citable source for the underlying economics.
Funding Studio
A shared library of funders, a pursuit pipeline for live opportunities, and an application workspace with reusable boilerplate, so smaller member organisations can apply at the same standard as well-resourced ones.
Outreach Studio
Your initiatives, channels, contact notes, drafts, replies, and follow-up state live in a tenant workspace private to your organisation.
Organisations and people are canonical across the movement for dedupe, frequency, and universal safeguards, while your tier, status, notes, and next actions stay private.
Import contacts by CSV, add them manually, or grow lists through initiatives. Conflicts are surfaced for human resolution rather than silently merged.
Send through SEF mailboxes or your own SMTP, and use manual-assist LinkedIn handoffs where a named operator remains responsible for the message.
Replies thread back into the studio. Bounces mark the address. STOP responses become opt-outs that block future sends across approval, schedule, and API gates.
SEF staff can see when a contact is being approached by multiple sibling organisations in the same window, reducing accidental pile-ons.
Outreach is the contact-shaped sibling to Social Studio: same tenancy and audit trail, a different pipeline for a different kind of political work.
Event Studio
Each event moves through seven clear stages, from early planning to post-event review. A smart checklist watches what you've filled in and ticks the basics off as you go, so nothing important is forgotten. The to-do list stays internal even after the event is made public.
Speakers are stored once across the network, with each organisation writing its own bio and notes. A speaker only appears on your public page after they've actually agreed to speak for you. SEF staff can mark well-known movement speakers as "happy to speak for any aligned org" so smaller groups don't have to ask from scratch.
Slide decks, run-of-show, speaker notes, talking points and a Q&A FAQ travel together as one reusable kit. Kits are private to your organisation by default. If you've built something genuinely useful, you can share it across the network so other organisations can clone it instead of rebuilding from scratch.
Every event has a printable QR code that drops attendees into a brief chat, two or three questions before and two or three after. Answers are grouped by question so you can read the room without digging through transcripts. You set the questions and the tone of voice for your organisation.
When someone signs up, their record is added to the shared contact list so it doesn't get duplicated. The network keeps a running tally of how often a person has been contacted by any SEF organisation that week, so sibling groups don't accidentally invite the same journalist or councillor to four different things at once.
Promoting an event flows into Social Studio, which uses your organisation's voice and brand so posts look like the rest of your output. Inviting past attendees flows into Outreach Studio, which respects every opt-out on record across the network. Three tools, one identity, one trail of what was sent and to whom.
Event Studio is the event-shaped sibling to Social and Outreach Studio: same sign-in, same private workspace per organisation, designed around the work of running events instead of writing posts or sending messages.
Knowledge Graph
Each load-bearing idea, like currency issuer or sectoral balances, is one canonical record with five explanations from primer to academic depth, the common misconceptions called out, and typed connections to the neighbouring concepts in the graph.
Concepts cluster into topic hubs for browsing. The economists, academics, journalists, and policymakers whose research, podcasts, or talks are cited live as a single canonical contributor record across the network.
The questions people actually search for, like "where does money come from", get their own pages. Each takes the mainstream framing seriously, then walks through the operational answer with sourced citations and a short shareable summary.
A named editor signs off on every published page, with a source-confidence rating that readers can see at the top. Every cited source is marked by type (paper, book, podcast, dataset, official document), by status (primary or secondary), and by whether it's safe to cite publicly or needs a qualifying note.
Social Studio drafts cite published concepts so the brand argument lines up with the canonical one. Outreach Studio merge tags pull short explanations into emails. When a concept is revised, older versions stay citable so existing references still resolve.
Native speakers identify themselves once and translate terms, short canonical phrases, and full paragraphs into their language. An AI starter drafts a first pass; colleagues endorse. Once a translation hits the endorsement threshold, it joins the canonical layer that grounds every SEF platform in that language. No back-channel localisation files, no per-tenant prompt branching.
Topic, concept, question, and contributor pages are public by default. Drop-in embed widgets let allied organisations carry a canonical explanation on their own site without copying or maintaining it, and a public JSON API with OpenAPI documentation exposes the same data to journalists, allied tools, and language models so the version everyone reads is the canonical one.
Knowledge Graph is the explanation-shaped sibling: the same tenancy, audit, and governance model applied to the canonical record of what we mean, in every language native speakers will write it.
Funding Studio
Foundations, statutory funders, and private donors whose remit overlaps with sovereign-economics, full-employment, monetary-reform, and adjacent work, with notes on what they fund, their cycle, and how previous applications landed across the network.
Live calls and rolling programmes that fit your organisation, scored on fit, surfaced with deadline alerts, and routed into a pursuit pipeline. The same opportunity can be tracked by multiple tenants without leaking strategy across them.
A draft surface where boilerplate from your brief, theory of change, governance, and prior applications lives alongside the application form itself. Smaller groups can write an application at the standard of a fully-staffed development office.
Every submission stamps who applied, when, with which boilerplate version. Outcomes feed back into the funder library so the network learns what each funder actually backs, not just what they say they fund.
Funding Studio is the sustainability-shaped sibling: the same tenancy and audit model applied to the unglamorous work of keeping the movement's organisations alive.
04 / What's next
Social Studio, Outreach Studio, Event Studio, the Knowledge Graph, and Funding Studio cover the repeat work almost every aligned organisation has to do: explain the framework in public, build relationships directly, run the talks and screenings that turn explanation into local momentum, cite a canonical knowledge layer rather than re-arguing the same definitions every time, and pursue the grants that keep the lights on. The Knowledge Graph now carries native-speaker translation as a first-class capability, so allied organisations outside English can ground in the same canonical layer. The strategic vision still extends to governance templates, training programmes, coordination services, and crowdfunding tools as founding members prove what is needed next.
05 / Identity
We don't direct member strategies. We don't publish original research. We don't run candidates. We do the unglamorous work that lets the people doing those things do them better.
06 / In practice
The studios are products, but adoption starts with organisational need rather than software shopping.
Scenario A
They reach the SEF site, request a conversation, and get an assessment call to understand their goals and capacity. They may begin with Social Studio for public education, Outreach Studio for local relationship-building, Event Studio to run their first screening or workshop, or simply shared documentation while their organisation matures.
Scenario B
They contact SEF for full membership. After due diligence on alignment, a service agreement covers access to Social Studio, Outreach Studio, Event Studio, the Knowledge Graph, Funding Studio, or any combination, with their branding, roles, credentials, and integration needs configured. They save the development cost of building tools that already exist and join the governance structure that steers what gets built next.
07 / Audience
Organisations whose work is grounded in operational monetary reality, including:
If you're not sure whether your organisation fits, get in touch and we'll work it out together.
08 / Where we are
SEF originated in 2025 within the UK MMT-aligned movement and is currently in pre-incorporation. The intended structure is a UK-registered charitable entity with international scope, governed by a Board of Trustees elected by member organisations, an Executive Team, and Working Groups for specific initiatives. Members will hold one vote each in the General Assembly regardless of size. The legal structure and named team will be public when registration completes.
We are in Phase 0 of a multi-year plan: validation through mid-2026. We are talking with founding members now. Named members, advisors, and funders will appear here as they commit. We are starting from humble beginnings on purpose. The infrastructure has to prove itself in real use before we scale it.
09 / Contact
If you run, work for, or coordinate an organisation that might fit, tell us about it. We will reply within a working week.
Social Studio
From source item to approved public post
A studio of its own
Branding, voice, audience definition, and posting cadence configured once and applied everywhere.
The brief system
Your positions, audience, language guards, source weighting, and strategic defaults are stored as versioned snapshots so every draft can be traced back to the brief that shaped it.
Content ingestion
Pull articles from RSS feeds and JSON APIs you nominate, or add stories manually. Ingested items dedupe and queue for use.
Approval-locked publishing
Editors submit, admins approve or reject, and approved drafts are hash-checked before they publish to prevent unreviewed changes.
Multi-platform distribution
Direct posting to Bluesky, with Buffer-routed posting to X, LinkedIn, and Instagram. One approval, multiple destinations.
Branded social graphics
Templated image rendering using your colours and assets, generated alongside post copy and reviewed in the same workflow.
Engagement metrics flow back into the platform so what you publish can be evaluated against what landed.