Cohort 3 runs four DAOs: Kambria's model DAO, the Capacity Exchange DAO, alongside three participant-proposed DAOs, each built around a selected social-impact project. Each DAO is mission-driven and time-bound, and each is a channel for taking a working solution further into people's lives through community.

Unlike earlier cohorts, no DAO carries a fixed revenue target. Success is measured by the scaling of impact — how far a solution reaches, how deeply it enters people's lives, and whether the community carries it onward on its own. The Measuring What Matters page describes this in full.

Summary

 Each DAO is expected to have around 10–20 members. Each organises its work using the Owned Lanes model, and each sets its own goals against the three impact axes.

Capacity Exchange DAO (CED)

Kambria's model DAO, continuing from Cohort 2. CED is built to keep operating beyond the cohort — the one DAO designed to last.

Mission

Grow and sustain the Capacity Exchange platform, where people exchange skills, knowledge, and experience through meaningful 1–1 online sessions — spanning skills, peer learning, cultural sharing, wellbeing, academic support, professional guidance, and more. CED strengthens the Guide ↔ Explorer model, where every user can both share and learn.

How Members Work

CED members are operators, not the people giving the sessions. 

The Guides and Explorers exchanging skills are the platform's users; the DAO's work is to make that exchange thrive — bringing in users, helping sessions happen, keeping quality high, and finding partners and sponsors. 

Members organise into lanes under a few broad scopes, for example: bringing new users in, activating them into real sessions, and pursuing partnerships. Each DAO defines its own scopes and lanes in its master plan.

How Impact Is Measured

CED sets its goals against the three impact axes, made concrete for an exchange platform:

•   Reach — how many new users and communities the platform reaches — including the number of meaningful sessions run.
•   Depth — how many users return and keep exchanging, rather than trying it once.
•   Self-propagation — whether users bring others in and become Guides themselves, so the exchange grows through its own community.

CED sets its own specific goals against these axes in its master plan, and each lane sets the key results that express its part.

The Participant-Proposed DAOs

The other three DAOs are proposed by participants — each one a social-impact project brought into the cohort to be scaled through a DAO and its community. Rather than Kambria defining these DAOs in advance, they are selected during the Call for Projects.

What Makes a Project a Fit

Projects are selected against three criteria:

•   An innovation solution in hand. The project already has a working innovation — not just an idea.
•   Regeneration proven. It has shown it can regenerate value, not only spend it.
•   A local community. It is rooted in a real community that its solution serves.

These criteria matter because DEP 3 is not asking projects to invent something or to prove they can earn — they arrive having done both. The cohort is about taking what already works and scaling its reach and impact through community.

How a Participant-Proposed DAO Works

Once a project is selected, a DAO is built around it — with its own members, recruited to align with the project's mission. The project stays what it is; the DAO is a new channel it gains — a way to develop the business and scale its impact by bringing its solution into people's lives through community. 

The project's own team can take part in the DAO as well — but to keep it genuinely community-governed, the team together makes up no more than the DAO's quorum threshold (currently 34% of the DAO), so no decision rests with the originating team alone.

Like every DAO in the cohort, it organises its work using the Owned Lanes model, runs on the Kambria DAOs Framework, and sets its own goals against the three impact axes. 

What each DAO actually does — its specific mission, scopes, lanes, and goals — is defined in its own master plan, the first real act of ownership in the cohort.

Overview Pages for Each Project

Because the projects are selected during the Call for Projects, they are not named here yet. Once the participant-proposed DAOs are confirmed, a dedicated overview page will be added for each one — describing its mission, its community, and how it plans to scale its impact through the cohort.