STAGE 05 · FUNDING & GOVERNANCE

Every rupee and every share, accounted for.

At the end of each month, Qatoto computes what every member is owed — cash and equity — and both sides sign off on the result. The numbers below are the public shape of that process: how many statements exist, how many a second admin countersigned, and how much has been committed to each project.

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The rules, stated publicly

Qatoto holds no funds and charges nobody

A pledge is a commitment, not a payment. No money moves through Qatoto, nothing is held in escrow, and there is no platform fee on any figure on this page.

A verification verdict never reduces cash

A flagged claim annotates a compensation line and changes no number on it. Verification gates equity — how much of the pie an hour mints — never a wage.

A statement is gross only

No tax, withholding or social contribution is computed or deducted anywhere. Whatever a statement shows is the gross figure the parties settle between themselves.

Commitments and statements, project by project

Counts and totals only. Who was paid what stays inside each project, visible to its team — as of Nov 10, 2026 · 21:40 UTC.

Committed funding

$10,000

Committed, not collected or held.

Statements finalized

Countersigned

By a second admin, never the one who finalized.

Still open

211

An open statement's figures still move.

Project	Committed	Open	Finalized	Countersigned	Superseded	Backer confidence
Cold Chain Telemetry (gemini smoke)	$0	5	0	0	0	Not computed
Cold Chain Telemetry (gemini smoke)	$0	5	0	0	0	Not computed
Cold Chain Telemetry (gemini smoke)	$0	5	0	0	0	Not computed
Lake high speed boat	$0	4	0	0	0	Not computed
RC plane	$0	4	0	0	0	Not computed
SolarChill	$0

Gross amounts only. No tax, withholding or social contribution has been computed. Qatoto is not a payroll processor and this is not payroll or tax advice.

What a month-end statement looks like

A worked example, not a real team's figures. Each project's own members see their real statement on the project's governance tab.

Jun 2026

Jun 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026 · Africa/Nairobi

Finalized

Finalized by The project's founder · Jul 2, 2026 · 06:15 UTC

Countersigned by A second admin · Jul 3, 2026 · 09:40 UTC

Statement hash b7c41d8e…7a92

Member	Line	Amount	Payment
Designer · retainer	Cash · retainer	$2,400	Confirmed by member
Engineer · hourly	Cash · hourly 44 hrs verified at $45/hr One claim in this month is flagged for human review. The cash figure is unchanged — the flag gates the equity line only.	$1,980	Recorded · unconfirmed
Founder · equity only	Equity delta	−0.50%	Not a payment

Member

Line

Amount

Payment

Designer · retainer

Cash · retainer

$2,400

Confirmed by member

Engineer · hourly

Cash · hourly

44 hrs verified at $45/hr

One claim in this month is flagged for human review. The cash figure is unchanged — the flag gates the equity line only.

$1,980

Recorded · unconfirmed

Founder · equity only

Equity delta

−0.50%

Not a payment

Every cash figure here is gross. A recorded payment the member has not confirmed reads as unconfirmed, never as paid — and a correction supersedes the whole statement rather than editing a line in place.

When someone disagrees with a number

Disputes, human review and the audit trail are operated inside each project, by people whose role that project already knows. This page only explains them.

A 24-hour dispute window

Before an allocation settles, any member has a day to contest it with grounds and evidence. A raised dispute freezes the contested slices outside the pie until it resolves — the pool is frozen, never anyone's cash.

See a live dispute window

Human review that can go three ways

An automated flag can be contested, and a maintainer decides in writing: reverse the flag, uphold it, or reverse it against the member who asked. A review that can only agree with the person who requested it is not a review.

See the verification pipeline

An audit trail nobody can rewrite

Every allocation, verdict and statement is hashed into a chain, so a changed record breaks every entry after it. Corrections supersede — nothing is ever edited in place, and the superseded version stays readable.

Verify a project's chain

Act on a project, not on this page

Finalizing, countersigning, recording a payment and confirming that one arrived all happen inside the project, by the person whose role allows it.

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