What is Levl?

Levl is software aimed to replace corporate hierarchies with a system that puts every contributor directly at a CEO’s seat. This is achieved using a few core principles:

Core Principles

1. Decentralized Power

• Hierarchical power structures are replaced by a bottom-up driven point-based system that tracks merit.

2. Quantified Labour

• Points mainly track quality & amount of work done, as decided using mass voting.
• This allows the definition of “good work” to evolve over time, and eliminates the possibility for rent-seeking that executives are notorious for doing.

3. Democratic Meritocracy

• Meritocracy is created by allowing executive decision making to be handled by mass voting, where votes are weighed by the amount of merit a contributor has earned.
• The rules & incentives that govern the meritocracy are controlled democratically where every vote has equal weight.
• All votes can be democratically decided to be fully meritocratic, fully democratic, or anything in between.

Assumptions

The above principles are practical implementations that stem out from the following more philosophical assumptions:

1. Management is an information problem.

• Modern technology can deprecate traditional management.
• Managers represent consensus of their subordinates.
• Consensus can be centrally and asynchronously achieved given intelligently designed UIs.

2. Corporations are not living beings.

• We treat corporations as if they are conscious.
• Since they are not, they should not have egos, and therefore should not care about their survival as units like human beings do.

3. Inequality is okay within set limits.

• Inequality of ability is a fact, but should be bound by democratically achieved consensus.

4. All human beings are subject to corruption.

• No single human should represent a collective, as they are bound to no longer accurately represent said collective given enough time as the incentives break, and the feedback loop is cut short.
• It’s a logical fallacy to assume that a collective ego (a summation of individual egos) can be fairly managed by a single human’s ego.
• Therefore, every hierarchy is corruptible as it centralizes power into the hands of specific human beings that are fallible.

5. Meritocracies must be democratically driven.

• A mature enough meritocracy eventually loses sight of the principles that made it successful. This is because the feedback loop is broken where merit starts being assumed, hoarded and not given.
• In order to protect against that, the rules that govern the meritocracy must be managed democratically.