WA\ Combinatorpresale · draft
Grow the Tree of Life
Free to start. Pay as you grow. Earn as you learn. This is the whole offer, and this is the page where you can buy a rung before the doors open.
Other accelerators offer a check for a share of your company. WA\ Combinator offers the Tree: a circle you own outright, a cube that works for you, and a village that checks the work. Nobody takes a share. Capital is grown from verified work.
Four goals, one after another
$0raised toward the first, $52,000
- $52,000A year$1,000 a week for a year, the minimum. It delivers the first 108 cubes and plants the 13 circles.
- $1,052,000The hackathonAdds $1,000,000, the prize pool of Meta's Global AI Developer Hackathon.
- $1,552,000YCAdds $500,000, what Y Combinator invests in a company.
- $2,552,000SpeedrunAdds $1,000,000, the most a16z speedrun invests.
Each goal adds what one more door would give, and nobody takes a share for any of it. Backers so far: 0. Checkout is not open yet.
The first goal
108 citizens. One cube each. 13 circles.
That is what the first $52,000 builds, and nothing else is promised until it stands.
A citizen is a person who has verified they are human and owns their own ground. A cube is the system that works for them: six services, one number each, agreed before any work starts. A circle is a real business or community with its people around it, planted on ground it owns. Thirteen circles, each with its citizens and their cubes, reaching each other without a headquarters, form the cosmOS.
Six circles already stand, dated 2017 to 2026. The seventh is in draft on Maui. The first 108 citizens cross with Self waived, and the record of every one of them is published, dated, as it happens.
Reserve a rung
The Tree, rung by rung
You pay for the next rung when the last one produced. A reservation holds your place and costs nothing until the door opens.
- $108 a year, or $9 a month
Roots
Your own hosting, in your name: the ground a circle stands on. The alternative to renting it.
Reserve - $333
Self
Citizen, cube and circle, onboarded and configured. Done with you. The first 108 cross with Self waived.
Reserve - $1,111
Seed
Getting online to make a living, or getting an application ready for any door you choose.
Reserve - $3,333
Sapling
The whole site, planted: the kind Hawaii By Storm runs on. Done with you, owned by you.
Reserve - from $5,555
Sequoia
An outcome, hands on. Dharma Relief was a Sequoia: a relief effort with a working engine under it.
Reserve - $99 a month
Sapphire
Stillness applied to a business or a team.
Reserve - Free, forever
Star and Serene
The open network and the whole architecture, free to every citizen. The top of the Tree is open.
Hold a free seat
Prices are the Tree of Life of 19 October 2026. A backer buys a rung, never a share. There is no equity, no royalty on what a circle sells and no ads. Checkout runs on Stripe when it opens; card numbers never touch WA\.
Already standing
Launching with real circles
These are not mockups. They are pages people use, built with the same tools every citizen gets.
Wild CountryCancer rehabilitation in Jackson Hole. Live, and paid in full.
Dharma Relief2020. $649,555 raised in seven weeks, as published on its own page.
Hawaii By StormA tour company on Maui, booking every day.
Also live: Evolutionary Education and Breath of Life Wellness. The first 108 cubes and 13 circles are being planted now, from Maui outward.
What this is aiming at
The Rainbow Bridge
In 2020, Dharma Relief raised $649,555 in seven weeks and sent masks to hospitals in the first weeks of the pandemic. It was not a startup and it was not an app. It was a circle of people, a working engine, and a reason. That is the model, and it aims higher than any accelerator does.
The bridge runs from Hawaiʻi to Taiwan to Dubai to the Himalayas: India, China, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan. Four places with one question: who decides how water is shared when demand outruns rain. The Seven Sisters pass straight over that line, 24 degrees north, once around the world each day.
Taiwan's chip plants and farms drew on the same water in the drought of 2021. Dubai makes fresh water from the sea and pays for it in energy. The Himalayas hold the headwaters of the great rivers of Asia. Maui returned water to Waikapū Stream by a public trust won in court.
WA\ Combinator funds the human layer of that bridge: circles that own their ground, keep their own record and can reach each other without a headquarters. The money goes into the Tree, and the Tree is what grows the capital.
Why now, on Maui
Water, power, stars and food are one project here
In Kihei, a facility of nearly $100 million is going up at the Maui Research and Technology Park: a high-performance data center, laboratories and a remote telescope operations center, built by the Space Force to run seven proposed telescopes on the summit of Haleakalā. Construction began in late 2024 and is due to finish in early 2027. Its water comes from a county reservoir at the east end of Lipoa Road, and its 437-page environmental assessment does not say how much it will use.
Central and South Maui's water system produced an average of 23.9 million gallons a day in 2025 against a capacity of 26.8. The county's own planner called peak supply dangerously close to capacity. Maui's grid reached 41.6 percent renewable, on the way to 100 percent by 2045. About 85 to 90 percent of Hawaiʻi's food is shipped in. The Maui County Council voted unanimously against the summit telescopes in March.
None of this is an argument against technology. It is the reason to build the other half: circles that own their ground, count their water, grow some of their food and keep their own record. That is what a backer funds here.
What a backer gets, and what we promise
The deal, in plain words
- A rung, not a share. You buy a thing you will own, and nothing else is for sale.
- Yours outright. The domain, the code, the data, the list, the logins and the media are handed over in your name.
- A person checks the work. GOOD AS GOLD: a human stakes their name before anything counts.
- You can leave. At any time, with all of it. That is the point.
- No ads, ever. No royalty on what your circle sells. No equity asked of you.
- The record is public. What was raised and what it built is published, dated, as it happens.
Where the money goes
The first $52,000 is a year of one builder's hands: the first 108 cubes delivered and the 13 circles planted, from Maui outward. Every dollar after that buys hands and ground, in that order: one more builder on Maui, then the bridge, Hawaiʻi to Taiwan to Dubai to the Himalayas, one circle at a time. What was raised and what it built is published on this page, dated, as it happens.
A draft. Nothing here is a commitment yet.
WA\ Combinator
Hold your rung
Reservations are free. Checkout opens when the doors do, and you will be the first to know.
Sources
- Y Combinator, The YC deal: $500,000, as $125,000 for 7 percent and $375,000 on an uncapped MFN safe.
- a16z, Applications for a16z speedrun SR008, 14 October 2026: up to $1,000,000, with $500,000 for 10 percent up front.
- Meta, Global AI Developer Hackathon: $1,000,000 in total prizes; individual prizes not published on the page.
- Dharma Relief: the total as published at dharmarelief.org.
- The Kihei facility: Erin Nolan, Construction of military data center on Maui alarms residents, Honolulu Civil Beat, 27 October 2026; the State of Hawaiʻi Environmental Notice, 23 May 2022.
- Water: Maui Now, 22 August 2026. Power: Hawaiian Electric, Power facts, as of 15 February 2026, and its 2025 renewable energy release. Food: the State of Hawaiʻi, Increased Food Security and Food Self-Sufficiency Strategy. The council's resolution: Civil Beat, 9 March 2026.
- Taiwan's drought, Dubai's desalination and the Nā Wai ʻEhā settlement: as sourced on this site's home page, under Ground to cloud.