Use Cases

The use cases for Spartacus.app vary widely and are goal agnostic (some subjects and campaign objectives will be prohibited for legal and public safety reasons). The common thread of any Spartacus campaign is identifying a coordination problem and facilitating the formation of a large enough group to fulfill some action that would be impossible for individuals to accomplish on their own.

Here are some examples:

Campaigns, Advocacy, Non-Profit

• Gathering a critical mass or quorum for government/organizational meetings.
• Petition outreach to get the attention of congresspeople, senators, and other government stakeholders.
• Building a list of activists willing to perform an action, protest, boycott or other campaign, collectively.
• Resolving disputes over large allocations of resources, or competing priorities.
• Building a preemptive support network to better withstand entryism against the founding ideals of an organization.
• Vote-trading agreements at scale.

Labor

• Workers attempting to organize their workplace.
• Musicians coming together to threaten to leave streaming service unless corporate rights holders make concessions.
• Bootstrapping artist collectives.
• Discretely probing employees on preference for policy changes.
• Coming to the defense of a person unfairly targeted for retaliation.
• Athletes deciding to make decisions as a team instead of free-agents.
• Generating a critical mass of people with common economic interests to form a collective unit for negotiating leverage with a counterparty.

Commercial / Business

• Investors or founders creating a group incentive to buy-in to a project where there are first-mover disadvantages or risks; “I'll invest if XYZ also invests”.
• Trading coordination - a legal and transparent way to act as a coordinated group to move markets.
• Agreeing on Industry self-regulation and safety guidelines.
• Building consensus around a set of standards and practices.
• Bootstrapping professional consortiums.
• Halting an incentive structure that leads individual actors to pursue rational interests that threaten the long term viability or sustainability of the whole system.
• Deciding to replace or keep people in leadership positions in controversial situations.
• Getting a critical mass of stakeholders to agree to validate new forms of credentialing to disrupt legacy practices.
• Gathering buy-in for mass resignations or threats of resignations.
• Collective buying agreements for infrastructure improvements that would be impossible to build incrementally.
• Achieve volume discounting by aggregating demand.
• Weighted wait listing for projects that require minimum viable network effects to launch.

Bootstrapping / Community Governance

• Building a big enough group to splitting the cost of big purchases or investments (crowdfunding).
• Mass simultaneous physical mobilization - collective agreements to move to a new location in order to preserve network effects and economies of scale.
• Surveying the marketplace of ideas within a community to measure hypothetical support for a proposal and reveal community preferences.
• Bad Actor / Abuse detection: Anonymous surveying of a community to connect related isolated experiences in order to establish a pattern of behavior.
• Community Service Activities requiring group opt-in - picking up Trash, public property improvement etc.
• Creating countervailing force to mobbing, harassment, and bullying online.
• Party games - fun ways to decide to do group activities.