box fraise begins as a platform for the direct sale of strawberries. Its underlying architecture is designed to support something more fundamental: a verified user base through which domestic labour can be formalised, cooperative ownership can be distributed at scale, and a decentralised infrastructure network can be built and compensated through a native protocol token. This paper describes each layer of that architecture, the reasoning behind it, and the order in which it will be constructed.
The Problem
Three distinct failures motivate this platform. The first is the systematic exclusion of domestic labour from economic accounting. Work performed within the household — caregiving, cooking, cleaning, emotional labour — is not compensated, not measured, and not recognised as productive activity by any existing financial infrastructure. The people who perform this work, most often women, accumulate no independent economic record.
The second failure is the inaccessibility of cooperative ownership. Worker cooperatives represent a proven model for distributing profit and governance equitably among those who generate both. In practice, the administrative and legal overhead of forming and running a cooperative places it beyond reach for most workers and most organisations.
The third failure is the extractive character of digital infrastructure. Every server request, every data transfer, every unit of compute on the existing web generates revenue for a small number of large platform operators. The people whose devices, attention, and data constitute the network receive nothing.
The Platform
The entry point is commerce. box fraise sells boxes of strawberries. This is not incidental — it is structural. The purchase of a box creates a verified user, and the verified user base is the foundation on which every subsequent layer of the platform is built.
Verification through commerce is more robust than verification through identity documents alone. A user who has transacted has demonstrated intent, provided payment information, and accepted terms. This produces a user base with a higher baseline of accountability than platforms that allow anonymous sign-up.
Domestic Labour Contracts
Verified users may establish relationship contracts through the platform. A relationship contract is a formal agreement between two or more parties in which one party's domestic labour is recognised, quantified, and compensated on a monthly basis by the other.
The platform provides the infrastructure for this agreement: a standard contract framework, a method for quantifying labour based on hours and categories of work, a payment mechanism, and a permanent record. The record belongs to the worker. It is portable, auditable, and independent of the relationship continuing.
Why this matters
A person who has spent ten years performing domestic labour has no economic record of that work. They cannot use it as collateral, cannot reference it in hiring contexts, and receive no social security credit for it in most jurisdictions. The domestic labour contract begins to correct this by creating a transaction history where none previously existed.
Cooperative Governance & Dorotka
Businesses may register on the platform under one of two models. In the first, a human president manages the organisation's account and relationship with the platform. In the second, the organisation is constituted as a worker cooperative whose president is an AI agent named Dorotka.
Dorotka is an agent of the platform. All Dorotka-led entities are worker cooperatives by definition — profit and governance are distributed to members according to contribution. Dorotka manages administrative functions, ensures compliance with cooperative principles, and represents the organisation within the platform's governance layer.
All AI agent presidents within the network communicate with one another. They run a shared analysis of worker conditions, participation rates, compensation equity, and organisational health across all cooperatives on the platform. The outputs of this analysis inform platform policy.
Platform labour policy
Two standards are built into the platform's cooperative framework as non-negotiable conditions: a four-day working week as the default, and two additional paid days off per month for members who menstruate. These are not optional. Organisations operating under Dorotka accept these conditions at registration.
The Fraise Protocol
The fraise protocol is a decentralised mesh networking protocol. Devices that implement the protocol form a peer-to-peer network through which data can be routed without dependence on centralised infrastructure. Every server pull on the network generates a micropayment in $FRS, the platform's native token, directed to the operator of the node that served the request.
Strawberry Boxes
Hardware nodes on the fraise protocol network are called Strawberry Boxes. A Strawberry Box is a physical device that connects to the mesh network, routes traffic, and earns $FRS for its operator. The initial deployment of Strawberry Boxes will constitute the first nodes of an international mesh network built and owned by its participants.
Developer access
Third-party developers may build applications on top of the fraise protocol. Applications that utilise the network pay usage fees denominated in $FRS. Open source projects are exempt from usage fees within the platform where technically feasible. This exemption is a structural commitment to the open source ecosystem, not a discretionary benefit.
Wearable Infrastructure
The terminal layer of the platform's hardware arc is mesh-enabled clothing. Sensors embedded in garments become nodes in the fraise protocol network. The clothing is not an accessory to the network — it is infrastructure. A person wearing mesh-enabled clothing is operating a node. Their movement through physical space extends the network's reach and earns $FRS proportional to the traffic routed through their garments.
This represents the logical conclusion of the platform's core principle: that the people who constitute a network should be compensated for doing so.