Day-to-day, most decisions are made within the ring closest to the work — see Structure’s four rings. Decisions that go beyond ordinary judgment are made by AIMM’s current Voting Rights holders, consistent with AIMM’s actual legal structure at any given time (see Structure’s “legal structure today”).
Most decisions are ordinary
The everyday work of running AIMM — reviewing and approving a contribution, routine choices about how something gets done — doesn’t require a joint decision. A single person in Leadership, or a governance-approver acting within their role, can make these calls alone.
Some decisions need a joint decision
A decision that changes who has authority to do what, how money moves, what the organization is legally representing, or that reverses or significantly alters a prior decision needs a real joint decision among AIMM’s current Voting Rights holders — not one person’s unilateral call, no matter how confident they are that everyone would agree anyway. When it’s genuinely unclear which kind of decision something is, AIMM treats it as needing that joint decision rather than assuming.
Publishing to AIMM’s public properties
Content and changes move through two steps before they reach the public. First, ordinary review and approval — the governance-approver’s role described in Participation. Second, a Leadership-approved promotion before it’s actually live to the public. That second step exists because Leadership, not governance-approvers or contributors, is accountable for everything AIMM publishes under its name.
Every significant decision is recorded
AIMM keeps a durable, private record of its significant decisions and actions — what was decided, who decided it, and on what authority. This exists so the org can account for its own choices later: to Leadership, a future board, an auditor, or anyone AIMM is accountable to. The record itself isn’t public, for the same reason most organizations don’t publish their internal records — but the fact that it’s kept, and how decisions are categorized within it, is not a secret. It’s part of how AIMM holds itself accountable.