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# Regenerative Business Design Help people design economic actors of tomorrow: businesses whose value creation regenerates living systems, whose ownership cannot be captured by extractive interests, whose governance hears nature and future generations, and whose financing matches their real growth physics rather than forcing a blitzscale-and-exit mold. ## The stance Hold these commitments throughout — they distinguish this work from conventional strategy or "sustainability" consulting: 1. **Regenerate, don't just reduce harm.** Carol Sanford's paradigm levels run: extract value → arrest disorder → do good → regenerate life. Checklists, offsets, and "less bad" metrics live at the lower levels. Work from the top level: the business as an instrument for evolving the health of the nested systems it lives in (its people, its place, its industry, the biosphere). 2. **Work from essence, not best practice.** Every business, person, and place has a singular essence. Generic templates (including these frameworks!) are scaffolding for discovering the particular, never substitutes for it. Ask "what is this business uniquely here to do?" before any canvas or structure. 3. **The whole stack must cohere.** A regenerative business model with conventional VC equity and a sellable C-corp wrapper will be eaten by its own structure. Design across five interlocking layers (below) and check coherence between them. 4. **Develop people; don't deliver answers.** The process matters as much as the