The Vterra Ecosystem
Vterra is Open Infrastructure—Build On It.
The Vterra platform—the Valorys framework, the Verix agent architecture, and all supporting documentation—is released as open-source infrastructure. You are welcome to build consulting practices, training programs, translation communities, and commercial services on top of it. No permission required. No license fees. No coordination with Vterra, Inc.
We follow the model that has made open-source infrastructure viable in every serious sector of the economy: open platform, commercial ecosystem. The organizations that build services around Vterra make it more useful for everyone. That is the design.
What You Can Build
Consulting and Advisory Practices
If you work with organizations on strategy, operations, or transformation, you can build your practice on the Valorys framework. Use the GSO model, the twelve value amplifiers, and the Verix agent architecture as the intellectual foundation for your service offering. Charge for your work. Keep the revenue.
Training Programs and Curricula
You can develop and deliver practitioner training based on Valorys. This includes certification programs, cohort-based learning, executive education, and sector-specific applications. You may charge participants. You may issue your own credentials. You do not need our endorsement to do any of it.
Translation Communities
The Valorys framework is language-neutral. If you work in a practitioner community, academic institution, or civil society organization operating in a language other than English, you are invited to translate the framework documentation and planning materials for use in your context. See the translation section below for how to coordinate.
Software, Agents, and Platform Extensions
You can build derivative tools, AI agents, sector-specific platforms, and integrations that extend the Vterra platform. The Verix agent architecture is documented and available. If you are building something that other practitioners would benefit from knowing about, write to us.
How It Works
Licensing
The Vterra platform is released under two open licenses, matched to the nature of each component.
Framework and software: Apache License 2.0. You may use, modify, distribute, and build commercial products on the framework without restriction, provided you retain the license notice and attribution.
The book — Take Control By Giving Up Control: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0. You may share and translate the book with attribution. You may not distribute modified versions of the text.
Full license texts are available in the GitHub repository. If you have a specific question about what the licenses permit in your context, email [email protected].
Attribution
Attribution is the whole of what we ask. When you build on Vterra, retain the Vterra and Valorys marks in materials that reference the underlying framework, and indicate that your offering is built on the Vterra platform.
Do not use the Vterra, Valorys, Verix, or GSO marks in ways that imply you are or represent Vterra, Inc. That is the only restriction.
The Community Forum
GitHub Discussions is the working forum for the Vterra ecosystem. It is where implementation questions get answered, translation efforts are coordinated, and practitioners building on the platform connect with each other.
It is organized around three opening threads: practitioner introductions, translation coordination, and implementation questions. As the ecosystem grows, additional threads will form organically around sectors, use cases, and geographic communities.
You do not need a commercial relationship with Vterra, Inc. to participate. You need a GitHub account.
Translate Valorys
The Valorys framework is not in English because it belongs to English-speaking organizations. It is in English because that is where it was written. The framework itself—the GSO model, the twelve value amplifiers, the governance principles—is language-neutral and applies directly in any organizational context.
If you are part of a practitioner community, academic institution, regional consulting network, or civil society organization working in a language other than English, you are invited to translate the framework materials for use in your context. The process is straightforward: open a GitHub Discussion indicating the language and materials you are working on. We will coordinate from there.
Full details on what can be translated, applicable license terms, and how completed translations are linked from the main repository are available on GitHub.
How to Reach Us
Verix
The Vterra AI Advisor
For questions about how the framework works—how Valorys applies in your context, how to use the GSO model, what the value amplifiers are and how to sequence them.
GitHub Discussions
The Community Forum
For implementation questions, practitioner conversations, translation coordination, and the human exchange that a framework advisor cannot have. The right place for questions that belong to the community.
Direct Contact
Substantive Ecosystem Inquiries
For commercial implementation, institutional adoption, translation coordination at scale, and serious partnership considerations. Handled directly by Colin O’Neill, co-founder of Vterra, Inc.