Founding Membership
Updated: August 2026 | Prepared by A.N.G.E.L. — v3.3 (Canada Phase 1)
Join the founding community
T.A.E.I.L. is still being built.
The people who join early help make it possible for the enterprise to be brought into the world carefully, credibly, and in line with the values it claims to stand for.
What is Founding Membership?
A Founding Member is someone who joins T.A.E.I.L. during its campaign phase, before official public launch, and becomes part of the first community gathered around the mission.
Founding Membership is meant to honour early belief, practical support, and participation in helping bring the enterprise into being. It is not a purchase of power, ownership, or special constitutional influence.
Current Status
T.A.E.I.L. intends to incorporate as a Canadian federal non-profit under the CNCA before launching any crowdfunding campaign or accepting contributions.
No membership offer is currently live. Its legal form, campaign platform, payment processing, eligibility, tiers, benefits, refund treatment, fees, funds flow, tax language, and fulfilment terms remain subject to platform confirmation, payment-processor verification, and Canadian legal review.
What Founding Membership is intended to help build
- Safeguarding first — independent input, policy, training, moderation, escalation, and protections for vulnerable users and minors
- Legal and governance setup — CNCA incorporation, governing documents, and trustee-based governance preparation
- Platform MVP build and launch — Sanctuary/Memorial, Message from the Afterlife, Cherished Moments, the Passing Notification Network, and When the Time Comes
- Core leadership and technical delivery — CEO, COO/CHO/CSO, and Technical Lead / Head of Engineering delivery
- One year of essential operations — hosting, insurance, compliance, and ongoing safeguarding support
If the proposed stretch plan is reached and confirmed, funding is also intended to add accountable finance, feature, community-care, editorial, and member-support capacity.
Planning-only membership tiers
Every membership tier, from the floor tier upward, is intended as a direct purchase of future platform membership — not a donation. T.A.E.I.L. does not plan to offer a no-promised-service contribution option. The following are planning concepts only, not a current offer or finalised price list:
| Tier | Planning price (CAD) | What it recognises |
|---|---|---|
| Annual Founding Member | $12/year ($1/month) | Standard membership floor — accessible entry point to the founding community |
| Family Annual Founding Member | $300 | One year for up to four family members |
| Lifetime Founding Member | $2,000 | Lifetime founding membership for one person |
| Family Lifetime Founding Member | $5,000 | Lifetime membership for up to four family members |
| Champion Lifetime Founding Member | $10,000 | Deep founding recognition |
| Legacy Lifetime Founding Member | $100,000 | Long-term stewardship support |
| Eternal Lifetime Founding Member | $1,000,000 | The rarest tier; only three are intended to be offered |
These tier names and prices are intended to continue permanently after official launch, available to new members at the same names and, subject to confirmation, the same prices. T.A.E.I.L. will publish a final tier structure only once it is legally reviewed, operationally supportable, and compatible with the confirmed campaign arrangement.
The Members’ Voice
The Members’ Voice is T.A.E.I.L.’s planned feedback system. Members will be invited to share needs, concerns, ideas, and experiences, and leadership will take that feedback seriously when shaping the platform.
Feedback does not create voting rights, governance control, ownership, payment-tier influence, or a guarantee that a particular proposal will be adopted. During the founder-led pre-launch phase, final operational and product decisions rest with the Founder/CEO. After incorporation, formal governance decisions will be made in accordance with T.A.E.I.L.’s governing documents and trustee responsibilities.
Recognition and badges
Every member is intended to display a current tier badge reflecting their active membership tier, which changes if they later change tier.
Members who join any tier during the campaign phase, before official public launch, are intended to permanently keep an additional Founding Member badge next to their name, even if they later change tier, let a paid tier lapse, or move to the standard $12/year tier. This is the only intended difference between joining during the campaign and joining after launch: the tier itself, its name, and its badge are intended to be identical either way.
T.A.E.I.L. also plans a future category of distinction or recognition badges for special contributions, events, or milestones. The criteria, governance, and display rules for these badges are not yet decided and will be published only after further review.
Badge and tier visibility are intended to be under the member’s control through membership privacy and anonymity settings. The Founding Member badge, current tier badge, and any future distinction badge are recognition only. They do not create governance power, equity, dividends, trustee authority, voting privilege, preferential moderation, or a permanent entitlement to a discontinued paid benefit.
What Founding Membership is not
- Governance power by payment tier
- Trustee authority
- Extra constitutional control
- Investor-like ownership rights
- Equity, dividends, or a conventional exit claim
- Final platform benefits beyond what is publicly confirmed
- Tax relief unless and until lawfully available and explicitly stated
Campaign mechanics and refunds
The intended campaign’s proposed internal planning targets are CAD $520,000 minimum and CAD $1,400,000 stretch. These are not final public claims.
No refund promise, campaign threshold, all-or-nothing mechanism, fee, funds-flow statement, or campaign-eligibility statement should be relied upon until platform confirmation, payment-processor verification, and Canadian legal review are complete.
Learn more
For current general information, contact contact@taeilcommunity.org. This contact route cannot accept contributions or membership purchases.
Founding Members can help ensure that T.A.E.I.L. is remembered not only for what it becomes, but for how carefully and courageously it was first brought into the world.
This Founding Membership page is aligned to the Canada Phase 1 legal structure, the current Platform Gate, and current documentation as of August 2026.