# Flourishing bonds: partner-facing product statement

Accountability Bonds and Partnership Bonds are **flourishing bonds** designed
to support **cooperation, accountable growth, and freedom**.

- **Partnership Bonds** support cooperation through explicit, bilateral,
  bounded commitments between participants.
- **Accountability Bonds** support accountable growth through pre-agreed,
  objective, typed commitments and deterministic resolution boundaries.
- Both preserve freedom through explicit consent, bounded liabilities,
  pause-safe refunds, terminal exits, and participant-controlled pull
  payments.

“Flourishing” is a purpose and boundary. It is never a score, entitlement,
reputation label, surveillance input, or authorization signal. It cannot
control principal, collateral, access, eligibility, pricing, rewards,
slashing, settlement, disputes, custody, routing, refunds, or exits.

The machine gate therefore requires all three exact invariants:

1. flourishing cannot control principal;
2. flourishing cannot control collateral; and
3. flourishing cannot control any protected decision.

No opaque, hashed, derived, encoded, or transitive form of a flourishing,
surveillance, biometric, profiling, behavioral, belief, loyalty, quality,
reputation, or trust-score input is accepted for a protected decision.

This statement is a product commitment, not legal advice, an audit result,
partner acceptance, or a claim that any bond is deployed.
