DRAFT - RFP: Reboot the Gitcoin Community for the 3.3 Era

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SEEDGov - Response to RFP: Delegate Recruitment & Onboarding (Project A)

We’re submitting a proposal to @owocki RFP for the Gitcoin 3.3 era reboot and, as part of the process, we’re sharing a short public summary here for community visibility.

Who we are

With +4 years of experience across the governance ecosystem, SEEDGov has built a strong track record guiding delegate communities across a diverse range of protocols, also leveraging SEEDLatam’s regional footprint as one of the largest Web3 communities.

Through a deep understanding of governance analytics, behavioural dynamics, and incentive design, we’ve developed the expertise needed to cultivate an active, professional, and highly engaged delegate base. We’ve been delegates in +12 protocols (including Gitcoin) and have had the chance to manage operations and programs as well as facilitate governance on several occasions while partnering with the best in order to achieve the expected outcomes.

What we’re proposing

We’re bidding on Project A: recruit and onboard 10–30 new GTC delegates, with the goal of building a genuinely diverse, independent, and active governance cohort that can sustain itself beyond the program window.

The high-level structure we’re proposing has three phases across nine months:

Q1

  • Gitcoin 3.3 deep familiarization, self-onboarding, and governance activity baseline;

  • Exploratory rubric and selection process design, iterated to final version;

  • Delegate Orientation Handbook and onboarding video production;

  • Delegate campaign design and rollout - strategic outreach, and formal launch;

  • Executing delegation transactions and conducting onboarding session/s;

  • Early delegate activity monitoring and retrospective on the selection process; and

  • Delegate offboarding outline, including redelegation strategy for churn or voluntary exits.

Q2

  • Monitoring delegate activity;

  • Ensuring sustained participation against targets;

  • Proactive delegate health interventions (engagement before churn); and

  • Offboarding Framework: act upon the delegate offboarding if required and seek a replacement.

Q3

  • Operations maintenance;

  • Design a Reputation-Based Experiment;

  • Comprehensive Delegate Dashboard with insightful data (e.g. time-to-vote distribution, Nakamoto, ideological clusters, vote alignment, regions, domain preferences, DAO overlaps, etc).

The design principles behind the structure

We believe that the difference between a delegate program that works and one that produces theater is accountability infrastructure. Participation rates matter, but they don’t tell you whether delegates are thinking independently or mirroring each other. The alignment matrix and clustering analysis we’re building into Q3 are designed to surface that, not to penalize correlated voting, but to make it visible so the community can evaluate whether diversity of thought is actually present.

Gitcoin is attempting something genuinely hard: rebuilding governance legitimacy at a moment of organizational transition, with a community that has reasons to be skeptical, around a mission that is expanding in scope. A delegate program that produces 30 profiles, but no real participation, doesn’t solve that problem. What we’re trying to build is a diverse cohort that votes, reasons publicly, disagrees with each other, and keeps showing up, and a measurement layer that lets the community verify that claim rather than take it on faith.

— SEEDGov (Fehz, Tino, Marian, Ivey)

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