Completed offset records only.
Donation offsets
Turn a zero-sum donation into a shared gain.
When two people would otherwise fund opposed efforts, they can redirect the matched amount into a named destination both prefer to the original pair of donations.
- Prior intent
- Matched amount
- Named recipient
- Compensated settlement
The flow
Redirect the match, not the narrative.
The interface distinguishes a planned donation, a saved authorization, a captured payment, a destination transfer, and a completed offset. Those states are not synonyms.
- 01
State the planned donations
Each donor records what they would otherwise fund and the evidence supporting that baseline.
- 02
Match only the agreed amount
The matched portion stops; unmatched surplus remains governed by the stated rule.
- 03
Choose a shared destination
Both donors inspect the named recipient, amount, deadline, and externality review.
- 04
Authorize and settle
The transaction moves through explicit mandate, capture, transfer, completion, refund, or dispute states.
Marketplace activity
Report financial states precisely.
Completed redirection, public-good routing, open pool commitments, and available pools are reported separately. A pledge is not counted as a completed donation.
Completed offsets routed to broad public goods.
Conditional commitments, not completed transfers.
Pool records currently gathering or reviewing commitments.
Deal Receipt
The baseline and settlement stay inspectable together.
A completed offset should be shareable as terms, evidence, and settlement—not as an unsupported claim that one donation “cancelled” another in every relevant sense.
Review mechanism and safeguardsDeal receipt
Cause X ↔ Cause Y
- Without this deal
- Donor A gives $100 to Cause X; Donor B gives $100 to an opposed Cause Y.
- Your commitment
- Redirect the matched $100 amount from the stated original destination.
- Other commitments
- The counterparty redirects the same matched amount from the opposed destination.
- Condition
- Both prior intentions, the match, shared recipient, deadline, and settlement gates pass review.
- Maximum exposure
- $100. Unmatched amounts keep their published surplus rule.
- Evidence
- Baseline evidence, payment authorization, recipient mapping, and settlement record.
- Exit
- Cancel before capture starts; failed paired settlement triggers the published compensation path.
Claim discipline
Three claims that must not be blurred.
The product can state enforced conditionality and measured redirection. It should not routinely claim a counterfactual that the larger outcome depended on one specific user.
Conditionality
Your authorization is used only if the published match and settlement conditions pass.
Redirection
The matched amount moved from the opposed planned destinations to the named shared destination.
Pivotality
A claim that the outcome would not have happened without your specific action requires separate evidence.