Boardroom Council

●Draft

Status: Draft
Version: 0.1.0
Last Updated: 2026-05-16
Owner: Governance Nucleus

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Purpose

The Boardroom Council is a supervisory and validation layer in the current Axodus governance design.

Scope

It may review higher-impact proposals, risk classifications, treasury-sensitive actions, governance capture risk, compliance concerns, and security escalation.

Responsibilities

• Review strategic or high-risk proposals.
• Validate risk and treasury impact.
• Support governance filtering.
• Escalate unresolved security, compliance, or constitutional issues.
• Review major product integrations.
• Evaluate custom governance plugins.
• Review DAO federation admission or suspension when risk-sensitive.
• Request ACS, security, audit, or human review before approval.

Status

Final membership rules, eligibility, voting power, and authority boundaries are planned and must not be treated as implemented.

Historical planning has referenced possible seat counts or eligibility thresholds, but this documentation does not treat any of those parameters as final.

Decision Types

• Treasury policy review
• Risk escalation review
• Constitutional exception review
• Plugin approval review
• DAO federation admission review
• Protocol upgrade review
• Sensitive governance execution review

Risk Considerations

The council must not become an opaque replacement for governance. Its review role should be documented, bounded, and accountable.

Accountability Expectations

Material Boardroom decisions should publish rationale, required conditions, risk notes, and follow-up accountability outputs.

Bounded Decision Role

The Boardroom Council is a review and coordination concept for matters that cross nuclei or carry constitutional, treasury, security, or reputational risk. Inputs may include proposals, risk assessments, unresolved authority questions, and escalation records. Outputs may include recommendations, conditions, requests for additional review, or routing to the authority responsible for the decision.

The council does not gain execution rights merely by reviewing a matter. It cannot move treasury assets, deploy contracts, activate providers, override security controls, or replace a formally designated DAO. Composition, quorum, voting rights, and active authority remain unresolved until granted by an effective decision.