About Umia
A full-stack platform for launching and operating agentic ventures
Umia is a full-stack, programmable platform purpose-built for the speed of agentic teams. Through Umia, a founder can go from a GitHub repo to a legally formed, token-issuing, community-governed venture in minutes.
Why Umia Exists
AI agents are transforming how software gets built. A solo founder with the right tooling can now ship a new product version in hours, manage infrastructure, run analytics, and coordinate marketing, all through agentic workflows. This gives birth to the agentic venture: a software business where a small team sets strategy while AI agents scale execution across every function.
But venture formation (legal structure, fundraising, governance) has not kept pace. SAFEs were designed for a world where startups need months to iterate. Traditional governance assumes quarterly board meetings. Community feedback mechanisms are unstructured and slow.
Umia closes this gap with a method of capital formation and governance that scales as efficiently as the ventures it supports.
Core Components
Tailored Auctions
Umia's onchain fundraising mechanism, powered by Uniswap's Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA). Founders customize their token launch with audience targeting via zkTLS, allocation caps, refund logic, and oversubscription handling. Price discovery runs fully onchain over a 7-day window, and proceeds automatically seed a Uniswap V4 pool.
Decision Markets
After launch, all strategic decisions are made through futarchic decision markets: specialized prediction markets that price the expected outcomes of proposed actions.
Rather than coin-voting, traders buy and sell conditional tokens based on how they think a decision will affect the token's value. The market with the higher implied value wins, and the treasury contract executes the decision. Losing markets unwind, and traders can redeem their tokens as if no trade happened.
The following actions can be executed using decision markets:
| Decision Type | Function |
|---|---|
| Token minting and burning | Mint or burn tokens to raise funds, pay management, or set up joint ventures. |
| Team compensation | Pay packages tied to token price milestones, with portions vesting as the token appreciates. |
| Treasury spending | Approve spending above the monthly disbursement limit. Any change to treasury allocation goes through a governance proposal. |
| Acquisitions | Propose partnerships, joint ventures, or new business relationships that bring new capabilities or open new markets. |
| Strategic pivots | Change the operating agreement, restructure the organization, or shift the venture's direction through a governance proposal. |
| Company liquidation or dissolution | Liquidate the treasury and shut down the organization. The last resort for tokenholders to protect their investment. |
Umia CLI
The primary interface for founders. Run umia venture init to submit project details, configure tokenomics, and kick off the legal formation process.
The CLI also supports umia evaluate for agentic project assessment and umia venture apply for the Community Track listing process. Thanks to Umia Agent Skills, your AI agent can guide you through the entire setup.
Legal Framework (Umia SPC)
Every venture is established under a Cayman legal wrapper built on the MetaLex BORG framework. The key rule: decision-making authority is delegated to an onchain treasury smart contract, not the founding team. This gives projects legal personhood for contracts and operating agreements, while ensuring tokenholders have real, enforceable governance rights. No legal setup fees and no paperwork. The IP, operating team, and treasury all sit under one entity.
This is possible through the Umia SPC (Segregated Portfolio Company). As a SubCo, there is no cost to setup the company, while it still enjoys the same benefits and full legal personhood. If desired, the company has full flexibility to spinoff in the future.
The Hybrid Governance Model
Umia's governance gives founders full operational control while giving the community real economic influence over strategic direction:
- Operational leadership stays with the founder. Day-to-day decisions, such as product direction, agent management, shipping et al., are not subject to market approval.
- Strategic decisions go to decision markets. Token minting, treasury spending, team compensation, acquisitions, pivots, and liquidation are all resolved through markets.
- The community acts as a board of directors, not a C-suite. They set guardrails and validate direction, but don't run operations.
- AI agents remain tools, not decision-makers. Humans provide judgment and direction; agents execute; markets validate.
This model is a direct response to the tradeoff founders face today: raise quickly but lose control (DAOs), or retain control but sacrifice community alignment (traditional equity). Umia offers a third path.
The Third Path
Umia's hybrid model gives founders full operational control while the community acts as a board of directors through decision markets. No coin-voting, no quarterly board meetings.
Noncustodial Treasury
Umia's treasury lives directly onchain, governed only by decision markets. The founding team has neither custody nor control at any time. An automatic monthly disbursement covers development and go-to-market costs, and any other treasury change requires a governance proposal resolved within 72 hours by decision markets.
Who Is Umia For?
Founders: Crypto-native builders using AI to ship fast. If you have a repo and a vision, Umia gets you from idea to funded venture in minutes, with legal structure, treasury, and governance built in.
Tokenholders and Traders: Trade-savvy participants seeking early exposure to the agentic economy. Through decision markets, your participation is economically motivated, and you profit by being right about which decisions will increase token value.
Liquid Funds: Institutional participants looking for early, structured exposure to agentic ventures with real governance rights and noncustodial treasury guarantees.