This page provides you with an overview of the structural, technical, and organizational architecture of the Agora.
The Agora is the whole: the shared space that coordinates the Europe-regional food system. It can also be used for products that are not grown in Europe, such as coffee and cocoa.
The Agora Marketplace is the interface of the Agora for communities, commercial buyers, and wholesalers. Here, they order products and harvest shares, pay for them, and view their information and status after logging in.
The economic processing is handled by the respective country or regional structure.
Here, you can see how the Agora functions as a multi-layered structure, how country and regional structures are integrated, and how local product and supply structures fit into this overall picture.
The Agora is not simply a single shop.
The Agora is the whole: the shared space that coordinates the Europe-regional food system.
This architecture connects:
This creates a structure that cleanly connects shared infrastructure, regional autonomy, and concrete supply.
The architecture of the Agora is based on several central ideas:
The Agora is the whole: the shared space that coordinates the Europe-regional food system.
At this level, the following are developed and provided:
The Agora makes visible how supply can be organized collectively without being the operational processor of goods or payments itself.
It connects producers, communities, pickup locations, organizers, logistics, and members at the level of knowledge, standards, coordination, and transparency.
The Agora Marketplace is the interface of the Agora for communities, commercial buyers, and wholesalers. Here, they order products and harvest shares, pay for them, and view their information and status after logging in.
The following are visible and operable there:
The economic processing is handled by the respective country or regional structure.
The following articles explore key aspects of the Agora architecture in more depth.
Here, the subpages for this area are listed and linked:
A central development step is the implementation of a multi-tenant structure.
This means that the Agora does not only have a single operational level but several interconnected levels, each carrying different tasks.
The shared Agora foundation forms the technical and organizational framework of the system.
At this level are:
This level ensures that the marketplaces do not stand isolated next to each other but remain part of a shared infrastructure.
Below or alongside the shared Agora foundation, individual country marketplaces emerge.
Examples include:
Each country marketplace is its own organizational and economic space within the overall system.
There, country-specific offers, responsibilities, language areas, legal forms, payment logics, and supply structures can be mapped.
The respective country structure bears the operational responsibility for concrete supply processes in its context.
Within a country marketplace, further regional levels can be built.
Example:
This level is particularly relevant when regional supply, local producers, and location-based communities should be made visible.
This way, a country can not only be presented generally but can be subdivided into concrete supply landscapes and supply spaces.
Below these levels, categories, harvest shares, and products are classified.
Important here:
Not every food follows exactly the same depth of categorization.
Depending on the product type, a harvest share or product can:
This keeps the structure flexible enough for different forms of supply, logistics, and producer integration.
This classification is not rigid but follows the respective product and supply logic.
The architecture distinguishes four central flows.
This distinction is important so that the different tasks are not mixed up.
The goods flow describes the real movement of food.
It begins with producers, farms, or projects and leads through processing, collection warehouses, distribution warehouses, regional bundling, or direct delivery routes to pickup locations and communities.
The goods flow belongs to the operational supply level of the country and regional structures.
The Agora does not map this goods flow itself to trade goods but provides standards, documentation, interfaces, and transparency tools so that the involved actors can organize the goods flow in a traceable manner.
The money flow describes payments and payouts.
Members pay in the Agora Marketplace. The money goes to the responsible country or regional structure.
From there, funds are passed on to producers, farms, packing houses, logistics, organizers, and other participants in the supply network.
The Agora is not understood as a trading margin in the goods flow.
The basic costs of the shared infrastructure are considered separately and must be transparently distinguished from product-related payments and operational goods processing.
The information flow connects all levels.
Producers, farms, and projects report, for example:
Members and communities report, for example:
The Agora can structure, document, and make this information accessible.
The country and regional structures use this information base to trigger operational supply, assignment, goods flow, and money flow.
Responsibility is also considered separately.
The Agora is responsible for the system foundations.
The country and regional structures are responsible for the concrete economic processing.
Producers, farms, logistics stations, pickup locations, and communities bear responsibility for their respective real subprocess.
This makes it visible:
With such an architecture, the Agora becomes connectable for new countries and at the same time more precise for regional supply.
It creates the foundation to:
Especially for building regional model spaces, this multi-level structure is crucial.
The architecture is divided into several central subtopics.
Already established are the areas in which the basic structure and internal logic are described:
In addition, further subtopics will be added in this area that deepen the architecture in its technical, organizational, and economic form:
One level up: 01 - Agora and Agora Marketplace
Author: Felix Schröder, with the help of AI (ChatGPT)
Creation: written by Felix Schröder › formatted in Markdown by ChatGPT › published by Felix Schröder › layout adjusted by Claude
Created: 2026-03-27 · Last updated: 2026-10-12 · Questions or feedback? support@teikei.us