Many people work together in the TEIKEI Agora. For this to function well, clear tasks and clear responsibilities are needed.
This page provides you with a simple overview:
Because the TEIKEI Agora is more than just a shop. It connects communities, organizers, producers, logistics, and coordination at different levels.
Not everyone in the TEIKEI Agora has the same task.
Some organize a pickup location. Others produce food. Still others take care of storage, distribution, content, support, or overarching structures.
That's why it's helpful to distinguish three things:
Role
A role describes what task someone takes on in the network.
Area
An area describes what it's about, for example, a community, a pickup location, a warehouse, or a country.
Level
A level describes the scope at which responsibility is carried: local, regional, national, or cross-border.
Only together do these provide a clear picture of how the TEIKEI Agora is structured.
The exact design continues to evolve. However, it's already clear that different roles are needed.
These roles are particularly close to the people and communities on the ground.
Members
People who receive harvest shares or other offerings through the TEIKEI Agora and are part of a community.
Organizers
People who help sustain a community or pickup location, coordinate it, and are available to others.
Ambassadors
People who help build new communities, create connections, and support others in getting started.
Local Helpers
People who assist with distribution, communication, or practical tasks.
These roles are directly related to the production of food and the harvest.
Producers
Farms and people who produce food and contribute it to the network.
Very Local Producers
Businesses or producers who are particularly closely connected to individual communities, regions, or pickup structures.
Harvest and Quantity Coordination
People or areas that consider what quantities can be sensibly and realistically brought into the flow at what times.
These roles become important as soon as larger quantities are received, bundled, forwarded, and distributed.
Collection Warehouses
Locations or people responsible for receiving, collecting, and preparing goods for the next steps.
Distribution Warehouses
Locations or people responsible for dividing goods for multiple communities or supply locations and forwarding them.
Primary Suppliers
Structures that work closely with distribution and larger goods flows. They usually handle significantly larger quantities than individual organizers or local communities. Therefore, they are not primarily at the farm-proximate level but at a logistical interface between production, bundling, distribution, and supply. Depending on the setup, they may also be closely connected to production themselves.
Logistics Coordination
People and structures that organize the transition between delivery, storage, distribution, and pickup locations.
Transport and Route Coordination
Tasks related to routes, sequences, responsibilities, and handovers.
These roles help ensure that the overall system remains understandable, stable, and capable of development.
Admins
People with organizational or technical administrative tasks in specific areas.
Stewards
People with special responsibility for supporting structures and central settings.
Support
People who help with questions, problems, or uncertainties.
Finance and Process Responsibles
People who take care of billing, payment processes, or important workflows.
Knowledge and Structure Responsibles
People who contribute to documentation, orientation, and further development.
The TEIKEI Agora connects different realities.
Some topics concern only a single pickup location. Others concern an entire region. Still others need to be considered at the national level or even cross-border.
That's why different levels of responsibility are needed.
At the local level, it's about what happens directly on the ground.
This includes, for example:
Here, people are needed who are close to the situation and know the local context well.
The regional level connects multiple local locations.
It becomes important when:
Here, the focus is primarily on good coordination.
The national level is important because each country has its own conditions.
This includes, for example:
Therefore, not everything can be regulated only globally. Some responsibilities must lie at the national level.
The cross-border level concerns what affects multiple countries or the entire basic structure of the TEIKEI Agora.
This includes, for example:
This level helps ensure that the network holds together while remaining open to local differences.
The different levels do not work against each other but build on one another.
A local pickup location needs:
A national Agora needs:
A cross-border structure only makes sense if it:
That's why the TEIKEI Agora is a multi-layered network. Responsibility is not distributed randomly but is oriented toward the reality of the network.
A role does not automatically mean that someone has the same access everywhere.
For example, a person can:
This is important to keep the TEIKEI Agora clear and reliable.
Not every role needs the same information.
Not every responsibility requires the same rights.
Not every decision should be made at every level.
The larger and more diverse the network becomes, the more important clarity, transparency, and appropriate responsibilities become.
A good role and responsibility structure helps to:
Roles and responsibilities are therefore not a side issue. They are part of the foundation of the TEIKEI Agora.
This page is the starting point for the topic of Roles & Responsibilities.
In the next step, individual roles can be described in more detail on their own subpages, for example:
Additionally, a role and permission matrix can be created later that shows for each role:
This will gradually create a clear access architecture for the TEIKEI Agora.
The role landscape of the TEIKEI Agora continues to develop. As the network grows, tasks become clearer, new roles emerge, and existing responsibilities are described in more detail.
This starting page serves as an introduction and orientation. Further subpages can later explain individual roles, levels, and areas of responsibility in more detail.
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: 2026-03-25 · Last updated: 2026-03-25 · Questions or feedback? support@teikei.us