Table of contents The Tao of the DAO Why this playbook Acknowledgements Foundations What is a DAO? Collaborative Budgeting & Funding Holographic Consensus Chapter 1 Before your start: What type of DAO do you want to be? Soft and Hard Governance How to run a great decentralized proposal process Step 1: Choose your potion Step 2: Invitation & Onboarding Step 3: Generating direction with high-quality proposals Tactics and methods for generating direction The elements of a good proposal Step 4: Get those proposals funded Step 5: Minimum Viable Accountability In Closing Outlook and Debates Further Reading About the authors