# Avant-Garde Organizing: A Post-DAO Taxonomy

## "The DAO that can be forked, is not the eternal DAO"

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### *In its purest sense of the notion, a DAO never existed and never will.*
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## A future taxonomy of web3 orgs

### Pre-DAOs

* Platform Co-ops
* Mutual Credit Societies

### Variation of a DAO

* Investment DAOs
* Service DAOs
* Social DAOs
* Research DAOs
* DAO-DAOs

### Micro-orgs

* Squads
* Guilds
* Collectives
* Sub-DAOs

### Post-DAOs

* DisCOs
* Transformative Autonomous Organizations (TAOs)
* DLT-based Commons
* [Sovereign Accountable Commons (SACs)](https://blog.holochain.org/daos-why-sovereign-accountable-commons-might-be-better/)
* [DIOs](https://gitcoin.co/blog/dios-decentralized-impact-organizations-for-the-climate/)

### And of course, weird shit

* Moving Castles
* Metalabels