Core: Agency vs Determinism Power: Speech vs Token (agentic/creative power vs unitized/fungible power) Security: observability vs enforcement (internal vs external, wright-bros human steering vs explicit structural steering) Change: human-driven accountable state changes, vs Smart Contracts Evolution: Alignment & Convergence through Discourse vs Governance through pre-ordained mechanism An Introduction We propose a class of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) that emphasize some of the difficult human interaction and governance processes that traditional DAOs attempt to limit through tokenization and smart contracts. We like to call these “Soft DAOs” because they don’t start from the introduction of code hardened solutions to these difficulties.