Coordination by meeting
Without explicit commitments between teams, alignment happens in endless syncs and escalations.
Autonomy that scales
Self-management gives teams freedom. Marketlum gives them the economic layer to use it: clear services, explicit agreements and a shared view of the value flowing between them.
The problem
Most self-managed organizations solve who decides. Few solve how value moves between teams. Budgets still come from the top, priorities collide, and nobody can tell which team is creating value and which one is consuming it.
Sound familiar?
Where self-management stalls
Budgets from above
Teams are autonomous on paper, but money is still allocated centrally once a year.
Invisible value
Nobody can see which team serves whom, at what cost, and what it is actually worth.
How does it work?
Turn teams into economic actors
Marketlum treats every team as a small business inside your organization, with its own customers, offers and value balances.
- 01
Map your teams and value
Describe what your organization creates and for whom, using shared taxonomies everyone understands.
- 02
Define services and offers
Each team publishes what it provides to other teams and to the market, with a clear price.
- 03
Agree, don’t assign
Teams sign agreements with each other instead of receiving orders. Commitments become explicit and visible.
- 04
Track value in one event stream
Every exchange lands in one event stream, so each team sees its own value balances and the whole system stays transparent.
Who gains what?
Good for everyone with a stake in the company
Founders & CEOs
Self-management that scales past the first few teams, without you stepping back in to coordinate.
Investors
Autonomous teams whose contribution you can actually see and compare.
Teams
Freedom with clear agreements, so autonomy doesn’t turn into endless meetings.
The shift
From hierarchy to an internal market
Traditional coordination
- Managers assign work
- Annual top-down budgets
- Cost centers with no visible output
- Alignment through escalation
- Growth means more management layers
With Marketlum
- Teams agree on services
- Revenue follows the value a team creates
- Every team has its own value balances
- Alignment through explicit agreements
- Growth means more teams, not more layers
Works with your practice
Bring your own self-management method
Marketlum is the economic layer, not a replacement for your governance. It complements the way you already organize.
Holacracy
Roles and circles decide; Marketlum shows the value they exchange.
Sociocracy
Consent-based circles with clear service agreements between them.
RenDanHeYi
Micro-enterprises with real P&Ls, the model Marketlum was built for.
Homegrown
Your own way of working, with accountable structure underneath.
Who is it for?
From first teams to whole ecosystems
Startups
Scale past 50 people without adding layers of management.
Mid-size companies
Replace growing coordination pain with explicit agreements between teams.
Enterprises
Transform toward a network of autonomous teams, one business area at a time.
Networks, co-ops & DAOs
Coordinate independent people and teams with shared rules and a shared event stream.
Ready to make value visible?
Book a free consultation and we’ll map how Marketlum fits your organization.