The democratic workplace problem
Workplace democracy has to survive real tradeoffs. Organizations need repeatable ways to set agendas, prioritize proposals, delegate expertise, and decide contested issues without pretending every issue affects every worker equally.
Nicolas fits the part of that stack where a group needs a decision signal, while legal governance documents, payroll, HR systems, bargaining, and member education remain outside its scope.
Where quadratic voting helps
Quadratic voting lets workers express how strongly they support or oppose alternatives under a finite voice budget. That matters when a small group is deeply affected by one policy while the broader workplace is only mildly interested.
Liquid delegation lets people route decision power toward trusted peers for specific issues, while the final record still shows the support, opposition, costs, and outcome probabilities produced by the mechanism.