Liana Banyan’s letter archive documents every outreach effort — from Crown invitations to lead the Sweet Sixteen Initiatives, to backer conversations, media pitches, and academic partnerships. Each letter is a real document sent (or prepared to send) to a real person.
Letter Categories#
One-to-one invitations to lead the Sweet Sixteen Initiatives. Each Crown is the First Seat on a council — the tie-breaker, the standard-setter, the voice on the Steering Committee.
Crown Letters (At-Large) — 4 letters#
Crown-level letters to public figures whose influence spans multiple initiatives: AOC, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Outreach to backers, philanthropists, and economic thinkers who understand cooperative models and patient capital.
Letters to journalists, commentators, and cultural voices — from Kara Swisher to Taylor Swift — who shape public understanding of technology and economics.
Engagement with researchers, economists, and thought leaders whose work validates (or challenges) the cooperative commerce model.
Media pitches to publications from The Verge to the Wall Street Journal — tailored angles for different audiences.
Outreach to potential manufacturing, technology, and community partners.
Letters of admiration and invitation to figures like Dolly Parton and Jimmy Kimmel — people whose values align with the mission.
Letters addressing healthcare access, the Tatiana Schlossburg Health Accords, and the human stories that drive community wellness.
Legal counsel and advisory outreach.
Total: 94 letters — and growing.
Every letter here is public. Transparency is not a marketing strategy — it’s a structural commitment. If the math doesn’t work, you’ll see it. If the vision is flawed, you’ll read it. We publish our outreach because we believe the work speaks for itself.
Dear Representative Ocasio-Cortez,
You have spent your career saying the economy should work for the people who actually work in it. I spent nine years building one that does.
Liana Banyan is a cooperative commerce platform — three commercial websites with a constitutionally locked Cost+20% margin that sustainably funds sixteen charitable initiatives across food security, healthcare access, education, financial inclusion, civic engagement, and crisis response. Creators keep 83.3% of every transaction. Workers own the platform. Membership costs five dollars a year. No venture capital. No shareholders extracting value. No exit strategy — because the point is not to sell it, it is to sustain it.
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Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,
You told a crowd of graduates that there is no such thing as a self-made man. You listed every person who helped you — coaches, training partners, teachers, the country that took you in — and you said the words out loud that most successful people are afraid to say: “I didn’t do this alone.”
Neither did anyone. And I built a platform around that fact.
Liana Banyan is a cooperative commerce platform — three commercial websites with a constitutionally locked Cost+20% margin that sustainably funds sixteen charitable initiatives. Creators keep 83.3% of every transaction. Workers own the platform. Five dollars a year to join. No venture capital. No shareholders. No exit strategy. The operating agreement locks the economics so no future board can extract what belongs to the members.
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Dear Mr. Reeves,
You gave your Matrix earnings to the special effects and costume design crews because you thought they deserved it more. You ride the subway. You gave up your seat. You have been one of the most famous people on Earth for thirty years and you behave like a person who genuinely does not believe he is more important than anyone else.
That is not humility as a performance. That is a worldview. And I built a platform around it.
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Dear Ms. Bullock,
After Hurricane Katrina, you gave a million dollars. After the tsunami, you gave a million dollars. After Hurricane Harvey, you gave a million dollars. After the wildfires, you gave a million dollars. And in between, you built — quietly, without press conferences, without a foundation logo on every wall — the actual infrastructure of recovery that most people never see.
You rebuild communities after disasters. I am building one before the next one hits.
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Circle 3: Academics & Platform Cooperativism Letters to those who can validate and improve the model.
Crown Letters are one-to-one invitations to specific individuals chosen for their expertise, values, and track record. Each Crown leads a council as the First Seat — the tie-breaker, the standard-setter, and the voice on Liana Banyan’s Steering Committee.
22 letters across the Sweet Sixteen Initiatives.
Circle 1: Backers & Philanthropists Letters to those who can fund the revolution.
Circle 2: Media & Creators Letters to those who can spread the word.
Letters focused on healthcare — from the Tatiana Schlossburg Health Accords to community wellness infrastructure and the human stories that drive them.
3 letters in this collection.