PocitBook Is Open

The POCITS business directory is live. PocitBook gives every business, practitioner, and organization in your community a permanent home on the network — searchable, claimable, and community-owned. No algorithm decides who gets found. Your listing belongs to you.

Pocits Foundation
📣

What Matters Most in Your Community Right Now?

The POCITS network is built to surface community priorities — not trending topics from a global feed. What's the most pressing issue, opportunity, or conversation in your neighbourhood? The CMTY hub is where that conversation belongs. Start it here. Your community is listening.

Pocits Foundation
❓

Topic Categories — What Goes Where

TOPX organizes discussion into the same hub taxonomy as the rest of the platform: Commerce (BOOK/MALL), Community (CMTY), Governance (SMARTS), Finance (Trust/Exchange/Reserve), Media (STRM/MEDI), and General. This isn't arbitrary — it means a discussion about a local business dispute routes to th...

Pocits Foundation
🔄

The POCITS Marketplace Is Coming

The MALL hub is the community marketplace — a place to buy, sell, and trade locally, with pocitcoin as the native currency of exchange. Unlike third-party marketplaces, transactions in the MALL keep value circulating in the community. The MALL is currently in development. Merchants can pre-regist...

Pocits Foundation
📣

STRM — Community Broadcasting Is Coming to POCITS

The STRM hub is the POCITS broadcast layer — video, audio, and live content produced by community members and local organizations. Not a clone of existing video platforms, but a community-owned broadcast network where creators earn through direct community participation, not advertiser intermedia...

Pocits Foundation
📣

MEDI — The Community Health Hub

The MEDI hub is the POCITS health and medical directory — a trusted, community-verified resource for finding local health providers, understanding local health services, and navigating the healthcare landscape in your place. Unlike search engine results, MEDI listings are community-verified and d...

Pocits Foundation
📣

Why Local Directories Matter More Than Ever

When a resident searches for a plumber, a dentist, or a bookshop, the result they see is decided by a platform that doesn't know their community. PocitBook changes that. The directory is built by and for the place it serves — results ranked by community trust, not by ad spend.

Pocits Foundation
💡

Membership Tiers — What Each Level Unlocks

POCITS has four participation tiers: Public (read-only), Login (interact), Member (full hub access with a profile), and Resident (SMARTS voting rights). The CMTY hub is fully active at Member level. Building a profile is the step that moves you from observer to participant in your community's dig...

Pocits Foundation
🔄

TOPX and the SMARTS Governance Bridge

The TOPX hub is not just discussion — it is the input layer for SMARTS governance. When a community topic reaches sufficient engagement and consensus, it can be elevated to a formal SMARTS proposal, debated by delegates, and ratified as platform policy. TOPX is where governance begins before it b...

Pocits Foundation
💡

Community Commerce vs. Extraction Commerce

When you buy through a national marketplace, the platform extracts a commission and the profit leaves your community. When you trade in the POCITS MALL, the transaction is peer-to-peer, denominated in pocitcoin, and the network fee recirculates to the county reserve. Commerce that compounds local...

Pocits Foundation
💡

Local Media Sovereignty

Local journalism and local media are collapsing globally because the economics were captured by platforms that don't serve local communities. STRM is built on a different model: content created within a community earns from that community's engagement, with revenue flowing back to the creator and...

Pocits Foundation
💡

Healthcare Access Starts With Local Knowledge

In many communities, the most pressing barrier to healthcare isn't the availability of providers — it's the visibility of those providers to the people who need them. MEDI makes local health services discoverable by community members who may not know where to start. A complete, trusted local heal...

Pocits Foundation
💡

How to Claim Your Business Listing

Thousands of local businesses are already listed in PocitBook — sourced from public records and verified data. If your business is there, claiming it takes minutes. You verify ownership, complete your profile, and your listing moves from unclaimed to community-active. No subscription required at ...

Pocits Foundation
📰

Organizations — Claim Your Community Presence

Non-profits, community groups, sports clubs, faith organizations, and local associations all have a place in the POCITS network. An organization profile gives you a permanent presence in the CMTY hub — post announcements, manage members, and connect with your community without depending on extern...

Pocits Foundation
📰

What Should POCITS Build Next for Your Community?

The POCITS development roadmap is informed by community input. What feature, hub, or tool would make the biggest difference in your local network? Post your answer in TOPX. The Foundation reads every thread. Proposals that gather community consensus can be formally submitted to the PGEF grant pro...

Pocits Foundation
❓

PocitCoin and the Local Economy

Pocitcoin (♓) is the POCITS community currency — not a speculative asset, but a medium of exchange built for community-scale transactions. Merchants earn pocitcoin through verified sales and community participation. Residents earn it through contributions. It is designed to hold value within the ...

Pocits Foundation
💡

The POCITS Creator Economy

Creators on STRM earn pocitcoin from verified community engagement — not from view counts inflated by algorithmic promotion. A video watched and engaged with by 200 genuine community members earns more than a viral clip from outside the network with 10,000 passive views. Quality of community atte...

Pocits Foundation
💡

Health Providers — Build Your MEDI Presence

Physicians, dentists, physiotherapists, mental health practitioners, pharmacists, and allied health professionals can build a MEDI listing through their POCITS professional or expert profile. Listings include specialty, availability status, accepted payment types, and community trust rating. Prac...

Pocits Foundation
📰

Community Commerce and the Local Economy

Every dollar spent locally recirculates through the community at a rate roughly 3× higher than money spent with out-of-area chains. A complete, trusted local directory is infrastructure — the same way roads and utilities are. PocitBook is the POCITS contribution to that infrastructure.

Pocits Foundation
💡

Neighbours Over Algorithms

Most social platforms optimize for engagement — which in practice means amplifying outrage, division, and spectacle. The CMTY hub uses a different model: posts surface by geographic proximity and community trust score, not by what keeps you scrolling longest. Your feed shows your neighbours, not ...

Pocits Foundation
💡

Community Moderation — Not Platform Moderation

Content moderation on most platforms is opaque, inconsistent, and unaccountable. POCITS uses a tiered moderation model: community trust score, elected moderators at the hub level, and SMARTS governance for platform-wide policy. The rules are written by residents, applied by residents, and appeala...

Pocits Foundation
💡

Three Merchant Programmes — Know Your Tier

POCITS supports three merchant participation levels: the free directory tier (PocitBook listing), the active merchant tier (MALL presence + pocitcoin transactions), and the enterprise tier (franchise + multi-location management). Each tier has different pocitcoin holding requirements and communit...

Pocits Foundation
🔄

STRM Phase 2 — What's Being Built

Phase 2 of STRM development includes: community channel creation, live broadcast capability, playlist management, and integration with the MEDI hub for health education content. Organizations can apply for channel designation through their profile. Content moderation uses the same TOPX-linked com...

Pocits Foundation
🔄

Mental Health in the Community Feed

Mental health content in MEDI follows a separate editorial standard — evidence-based, community-reviewed, and connected to verified local supports. The POCITS Foundation partners with community health organizations to ensure that mental health resources in every MEDI hub meet the same standard of...

Pocits Foundation
💡

PocitBook for Brant County — Pre-Population Complete

Brant County is the first fully pre-populated POCITS territory. Hundreds of businesses across Brantford, Paris, Burford, and surrounding communities are already listed. If you're a Brant County business owner, your listing is waiting. Find it, claim it, and take ownership of your community presence.

Pocits Foundation
🔄

Community Sovereignty in Practice

Community sovereignty isn't a slogan — it's a structural principle. On POCITS, the revenue generated by your community's activity stays in your community. Advertising sold in Brant County's feeds is split 60% to the county reserve, 30% to platform operations, and 10% to hub development. The commu...

Pocits Foundation
💡

How Topics Work in POCITS

TOPX topics are tagged by hub, geographic scope, and category. A discussion about a local zoning change stays in the county feed. A debate about platform policy reaches the national stream. Topics can be upvoted to the SMARTS governance layer when they cross a community consensus threshold. Conve...

Pocits Foundation
💡

Merchants — What to Expect at MALL Launch

At MALL launch, verified merchants with active PocitBook listings will be first eligible for MALL presence. Storefronts are profile-linked — your business profile, your directory listing, and your marketplace presence are one unified entity. No separate registrations, no separate logins. Your com...

Pocits Foundation
📰

Organizations — Secure Your STRM Channel Now

Community organizations — news outlets, sports associations, arts groups, schools, and local government bodies — can reserve their STRM channel handle by building a POCITS organization profile now. When STRM launches, verified organizations with established profiles will have priority channel acc...

Pocits Foundation
📰

Brant County MEDI — Providers Coming Online

Brant County is among the first territories to have MEDI pre-seeded with local health provider data. Family health teams, pharmacies, mental health services, and community health centres in Brantford, Paris, and surrounding areas are being added. Providers — your listing is being built. Claim it ...

Pocits Foundation
🔄