Overview
The main O2A nouns and how they hold organizational, commercial, and financial meaning.
Core entities are the main nouns O2A uses to describe composable organizations.
Entity statements
Entities are the things O2A talks about: the organizational units, the capabilities they offer, the agreements that bind them, and the financial surfaces where value lives. Reach for this section when you need to know what something is — its identity, what owns it, what it can contain, and how it participates.
How It Works
The entities form a connected graph rather than an isolated glossary. A Node owns Offerings (and Bundles compose them), Nodes enter Contracts that carry Milestones, Oracles supply the evidence those Milestones gate on, and the financial surfaces — Wallet, Ledger Event, Cap Table — track the money and ownership that result. Start with the entity you need and follow the links into its neighbors.
Organization
The rooted tree of Nodes — the outermost frame everything else composes into.
Node
The organizational unit and the root of topology, ownership, lifecycle, wallets, and participation.
Offering
Something the organization makes available to others (sold, granted, provided); its economic shape comes from its configured Offering Nature.
Bundle
Two or more Offerings sold together all-or-nothing, with revenue routed back to each component's wallet.
Contract
A governed commitment among party Nodes: Purchase, Revenue Split, or Investment, with milestones and evidence.
Milestone
A reviewable checkpoint inside a Contract; gates contract effects without driving the Contract's own lifecycle.
Wallet
A scope for value movement; each Node carries a default wallet plus one per Offering it owns.
Ledger Event
The append-only financial fact every balance, P&L view, and cost-of-goods figure is derived from.
Cap Table
Who owns each Node, expressed in basis points (parts per ten thousand) that always sum to 10,000.
Oracle
A named evidence or trigger boundary that Milestones and decisions can rely on.
Configuration Artifact
A governed setup unit (CA-XXXXXX) with its own lifecycle and dependency rules.
Why It Matters
Every other family in O2A — lifecycles, financial views, configuration — refers back to these nouns. Topology hangs off Nodes; agreements bind Nodes through Contracts; value moves through Wallets and is recorded as Ledger Events; ownership lives in Cap Tables; setup is governed by Configuration Artifacts. Getting these definitions precise is what keeps the rest of the standard coherent.