Membership that grows into citizenship. The passport is the document you claim on the way in — a record of what you make and how you carry yourself, not where you were born.
Open your passportA subscription is rented belonging: pay, enter, lapse, forget. Citizenship is owned. In time, being part of Sunbeam should feel less like paying for access and more like belonging to a place — a place where people know your name wherever we’ve put down roots, and where there’s a document to match. We’re saying it out loud now so you can hold us to it.
One passport, two kinds of citizen. Both real, both stamped, both welcome at the door.
You live or work where a hub is — part of its daily fabric. The desks, the dinners, the people who notice when you don’t show up.
Remote, roaming, or between cities — your membership travels with you, and the doors still know you when you land.
Proportionate, honest, and worth it. You give in the form that’s true to your means — and residency shapes what’s fair. Residents lean on the place more, so they give more; non-residents give lighter, but they give. Nobody audits. The honor system scales because the people were chosen well.
It’s the same principle ✹Community runs on today — each to their means.
Beams earned, cities lived, disciplines learned, work shipped. Every page a record of things that actually happened.
Granted, never bought — the credential thread that runs through everything.
The Spaces you’ve called home, city by city.
The things you went deep on in School.
The work — finished and real.
Countries issue travel documents. We’re some kids with some ideas. This one crosses no borders and impresses no customs officers — it just means something to the people on the other side of ours.
Ed25519-signed tokens, published keys, MRZ check digits. Any service can verify a passport with one cached key — no account with us required. Try it →
One desk action creates or finds your Sunbeam identity and issues its passport.
Open the sign-in link. There is no separate sign-up or claim step.
The document is already waiting for your identity, ready to carry the record of what you make.
The passport exists from day one. Its meaning grows over time.
No. Countries make those. Ours just tells our people what you’ve made and how you carry yourself — which, around here, opens more doors.
By invitation. Your passport is issued directly to your Sunbeam identity, and the email link takes you to it.
Yes. Its signed token, published key, MRZ check digits, and public status can be checked without an account with us.
No. A service can cache the public key and verify the signed passport token offline. Going online adds the latest revocation status and public ledger.
Projects from Sunbeam
Things we’ve already shipped. Proof we mean it.
All live, all real — most of it open source at github.com/sunbeam-za.