An Organizational Home for Open Ledger Innovation

Sharealedger is an open, collaborative non-profit business league dedicated to improving business measurement, sharing financial data safely, and modernizing ledger architectures.

Core Principles

  • Consistent Data: High-performance ledger foundations with balance & transaction clarity.
  • Interoperable Standards: Multi-organization collaboration without proprietary vendor lock-in.
  • Accurate & Accessible: Bringing advanced financial management capabilities to 1 billion people worldwide.
Featured Educational Gateway

LedgerLearning & Conversations with Kip

LedgerLearning serves as the primary educational gateway for ledger principles, accounting history, and business system innovation. Hosted by Sharealedger founder Kip Twitchell, it bridges foundational theory with modern computing architecture.

Conversations with Kip

In-depth video explorations on financial data, accounting AI, and shared systems.

Foundational Lectures

Guest lectures with academic leaders like Dr. William E. McCarthy (MSU REA framework).

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Featured: Principles Behind Sharealedger

Guest lecture by Kip Twitchell for Michigan State University students under the direction of Dr. William E. McCarthy.

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Reports of Collaborative Work

Sharealedger convenes thinkers, practitioners, and technologists to investigate specific ledger problems. Here are highlights from our ongoing and completed exchanges.

AI & Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping and AI: Why So Little Progress?

A three-part recorded dialogue with Tom Hall exploring Entity concepts, Metric Engines vs Search Engines, key identifiers, and mathematical formulations for machine automation in accounting.
Architecture

Financial Systems Time and Scope

Exchanges between Adeolu "Ade" Alao, Sandy Peresie, and Kip Twitchell exploring predictive cash-flow forecasting from structured contracts, capital accumulation, and shared ledger simulations.
Vision & Roadmap

Vision for a New Financial World

A foundational roadmap to bring 1 billion people into the digital economy through unified balance and transaction models, removing redundant reconciliation across organizations.
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The Sharealedger Project Family

We maintain dedicated repositories for conceptual foundations, high-performance ledger prototypes, and collaborative experiments.

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Conceptual Model

Perspective-independent business concepts, invariants, relationship diagrams, and worked examples representing economic reality before applying siloed accounting constraints.

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Open ERP & GenevaERS

Exploring whether high-performance columnar rules-based engines (such as the open source GenevaERS mainframe engine) can provide the foundation for an open, configurable ERP ledger.

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Ledger Lab

Software prototyping, benchmarking, and empirical measurement to evaluate shared ledger performance, transaction pipelines, and data models at scale.

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Participate in Sharealedger

Membership in Sharealedger is GitHub-access based. Members gain access to private working repositories, slide decks, research materials, and the community listserv. Dues are currently gratis for all approved participants.

How to Join (Exhibit L) Submit GitHub Membership Request