Article 2. Roles of Ambassadors

Ambassadors are people who have demonstrated an interest in and ability to help accomplish the Mission and Objectives of the Program and who have been selected by the selection procedures outlined herein.

1. Applicant Selection. Any member of the community may apply to begin the process of becoming an Ambassador. Each Applicant must provide information to present their skills and experience, how they would like to contribute to the program, and must provide their legal name, an actively monitored email address, and an active Discord handle. The Applicant’s legal name must be the name used on the Ambassador Agreement and for any required Know Your Customer validation that occurs prior to token issuance. Apprentice Ambassadors will be selected from the Applicants, and Ambassadors will be selected from the Apprentices after an apprenticeship period. The selection of Apprentices and Ambassadors shall be according to a transparent procedure defined by the Onboarding and Growth Team.
2. Removed by GA Vote Feb 4, 2026
3. Selection of Lead Ambassadors. An Ambassador may be selected to be a Lead Ambassador within an Official Team by a vote of the Ambassadors within the team. Each team must have at least one Lead Ambassador who fluently speaks English. If any team does not currently have an English-speaking lead, the next Lead Ambassador elected must have English fluency. If at any time a team has at least one lead, but no English-speaking Lead Ambassador, that team shall immediately open one additional Lead Ambassador role, with the English-speaking requirement. Any Ambassadors may apply for a Lead vacancy by presenting their ideas and plans to the team, and the decision will be made using simple majority in case of 1 or 2 candidates, or may use ranked choice or simple majority in case of more than 2 candidates. The election for a Lead Ambassador must be advertised at least 30 days in advance with a call for nominations, and the election shall be held within 45 days of the vacancy unless another election date shall be set by a vote of the majority of the current Lead Ambassadors plus the Sponsor Representative. No vacancy shall be left open for more than six months without holding an election.
4. Removed by GA Vote June 2025 https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/remove-ad-hoc-agenda-team/4846
5. Rights of Ambassadors.
1. Removed by GA Vote Feb 4, 2026
2. Removed by GA Vote Feb 4, 2026
3. Role Assignment. Ambassadors will be granted roles in relevant communications platforms to allow them to speak as Ambassadors in the community.
4. Team Participation. Ambassadors may self-select to participate in any Official or Ad hoc Team and must select a Primary Official Team.
   1. Flexibility in Team Selection. Ambassadors may still participate in additional teams but will be assessed primarily based on their contributions to their selected Primary Team.
   2. Primary Team Changes. Primary Team selection can only be modified for the upcoming month by submitting the change to the Sponsor Representative 14 days (UTC) prior to the start of the new month. Once the new month begins, the Primary Team designation for that month will be fixed.
6. Obligations of Ambassadors.
1. Working Hours. Ambassadors are required to contribute at least 16 hours of work within 4 calendar weeks (4 hours per week is normally expected, with allowances for periods of higher and lower contribution spread out over a few weeks to accommodate temporary absence.)
2. Proactive Contribution. Ambassadors are expected to identify their skills such that other Ambassadors are aware of their abilities, and are to proactively identify and pursue opportunities to leverage their skills to contribute to the Mission of the Program.
3. Active in Community. Ambassadors are expected to be active and visible participants in the community across the various community spaces and to contribute to an environment that is welcoming, permissionless, decentralized, and egalitarian.
4. Governance Participation. Ambassadors must participate in the Peer Review Process, fulfilling their obligations as both submitter and reviewer. Ambassadors must vote in General Assemblies, and in votes presented to the Teams they participate in. Failure by any Ambassador to vote in at least ⅔ of the votes before the General Assembly, and at least ⅔ of the votes in their Team(s), is cause for a Complaint under the Conflict Resolution Process.
5. Repealed July 12, 2024.
6. Repealed December 9, 2024.
7. Monitored Communications. Ambassadors must monitor announcements and emails from Sponsor and the Program, and must keep Sponsor advised of an actively monitored email address to be used at all times for official communications.
7. Rights of Lead Ambassadors.
1. Removed by GA Vote Feb 4, 2026
2. Removed by GA Vote Feb 4, 2026
3. Impact on Ambassador Token Grant. While serving in a Lead Ambassador role and earning the Lead Token Grant, earning of tokens under the relevant Ambassador Token Grant or Legacy Ambassador Token Grant will continue, with vesting running in parallel on both the relevant Ambassador Token Grant grant and the relevant Lead Ambassador Token Grant.
4. Role Assignment. Lead Ambassadors will be assigned roles in relevant communications platforms to allow them to speak as Lead Ambassadors in the community.
8. Obligations of Lead Ambassadors.
1. Ambassadors. Lead Ambassadors are Ambassadors and are subject to all of the Obligations of Ambassadors, in addition to the incremental obligations here.
2. Working Hours. Lead Ambassadors will be responsible for an additional 24 hours of work within each 4 calendar weeks for a total, including their 16 hours of Ambassador obligation, of 40 hours per 4-week period, or 10 hours per week on average.
3. Coordinating Team. Lead Ambassadors are expected to coordinate and support the efforts of the Teams they participate in. According to the values of Permissionless and Decentralized, Leads are to operate with the consent of the Team and are not to manage, assign, or delegate, but are to create supporting infrastructure, transparency, and clarity of team purpose that invite and enable the contribution of Ambassadors within the team.
4. Coordinating Across Teams. Lead Ambassadors are expected to coordinate the activities and directions the team is taking in areas that may impact or benefit from the support of other teams. As a group, Lead Ambassadors are expected to create clarity among the various teams and take care of conflicts, overlaps, and gaps across the various purposes, directions, and activities of the teams they lead.
5. Ambassador Selection. Lead Ambassadors are expected to ensure that Ambassador Selection is occurring for openings on their team, providing feedback and encouraging qualified Apprentices to apply, and ensuring applications are being reviewed and quality feedback given to applicants.
9. Contributions and Inventions. While an Ambassador is actively earning tokens as an Ambassador or Lead Ambassador, any and all work produced under the Program, including any work submitted to Peer Review Process, and including the underlying work products and associated intellectual property of the Ambassador therein, is deemed a Contribution and will be licensed to Sponsor via the Apache License, Version 2.0 ( https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ).
10. Peer Review Process. A Peer Review Process operated by the Governance team will validate the performance of Applicant, Apprentice Ambassador, Ambassador and Lead Ambassador Obligations.
1. Peer Groups. The Peer Review Process is conducted within peer groups, where there is a group for Applicants, another group for Apprentices, and a group for Ambassadors which includes Lead Ambassadors. If a Peer Group is not larger than 30 people for any review period, it may be combined with another Peer Group at the discretion of the Governance Team.
2. Review Period. Each Peer Review Process will evaluate submissions within a calendar month. Each Ambassador shall have seven (7) days to provide submissions, and seven (7) days to complete their assigned peer review evaluations once distributed.
3. Submissions. Each Ambassador must create transparency by communicating their incremental Contributions each month. The submission must provide sufficient detail to identify the Contribution(s), validate that they were made during the relevant month, and enable other peers to review and evaluate the Contributions.
4. Evaluations. Each Ambassador in good standing as defined in Article 2, Section 13, at the time evaluation requests are generated must review and score the Contributions of other randomly selected peers each month according to this Process.
5. Failure to Participate. Failure to Participate in the Peer Review process means, during any single peer review cycle, any one of the following violations: i) not providing a Submission on time, or ii) not returning at least one of the requested peer evaluations on time. For purposes of this section, multiple review rounds for a single calendar month of submissions shall be considered one peer review cycle. Any Ambassador who fails to submit evaluations in an initial round shall be excluded from selection as an evaluator in any supplementary rounds for the relevant month. If any Ambassador or Lead Ambassador incurs a Failure to Participate more than twice in any contiguous 6-month period, such person will be automatically terminated from the Program.
6. Inadequate Contribution. Scoring Inadequate for the Published Score for 2 or more months of any rolling 6-month period will automatically refer a Complaint to the Conflict Resolution Team, and the Ambassador's status will be updated to Inadequate Contribution until resolved by the Conflict Resolution Team.
7. Scores. After each Peer Review Process, the Sponsor shall publish updated scores ("Published Score") which shall be "Adequate" or "Inadequate" for each Ambassador. Submissions are to be evaluated as "Adequate" or "Inadequate" by each of up to 3 reviewers in the Peer Review Process. Each "Adequate" review will be scored as 3.0, and each "Inadequate" review will be scored as 1.0. The Published Score will be determined by the average of the reviews recorded for the period for each Ambassador, with a score of less than 2.0 being "Inadequate", and a score of 2.0 or higher being "Adequate".
8. Ambassadors are expected to demonstrate meaningful contribution each month toward the responsibilities of their selected Primary Team, as outlined in Article 3, Section 1.3.
9. Minimum Review Requirement. Up to three (3) attempts should be made to ensure that each Ambassador is afforded three (3) peer reviews per evaluation period. When necessary, up to two (2) supplementary review rounds shall be conducted for those Ambassadors' submissions that do not already have three (3) reviews received. If more than three (3) reviews are received, only the first three (3) reviews received will be counted.
11. Removal of Ambassadors. Ambassadors may be removed from the program for failing to fulfill the Obligations of Ambassadors or by resignation. Any failure to fulfill the Obligations will be determined by the Conflict Resolution Team in accordance with the Conflict Resolution procedures. Any such determination shall be forwarded to the Sponsor for Termination of the Ambassador, and removal will be complete when the Ambassador Agreement has been confirmed to be terminated. The Onboarding and Growth Team is responsible for revoking any necessary Ambassador Rights upon Termination.
12. Recall of Lead Ambassadors. A Lead Ambassador may be Recalled by the relevant Team based on a Supermajority vote of no confidence in the Lead, combined with, when there is not at least one remaining Lead Ambassador, the selection of a new Lead. The Team so voting shall notify the Governance Team and the Sponsor as to the Demotion of the Lead Ambassador, and the Selection of the new Lead Ambassador.
13. Good Standing. An Ambassador shall be considered to be in Good Standing so long as the Ambassador i) is compliant with the Bylaws and their Ambassador Agreement, ii) has no unresolved Complaints before the Conflict Resolution Team, except for complaints regarding Governance Participation, iii) is not currently Failing to Participate or having Inadequate Contribution in the Peer Review Process.
14. Transferability. Membership in the Program and any associated benefits are not transferable. Ambassadors must make their own provisions for inheritance, and the Program will be unable to assist an ambassador whose tokens are lost, stolen, or otherwise improperly managed.