AMAGI FAQ

Amagi is a regenerative village model that combines long-term living, shared stewardship of land, and a living economic system. It is designed to support people who want stability, autonomy, and meaningful contribution without the pressure of conventional home ownership or extractive development.

Amagi exists to address three failures at once: unaffordable housing, fragile communities, and extractive development. We are building a practical alternative where people can live securely, contribute meaningfully, and participate in shared upside—while regenerating land, culture, and local economies.

Amagi is the first recorded word for freedom, originating in ancient Sumer. It roughly translates to “return to the mother” or “return to freedom”—not escape from responsibility, but liberation through restoration and integration.

Amagi is built on regenerative land stewardship, shared ownership without forced collectivism, long-term affordability, and a living economic model that rewards contribution rather than extraction.

Amagi is looking for people who are self-responsible, emotionally mature, capable of cooperation, and interested in contributing to something larger than themselves. It is not a place for passive consumption or ideological conformity.

In this current phase, Amagi is explicitly seeking early adopters — people who are open, adventurous, and comfortable stepping into a living project that is still taking shape. Life here involves ambiguity, experimentation, and a willingness to participate while things are still rough around the edges.

More specifically, this includes people building location-independent work or ventures who want a stable home base; practitioners, facilitators, and creatives whose work benefits from a grounded community context; and families who value safety, continuity, and a village-scale environment for daily life.

What unites these profiles is not profession or status, but posture: a long-term orientation, tolerance for uncertainty, and a genuine desire to help shape where and how they live.

Amagi’s first active village, Hidden Valley, is on Koh Phangan, Thailand. It is live, inhabited, and evolving.
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There is a second village in Costa Rica that has officially joined the Amagi Village model.

Yes — though in a simple, early-stage form.
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At the moment, shared spaces include a communal kitchen and dining area with an open-air deck overlooking the valley, a sauna, a massage shala, and a traditional Thai house. The Thai house serves as a flexible, multi-purpose room that residents may use for quiet time, small gatherings, movement practices, or ceremonies.

Amagi hosts small gatherings, community events, and experimental programs. It is not currently operating as a retreat center with fixed public schedules. We do offer the “seeds of synergy pod” workshop once a week, on site and online for those interested in joining as residents or investors. You can learn more about the workshop at amagi.life/retreats

Long-term rental units, limited short-term guest rooms, and trial-residency accommodations depending on availability.

Short stays are limited and priced case-by-case. Amagi is primarily designed for longer-term living rather than tourism.

Amagi is currently forming its initial cohort of 20–30 early adopter residents — people who want to help shape the culture, systems, and physical reality of the village from the inside.

This is a rare opportunity to join at the beginning, influence how Amagi evolves, and grow alongside a committed group of builders, families, practitioners, and founders.

If this resonates, you can start the process by applying here.

The process is designed to support clarity, self-selection, and mutual fit — not gatekeeping.
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It typically unfolds in stages: initial resonance and inquiry, a deeper alignment conversation, a clearer expression of intent, and finally a commitment step for those moving toward residency. Each stage acts as a natural threshold, helping both sides feel grounded before going further.
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The goal is not speed, but coherence — so that those who join are genuinely aligned with the project and with one another.

Early residents help shape culture, systems, and physical spaces. This comes with influence—and responsibility.

Amagi is not designed for purely passive renting.
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While there is no requirement to make a long-term or permanent commitment, joining Amagi does assume a baseline level of participation and care for the place you live in. Residents are expected to relate to the village as something they are part of — not simply a service they consume.
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This means you can start lightly and without long-term lock-in, while still entering a shared stewardship model rather than a conventional landlord–tenant relationship.

Some contribution-based arrangements exist, but Amagi does not run a general volunteer program.

Possibly. Events must align with Amagi’s values and capacity. All proposals are reviewed individually. Send an email with your idea to welcome@amagi.life

Amagi separates three things that are usually tangled together in real estate:
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a place to live, a sense of ownership, and participation in long-term value.
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Instead of tying all three to buying a specific property, Amagi uses a village-level model. Housing is accessed through rent, while ownership and long-term participation are expressed through tokens that relate to the village as a whole rather than to individual homes.
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This allows people to live at Amagi without needing large upfront capital, while still giving them a clear path to become long-term participants in the economic life of the village.
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The result is a system that prioritizes stability and affordability for residents, while still enabling shared upside as the village grows and matures.

At Amagi, equity is not concentrated in individual houses. Instead, ownership is oriented around the village as a collective organism.
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Rather than owning a specific unit, participants gradually build a stake in the shared system — including housing, land stewardship, and village-based ventures — through token participation.

This means value is created and shared at the level where it actually emerges: from the village as a whole, not from isolated properties.
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This approach aligns incentives differently. When the village thrives, residents benefit. When residents contribute, the village strengthens. Equity is therefore not a speculative bet on property prices, but a long-term relationship with a living place and community.

Amagi uses tokens as coordination tools — not as speculative assets.
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They allow the village to separate use, access, and shared upside in a clean and transparent way, without relying on conventional real-estate ownership or extractive financial structures.
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In simple terms:
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• One mechanism exists to make housing affordable and stable
• Another exists to allow people to participate in the long-term value of the village as a whole
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These two roles are intentionally distinct.

HOME tokens are a utility mechanism tied directly to housing.

They reduce your monthly housing cost: the more HOME you hold, the less rent you pay. HOME is designed to be predictable, functional, and closely linked to the real physical capacity of the village — housing units, infrastructure, and shared spaces.

HOME is not designed for short-term trading or speculation. Its purpose is to create long-term housing security and alignment between residents and the village.

AMAGI tokens represent participation in the broader Amagi ecosystem.

As villages grow, shared infrastructure matures, and resident-led ventures emerge, AMAGI reflects participation in that collective value creation. Over time, this may include multiple villages, shared services, and a wider network — all grounded in the real activities, relationships, and ventures that emerge from village life over time.

AMAGI is designed to reward long-term alignment, contribution, and patience.

HOME and AMAGI serve different purposes, but they are intentionally connected.

Participation in housing through HOME also establishes participation in the wider ecosystem. As residents live, contribute, and remain aligned over time, AMAGI is accrued as a reflection of that ongoing relationship — not as a guaranteed financial yield, but as recognition of participation in the system.

This linkage is designed to keep housing, community, and long-term value creation aligned rather than siloed.

Yes. Many residents do.

HOME supports your day-to-day living and housing costs.

AMAGI reflects longer-term participation in the village and network.

They are complementary, not competing.

In some cases, yes — subject to availability and legal eligibility.
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That said, Amagi is not optimized for passive token holders. The system is designed first and foremost for residents, contributors, and long-term participants.

Yes, for qualified participants. Please contact welcome@amagi.life for more information.

The minimum entry commitment is a $1,000 purchase of HOME tokens.

This establishes housing participation and makes every resident an owner from the moment they join.

Yes. Current token offerings are governed by a SAFT (Simple Agreement for Future Tokens), which is a formal legal agreement outlining rights, terms, and conditions.

The HOME calculator is a clarity tool.

It allows you to explore how different levels of HOME participation affect housing costs over time, and how long-term involvement compounds. It is meant to support informed decisions — not to promise outcomes or returns.

You can access the calculator here.

Amagi is a long-term, experimental project.

Participation is illiquid, outcomes are uncertain, and value accrues slowly. This is not designed for short-term financial returns, but for people who are aligned with building something real over time.

At Amagi, ownership is abstracted away from individual plots or buildings. Rather than owning a specific house or piece of land, participants hold a share in a trust that collectively owns and stewards the village land and assets.

This structure allows non-Thai residents to participate in ownership legally and transparently, without running into the constraints typical of individual land ownership in Thailand.

Homes and shared structures are developed through the village, not as standalone private projects. New housing capacity is created in response to real demand and is integrated into the broader village system.

Costs are based on real construction, infrastructure, and site development expenses, with transparency around what is being built and why. There is no speculative pricing or detached real-estate markup.

Amagi favors modular, adaptable, and site-appropriate designs rather than fixed catalogs of homes. The emphasis is on flexibility, longevity, and harmony with the land.

Rather than locking in a rigid blueprint, Amagi grows through an iterative, minimum-viable approach — building the next most alive and necessary piece based on lived experience.

Because real villages evolve. Amagi prioritizes learning, adaptation, and responsiveness over prediction and over-planning.

Yes. Amagi is structured to operate within Thai legal and regulatory frameworks, using local entities and professional oversight.

At Amagi, ownership is abstracted away from individual plots or buildings. Rather than owning a specific house or piece of land, participants hold a share in a trust that collectively owns and stewards the village land and assets.
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This structure allows non-Thai residents to participate in ownership legally and transparently, without running into the constraints typical of individual land ownership in Thailand.

Depending on involvement, participants may sign residency agreements, participation agreements, or token-related contracts. These are designed to reflect real rights and responsibilities rather than symbolic ownership.

Our current cost for a studio is $580 USD per month.

Our current cost for a 1 BR unit is $1,160 USD per month.

Our current cost for a 2 BR unit is $2500 USD per month.

Yes. Amagi is committed to long-term affordability and stability for residents.
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Rental rates are designed to change slowly and predictably, in line with real operating costs and inflation, rather than market speculation or short-term demand spikes. The intent is to offer housing security that supports long-term living, not extractive pricing.

Rent covers your housing, internet, and access to shared community spaces.

Yes. In addition to rent, residents contribute a modest community maintenance fee. This supports the upkeep, care, and day-to-day operation of shared spaces, infrastructure, and the village as a whole.

Amagi is regenerative first and foremost at the model level.
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Its financial, ownership, and governance structures are designed to avoid extraction — from land, from people, and from the future — and instead circulate value back into housing, community, and long-term resilience. Physical regeneration follows from this foundation.
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In other words, the village is designed so that how it grows, funds itself, and distributes value already supports regeneration before any specific ecological intervention is added.

Amagi is currently in an early pioneer phase, where the focus has been on establishing stable living conditions and core infrastructure.

Even at this stage, the village composts organic waste on-site and actively sorts waste for recycling. These are modest but concrete first steps toward closing local loops and reducing environmental impact.

Additional physical regeneration practices — such as expanded composting systems, rainwater retention, soil restoration, native planting, and low-impact building systems — are next on the implementation path as the village matures.

At Amagi, there are no passive consumers.
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Every resident is an owner — even at the minimum entry level — and therefore participates in a regenerative financial and social system by default. Early residents also play an active role in shaping governance, culture, and the physical evolution of the village itself.
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Regeneration here is not a volunteer activity layered on top of consumption; it is embedded in how the village is owned, funded, and stewarded.

Governance at Amagi is being actively prototyped.
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Rather than imposing a fixed governance system upfront, structures are emerging through lived experience, real decisions, and actual tensions — then formalized as they prove useful.

Different domains have different decision-holders. Some decisions sit with residents, some with stewards, and some with the core team. Not everything is collective, and not everything is centralized.

As the village grows, governance becomes more explicit and distributed — informed by what has already been tested in practice.

Participation is modular. Exit paths and role changes are handled through clear agreements rather than informal social pressure.

Flight to Koh Samui or Surat Thani, followed by ferry to Koh Phangan.

Taxi or arranged pickup. Amagi’s Hidden Valley is about a 15-min ride from the pier.

Bangkok → Koh Samui → Koh Phangan.
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There are also direct flights to Koh Samui from regional hubs such as Singapore and Hong Kong.

Yes, in many cases.

Most passport holders receive an automatic 60-day tourist entry on arrival, which can typically be extended once for an additional 30 days.
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For longer stays, there are several visa options depending on your situation.

Common options include:
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• Tourist visas
• Destination Thailand Visa (DTV) for remote workers and digital nomads
• Education visas (e.g. Thai language, Muay Thai, cultural studies)
• Long-stay visas
• Business and investment-related visas

Guidance yes; legal responsibility remains yours.

Currently, no.
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In the future, this may become possible for long-term stewards who join the core team, but it is not something we offer at this stage.

Possibly, under structured partnership agreements.

Strong local partners, aligned land, and committed stewards.