Shutter Champions Application - DAO Governance Tracker by BuidlGuidl

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1. Applicant Information

Applicant Name(s) Pablo, on behalf of BuidlGuidl

Application Type

  • :check_box_with_check: Myself
  • ☐ Someone else

2. Contributor Information

Contributor Name(s) BuidlGuidl

Contributor Wallet Address 0x6A4E5ed62d3827128Dbd70c5bDe25C0e6c6aA537 // admin.buidlguidl.eth

3. Contribution Category

Primary Contribution Type

  • ☐ Social Media Creator
  • ☐ EIP Contributor / Promoter
  • ☐ dApp Developer
  • :check_box_with_check: Tool Developer
  • ☐ Shutter DAO 0x36 Role
  • ☐ Other

Category Description Governance tooling for proposal discovery, lifecycle tracking, and governance transparency.

4. Contribution Details

Contribution Title Shutter DAO Governance Tracker

Contribution Status

  • ☐ Completed
  • :check_box_with_check: In Progress
  • ☐ Planned

Description of Contribution BuidlGuidl recently built the initial version of a Governance Tracker for Arbitrum DAO that brings together the full proposal lifecycle across governance tools: forum discussions, off-chain votes, on-chain votes, execution status, vote results, and links back to the original sources.

We would like to adapt this tool for Shutter DAO 0x36.

Governance activity is fragmented across Discourse, Snapshot, and on-chain execution tools (Tally for Arbitrum). This makes it difficult for voters, delegates, contributors, and new community members to quickly overview the status of each proposal.

The Shutter DAO Governance Tracker would provide one searchable interface where users can:

  • Browse Shutter DAO proposals
  • See each proposal’s current lifecycle stage
  • View off-chain and on-chain voting outcomes where available
  • Direct access to the original governance sources

For this grant, we would adapt the existing tracker to Shutter’s governance stack, including Discourse, Snapshot, and Decent. The focus is practical and scoped: reliable data ingestion, proposal matching with AI, lifecycle visibility, voting results, source links, testing with real Shutter governance history, and a short walkthrough for the community.

We are also experimenting with RAG and natural-language querying on top of governance history, but that is outside the scope of this application.

Key Milestones

  1. Shutter governance mapping Review Shutter’s governance sources and define how Discourse, Snapshot, and Decent proposals should be represented and imported.

  2. Data ingestion and proposal matching Add Shutter DAO data sources, implementing Decent integration, adapting Discourse and Snapshot integrations, and matching proposals from the different platforms with AI, to show them as a unified proposal.

  3. Shutter tracker interface Adapt the existing tracker UI for Shutter DAO, including lifecycle stages, voting status, vote results, and source links.

  4. Testing and data review Test against existing Shutter DAO governance history and fix matching, display, and data-quality issues. Automate daily data ingestion and AI matching when the whole workflow is reviewed.

  5. Walkthrough and feedback loop Publish a video walkthrough, share the tracker with the Shutter community, collect feedback, and incorporate feasible improvements.

Impact on Shutter Ecosystem This tool would make Shutter DAO governance easier to follow and easier to participate in.

For voters and delegates, it reduces the time needed to understand where proposals stand. For contributors, it makes proposal history easier to navigate.

Impact can be tracked through:

  • number of indexed Shutter DAO proposals,
  • number of matched proposal lifecycles across governance platforms,
  • tracker usage,
  • search and filter usage,
  • community feedback,
  • data-quality issues discovered and fixed.

Links & Supporting Evidence

5. SHU Funding Request

Requested Amount (USD equivalent) $5,000 in SHU

Justification of Amount This funding would support the adaptation of an already-built governance tracker to Shutter DAO’s specific governance stack.

The grant would cover:

  • Research and mapping of Shutter DAO governance sources
  • Discourse, Snapshot (tweak our current implementation) and Decent data ingestion (new imlementation)
  • Proposal matching across platforms (with AI)
  • Shutter-specific UI tweaks
  • Testing against real governance history
  • Video walkthrough creation
  • Feedback collection and feasible small post-launch improvements

We are not asking for funding to build a full product from scratch. The initial version is already implemented for Arbitrum DAO (to be announced this week). This grant would fund the work required to adapt it for Shutter DAO, validate the data flow, and make it useful for the Shutter community.

6. Additional Information

Previous Contributions to Shutter No direct previous contributions to Shutter yet. This application is intended as a first concrete contribution from BuidlGuidl to the Shutter ecosystem.

Collaboration / Team Members BuidlGuidl team for this project:

Anything Else We believe governance data should be easier to access, verify, and understand. DAOs already produce valuable governance history, but that history is often scattered across tools. The Governance Tracker is our attempt to make that activity easier to follow without replacing the original sources.

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Thanks for your application!

A couple follow up questions:

  • What is the timeframe for completing Milestones 1-5?

  • How long would BuidlGuidl commit to maintaining the DAO Governance Tracker for Shutter DAO 0x36 after launch?

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Hi Loring,

Thanks for following up!

Timeframe

With our current workload, we can wrap this up in about two months. If you are on a tight schedule, we could try to adjust our internal planning to get it done in one month.

Commitment

We commit to maintaining the Shutter DAO Governance Tracker in an operational state for 12 months after launch.

During this first year, maintenance would include:

  • Hosting the site.
  • Monitoring and maintaining the core data ingestion flow and AI matching.
  • Fixing bugs.
  • Addressing a first round of minor improvements that emerge from real community usage, especially around data quality, proposal matching, and usability.

This $5,000 grant is scoped as an adaptation of an existing governance tracker, rather than open-ended product development or long-term full-service support. While we are committed to keeping the tracker reliable and useful during its first year, substantial new feature requests, larger governance-stack changes, or hands-on ongoing support would need to be scoped separately.

After the first 12 months, we would evaluate the situation with the community. If the tracker is stable and operating costs remain low, we anticipate being able to continue hosting it at no or minimal additional cost. If the community wants continued enhancements, active maintenance, or broader support, we can discuss a simple yearly maintenance or development arrangement at that time.

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Thanks so much for the detailed replies to my questions. Two additional follow-up:

  • What stage is Arbitrum DAO at with respect to the DAO Governance Tracker - consideration, testing, commitment to use, implemented and used, other? Please share any relevant links.

  • Has Arbitrum DAO provided funding for the DAO Governance Tracker?

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The Arbitrum DAO Governance Tracker is currently a live “prototype”: built, with daily data ingestion and AI matching between stages, open source, and shared with the Arbitrum community for feedback, but not officially adopted or committed to by Arbitrum DAO.

It was built as part of BuidlGuidl’s Arbitrum Builders Cohort work, not through an official Arbitrum DAO RFP or DAO proposal.

Arbitrum DAO has not provided funding for the Governance Tracker. There was builder support from Arbitrum Foundation through the BuidlGuidl / Arbitrum Builders Cohort contribution stream (around ~3k USD streamed to the builders for those contributions), but that is separate from Arbitrum DAO formally funding, commissioning, or adopting the tool.

Relevant links: