Systems Thinking for People, Place & Planet
When progress excludes the people it claims to serve, we lose more than opportunity, we lose trust and relationship. We work with multi-disciplinary teams made up of community partners, nonprofits, academia, foundations, governments, and the private sector, to build systems where innovation serves everyone.
Focus Areas
Complex challenges require looking at problems from multiple angles. Our focus areas work together as an integrated approach.
Building public infrastructure for intelligence. Moving from "non-extractive" compliance to "generative" digital commons.
ExploreTransition finance infrastructure. Designing blended capital stacks and valuing resilience (non-monetary returns).
ExploreDeep democracy and network weaving. Relationships are the primary infrastructure of any system.
ExploreFrom "reports" to "digital gardens." Translating lab insights into community tools (Lab-to-Land).
ExploreAnticipatory governance. Stewarding systems through uncertainty using biological intelligence.
ExploreWe apply these lenses to Housing, Climate, Health, and Democracy.
"The measure of innovation isn't speed to market - it's whether the people affected had a say in shaping it."
Read our Theory of Change →Featured Work
Our initiatives demonstrate how foundational lenses work across different verticals. Every project combines multiple perspectives.
With Northern Indigenous Communities
Developing protocols for community ownership and governance of data, ensuring information collected about communities remains under their control.
With Regional Foundation Partners
Redesigning funding processes to center community voice in decisions about resource allocation.
With Municipal Government
Collaborative mapping of housing system dynamics, identifying intervention points for cascading positive effects.
Whether you're a funder rethinking your approach, a government exploring participatory methods, or a community organization building power - we'd welcome a conversation.
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