Our plan for 2025

In October 2024, our co-op met in Edinburgh to collectively develop our strategy for 2025. In the months since we’ve been busy deepening relationships, meeting with organisers and researchers to collectively develop concept notes, and writing funding applications to make this strategy a reality. In our members meeting this month, we decided to experiment with a new approach to this work. Rather than keeping everything behind closed doors, we want to speak publicly about our ambitions for the year, doubling down on radical transparency and our core value of interdependence. The following post is a lightly edited combination of the funding applications we’ve recently submitted and our internal strategy statement.

Part of our motivation for this is that three of these funding bids have been rejected in the past few months. This is of course a very common occurrence when applying for funding — the rule rather than the exception. However, we would like to be honest and transparent about these “failures” as well, not only sharing our success stories. We prefer to see failure as an opportunity for reflection and growth. We realise that it is a privilege to be bidding for funding to do social justice work, and we’re thankful to everyone who has supported us or collaborated with us to ensure our continued existence. We are all deeply grateful that we are able to work full time on movement work. However, if we simply process these losses internally and move on to writing the next bid, nothing will change for us or the movement more generally.

The issues with funding movement work isn’t just about us as an individual organisation. There are structural problems that desperately need to be addressed if we are to meet the scale of the problems we face. The Civic Power Fund has done some incredible work in this area, analysing existing funding practices and calling on funders to commit more to social justice and grassroots organising. In a political climate where big money is steering global politics in such dangerous directions, this is brave of them and we commend them for it.

We’re interested in developing new propositions to address the challenges of resourcing long-term, intersectional infrastructural work more broadly. We want to expand our capacity to act, not just us as an individual organisation but the ecology of organisations that we are part of. This is not just about taking action according to what is currently possible, but also about acting to transform the constraints we face and expanding the range of possibilities available to us all.

We’ve heard from funders and other allies that more and more groups are working on shared infrastructure rather than one-off projects. The demand is there but unfortunately the funding landscape hasn’t yet caught up. Lucky for us we believe fundamentally in the future, and that infrastructural work requires a relentlessly propositional approach. We hope that by putting this out into the open we can connect with other organisers and organisations who are thinking about the same challenges.

Movement initiatives are inherently collaborative endeavours. This is an open invitation for organisers, technologists and researchers: let’s move these ideas forward! Help us flesh out our concept notes — challenge us, add detail, help us see new angles, let us know how these proposals would help your own work. We’d love to co-bid on funding together so we can make some of the projects a reality.

If you’re a funder: we are of course open to funding, feedback on this and our work in general, and also just to have a chat. Anyone can book a meeting directly in our calendar, or send us an email at hello@commonknowledge.coop.

The Challenge

In our local context, the Labour Party has won power but with a shallow support base, due to a highly efficiently distributed vote that optimised for the contours of the electoral map. On headline polling, Labour is rapidly declining in popularity, in a situation of unprecedented electoral volatility. Meanwhile, Reform UK is gaining in popularity and legitimacy, coming second in 98 seats and continuing to push the Overton window towards the right, threatening both Labour and the Conservatives electorally. Labour’s strategic response to the threat of Reform is to double down on anti-migrant rhetoric and practice, advertising the rapid pace of deportations, demonstrating the continued capacity of Nigel Farage to wield power and shape political contexts without holding major office.

Simultaneously, the British state is significantly curtailing political protest and progressive struggles from climate organising to Palestine solidarity, cracking down on protest movements with new more centralised investigative police units. The Labour Government is establishing how to practically work with the Trump’s administration, even as they develop into a mature fascistic project, seeing a bespoke trade deal with the US as a better alternative to a politically problematic closer relationship with the EU.

We can be confident that tendencies towards hardened borders and political repression will only continue as the Long Emergency of climate change destabilises our societies and exacerbates existing inequalities. Social movements are fragmented along single issue lines and have ultimately been unable to effectively contest the ruling hegemony through a coherent movement of vision. As yet, the capacity and ambition of our movements does not match that of our opponents.

Our specific interest in this problem is that the digital technologies currently available for political organising are not fit for purpose. The options available are either proprietary consumer technology made by for-profit organisations, campaigning tools that silo organisational data and encourage mobilising instead of deep, relational organising, or custom tools. These tools are either built by well-meaning but unreliable tech volunteers or digital agencies building one-off bespoke products, an option which is unaffordable for most grassroots organisations.

Building Movement Infrastructure

We see an opportunity to enable a movement ecological approach and build power across movement causes by building and maintaining shared digital infrastructure. Our goal is to facilitate organisations to pool resources and time, share data with each other and address problems in collaboration.

Digital infrastructure unlocks economies of scale that simply aren’t available in bespoke software projects. Organisations can pool resources and time, address problems in collaboration, and share data with each other. This approach reduces duplication: both in our work developing the software and the repetitive tasks that organisers are forced to do because their tools don’t meet their needs. Reducing the time spent on these kinds of tasks frees up more time for their core organising work.

Taking a movement infrastructure approach also ensures resilience and longevity: organising tooling and the surrounding relationships are prepared before crises happen, rather than in response to them. Digital infrastructure built specifically for movements will enable more of the organising methodologies that we know work, with less of the friction. It both propagates best practices and encourages innovation through streamlining common organising processes and facilitating inter-organisation collaboration. Good organising practices and their related software persist beyond electoral cycles and movement moments, and beyond the remit of any one organisation.

Working on shared infrastructure in direct collaboration with organisers allows us to build tooling that reorganises how the movement ecology operates and unlock new dynamics: from siloed organisational units with their own separate data and tools, to interoperable and coalitional vehicles that can physically and digitally communicate, share data and co-organise in novel ways.

Our Work So far

Through our work, we look for ways to address shared challenges and enable best practice methodologies through common tooling, training offerings and resources. We work in close collaboration with organisers, defining features based on their requests, democratically deciding what to work on and designing, building, and testing whatever we make directly with them.

Mapped

Our flagship product is Mapped , a tool that integrates with many different CRMs and augments them with datasets to provide dynamic, actionable views of membership data, shifting the focus from isolated data management to a holistic understanding of organising landscapes. Organisers can use Mapped to visualise membership lists overlaid with contextual geographic, demographic and political data, amongst other dashboards for campaigning. They can also use it to enrich their CRMs with this data to make the targeting features of those CRMs more useful to their own particular context.

We built Mapped because we observed that organisers were restricted by the functionality of their CRMs, which tend to be focused on data collection and broadcast communications. By integrating campaign, organisation, coalition, and statistical data, Mapped offers organisers a comprehensive view of their efforts and relationships, transforming masses of campaign information into organiser-oriented intelligence. It shifts the focus from isolated data management to a holistic understanding of organising landscapes, making it an essential resource for strategic action at movement scale.

Unlike other tools, Mapped is built specifically for the unique challenges and opportunities of grassroots organising. It is designed to enable collaboration across movement causes. Its development roadmap is guided by the needs of organisers operating in increasingly authoritarian climates, incorporating a politically-aware approach to accessibility, security, software architecture and governance.

The development of Mapped so far has been led by a cohort of organisers representing different but interlinked concerns: patient-led universal health care, migrant solidarity and climate justice. We use co-design methodologies and regularly run interviews, workshops and feedback sessions with organisers and members to ensure that we are centring concrete campaign needs, justice, equity and community accountability in our work.

Early on in Mapped’s development, POMOC, a small Polish migrant solidarity organisation told us how they wish they had the means to securely, seamlessly exchange information on membership density with city-level tenant unions, to enable intersectional organising centred on Polish renters. The data sharing feature we prototyped for POMOC was a few months later used to broker a selective data-sharing arrangement to The Climate Coalition’s election hustings hub from Greenpeace’s (using Salesforce CRM) and Tipping Point UK’s (using Airtable as their CRM) own databases, and might form the basis of many more directories and shared datasets: where the byproduct of focused organising can be seamlessly contributed back to the whole movement through shared infrastructure .

Core beneficiaries

1. Grassroots organisers: enabled to organise more effectively, leveraging data-driven insights to target actions and campaigns.
2. Members and volunteers of grassroots organisations: empowered to take localised action within their communities, reducing dependency on central oversight.
3. Citizens: equipped to build relationships and demand radical change within their communities, fostering solidarity and collective mobilisation.

Mapped can address local, national, and international challenges, from creating and stitching together emergent directories of mutual aid group networks to supporting ongoing, replicable organising efforts like census-based maps for door-knocking campaigns. The tool encourages organisers to prioritise geographic place and relational proximity, facilitating deep connections and collaborative action at the local level, beyond the abstraction of national membership structures.

Governance

We plan to establish Mapped as a platform cooperative, to ensure that it will be owned and governed by movement actors in perpetuity. We envision this as not just facilitating the maintenance and stewardship of the technical infrastructure, but also as a supportive community of practice where people can learn from each other, reflect on the past, transfer their learnings into action and collaborate across campaigns.

Economic models

We are also exploring different economic models to ensure the long-term sustainability of Mapped as movement infrastructure. We are strongly opposed to the typical venture capital software-as-a-service pricing, so we are looking to establish an alternative model to suit the needs and resources of the movement. Mapped will always be free for small grassroots groups, but organisations can opt to contribute financially in order to invest in movement infrastructure. They can commission custom features for their specific organising needs, which will be integrated into the platform for all other organisations to benefit from. They can also opt to pay an ongoing subscription for enterprise-tier technical requirements like deep integrations with their own software. Instead of the status quo options of building political technology, this “movement commons” model means that organisations of all scales across the movement ecology can contribute to and benefit from the same infrastructure, retaining time, money and resources within the movement.

Other digital products and infrastructure

We have developed a range of digital tools to respond to movement needs, often in collaboration with partner organisations. Many of these are in a fairly early stage due to the constraints of organisational budgets and funding streams. We would like to release improved and hardened versions of these tools, with a focus on generalising them to different contexts and ensuring interoperability with other platforms. These projects include:

Join flow

The Join Flow plugin, which enables people to easily join political organisations as members and set up recurring dues. This helps organisations to grow their membership base and thus become more financially sustainable.

People

People, a canvassing app developed with The Social Practice , which has three canvassing modes and a flexible approach to data management to allow volunteers to quickly and efficiently store responses from different people they interact with. Originally developed for the US context, we would like to restart this project and make it available to UK organisers, ideally integrating it with Mapped to allow organisers to visualise the results of their canvassing efforts.

Zetkin

We regularly collaborate with the Zetkin Foundation on their core product for organising activism, which includes a membership database alongside campaign planning and phone banking features. This year we would like to continue our work building bridges between Zetkin and other platforms that organisers use, to make the tool as useful as possible for the movement.

Movement Data Library

While working on the theme of data in Mapped and activist research, we’ve begun exploring the concept of a Movement Data Library with political colleagues: a collectively governed ecosystem of tools, platforms and groups that can enable radical, mass-scale organising.

We started working on this by building data sharing between groups directly into Mapped. But our broader vision for this is a pipeline that enables organisers, researchers and volunteers to upload, process, explore, share and publish everything from raw datasets to refined, highly polished political analyses with each other, integrated with Mapped but also accessible via a dedicated data portal and APIs. There are a lot of questions—poltical and technical—in this space: centralised versus distributed, working with the grain of security concerns, governance, accessibility, offline, local-first, and physical infrastructure.

This year our aim is to convene a community of practice around the ideas, through regular gatherings and a newsletter, working together to develop the concept and create some initial prototypes.

Training and advice

Alongside our product work, we train and advise organisers to use digital tools and methodologies, develop digital security capacity and make organisational changes. Surplus and grant funding is what allows us to have the space to do this, and this work in turn helps to shape our understanding of the movement context in which we build digital infrastructure.

We have four core training offerings that we have provided previously:

• Digital Security training initially developed with Tipping Point UK and now put on at request by direct action organisations and other groups at risk
• Digital Organising 101 with Act Build Change
• Design Sprints for Organisers with Co-ops UK
• Introduction to Sociocracy

We would like to set up new iterations of these trainings for groups that have requested them, free of charge, as well as providing on-demand sessions in response to emergent requests. Digital Security in particular will be our core focus, as we see grassroots organisations increasingly under attack. We need to build literacy throughout the movement on this topic, and quickly.

We would also like to develop a new training offering, Mapping for Organisers , because visualising power is the first step towards redistributing it. Participants will learn to “see like an organiser”: reveal the terrain they are operating in, understand power dynamics and make strategic decisions. Each session would focus on a different cartographic or conceptual mapping method (e.g. power-mapping, distributed campaign mapping, wallcharting, workers inquiry, threat modelling), featuring a guest who will show how they used this method in a campaign. Our goal is to liberate visual organising skills from the confines of expert knowledge, equipping organisers with new tools and propagating them throughout the movement. We plan to create a website documenting each method through explainers, case studies and session recordings. Learnings from these sessions will feed into ongoing development of Mapped.

We would like to offer pro bono drop-in services where we can respond to the needs and questions of organisers with our recommendations, suggestions for lightweight interventions and, where relevant, connections to tech workers and volunteers who could support them. This is something that we already do on an ad hoc basis, but we would like to formalise and extend it.

Convening and facilitating

We see our role as a “connector” within the movement ecology, facilitating groups to share resources, copy each other's best practices, and work together in coalitions. This area of our work is one of the most vital, but also is impossible to fund through the consultancy model. This year, we would like to develop our ideas around movement infrastructure, in coalition with others who are working adjacently, into a movement-wide digital infrastructure strategy.

We are currently working with the Civic Power Fund and LUSH to facilitate a London Infrastructure Assembly in May, inviting a mix of infrastructure organisations offering everything from funding to training, technology, space, fiscal hosting and more. 92 organisations are already on the invite list. The Assembly will be a space to share what they can offer and what they need, facilitating them to make new connections, share information and build power.

We have initiated a research project with consultant Natasha Adams called Mapping in Movements , exploring the role of mapping in community and workplace organising. The initial research phase has focused on understanding the uses geographic mapping through qualitative interviews, but this year we would like to broaden this out to a more polysemic notion of maps, including power maps, network maps and so on, and to go deeper into decolonial critiques of mapping, exploring how we might use maps to undermine rather than reproduce domination and exploitation, and to build alternative power structures instead.

Our Intentions This Year

In 2025, we would like to double down on a number of the initiatives that we’ve already begun, building on the software and resources we’ve already developed, iterating upon them and rolling them out to a broader cohort of organisations.

Mapped Roadmap

We’re looking for core funding or feature sponsorship for a number of directions of travel:

• Supply chain analysis and power mapping views , working with activist research collectives to pool together data and create shared, exploratory data models that can be shared and visualised to coordinate direct action campaigns.
• Rapid creation of “public views”: maps, directories and campaign wikis , to facilitate distributed organising campaigns. We’re working with policy and campaign officers, researchers, movement techies and multiple organisations across the movement—from GMB to the Movement Research Unit to the Migrant Democracy Project —to spec out the views we will launch with. Embeddable maps and directories are scheduled to land first, if we can find the funding!
• Right now we are pushing R&D forwards on two methodology/technology thematics: Palestine solidarity organising and tenant union organising and are reaching out to orgs across the country to explore the datasets of which might make a first prototype. We’re eager to loop in more research collectives and data organisations to see where this can go.
• Continue onboarding organisations to Mapped, proactively reaching out to organisations in different activism niches that have shared needs and would benefit from using the same tooling.
• Increase the number of organisations using Mapped to work on coalition campaigns through training and new features.
• Work with groups to develop campaign victories supported by just-in-time platform feature development, developing our long term roadmap and preparing for larger scale plans in future years.
• Lay the groundwork for establishing Mapped as a platform cooperative to ensure that it will be owned and governed by movement actors in perpetuity.
• Test and harden the platform, with a focus on securitisation and encryption, offline-first functionality, accessibility and considering options for mobile and desktop applications.

Other digital infrastructure

• Add further integrations (Zetkin, PayPal, Zapier) to the Join Flow plugin and improve the user experience of setting it up without expert help.
• If possible, update the People app so that it works in the UK context and integrates with Mapped.
• Depending on their availability, add more syncing and interoperability features to the Zetkin platform. This will benefit its wide user groups, including in the UK organisations facilitated by Tipping Point UK.
• Establish a community of practice to conduct research and development for the Movement Data Library, leading to a fully scoped project proposal for a first public version in 2026.

Training and advice

• Initiate more rounds of the Digital Security training, focusing on anti-fascist, climate and migrant justice organisations.
• Run quarterly training sessions responding to emergent requests, based on the materials we have already developed.
• Develop and deliver a new training offering on Mapping for Organisers.
• Schedule monthly Open Office hours to provide digital advice to organisers.
• Clarify on our website our implicit “open door” policy on advice. Work over the months to ensure this page is effectively found via search engines and signposted by other movement actors.

Convening

• Facilitate the London Infrastructure Assembly in May.
• Run a one day festival in June exploring where visual culture meets politics, as one of The World Transformed’s thematic spin-off events.
• Curate and deliver a stream of Zetkin’s conference on technology and organising in Sweden this September.
• Publish our findings from Mapping in Movements as a whitepaper, so that other organisers, researchers and funders can learn more about the breadth and complexity of mapping. Begin further research into other forms of mapping beyond geographic.
• Share our progress and learnings from our Mapped work by hosting public presentations, publishing regular blog and mailing list updates, recording video training materials and initiating quarterly hackathons to encourage both activists and coders to augment Mapped to meet their needs.

Risk mitigation

We’re confident about this strategy because we have consistently heard the same requests over our past six years of working with organisers, seen the same organising methodologies used in the wild, and discussed the same ideas for how to digitally bolster them again and again: we have made many maps, websites and databases for the movement. With a sensitivity for these shared needs, we also know it will be more cost-effective in the long run if we build a shared platform rather than charge organisations individually for bespoke tooling, many of whom do not have a shared bank account, let alone a digital budget of thousands of pounds.

We base all our activities on direct requests from organisers and our observations of their strategies. We reflect upon the tools and methods that they are already using. We popularise best practices and state of the art tooling in organising technologies. We also draw our confidence from having built multiple products in the for-profit capitalist startup tech sector, in B2B startups which mirror the movement organisation-to-organisation ecosystem. Finally, we are ourselves political organisers outside of our day jobs; we come to this work with our movement hats on and our understanding is grounded in experience and reflection, on the streets, in the meetings, in the course of collaboration.

Data privacy and cybersecurity are the most significant proximate risks that Mapped as a system faces. As well as taking precautions ourselves, both will be mitigated by using specialist consultants to extend our capability. We will retain legal counsel to advise us and organisations we work with to ensure their data remains within legal and ethical limits, balanced by the understanding we have developed about the GDPR, which we believe is a nuanced and accommodating framework for our ambitions, with operationalisable concepts like ‘consent’, ‘data minimisation’, and ‘legitimate activities’ reserved for political and non-profit organisations that movement-oriented data infrastructure such as Mapped can be built upon. Though aimed towards organisations furthering the democratic process, there is a possibility that it would be useful to anti-democratic groups. We will mitigate this by a careful vetting process before onboarding organisations. As this is open source software, we will consider enforcing this legally in a variant of the AGPL licence.

Monitoring and evaluation

We will evaluate the effectiveness of what we build based on concrete movement wins, collecting case studies with user organisations of the tools we build that demonstrate the overlap of organising methodologies and digital tooling. We will evaluate the impact of Mapped development using quality and quantity metrics like growth of membership in the organisations, with a focus on members who have moved up the ladder of engagement towards being organisers in their own right; voting patterns, public opinion polls, membership surveys of campaigning organisations; and policy changes as the direct result of campaign demands through textual and network analysis.

We plan to share what we learn by working in the open, including: hosting public presentations to share progress and reflections, regular blog and mailing list updates, public video training materials, monthly “open offices” to provide advice and training, quarterly hackathons encourage both activists and coders to augment Mapped to meet their needs, and attending external organiser conferences and events to share learnings and demo the tool.

Working in collaboration

Working in collaboration with other organisations is one of our core practices as a cooperative. We always look for ways that we can collaborate rather than compete with other organisations. This allows us to scale our impact through relationships without scaling the size of our organisation.

We spend a lot of time building relationships with other cooperatives, collectives, networks and movement organisations, outside of our day-to-day work. We are active members of the tech for good landscape, through forums such as Tectonica, Agencies for Good, Power to Change’s Community Tech network, Catalyst and CoTech. Alex is on the board of directors of NEON , an organisation that accelerates social movements through training, relationship building, communications, and infrastructure support, and Gemma is on the board of workers.coop , a member-led federation of worker co-ops in the UK.

A good example of our approach to collaboration is our relationship to Zetkin , a Swedish organisation that builds a robust CRM for organising. Although the work that we do is very similar, rather than compete with each other we work together very closely, regularly discussing potential overlaps of our work, aligning on strategy and looking for ways that we can collaborate on projects.

Members of our team sometimes work on secondment with Zetkin. For example, in recent years we have worked with them and grassroots trade union UVW to build in casework functionality to their CRM, with the strategic intention that this could be a useful tool for other movement orgs requiring a more powerful CRM in the future. Zetkin is now rolled out to the climate movement by our close colleagues in Tipping Point UK’s digital hub, with whom we are collaborating on new mapping tools via Mapped as well as digital security training which has allowed us to discuss organising and digital tools with hundreds of climate activists. At the moment we are working with Zetkin on data integration tooling for their CRM and we plan to remain in close collaboration over the coming years, where appropriate offering our funded capacity, which core funding enables, to make that tool as useful as possible to the movement.

Mapped is very specifically not a competitive tool — we are not looking to replace organising tools and CRMs like Zetkin, Action Network or NationBuilder. However, we know that these CRMs lack many of the crucial features that organisers need and that member location data is essential for organisers. Mapped is an interstitial tool that builds on top of whichever CRM an organisation is using, integrating with these platforms and enriches them with new data sources.

We made a strategic decision when conceptualising Mapped to leapfrog the time-intensive work of building our own CRM, due to our observation that migrating CRMs takes a lot of energy and organisational buy-in. Organisations tend to be cemented into their CRMs and lack the resources to commit to lengthy migrations. It is not viable to premise a solution to their organising problems on a complete uprooting of their core data systems. There are already many different CRMs that fulfil niche use cases, from charities focused on fundraising to member organisations focused on local organising to lobbying NGOs focused on contact management. It would not be viable to try to meet all these use cases with a single platform. The beauty of Mapped is that it allows collaboration between all these different platforms and organising approaches.

Everything we make is released under an open source license, and we always look to build upon existing software before building something new. For example, Mapped is built on top of mySociety's Local Intelligence Hub, which itself is an output of the Climate Coalition.

The Ask

Solidarity organisers

We’re always open to meeting organisers who share common aims. Our preference is for long-term, ongoing relationships where we work together for each other’s mutual benefit. We apply the same principles of cooperation with external collaborators as we do internally.

Infrastructure organisations

We’re particularly interested in working in collaboration and co-bidding for funding with allied organisations. If you are another organisation providing infrastructure for the movement and any of the above resonates with you, or aligns with the work you’re doing already, please get in touch.

Funders

Our co-op currently has a diverse income stream model, with 80% of our income coming from consultancy work and the rest from grants or small donations. We are looking to raise another £200,000 in unrestricted funding in 2025, so that we can continue to build digital infrastructure at a movement-wide scale.

Unrestricted funding allows us to be more strategic about our work and less short-termist about taking contracts to maintain revenue to keep the lights on. This benefits our pro-bono work (platform development, training, research) whilst allowing us to select consultancy projects that can themselves act as stepping stones to movement-wide projects. However, we have found that there is only a small universe of funders who are interested and willing to support the long-term, infrastructural interventions we are proposing.

Our cooperative

Common Knowledge is a not-for-profit worker cooperative of technologists, designers, researchers and facilitators. We use our digital expertise to help social, political and environmental justice movements build power, working in direct collaboration with grassroots organisations on their core organising work and campaigns. Through this work we have developed and refined an understanding of movement dynamics and approaches, needs and interventions, and have gradually refined our strategy to balance direct support with movement-wide infrastructure.

We have three main focus areas for our work:

1. designing and building digital products and infrastructure;
2. providing training and strategic advice;
3. convening, coordinating and facilitating the sharing of resources across the movement.

These areas are all interdependent: our core aims remain consistent over time but the emphasis shifts between them in response to emergent needs, incoming funding and consultancy work.

Established in October 2018, we have spent the last six years building strong relationships with organisers. Our members are based in London, Glasgow, Sweden and Spain. Our deepest relationships are in the UK movement, but we also work in partnership with organisations across Europe, the US and Australia as well as global organisations like 350.org, Progressive International and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Our strategy is to identify shared needs and then build digital and social infrastructure that can scale regionally and globally: whatever enables transformative change that will meet the challenges we face in the coming decades.

We are a low hierarchy, fast moving team that has worked together closely over a number of years. We’re experienced at making democratic decisions within our co-op and with external collaborators. We all have a deep knowledge of both technology and movement building: we've worked with organisers for years and know the rhythms, pressures and needs they have, while also being a startup-style product team with the skills to produce consumer-grade software. As a worker co-op, the organisation is led equally by all members. Mission, vision and strategy are collectively developed and reviewed at regular intervals, whilst day to day organisational functions—project delivery, governance, financial administration, fundraising, communications and so on—are rotated through the membership so that practical leadership is distributed.