A living map of the systems-change field — not a directory. Five overlaid maps make a fragmented landscape legible: who exists, what they are building, where capital flows, what infrastructure is in place, and what is missing.
The Coordination Layer lets people see the ecosystem as a living territory rather than a set of disconnected organisations and opportunities. Each map is an overlay; read together they show where coordinated action is needed.
Who is working on what — people, organisations and institutions across the field.
Which projects exist, what they need, and how they connect to one another.
Where capital sits, what mandate it holds, and what it is looking for.
Which physical, digital, financial and cultural infrastructures already exist.
What is missing — and where coordinated action would move the whole system.
A field you can see is a field you can coordinate.
Coordination is not a moment; it is a cycle. The layer helps the ecosystem discover, map, verify, match, align, resource, act, learn — and then re-coordinate, feeding every lesson back so the next move is smarter.
People, projects, capital, knowledge, spaces, grants, needs and opportunities.
Actors, relationships, dependencies, leverage points, gaps and overlaps.
Credibility signals, references, diligence status, governance quality, risk flags.
The right people, capital, experts, places, projects and organisations.
Shared objectives, theories of change, expectations, roles and protocols.
Funding, grants, expertise, tools, spaces, advisors or institutional support.
Commitments, pilots, vehicles, programmes, collaborations or projects.
Outcomes, failures, knowledge, feedback, metrics and ecosystem intelligence.
Feed learning back into the layer so future action becomes smarter.
Most ecosystems have amnesia — people meet, talk, forget, repeat. The lifecycle gives the field a memory, so it compounds intelligence instead of re-running the same conversations.
Every coordination system needs primitive objects, or the data layer becomes a vague database. These ten primitives are the basic architecture the ecosystem organises around.
Coordination begins when needs and offers become visible. Most ecosystems stall because people never clearly state what they need, what they can give, and what they will commit to. This layer turns vague networking into visible needs and actionable matches.
Grants, projects, fellowships, residencies, partnerships and expert needs are usually hidden in private chats, newsletters and closed networks. The Opportunity Layer makes them visible, structured, searchable and actionable.
