A company with collaboration at its core. Stewarded for the long arc. Built with mission-aligned partners.
Across thousands of organizations and movements working toward better futures, the knowledge to act already exists. So do the people, the relationships, the resources. What's missing is the infrastructure that lets it move together.
Catalist is that infrastructure — built deliberately, over four years. Stewarded for the long arc, not the short return. Held by a team — small core, wide network — that grows by invitation and co-stewardship. Meet the team
Our Collaborative Operating Agreement encodes this into law: ownership, governance, and profit sharing are intentionally separated. Mission prevails over financial optimization. There is no exit intent. The structure is designed to outlive any one of us.
The full agreement runs to ninety pages. The principles fit on a page or two — and we've written them down so they're legible to anyone who wants to understand how we operate.
Read our operating modelThree things conventional companies conflate. We separate them intentionally.
The principles that distinguish Catalist aren't policy statements. They're legal architecture.
Six engagements from the field. Each one a listen-then-build story.
DSS Salons bring 100+ cohort members together to pitch their work. Catalist connected their Airtable backend to a live event space — dynamic agenda, personal promo pages, filterable tracks.
Design Science StudioSeaworthy had the mission and the community. Catalist gave them the infrastructure — mentor matching, cohort tracking, layered privacy. Portfolio has raised $20M+.
Seaworthy CollectiveSEF's partners each saw only their slice. Catalist pulled Miro, Airtable, and Kumu into one shared map — revealing intervention points, securing additional funding.
Social Employment FundSeven Tampa Bay accelerators, each in their own silo. Catalist built shared directories, layered privacy, and cross-network mentor matching. Outcome: a $14M NOAA grant.
The ContinuumRRTH had the relationships but not the infrastructure. Catalist built the directory, onboarding flow, and layered access — making the ecosystem visible enough to fund.
Risk & Resilience Tech Hub50 nonprofits, 50 databases. Catalist built a federated system — each org kept its data, but resources, needs, and volunteers became visible across the whole network.
Cooperation Long Island
Seven recordings from the work in progress. A think tank that listens, then builds — and documents along the way.
Quality of connection is the work — within the platform, across our team, with the mission-aligned partners who shape what Catalist becomes. We treat the relational fabric as infrastructure, not garnish.
Members own their data, contributors own their voice, partners own their work. We pre-populate where it helps; we step back when it's time. Autonomy is the design principle, not a feature setting.
Our job is to create the conditions where things happen — not to manage every detail. The platform reflects this; the team reflects this; the governance reflects this.
Catalist exists in a world where most tech is built for extraction. We point at what's working — in the platform, in our mission-aligned partners, in the broader weave — and amplify it.
We work with a small number of mission-aligned partners at a time. Tell us about your work and let's explore what we might build together.