Connective infrastructure needs aligned tech collaborators and co-stewards. If you're building tools that serve networked communities, we're interested in building the infrastructure together.
We each hold an important piece — knowledge sharing sits comfortably beside resource flows, decentralized governance protocols, sovereign data standards, social impact metrics, relational trust tracking, single sign on requirements, and more. The coordination layer a thriving world requires isn't any one platform's job to build alone.
Whether you're building adjacent tools, weaving parallel networks, or stewarding tech for a thriving world, we invite you to connect with us. We now recognize and reciprocate contributions of all types. With that foundation in place, true collaboration is possible.
The barriers aren't technical — they're structural. Catalist's Collaborative Operating Agreement (COA) is designed to address these as a foundation for real collaboration on the build itself.
Co-stewardship isn't the starting assumption — it's a possibility that opens as trust and track record develop together.
Every partnership starts with a genuine conversation about what you're building, what we're building, and whether the values underneath both are actually compatible. We use our Core Activation document as a shared reference — not a litmus test, but a way to get honest quickly about how each of us works and what we care about.
If the initial conversations land well, we keep talking. We share more about the work, you share more about yours, and we look for the natural overlaps and complements — where our tools, communities, or methodologies are already pointing toward each other.
Before any deeper arrangement, we work together on something concrete. A defined project, a bounded scope, a simple MOU that protects both sides. This is where we find out whether collaboration actually works — not in theory, but in practice.
At the end of the project, we sit down and ask honestly: what did we build, what did we learn, and what makes sense from here? Co-stewardship isn't the default outcome — it's one of several, chosen because it fits.
Depending on what you're bringing and how you want to be involved, our COA provides for a range of arrangements. None of these are obligations — they're options that become available as trust and track record develop.
Partner organizations and ambassadors as cross-network weavers — augmented by technology, never replaced by it.
We're a small team building for the long arc. We'd rather go slowly with the right tech partners than move fast with the wrong ones.
Tell us about your work — what you're building, who you're building it for, and what draws you to this kind of collaboration. We'll take it from there.