Field infrastructure for systems change

Coordinate resources around systemic work.

A field-building platform for sensing gaps, matching resources, and coordinating action around live systemic work.

North Star: help funders, field-builders, and practitioners identify gaps, match resources, and coordinate support around live systemic work.
Hero card showing visible systemic work growing from strong invisible infrastructure

Understand quickly

Systemic Growth Commons helps the right resources find the systemic work that needs them most.

A coordination layer between people with resources and people doing the work.

3-step model

Sense gaps

Reveal what the field needs now.

Match resources

Connect funding, people, knowledge, and capacity.

Move together

Coordinate action across any systemic impact.

Simple flow
Field need Resource match Coordinated action
  • • Needs become visible
  • • Resources find the right work
  • • Actors move with shared context
Core visual
Systemic Growth Commons root badge

The visible work grows when the invisible infrastructure is strong.

Before / after

From fragmented effort to coordinated field action.

Before and after card comparing fragmented efforts with coordinated systemic action

Unified Commons map

One field map, four ways to navigate it.

Instead of sending visitors to three separate artifacts, this version keeps one persistent map in view and lets them shift the emphasis: causal dynamics, ecosystem roles, leverage points, and live Commons learning.

Map sections
Text-based Commons map

Causal dynamics

Use this layer to understand why the field gets stuck: confidence needs evidence, evidence needs infrastructure, and infrastructure needs funding before it is visible.

Confidence loops

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Evidence loops

1 points

Risk loops

1 points

Intervention tracker

From leverage points to task forces.

Each point becomes a living card: who is working on it, what evidence exists, what is missing, and what collective action could form around it.

Selected intervention

Field Intelligence Infrastructure

Shared maps, databases, learning platforms, and feedback loops that make the field visible to itself.

Related roles
  • Field builders
  • Researchers
  • Conveners
Known signals
  • Actor directories
  • Intervention tracking
  • Open learning reports
Needs
  • Common data schema
  • Contribution workflow
  • Curation and governance
Known / placeholder actors
  • Omplexity
  • FEST
  • Deep Transitions Lab
  • Meridian Institute
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Resource unlock

Grow the field, then take the maps with you.

A small interaction makes the point: the visible tree only grows when water, sunlight, roots, and shared care come together. Once the seed sprouts, the handbook and maps unlock.

Drop water + sun here
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Nurture the seed of collective action

Drag the water can and sun onto the seed, or click both tools above.

Locked resources

Handbook + maps

SIFM Handbook

The full synthesis: 42 interviews, common ground, creative tensions, structural dynamics, three horizons, and next steps.

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Causal Loop System Map

The complex and simplified system dynamics behind the field's pre-scaling trap and 24 leverage points.

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Ecosystem Role Map

The living-tree role map across micro initiatives, meso backbones, and macro field-building infrastructure.

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Mock learning forum

Report back after using the maps.

This prototype forum turns downloads into field learning: what people tried, what they noticed, where the maps broke down, and what new collective action should form.

Prototype, not live user data

Forum purpose

  • • Capture what people learn after downloading the handbook and maps
  • • Surface missing roles, unhelpful assumptions, and map-use patterns
  • • Turn repeated observations into June workshop agenda inputs
  • • Help funders and practitioners find each other through real use cases
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Map-use learning14 replies

How are you using the causal loop map in live conversations?

A funder circle used the pre-scaling trap loop to name why evidence and infrastructure have to be funded together, not sequentially.

Field builderFunderPractitioner
Role map feedback9 replies

What roles are missing from the ecosystem role map?

Several groups are asking for a clearer role around community accountability and long-term memory stewardship.

Relational weaverLocal backbone
Workshop design21 replies

Where should June working groups form first?

Early energy is clustering around field intelligence infrastructure, shared governance, and financial backbone functions.

OmplexityFESTTWIST
Resource matching7 replies

Examples of resources matching needs across regions

A Latin America bioregional finance group named a need for translation capacity; a field funder offered to underwrite the first synthesis sprint.

Global South practitionerCapital steward

Survey → analysis → workshop design

Take the full Omplexity field survey.

The detailed survey is now the single source of truth. Instead of collecting a partial homepage response, this page sends contributors into Omplexity's full 1:1 survey flow: consent, role/location, leverage-point selection, intervention brainstorming, optional follow-up, and resource downloads.

Why this matters: every response now uses the same structure and payload expected by the Google Sheets backend, so field learning stays consistent across all contributors.
Detailed survey preview

One field intake. No duplicate mini-survey.

This opens the artifact-faithful Omplexity survey rather than a simplified homepage approximation.

7-screen guided flow
Consent and contribution framing
Role groups and primary-role selection
24 leverage points across 4 clusters
Up to 3 leverage points per respondent
Brainstorm prompts per selected point
Optional workshop / mailing / quote opt-ins
Google Sheets response capture