The Innovation Exchange

You configure it.

You don’t commission it.

Coordination infrastructure for needs, offers, projects and opportunities. Deployed in 25+ countries, priced on this page.

Coordination infrastructure for needs, offers, projects and opportunities. Deployed in 25+ countries, priced on this page.

226 organisations that had never shared a system coordinated $1.8M through two hurricanes, on this platform. No integration project. No pilot phase. No per-seat licensing, at any tier.

226 organisations that had never shared a system coordinated $1.8M through two hurricanes, on this platform. No integration project. No pilot phase. No per-seat licensing, at any tier.

Coordination network: seven object types — people, projects, organisations, opportunities, issues, needs and offers — with three concurrent directed routes running through them.

Everything in your ecosystem that could connect.

A need routed to an offer.

A person routed to an opportunity.

An organisation routed to a project.

Three of the routes this platform runs. Many-to-many, in both directions, continuously.

The model

Seven data objects. People will always come first.

Every competing system makes Organisation primary, then attaches people to it. That is why a coordinator who changes employer loses their history, and why the network dissolves each time someone moves. We built it the other way round.

01

People

Primary. Everything attaches here. A person holds their own record, history and provenance across every project and organisation they pass through.

02

Projects

Forkable, with the originator permanently attached to every downstream variant.

03

Organisations

Host opportunities and issues. Own projects. People associate with them, and are not owned by them.

04

Opportunities

A call, a fund, a challenge. Receives submissions from people, projects or organisations.

05

Issues

The problem being worked on. Stated once and referenced everywhere, so effort against it can be counted.

06

Needs

What is required, in specific terms. Quantity, place, timing. The demand side of the match.

07

Offers

What is available, matched against what is needed. The unit that gets coordinated.

Standards

Every object is built to existing data standards and schemas, so records move between systems without translation.

The Innovation Exchange

The Exchange · opportunity and submission management

Trade-off

This is an unusual model and it has a price: if you want a system that mirrors your org chart, this will feel wrong for the first fortnight. Most teams stop noticing by the second.

Delivery · What you’re actually buying

We’re not a digital agency. You buy configuration, not construction.

On our most recent institutional tender, all six functional requirements were met by configuring what already exists. That’s the difference between a $5,000 license and the $250,000+ a bespoke build would have cost, and between going live this month and going live next year.

Opportunity management

Configure existing

Application and review workflow

Configure existing

Organisation and user management

Configure existing

Reporting and export

Configure existing

Role and permission model

Configure existing

Custom scoring framework

Configure existing

Configured on the platform

$50,000

Comparable bespoke build

$110,000+

The cost

The flip side is real: if your requirement genuinely is not in the platform, we will tell you it is development, quote it as development, and you may conclude someone else is a better fit.

Pricing · Published

Nine of every ten submissions you receive will be declined. That’s where the cost is.

From conversations with hundreds of funds, foundations, incubators, accelerators, and fellowship programs, we know that opportunity managers approve between one in ten and one in a hundred submissions. Every one of the rest is still read, scored and declined by a person. At $50 an hour fully loaded, this platform pays for itself if it saves that person two hours a week. And we do not count seats — we never have, it’s not a launch offer, and it’s not going to change.

Those with precious little time and money spend what little they have chasing those with a surplus of both.

Open

$0

Unlimited users

Events & ecosystem curation

Single

$5,000

Unlimited users

One opportunity a year

Series

$10,000

Unlimited users

Two to five opportunities a year

Portfolio

$20,000

Unlimited users

More than five a year

Perpetual licence

$100,000

Every tier, including perpetual

$0 / user / month

The limit

Our team are based in the USA, Colombia, and Western Europe. Someone will always be available when you need them.

Ownership · Your data

You own it.

Every record, every time

No lock-in. No licence escalation.

Every need, offer, project and opportunity belongs to whoever put it there. They decide who can see it and what can be done with it; the platform does not arbitrate that. Full export, in standard formats, whenever you ask.

Before you decide

The last people who read this page were up and running in thirty days.

226 organisations that had never shared a system coordinated $1.8M through two hurricanes, on infrastructure that was configured rather than built. No integration project. No pilot phase. No per-seat licence, at any tier. The configuration conversation takes an hour.

226

Organisations

$1.8M

Coordinated

90 days

Start to result

25+

Countries since 2016