Core Functionality

We want to build a tool that makes it as easy as possible for community leaders to find and claim their place, and in doing so, change the very structure of the organization. We also want to make sure that if they leave, the structure doesn't collapse in their absence. For this, Realities uses the Advice Process and TEAL organisations as it's point of departure.

Realities should give users the ability to create Needs and then Responsibilities and to assign a Guide and a Realiser to each Need and Responsibility. Needs and Responsibilities are connected by Dependencies which clarify how they are connected. Creating and assigning Needs and Responsibilities and connecting them with Dependencies should be simple and intuitive. The UI of the software should also transparently indicate the correlations of these elements to each other for a faster overview of the larger scope, for example by drawing graphs and connecting them to each other.

The Realities platform harnesses the information held by an organization's members to model what that organizations does. "Model" here means two things: breaking down the organization's work into activities and mapping out how they are interlocked; and associating activities to people who are responsible for carrying them out. This model is stored in digital form and displayed in an easily navigable node view.

Realities uses a graph database to do this, so its logic mirrors the human logic of “who is responsible for what” and “what depends on what”. This graph is easy to simplify and manipulate to obtain human-readable information.