We're a small high-trust livelihood pod doing tech consulting within Enspiral.
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VIDEO: Root Systems co-founder Dan describing our journey so far and how we use the advice process (video slides)
Our purpose is to imagine and cultivate local replicable life-support systems for interdependent abundance.
We primarily do tech consulting to bootstrap our more aspirational outcomes.
Want to work with us? Here's an example of our ideal external consulting contract:
- You, the client, have an existing source of revenue and want to build a new or replace an old software product or service.
- We start with a series of collaborative discovery workshops to focus and clarify the problem we're solving with you.
- We connect with relevant stakeholders to refine the scope into clear and actionable job stories, preferably with accompanying executable specifications.
- We begin our iterative development process, charging hourly rates as fuel to push the vehicle forward.
- We continue to check back in with stakeholders at each relevant cycle, to ensure our work matches the needs of your business.
Meanwhile, internally we spend our available energy to:
- Improve the toolbelt we carry with us in our work (our open source stack, e.g.
cat-stack,dogstack,inu,vas, and more) - Plan our economic needs, wants, and offers together (i.e. selling services, saving money, buying food), to ensure sustainable livelihood for all our members.
- Cultivate ecosystems of interoperable life-support products, platforms, and protocols (e.g. Open App Ecosystem -> Collaborative Technology Alliance, Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium, Value Flows)
- Cobuy: group wholesale purchases as a consumer co-op
If you find this handbook helpful in your work, please let us know. We'd love to hear from you. 🐌
You can find the code on GitHub, and download the handbook in different formats from Gitbook.
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