Hylo

Description

Hylo is a community-led, prosocial coordination platform for purpose-driven groups. It is open-source, non-profit, and driven by participatory design with real-world groups at the forefront of regenerative agriculture, community resilience, peer learning, equity, inclusive capital, and place-based organizing. Hylo features a resilient constellation of relationships marked by trust and accountability, with clear agreements including protocols for decision making, distributing resources, and handling conflict. The platform has many unique aspects such as nested groups and cross-group posting, which lead to emergent cooperation between groups, generating broader coalitions with more power to address common goals. Hylo's community leaders and facilitators help guide member groups on best practices in community stewardship. Hylo is built through relationship-driven development, involving collaboration with the community to co-design tools to amplify their work.

What Makes it Regenerative?

• enables access & participation
• fosters community
• facilitates coordination & consensus
• creates network effects
• supports open source
• enables learning & knowledge sharing

Business Model

Hylo's business model is derived from software, capacity building and collaboratively building software and services

Risks & Limitations

• Coordination challenges in managing a large, distributed team of groups or volunteers can be difficult
• Lack of financial stability could lead to reliance on donations and grants or can limit the resources available for development
• Dependency on volunteer or collaborative contributions could decline and lead to reduced participation or a lack of skilled contributors
• Security and quality concerns may arise to derisk vulnerabilities or bugs and will require careful oversight and testing
• Integration challenges could be complex and may limit its adoption and usefulness in certain contexts
• Lack of commercial support due to alternative approach to traditional proprietary software