Tools for people who are organising together
Co-ops, unions, tenant groups, mutual aid networks, campaigners, parish and community groups. Everything here is free, in plain English, and yours to copy, adapt and pass on. No sign-up. No paywall. No tracking.
Most of what stops small groups getting things done is not money. It is paperwork: the model rules nobody has time to read, the rent-increase letter nobody knows how to word, the pricing decision nobody wants to make alone. These tools exist to close that gap.
Available now
- Running a pay-what-you-can shop Available How sliding-scale pricing actually works in practice: how to set the tiers, what to say on the page, and the three ways it goes wrong. Read it.
- Digital hygiene for organisers Available A short, practical checklist for a group that handles other people's information — messaging, devices, shared accounts, and what to do if something leaks. Read it.
In preparation
- Starting a worker co-op In progress The decisions you must make before you write anything down, and the small set of documents that follow from them.
- Commons licences, explained In progress What it actually means to share your work and still keep it yours, in language a non-lawyer can act on.
- Tenant groups: tracking rent increases In progress How to record what is happening across a building so that one household's problem becomes evidence a group can use.
What this is not. None of these pages are legal advice, and none of them replace a solicitor, an accountant or your union's own officer. They are the starting documents and the starting questions, written so you can hand them to a professional and get further, faster, for less.
Why free
Because a co-op that has not started yet has no money, and a tenant group facing eviction should not be paying a subscription to organise. These are cheap for us to produce and genuinely useful to you, so they are given away. If something here helps, pass it to another group — that is the whole distribution plan.
Who makes this
A small studio in the north-west of Ireland that builds software and runs its own operations on tools like these. Same people, same methods, no venture capital and nothing skimming a percentage off anybody's work.
Related projects
- Growers' Collective Prototype An open-source platform for a direct farm-to-consumer co-operative: produce listings, orders and payments. It is a working prototype rather than a live service, and its business plan and contributing guide are published in five languages. Code on GitHub.
- Anticlamping Campaign A driver's-rights campaign about private clamping in Ireland: which companies operate, what the law actually says, and how the appeals process works. Worth knowing before you pay a release fee. anticlamping.com.
Get in touch
If a document here is wrong for your country, or a tool is missing and you need it, say so and it will be written. Suggestions and corrections are the point: [email protected].