Discover the System
The Many-to-Many System distills key learnings from our two-year exploration involving numerous partners who contributed insights through building, prototyping, and testing.
Two Ways to Discover the System
Linear read
Read through a linear narration, the field
Guide that unfolds page by page, chapter
after chapter.
Interactive tool
Unfold the System through the
interactive viewer, clickable, that will
guide through all the complexity.
A Field Guide for Governance Practitioners
We created a Field Guide was specifically for Practitioners who are working in complex collaborations and are struggling to find or create suitable governance and organising structures for their complex work and/or who want to disrupt norms around value, ownership, risk and power.
Quick view in the structure and content
Preview of pages in the Field Guide
Tools and example pages
Alerts pages
Summary diagrams
Instruction pages
Overview pages
The System At A Glance
The Many-to-Many System has six key layers. It's important to note the System simplifies a highly complex landscape, aiming to make these interconnected elements digestible and navigable. In practice, these layers aren't sequential steps with clear starts and stops; they are often messy, iterative, and entangled.
“It’s a bit like an alternative to both sociocracy (a governance system) and the CIC (a legal formation), specifically for [life-ennobling] futures”
– Annette Dhami
Dark Matter Labs as part of the learning network
“There are loads of people out there doing collaboration work, but what makes this really different is the legally binding component”
– Michelle Zucker
Dark Matter Labs as part of the learning network