Exploring The Abundance Circle Impact Investing Ecosystem
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The Story of the Ecosystem

We imagine an ecosystem where data is not a gap to be filled, but a source of insight, revealing the hidden value already present

Shared Intention

A decentralised, purpose-led space where people come together through shared intention, not fixed roles. The ecosystem is fluid, collaborative, and responsive.

Living Signals

Resources flow as signals, reflecting community needs and strengths. They guide action, spark connection, and keep the system adaptive.

Collective Thriving

The ecosystem listens and learns, tending to its health and relationships - not to control, but to nurture balance, resilience, and shared thriving.

We imagine a decentralised, mission-based, fluid system that works on zones of participation between the various participants. It’s a system that utilises signals to promote flow of resources and communication.

The signals are emerging based on the dynamic needs of the players and zones, but the system is monitoring to keep the ecosystem in balance.

Defining a Nature-Inspired Ecosystem

To build its one-of-a-kind ecosystem, The Abundance Circle must define what is valued, how decisions are made, and how people interact. This requires identifying key moments that embody these principles and reflect TAC’s biomimicry-inspired philosophy, setting it apart from traditional impact investing models.

How Might We

How might we support The Abundance Circle in defining aspects of the impact investing ecosystem (value, governance, interaction) by identifying and designing key moments and their unique differentiators, in alignment with TAC’s biomimicry inspired approach?

Key Design Principles

Before proceeding with identifying the moments, we wanted our process to be guided by some design principles. These principles emerged from brainstorming sessions, keeping TAC's biomimicry approach.

Our Concepts

Within our ecosystem, we discovered six moments out of which four were identified as unique moments. We made prototypes of products for each of these four moments.

This ecosystem is built on a foundation of AI agents, acting not as a central authority, but as a background (intelligence) layer that helps the system see itself more clearly.

The key principle is that the ecosystem already holds everything it needs; knowledge, capability and capital. In reality, these assets often lie dormant, disconnected, or under-utilised. The role of the AI agents is to help surface, connect, and align, for everyone to benefit.

Activation

IntelliSight

Activation marks the inflection point where awareness transforms into actionable insight. It is the phase where dormant or hidden patterns such as inefficiencies, redundancies, or underserved areas surface and are brought into focus as "gaps" that can be addressed. These gaps may exist at the project or systemic level.

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Resonance

11th Member

Resonance refers to the dynamic alignment between stakeholders, missions, and resources within the ecosystem, where capital, information, and intent circulate through different zones of participation. This alignment amplifies collective impact, fosters collaboration, and ensures that the system responds fluidly to emerging needs.

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Influence

Signals

When it comes to ecosystem governance, our approach was to explore soft governance using data-rich and bottom-up approaches as opposed to existing top-down governance, and create tools that enable action and self-organization. We hope that by fostering real person-to-person conversations we can collect and amplify weak signals that cut through the noise of existing social mediums.

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Seeding

Sprout

Seeding refers to the resources in the ecosystem that are recycled and redistributed through the system to other actors and connected entities. Redirection of capital and information ensures no leakage in the system, allowing for dynamic transformation between zones of participation.

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