Signals

Build trusted connections, exchange deep knowledge and amplify signals.

What is Signals?

Signals is a new form of interactive media powered by AI, designed to help entrepreneurs and investors engage meaningfully with their ecosystem even when time is limited. Members can ask questions, listen to stories, or share resources. These actions are captured and turned into insights others can learn from.

Signals encourages curiosity-driven and visible participation, surfacing signals that might otherwise go unnoticed. Through ongoing interaction and feedback, it builds collective intelligence and turns each micro-interaction into a meaningful step toward shared growth.

What problem is Signals trying to address ?

The community has strong potential to grow into a thriving ecosystem. But today, it still lacks the protocols and tools that make meaningful connections and knowledge-sharing are bound by paradigms of existing social hierarchies.

Channels for sharing insights, building relationships, and learning from peers are still fragmented. This makes it hard for members to access the right support, surface relevant signals, or build momentum around shared goals.

To unlock the ecosystem’s full value, the community needs better ways to connect, reflect, and grow together.

Co-created with

Fredrik Galtung

Resource Co-Chief Facilitator, CatalystNow

Carola Carazzone

VP, Philea - Philanthropy Europe Association Secretary General, Assifero

Christian Jorge

Cofounder and CEO, Omie Seed Investor, Partner

Patrice Schneider

Chief Strategy Officer, Media Development Investment Fund

Rimpei Iwata

Advisor, Board Member, Supporting Startups, Propel LLC

Claudia Aparicio

Cofounder and CEO, Mentex

Insight 1

Social capital and networks are essential to building a meaningful ecosystem.

"To build an ecosystem, you need many different ingredients. Social capital and networks are first."

— Carola Carazzone

Insight 2

Social capital and networks are essential to building a meaningful ecosystem.

" External input can change the company’s direction. I call it ‘magic’ when it comes from others, so opening the project to experience is key."

— Christian Jorge

Insight 3

Entrepreneurs need external perspectives to ask the right questions, helping them step oautside their immediate situation and personal biases to reflect more clearly.

“ What has proven most useful is asking the right questions, because that’s what helps CEOs step back from the noise, reflect more holistically, and see what truly matters. ”

— Rimpei Iwata

Design Opportunity

How might we help busy entrepreneurs and investors grow influence and receive better support by engaging in simple, meaningful ways like asking, listening, and sharing, so that each interaction builds social capital across the ecosystem?

What is Signals?

Signals is an AI-powered media format that helps members of The Abundance Circle ecosystem to cut through noise, access relevant insights, and grow influence by sharing and connecting meaningfully.

1. Mutual Insight Exchange

Encourages entrepreneurs and investors to both share and learn, surfacing valuable data, signals, and patterns from each other.

2. Signal-Driven Access

Connects users to relevant signals and people, helping them discover what matters most at the right moment.

3. Trigger Deeper Thinking

Well-placed external questions help users step back, reflect, and see the bigger picture.

Who is it for?

For entrepreneurs and investors in The Abundance Circle ecosystem who want to stay focused, connected, and supported, on their own terms and timing.

How does it work?

AI edits and summarizes relevant insights through short, interactive content. Members can listen, ask questions, share knowledge, and grow their network, all in one place.

Concept

Onboarding

For investors and members of The Abundance Circle, onboarding is super simple. Enter your email and your profile is matched to your portfolio and investments.

Select topics across the sustainable development goals that you're interested to keep up-to-date on signals in those domains.

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Adjusting Signal Length

Signals can be adjusted in length according to the time you have available.

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Intelligent context actions

Using machine intelligence and data provided by The Abundance Circle ecosystem, any item selected in a Signal provides immediate and actionable tasks.

Autogenerated messages based on intent

Message and communications can templated with autogenerated content based on your past work and impact goals.

Voice mode

When you're on the go, switch to voice mode, to listen to Signals while you're doing other tasks.

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Inline Notes and Answers

At any moment, you can pause and interact with the content in context by asking deeper questions.

Each interaction is recorded as a private note that can followed up with at a later time.

Impact

Engage through small but meaningful actions.

Busy stakeholders like entrepreneurs and investors can ask, listen, and share — staying involved without needing extra time or effort.

Build trust and visibility through contribution.

Every small interaction becomes a chance to offer value, grow influence, and strengthen relationships across the ecosystem.

How the Concept Aligns with the Design Principles

PRINCIPLE 2
Signals encourages open sharing of questions, reflections, and learnings across the network. This visibility builds collective intelligence, making insights more discoverable, reusable, and trustworthy for everyone.

PRINCIPLE 4

Signals supports flexible engagement, allowing members to tune in or step back depending on their rhythm. This respects natural cycles of activity and rest, key for long-term ecosystem health.

PRINCIPLE 5

With multiple lightweight ways to engage — like listening, asking, or sharing. Signals invites participation based on curiosity and relevance. It lowers barriers and keeps the ecosystem active and adaptive.

Team

Leon Fan

Ali Kargin

Felix Lorsignol

Selected Sources

Emily Harris, Joost Beunderman, Sofia Valentini, Alberto De Biasio, Eunji Kang. Towards multi-capital models. (2025, March 12). https://provocations.darkmatterlabs.org/towards-multi-capital-models-a01539e3ce1d
Hoﬀecker, Elizabeth. 2019. Understanding Innovation Ecosystems: A Framework for Joint Analysis and Action. Cambridge: MIT D-Lab. https://d-lab.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Understanding_Innovation_Ecosystems_FINAL_JULY2019.pdf
Matthew J. Spaniol, Nicholas J. Rowland, Business ecosystems and the view from the future: The use of corporate foresight by stakeholders of the Ro-Ro shipping ecosystem in the Baltic Sea Region, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 184, 2022, 121966, ISSN 0040-1625.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121966
Betsy Vereckey. Why impact investors are embracing systems change | MIT Sloan. (2024, March 4). MIT Sloan. https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/why-impact-investors-are-embracing-systems-change

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