Making Cooperation Happen
Cooperation is essential to human existence. Digital technologies can support it.
We help setting up tools to make it work.
About Us
We believe that a sustainable digital age requires new types of platforms that enable thriving communities and regenerative business models.
We help with safe AI
Generative AI develops at high pace and many organizations feel an increasing pressure to use it. We believe that GenAI tools can actually help cooperatives, SMEs, and NGOs to become more successful, if they are designed and used in the right way.
From now on we offer help to set up customized AI assistants that are tailored for your specific data and processes, while ensuring a safe and responsible use.
Learn more about our Customized AI Services.
Building Platforms for Your Community
Teams who strive towards digital innovations should be able to focus on their vision, develop sustainable business models, and eventually build up their own community.
This is why we support teams with the development and maintenance of digital platforms and tools.
We can help developing community marketplaces with integrated social networking functions and inbuilt token systems/alternative currencies.
If needed, we assist communities, co-operatives, and purpose-driven companies in constructing their own local or internal economies which function according to their values.
We help integrate custom-made digital tools for collaboration, governance and community management.
We ensure that technical tools serve your organization’s purpose rather than draining energy and attention from your team members.
We enable collaborative development where multiple regenerative companies could pool their resources in order to form strong, modular tools and platform products.
What are “Platforms for the 21st Century”?
Most of today’s big digital platforms are still based on the old, extractive, monopolistic corporate structures that dominated the last century. They continue to promote inequality, mindless consumption, and harmful data exploitation.
At Platform21, we are committed to contributing to establishing new types of platforms, which are purposefully designed for thriving human communities that co-exist in harmony with each other and nature.
We do this together with a diversity of actors who share the vision of community-owned, human-centered, purpose-oriented platforms that truly help people make the best of our digital age.
Interested in joining us?
At CosyTools, we envision a globally distributed and interdisciplinary team. We always welcome like-minded people and partners to join our mission. Take a look at our job openings or simply get in touch with us if you are curious to find out more!
Our Approach
Co-operative
Rather than developing everything ourselves, we co-operate with partners and use existing software where possible. We also help our customers to build co-operative partnerships with like-minded partners.
Open
We believe that openness and transparency are crucial for platforms for the 21st century. We use open source software wherever possible and practical. And we help our customers to build platforms with transparent and inclusive business and ownership models.
Tool agnostic
We take a pragmatic, non-ideological stance on technologies like Web 3 or Blockchains. Our goal is to help our customers to find and set up the tools that best suit their specific purpose and requirements.
Real connections
We combine digital platforms with ways for supporting real, offline connections between people. This is why we focus on supporting “community first” projects, where the platform is really just about serving the real purpose of connection building and meaningful exchange.