Co-Change

Agree on where you're going before everyone starts pulling.

Co-Change lets communities map goals, assumptions, tradeoffs, and possible actions together — then uses Single Transferable Votes to surface the path the group actually wants. The structure comes from the participants, not from the top.

For Communities, nonprofits, teams, and civic groups deciding how to create change together.

Solves Groups often commit to tactics before they've agreed on what success looks like, or whose theory of change they're actually following.

What is Co-Change?

Co-Change is for a group of people who all care about a problem but do not yet agree on what to do. It gives them a shared way to name the outcome they want, list the assumptions they are making, compare possible paths, and vote on the direction with the strongest support.

In simple terms: it helps a group decide where it wants to go before everyone starts pulling in different directions.

Theories of Change, Democratized

A theory of change maps the path from where you are to where you want to be: the outcomes you seek, the interventions that might work, the assumptions you are making, and the actors involved. Co-Change makes this mapping a collective act instead of a plan written by one person at the top.

Participants can:

Propose and vote on desired outcomes
Surface competing assumptions about what drives change
Align on values before debating tactics
Make volition explicit - what we choose to prioritize, not just what we predict
Use STV (Single Transferable Vote) to rank and select the most wanted paths forward

Why STV?

When a theory of change branches into multiple possible pathways, simple majority voting can leave minorities unrepresented. STV lets participants rank their preferred paths, ensuring that collective energy flows toward options with genuine broad support rather than those that merely win plurality.

Values and Volition

Most decision-making tools focus on prediction: what will happen? Co-Change focuses equally on volition: what do we want to happen, and why?

By separating values (what matters) from predictions (what we think will occur), groups can find alignment even when their models of the world differ.

Connection to Solowly

Co-Change shares DNA with Solowly - the same structured approach to capturing change theories (outcomes, actors, problems, interventions, metrics). Where Solowly is designed for individual or small-team sense-making, Co-Change extends this to collective deliberation and democratic alignment.