What if teachers, social workers, and everyday people could participate in building software products and earn equity? We are rotating teams building real software in public.
Most people can't do it alone. But what if we didn't have to? Software is mostly built by a small, gate-kept group in a few tech hubs, optimized for engagement rather than collective wellbeing.
We’re launching a collective product-building initiative where rotating teams of everyday people build real software in public, share ownership, and prove that the future of work belongs to all of us.
Collective is an in-person, AI-accelerated product studio where rotating cohorts of designers, engineers, and product thinkers co-create digital products—and share in the value they generate.
Applying the logic of housing collectives to software.
Each cycle starts with a tangible problem. Not a case study, but a product that ships and grows.
Small teams (5-10) commit for ~2 months. Each cohort inherits the previous team's artefacts and pushes forward.
Anyone willing to commit - designers, engineers, data people, and domain experts (artists, teachers) mixed together. Roles are fluid.
We use modern AI tools to rapidly explore, prototype, validate and ship. Go from discovery, idea to product or service in weeks, not years.
Decision logs, trade-offs, and reflections are open. A public learning archive of how better products are made.
Contributors share in the upside. We are prototyping fair models for equity and revenue participation.
Modern code-assist and LLMs make small, rotating multidisciplinary teams productive enough to ship serious products quickly.
More people are freelance, fractional, and portfolio-driven. The 9-5 solo career track is fading, but not everyone can be the solo-founder genius. More people are worried that their jobs will become irrelevant amid the boom in GenAI.
Dreamers, Designer and Builders want work that is ethical, communal, and impactful - not just another growth-at-all-costs app.
We’re assembling the first experimental cohort in Sydney. We're looking for passionate humans, regardless of whether you're a designer, an engineer, a data scientist, a systems thinker, or a "cross-pollinator" ... we're seeking people ready to experiment with a new way of working. People ready to commit 8 consecutive Saturdays. Is this you?