Tools and Examples
The tools and resources on this page emerged from our work and we offer them to help translate the concepts of the Many-to-Many System into tangible action. Please consider them starting points—templates to adapt, processes to try, or examples to test in your own collaborative work
Current Selection

Multi-Value Asset Mapping
Mapping of the different assets, especially non-tangible, being brought to a complex collaboration.
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Role Cards for Flexible Governance
Supports the development of flexible power, responsibility, accountability and risk-holding.
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Offer Canvas
Articulates activities and ideas collaborators wish to offer, whilst paying attention to capacity and energy.
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Kick Off Workshop Canvas
Identifies principles, values and key strategic directions in the early stages of a collaboration.
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Many-to-Many Agreement
Showcases the contracting approach, the deep code shifts and the legal commitments made in our Proof of Possibility.
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Legal Architecture Experiment Log
An experimenter’s log showing the key legal areas we explored and how these connect to deep code shifts.
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Process Stewardship Experiment Log
Log book from the process stewardship perspective of the things tried and tested in the proof of possibility
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Field Guide
A guide to support governance practitioners to explore and navigate the different terrains of complex collaborations.
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Simple Context Diagnostic
A model looks at two starting conditions of collaborations and how they lead to distinct characteristics and behaviours, and may be approached with different processes.
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Collaboration Process
A snapshot of the collaboration process we developed in our Proof of Possibility.
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Kick Off Workshop Agenda
Agenda outlining the key discussion items and timing from the kick off meeting in our Proof of Possibility.
Open details →Demand Led
As part of this work, we have identified a number of potential instruments for implementation that may be useful. However, we’d prefer to only develop these if there is demand. Let us know if any of these seem interesting and we can start conversation about their development.

Charting risk flows
A snapshot of how we mapped and understood risk flows.

Collaboration Team Space
An anonymised template from the Notion Team Space created for the Proof of Possibility collaboration to hold information and learning.

Deeply coding governance structures: a flow map tool
A tool showing how assumptions are deeply coded into governance structures.

Legal Design Workshop
A workshop designed for Legal Practitioners who work in (or wish to) complex collaborations.

Legal Scope Sensing
A simple flow chart to help analyse the legal scope for innovation in your context.

Many-to-Many as an alternative to bilateral grantmaking
A guide to how the Many-to-Many System may apply as an alternative to bilateral grant making approaches.

Many-to-Many in a small group collaboration (aka the proof of possibility)
Insights from applying a Many-to-Many approach in a small group collaboration.

Spotting patterns in your context: diagnostic tool
A diagnostic tool to analyse patterns within your context and to suggest process considerations.