Most of the work that holds a community together happens out of sight. Unspoken relationships, roadside chats, meetings scheduled, schedules kept, water bills sent, invoices paid, trails marked, trash collected. The thing the community sees — a working road, an event on Saturday, a safe clean neighbourhood, thriving flora and fauna — is the small visible part of a much larger amount of patient, unphotogenic work.
We set out to tinker and improve the patient parts.
Because the bigger dreams — places where neighbours still look after each other, where the land is treated like it will outlive us — those things never finish. They are always in flux. They sit just past the horizon, sometimes visible, usually out of reach, the way the moon does. You don't catch up to them, and over time that distance can be hard to live with.
We ran into this time and again. So we set out to shape the path our dreams laid out, building small tools to keep things moving. To make our businesses and properties run better, keep our beaches clean, our surroundings beautiful, to make our roads safe, and keep our water running. Not just because we still believe in the power of dreams, and small actions, but because our friends, communities and organisations around us needed it, we all do, and so does our planet.
Perhaps one day we will catch the moon.
- Community planning and noticeboards
- ASADA management tools
- Property and small-business operations
- Crowdfunding and payments