Who Terradigm is For

If you’re trying to shift how power, resources, information, and relationships flow within a system—whether at the level of a community, organization, movement, or governance body—Terradigm is designed for you.

If you’re ready to prototype the futures we need beyond today’s crises and opportunities, this is a grounded way to design and seed them now.

We support anyone working on how we share resources, make decisions, resolve conflict, navigate complexity, and care for one another and the planet including:

• Changemakers: Social change leaders, community organizers, and philanthropists.
• System Builders: Systems-change facilitators, network weavers, strategic designers, and civil society institutions.
• Innovators: Public-sector policy teams, social benefit companies, mission-driven enterprises, and intrapreneurs reshaping systems from within.

How Terradigm Works

What You Get

Partnering with Terradigm, you build a comprehensive, evidence-based body of work that includes:

• A clear picture of the context and core objectives you are addressing—whether that’s community, organizational, network, policy, or governance design.
• A set of actionable Design Principles derived from proven biological strategies, complete with scientific citations.
• Prioritized application ideas specifically tailored to your unique context.
• A nature-informed evaluation matrix to stress-test your ideas and guide decision-making as your designs evolve.

This comes together in an exportable Design Brief—a tool to align partners, engage stakeholders, and secure resources. See a sample design brief here.

Why Terradigm?

Terradigm is designed to move you beyond “nature as metaphor” into rigorous, transparent design practice.

Go from inspiration to implementation in one workflow. You don’t have to piece together disparate tools. We take you from challenge framing to nature-informed principles to concrete interventions in a single, coherent process.

See exactly where the ideas come from. This isn’t a black box. Every principle is tied to specific biological examples and sources, giving you a transparent, evidence-linked foundation so you can dig deeper whenever you choose.

You bring the context. We handle the science. You don’t need to be a biologist to work with nature’s strategies. Terradigm turns complex biological strategies into clear design principles, leaving you free to focus on discernment, relationships, and application.

Designed for the reality of busy practitioners. We know you are navigating tight timelines and limited resources. Terradigm offers clear steps, explainable outputs, and useful exports—allowing you to access deep design work without a massive investment of time or money.

Consulting-caliber depth, as a force multiplier for your work. Terradigm is built on a curated, multidisciplinary dataset, reviewed with biologists and developed by biomimicry practitioners obsessed with rigor. We’ve done the heavy lifting of research and synthesis so you don’t have to—democratizing access to deep science and making high-fidelity design viable even for resource-constrained projects. This gives you a validated, nature-informed foundation in days rather than months, allowing you to spend less time digging for the science and more time on the human work of framing, facilitation, and implementation.

Grow the Terradigm Commons (Optional sharing and connection)

In nature, nothing thrives in isolation. Organisms contribute to the health of their wider ecosystem because their own long-term survival depends on it. Terradigm is built on this same ethos: our collective intelligence deepens and we adapt faster when we contribute to the commons.

Terradigm is private by default. You control exactly what is visible and when. Nothing is shared unless you explicitly opt in to:

• Make your profile discoverable so other practitioners can request contact or collaboration.
• Share selected outputs—such as a project summary, Design Principles, or your Design Brief—via a public link.
• Contribute case studies to document how you applied nature-informed strategies in the real world, helping build evidence and legitimacy for the field.
• Opt into collective learning spaces, such as communities of practice or office hours focused on shared challenges.

Over time, these voluntary contributions cultivate a shared “Terradigm Commons,” where patterns, proof points, and relationships circulate—accelerating the spread and impact of nature-informed solutions.