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How a program runs


in five stages.

Every program on Earth Collective has the same five stages, configured to your criteria. You bring the brief and the people. The platform runs the process and keeps the record.

  1. Stage 1
    Intake
  2. Stage 2
    Develop
  3. Stage 3
    Prepare
  4. Stage 4
    Match
  5. Stage 5
    Report
Stage 1 · Intake

Applications in, decisions out.

Ventures, projects and nonprofits apply through your own portal. Every application is assessed on your criteria, with AI helping your reviewers and your people making the call. Every decision is kept.

  • Your own application form
  • AI assists, people decide
  • Every decision kept
An application being assessed
Stage 2 · Develop

Your pipeline gets better while it’s with you.

Every applicant gets a clear stage and a next step. Your advisors give structured feedback, and teams fix what’s weak before a funder sees it.

  • A clear stage and next step for every applicant
  • Structured feedback from your advisors
  • A fresh review once an applicant has improved
Structured advisor feedback on a profile
Stage 3 · Prepare

Get ventures ready to be funded.

The readiness engine takes each venture and project through what funders actually ask for: a clear narrative, impact metrics, a risk management program and a data room. By the end they speak the language of equity, debt and grant funders, and you can see who is ready.

  • Narrative, impact metrics, risk program and data room
  • Built around what equity, debt and grant funders ask for
  • Readiness visible to your team, venture by venture
A venture building its profile and narrative
Stage 4 · Match

Introduce ready applicants to the right funders.

When an applicant is ready, it reaches the investors and funders who back what it does. What they look for stays private, and serious conversations move into a secure data room.

  • Matching on each investor’s mandate
  • Private pipelines for investors
  • Secure data rooms for serious conversations
An investor setting the stages and sectors of a mandate
Stage 5 · Report

Report outcomes without a spreadsheet marathon.

Your whole pipeline is in one view: every applicant, its reviews, its stage and the investor interest it attracts. When someone asks what the program achieved, you’re not rebuilding the answer from spreadsheets.

  • Your pipeline by stage, country and sector
  • Your pipeline stays connected after the program ends
Example program overview with its stage, applicants, advisors and investors
Your galaxy

You run the galaxy. We run the platform underneath it.

Your team manages its galaxy on its own, from its own admin. We keep the platform running and stay out of the way unless you want us in.

The wider network

Your brand, with a bigger network behind it.

Every galaxy runs on its own, and all of them connect to the wider Earth Collective network. When it helps them, your applicants can reach more advisors, investors and funders than your program has on its own. You choose how much of that network your participants see.

Assessment

Assessment you can stand behind.

Every applicant is assessed on your criteria, in the same way, and your people make the decisions.

Your rubric, applied the same way

You bring the scorecard and the stages. Every applicant is assessed against them in the same way.

Stages, not grades

A stage says where an applicant is and what it needs next. Nobody fails; they’re at a stage and moving.

AI assists, people decide

AI helps your reviewers. Advisors, judges and your staff make the decisions.

Every decision is kept

Scores, reviews and decisions stay on record, so you can show how each one was made.

Nobody leaves empty-handed

Every applicant leaves with a stage and a next step, whether or not they get a place.

Impact is scored

Social and environmental impact is one of the criteria every applicant is assessed on.

After the program

The network stays when the program ends.

Applicants keep their profiles, progress and advisor history, and matching with investors and funders keeps running. Your next cohort starts with people who already know each other.

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See a program run from start to finish.

We’ll walk you through a live program, one stage at a time.