An Institution That Learns

EKLEKTOS is not a social network.

It has no interest in maximising screen time, generating followers or encouraging endless digital engagement.

Its technology exists for a different purpose:

• To help remarkable people discover one another.
• To identify shared interests and complementary expertise.
• To recognise when an introduction may be valuable.
• To surface relevant knowledge and conversations.
• And then, wherever possible, to allow human relationships to take over.

A Member may be building a company.

Preparing the next generation.

Exploring a new market.

Supporting a philanthropic cause.

Looking for expertise.

Planning an extraordinary experience.

Or simply interested in meeting someone fascinating from another world.

As Members choose to share their interests, experience and aspirations, EKLEKTOS develops a richer understanding of what matters to them.

That understanding enables the institution to become increasingly relevant to each individual Member.

The world does not suffer from a shortage of connections.

It suffers from a shortage of relevant ones.

Institutional Intelligence helps identify relationships that might otherwise never occur, across industries, countries, generations and disciplines.

Technology may recognise the opportunity.

EKLEKTOS provides the judgement.

The Member decides whether the introduction should happen.

Within 1,000 Members will exist an extraordinary concentration of knowledge, experience and perspective.

The challenge is making that collective intelligence accessible without creating noise.

Through the private platform, Members can ask questions, exchange perspectives and contribute knowledge through the General Forum.

When somebody within EKLEKTOS knows the answer, the institution should make it easier to find them.

Some of the most valuable things Members can offer one another cannot be purchased.

An introduction.

An hour of experience.

A piece of advice.

An opportunity.

A connection to a cause.

The Generosity Board creates a dedicated environment for Members to offer and request these things across the institution.

Institutional Intelligence helps ensure generosity reaches the people for whom it may matter most.

People change roles.

Businesses evolve.

Generations succeed one another.

But the knowledge accumulated within a great institution should remain.

Institutional Intelligence enables EKLEKTOS to preserve appropriate institutional knowledge, understand how relationships have developed and build upon what has been learned.

Over years and eventually generations, that creates something no newly formed network can replicate:

Memory.

Most memberships begin at their most exciting and gradually become familiar.

EKLEKTOS is designed to work differently.

As relationships deepen, participation increases and institutional understanding develops, the ability to make relevant introductions and surface useful knowledge should improve.

A Member joining in year one should therefore belong to a more knowledgeable and interconnected institution in year ten.

The ambition is simple: Membership should compound in value.

Institutional Intelligence can only succeed if Members retain control over their information and confidence in how it is used.

Privacy, discretion and appropriate Member consent must therefore be embedded into the architecture from the beginning.

Technology exists to serve Members.

Member information does not exist to serve technology.

• No attention economy.
• No advertising model.
• No sale of Member data.

The most sophisticated technology within EKLEKTOS should rarely feel like technology at all.

It should feel like meeting someone at precisely the right moment.

Receiving an answer when it matters.

Discovering an opportunity you didn't know existed.

Or finding that an institution understands you increasingly well without ever losing the human judgement upon which trust depends.