A fair economy for professional skill exchange
Large workforces hold a wealth of ideas, skills and knowledge that could create value elsewhere, but too often, people’s talent remains hidden within their teams, departments and locations.
Our award-winning software removes these silos, giving everyone an equal basis for their contributions to be exchanged and recognised - regardless of their position or pay grade.
Think of it as a shared network for professional skills; connecting people, knowledge and opportunities.
The problem most peer networks run into
- 1Skills, knowledge and expertise exist across your network, but stay hidden in inboxes, silos and private conversations.
- 2People who want to contribute can't easily find the people or projects that need them.
- 3Time and know-how go undervalued, with no fair way to exchange them or recognise what people give.
- 4Networks form around individuals, so when people move on the connections disappear with them.
- 5Collaboration depends on who you already know, closing the door to new voices and fresh perspectives.
- 6Trust is hard to build at scale, with no shared record of who did what and how it helped.
- 7The value created through peer exchange stays invisible to funders, leaders and the network itself.
Made Open turns hidden expertise into a fair economy
Key features
Create thriving peer-to-peer communities.
Timebanking
Help members exchange skills and services using time credits or tracked hours.
Teams
Help groups collaborate in dedicated spaces for messaging, coordination and file sharing.
Challenges
Help communities share, rate and develop ideas into collaborative action.
NHS Talent
National Health Service
A national NHS platform where talent is valued equally. This peer networking solution helps NHS staff connect, share skills, and advance their careers through timebanking and mentoring.
We know that transparent and equitable mechanisms for offering bespoke support to staff from under-represented groups are needed across the whole of health and social care. That's why we built a national platform, based on timebanking principles, dedicated entirely to talent management.
Karen Chummun — Head of Talent – London, NHS England
Future Towns Innovation Hub
University of Southampton
Based at Southampton Science Park, the Future Towns Innovation Hub is a hybrid innovation space - both digital and physical - designed to bring people together to shape happier, healthier and more prosperous places.
It is a genuine breath of fresh air to work with Made Open. Engaging with a team and a platform built on a shared, purposeful vision, and a clear determination to make things happen, is inspiring. Made Open demonstrate what’s possible when collaboration and practical problem-solving genuinely sit at the heart of a service.
Professor Clint Styles (MBA) — Associate Dean Enterprise, University of Southampton
Parents 1st UK
Parents 1st
Parents 1st is an open-access platform empowering perinatal peer support, sharing what works across the UK during pregnancy, birth and beyond. A community-led network for parents and carers.
We want perinatal peer support to flourish and the awesome Made Open platform is helping us to make that happen.
Celia Suppiah — Founder of Parents 1st
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