Systems intelligence
for social impact
Deploy human + artificial intelligence to generate new insights into complex social systems.
Openfields developed Orchard to be the first business intelligence platform focused specifically on accelerating holistic learning about social impact issues. Orchard is designed for innovative social impact organizations, collective impact networks, learning cohorts, and leadership teams to increase their capacity for more diverse, disciplined, creative, and foresight-driven learning.
Thought leadership + foresight
Stay ahead of your field by mapping trends, exploring emerging issues, and developing creative perspectives on the future.
Rapid learning
Obtain real-time publications, articles, case studies, local news, and social trends focused directly on the issue you are working to address from sources beyond your typical news and research sites.
Field building
Circulate live insights into an emerging field of work among collaborators. Discover who else is working in and around your strategic issues.
Community voice
Elevate voices from the communities and systems you seek to serve.
Orchard Offering
Expand the way you learn.
What exactly is Orchard?
Orchard is a learning platform and process developed, managed, and facilitated by Openfields on behalf of our clients. The platform includes:
A focused team of Openfields researchers and analysts supported by expert advisors
A proprietary AI-powered web tracker generating strategic insight feeds
A disciplined curation, learning, and sense-making process
Strategic products designed to educate and engage leaders, teams, and networks
What processes and products does Orchard include?
Intelligence Strategy Sessions to define your learning objectives, initial source map, and strategic impact opportunities
Weekly Insight Briefs that include must-read, must-share insights based on your learning objectives
Synthesis Reports that identify and frame emerging issues in your field
Live Sense-making Sessions to identify trends and discuss their implications
Online Insight Dashboard, a sortable, searchable, learning portfolio with your curated insights, unique to you.
Orchard personalized dashboard
Diversify your sources of news, ideas, and stories beyond your echo chamber. Learn from other fields, cultures, communities, and countries.
Add live stories and lived experience to your data reports and dashboards
Publish an insights newsletter
Multiply media visibility around events you're hosting or research you're publishing
Host network learning experiences
Develop trends reports
We integrate Orchard into many of our research and data projects and develop custom feeds for leaders and learning cohorts.
