They connect us, inspire us, change the world around us...

...and a great idea can come from anywhere. This is the founding principle of Clusta.

Clusta is a new platform to collaboratively brainstorm new ideas.

We took the concept of the mind map, added some mycelial magic and created an entirely new and unique interface design to let your next idea take shape.

Clusta is made up of collections. Like making a mind map for a particular project, collections are your one stop shop for all brainstorming, research and planning for your new project.

Collections are made up of sparks. These are small cards of text which you can connect together to form a web, a mesh... a cluster.

It is the cluster of these sparks which make up the shape of an idea.

"It is not the beauty of each flower, but the arrangement."

"It is not the beauty of each spark, but the arrangement."

Because we know a good idea can come from anywhere, we wanted to make sure that Clusta would feel like an inclusive space for all collaborators. This is why we focused less on profiles and more on ideas on Clusta.

This allows ideas to be judged on their value, not their author.

It also ensures that Clusta is a space for connection, not separation. Our ideas, our dreams, are what connect us. This is why we made Clusta.

This belief in connection and inclusivity is what inspired the architecture of our platform.

Instead of building a structure of information in the same, arboreal image (tree-like) as we see in most structures of information, physical and digital (like your desktop file system - folders in folders, files in these, like branches from a tree) we were inspired by mycelial and mycorrhizal root systems which form circular pathways with multiple connection points.

This new image of organisation removes hierarchy from information. Only when we see ideas together, connected, and equal, can we judge them for what they are.

For the first time we can do this. Only on Clusta.



If you read this far, thanks so much! I hope Clusta will help your next idea take shape.

Ethan Corcoran FRSA
Founder / CEO
Clusta.

We'd love to hear from you! Say hello at [email protected]