Process layer for resource coordination during disruptions.

Sortium turns a crisis or civic team's scattered input into a living challenge graph, verified shared understanding, and clear paths to contribute.

The Gap

Crisis networks don't lack the will to help.They lack coordination capacity.

Volunteers, resources and decisions live across chats, spreadsheets, meetings and personal networks. The intent is there. The structure is not.

Overloaded coordinators

A handful of people hold the whole picture — and become the bottleneck.

Duplicated work

Three teams call the same shelter. Two spreadsheets contradict each other.

Unclear ownership

Nobody knows whose task it actually is.

Slow volunteer activation

Capable people wait days before they're matched to something useful.

Weak follow-up

Tasks get handed off and quietly disappear into chat threads.

Invisible local capability

Skills and resources exist nearby but can't be seen or reached in time.

The Product

A living challenge graph, guided by conversation.

Think Palantir, but for civic coordination.

Two surfaces, one shared model of the situation. The graph holds what's known and who's involved; the guide helps each person find where they fit.

Challenge graph visualization showing Winter resilience root node connected to heating, volunteer, and supply branches
Sortium chat interface guiding a volunteer to where they're most useful
The Loop

How one contributor moves through it.

The same loop runs for everyone — newcomer or coordinator — and the graph gets a little sharper each time someone passes through.

  1. 01
    Onboarding

    Invite, orient & pick a vector

    A new contributor joins. The guide explains the situation in plain language — no briefing call, no catch-up doc. They choose where competence and motivation actually fit, what they can give and what they care about.

    Newcomers go from 'lost' to 'useful' in minutes. The right people opt into the right branches by themselves.
  2. 02
    Contribution

    Zoom in and contribute to nodes

    Sortium opens the branch that needs them, with current state, who's involved, and the open questions still unresolved. They add support, criticism or evidence to a specific node in the challenge graph — not another scrolling chat thread.

    No more re-reading three months of chat to get up to speed. Every input has a home; nothing gets lost in scrollback.
  3. 03
    Synthesis

    AI proposes, humans verify

    The AI suggests merges, splits, re-priorities and surfaces gaps. New input ferments in the open before it becomes truth. A coordinator weighs support, criticism and evidence — then confirms or rejects before anything becomes permanent.

    Decision support, not replacement. Verified once, still reversible if reality changes.
  4. 04
    Loop

    Understanding compounds

    Shared understanding and coordination get sharper with every pass. The next person who arrives picks up where the last one left off.

    The graph gets a little sharper each time someone moves through it.
Pilot partners

Run one shared initiative end-to-end with us.

We start with NGO, civic, and community coordination — frequent, measurable, and lower-risk than formal emergency response. First pilots are exploratory and structured around your real work.

One shared initiative run end-to-end on Sortium
Onboarding flow tuned to your network's context
Challenge graph configured around your real missions
Coordinator dashboards, stakeholder gaps, evidence trail
Measure activation, follow-through and reporting quality
Standardised package you can replicate across chapters

Talk to us about a pilot

Tell us about your network and the coordination problem you're trying to solve. We'll respond within 48 hours.