01 · The picture
A clear pie chart of your gaps.
What percentage of your community's rules are explicit, what's partially defined, what's missing entirely. One image, the whole landscape.
Explicit
Partial
Missing
EcoHubs Free community resilience assessment · 5 minutes
How resilient is your community when conflict arises?
A short, honest assessment of where your community's agreements are strongest — and where they'll break first.
From the communities we've assessed
Roughly 40–50% of important rules weren't defined at all.
Another 40–50% were only partially explicit.
Almost nothing was as clear as members believed.
Real data · not a manufactured statistic
The thing nobody warns you about
Most intentional communities don't fracture because their values were wrong. They fracture because the rules everyone assumed were shared turned out not to be — and the discovery happens during the conflict, not before it.
This isn't about blame, or about communities being naive. It's about how rarely we slow down to write things down — and how cleanly the gaps reveal themselves the first time something hard happens.
The 10-question assessment
Answer 10 questions.
Get an honest, personalized map of where your community is solid and where it's exposed.
Four answer options per question. Five minutes. Your responses stay in your browser until you ask for the full report.
The 10 community resilience assessment questions
- Decision-making: How does your community make important decisions — and is that process written down?
- Conflict resolution: If two members have a serious conflict, is there a clear, agreed process for resolving it?
- Joining the community: Are the requirements and steps for someone to become a full member of your community clearly defined?
- Leaving the community: If a member wants to leave — or needs to be asked to leave — is the process (including what happens to their contributions, belongings, or share) clearly defined?
- Money and shared finances: Is it clearly defined how shared money is collected, spent, and accounted for — and who has authority over it?
- Land and shared resources: Is it clearly defined who can use which spaces, tools, and resources — and under what conditions?
- Roles and responsibilities: Are the roles people hold in the community — and the authority each role carries — written down and agreed?
- Accountability: If someone doesn't fulfill their responsibilities or breaks an agreement, is there a clear, agreed process for addressing it?
- Changing the rules: Is there a clear, agreed process for how community agreements themselves can be changed over time?
- Power limits: Are there clear limits on how much influence any single person — including founders or long-time members — can hold over community decisions?
Question 1 / 10
Decision-making
How does your community make important decisions — and is that process written down?
No grades, no pass/fail — just a clear picture of what's defined and what isn't.
What lands in your inbox
A personalized report.
Written by humans, within 5 business days.
After your quiz, we ask you to share your community's actual agreements — your constitution, rules, governance docs, however they're written. Our team reads them and sends back a complete map.
02 · The map
A table of every category we checked.
For each area — decision-making, membership, money, conflict, accountability — exactly what's defined, what's vague, and what's missing in your specific documents.
decision-making✅ explicit
joining🟡 partial
leaving⚪ missing
finances🟡 partial
accountability⚪ missing
03 · The path
Three things to define, in order.
A prioritized action list — the gaps that, in our experience, tend to cause the most damage if they remain undefined. What to write down first, second, third.
01 Define what happens when a member leaves.
02 Write down your accountability process.
03 Make your decision-making process explicit.
The honest version
No AI grading you in the background. Our team reads your actual documents, thinks about your specific context, and writes the report. That's why it takes five days, not five seconds.
FruitHaven · Ecuador
First pilot
FruitHaven
Intentional community · Ecuador
Where this began
We piloted this with FruitHaven, an intentional community in Ecuador.
Real people, real history, real conflict. The first community to let us read everything they had written down — and everything they hadn't — and tell them, honestly, where the gaps were.
"It really touches points in us. We can feel it. We're excited for the first time in a long time."
— Member, FruitHaven
Is this for us?
Three things people quietly worry about before asking.
Worry #1 "Our community is small or informal."
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Worry #1
"Our community is small or informal."
If you have more than five people sharing a space, this is for you. Smaller and informal communities often have the most implicit rules — and the most to gain from making them explicit.
Worry #2 "We've been around for years — we're past this."
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Worry #2
"We've been around for years — we're past this."
Established communities often discover the deepest gaps. Time conceals what conflict eventually reveals. The longer something has worked informally, the more painful it tends to be when the informal version breaks.
Worry #3 "We don't want to be judged."
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Worry #3
"We don't want to be judged."
We don't judge. There's no score, no grade, no pass/fail. We support communities — we don't audit them. The report is just a clear map of what's defined and what isn't, so you can decide what to do next.
One last thing, before you go
In our pilots, 40–50% of crucial rules weren't written down. Where does your community land?
Send us your community's agreements after the quiz. We'll read them, write a personalized report, and have it in your inbox within five business days. Free.
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