How opportunities work

Browsing the full marketplace is Solo plan. On Free you still see a teaser on your dashboard, and public opportunity pages remain readable — what needs a plan is the marketplace itself.

The marketplace is a needs board: members and organisations post requirements, and the platform matches them against member profiles.

It is not a jobs board, and the distinction affects how it is used.

Posting needs rather than offers

There is no mechanism for posting an offer. This is by design: the profile serves that purpose.

A graphic designer does not post “offering graphic design”; the skill is recorded in the profile, and the member then appears in matches for those requiring design. Posting it as an opportunity would duplicate the profile and match nothing.

In summary:

• To request something: post an opportunity.
• To offer something: complete your profile.
• To exchange: post the requirement; the profile already records what is offered.

Consequently, a poor match rate is generally addressed through the profile rather than the search. Specialty, interests and tags are the fields matching reads.

Opening a single opportunity’s full detail is Solo plan.

What counts as an opportunity

An explicit, actionable request with a defined end point — one that another member can fulfil and that can be marked complete. Discussions, articles and general interests do not qualify.

Every opportunity has a type:

Opportunity types

What kind of thing an opportunity is. Chosen when it is posted.

skill service volunteering funding event course collaboration mentorship other

Purpose and tags

Two fields perform the matching, and warrant the most attention:

Purpose — free text describing the reason for the listing. It is read semantically, so it should be written as prose rather than keywords.

Tags — drawn from a vocabulary shared with member profiles. climate-justice and mutual-aid are the same tag on an opportunity as on a profile, which is what allows the two to match. Use existing tags where applicable; a tag used by no other record produces no overlap.

Stating the commitment

Two fields set expectations. Detail such as rates, hours or barter terms belongs in the description.

Compensation

How, or whether, an opportunity pays.

volunteer paid funding barter unspecified

Time investment is one of one-time, recurring, ongoing or flexible.

Funding opportunities can also carry an amount and currency.

Visibility

Visibility	Who
Public	Anyone, including people without an account
Network	Members only

Status over time

Opportunity status

Where an opportunity is in its life. Set by the poster, except `expired`.

draft active fulfilled expired closed

• Draft — visible only to the author.
• Active — published.
• Fulfilled — set by the author to record that the need was met. Marking this informs platform reporting on outcomes.
• Expired — applied automatically once the deadline passes; no action is required.
• Closed — set manually by the author, for any reason.
• Recurring — a sixth state that cannot be set manually. See below.

Recurring listings

A recurring listing is a known cyclical call: currently closed, and expected to reopen. It cannot be created directly — posting produces either a draft or an active listing. The platform derives the state by identifying calls that run in cycles.

This affects browsing, as the default listing includes active and recurring items together. A result may therefore not be open at the time of viewing; it is listed so that the next round can be anticipated.

Verified, unverified, and flagged

Listings carry a verification state:

State	Meaning
Unverified	Nothing has checked it yet — the default
Auto-verified	Passed the platform’s automated checks
Human-verified	A person confirmed it
Human-rejected	A person reviewed it and rejected it
Flagged	Marked as questionable

A flagged listing has its match score halved — it is pushed down, not removed. It can still be found and still matches, at half the weight it would otherwise carry. If a listing of yours has quietly stopped appearing in other people’s matches, this is the first thing to check.

Freshness comes from when the opportunity was last updated, not when it was posted. An opportunity you edit looks current again — so if yours is going stale, updating it genuinely helps rather than being a trick.

Posting

Posting needs Solo plan, and editing an existing one needs Solo plan.

For the steps — including pasting a call document and letting the AI fill the form in — see Post an opportunity.