Across the world, thousands of projects are quietly building a regenerative economy: community gardens, repair cafés, ecovillages, food co-ops, social centres, organic farms and maker spaces. But regenerative organisations are often hard to find.
Search engines are optimised to surface large brands with thousands of backlinks, not small, obscure, well-meaning projects quietly doing important work. Valuable initiatives disappear into the long tail, rendering them practically invisible unless you already know where to look, or spend time digging really deep.
CoBot aggregates data on regenerative economy organisations to make them easier to find.
What is CoBot?
CoBot is a free AI-powered search tool for exploring the regenerative economy, which utilises the Murmurations protocol. You can just ask it:
- “Show me worker cooperatives near Bristol.” See the results
- “What community food projects exist in northern Germany?” See the results
- “I’m visiting Amsterdam — what regenerative places should I see?” See the results
CoBot understands the question, searches across its combined datasets, and shows the results on a map with links so you can visit, volunteer or get involved.
Today it connects over 80,000 organisations — from cooperatives and community projects to nature reserves, repair cafés and ethical businesses.
Why CoBot matters
The regenerative economy already exists. But it’s fragmented and invisible. CoBot changes that by connecting data from multiple open networks into a living map of the regenerative economy. Movements grow faster when people can see each other, find each other and collaborate. CoBot helps make that possible.
What you can discover
CoBot already covers a wide range of initiatives, including:
- farm shops
- organic stores
- vegan and vegetarian restaurants
- food co-ops and community food hubs
- makerspaces and hackerspaces
- repair cafés
- social centres
- tool libraries
- cooperatives
- credit unions
- zero-waste shops
- fair-trade businesses
- nature reserves
- ecology centres
- rewilding projects
- eco campsites
Share what you find
When you discover something interesting — a cluster of repair cafés in your city, a network of ecovillages, a route full of regenerative projects — you can share it with the ‘share’ button under the top 5 results.
You can send links to specific search results to friends, post them in community groups, or include them in newsletters to help highlight specific initiatives to others. Every shared search helps more people discover what already exists.
Help the map grow
CoBot is only as good as the data behind it. The AI removes duplicate entries and organisations without a working website – plus it enables semantic search regardless of language – but that doesn’t mean the data is perfect. If you spot an error, just hit the flag icon on the relevant card to add your feedback and help improve the map.
You can help strengthen the regenerative economy simply by making initiatives visible. If you run a project follow the link to Add data and create a Murmurations profile, so your organisation can be included on CoBot and other mapping projects. Your data remains yours — but becomes discoverable everywhere.
The regenerative economy isn’t a future idea. It already exists — in thousands of local projects around the world. What’s missing is visibility and connection. CoBot helps reveal the ecosystem that’s emerging — and makes it easier for people to join in. Let us know what you think and share your ideas about how the map could be improved via Loomio.