The Stakeholder Journey

From first use to real contribution

People can use a tool every day without joining its community. Follow the same 36 participants and change the support available at the crossing into contribution.

Same cohort, one changed force

What helps a regular user become a contributor?

Change the support offered at Habit, then watch who reaches Commitment and who returns to private use. The counter records each person’s first crossing. Replaying the same 36 participants makes the effect of the changed support easier to compare.

Intentional community path

Invitation makes the next role visible

At Habit, an invitation adds enough support to overcome the modeled effort of taking a community role. The stewardship path beyond it is shared by both conditions.

Observing · 0.0 / 20 model seconds

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Designed relay. 0 of 36 participants have reached First Impact; 0 have crossed into Commitment and 0 have reached Ecosystem Leadership. Counts cover the first 20 model seconds.

First Impact00% of the same cohort

Habit0unique people who reached it

Commitment00% of impact

Leadership0first crossings, counted once

CommitmentI help tend the project.0 of 36participants reached this stage. Repeat visits do not increase this count.

Inspect the initial barriers

M1Findability0 crossing eventscost 26

M2Value fit0 crossing eventscost 34

M3Activation work0 crossing eventscost 40

Saved scenario evidence

Unique participants reaching each stage

Run both for the same 20 model seconds. Unrun conditions have no result yet.

ActivationNot runNot run

First ImpactNot runNot run

HabitNot runNot run

CommitmentNot runNot run

Ecosystem LeadershipNot runNot run

Ecosystem canvas as model map

What the model is trying to explain

Each row names a part of participation that a project could investigate, such as finding value, returning to the tool or receiving an invitation.

Stakeholder Journey Open-Source Ecosystem Canvas Ecosystem Map

Reusable process evidence

What would you measure in a real community?

In a real community, track useful first results, repeat use, invitations and first contributions for comparable groups over the same period. This simulation assumes that contributing takes extra effort and that an invitation helps people cross that barrier. It illustrates the hypothesis; observing a real community would test it.