A fairer way to exchange skills and knowledge
Made Open peer networks are built for membership bodies, large-scale timebanks and professional networks, where skills and knowledge are spread across teams and locations.
Our award-winning software makes it easier to share and exchange those skills, with everyone's contributions recognised equally, regardless of position or pay grade. It connects people with the knowledge, skills and opportunities they need.
A fair exchange, not a favour
We've designed peer exchange so every contribution is valued the same, whatever someone's role or pay grade. Skills move across your network instead of staying with the people who already know each other. Here's how it works in three steps.
Offer what you know
People list the skills, time and knowledge they can share, from mentoring and facilitation to practical, hands-on help.
Bank the time
Every contribution is recorded as time credits, so giving and receiving are valued on the same basis.
Exchange and build trust
Members find who needs what, trade expertise and grow their connections. The shared record shows the value your network creates.
If this sounds familiar, you're not alone
- 1Skills, knowledge and expertise exist across your network, but stay hidden in inboxes, silos and private conversations.
- 2People who want to contribute can't easily find the people or projects that need them.
- 3Time and know-how go undervalued, with no fair way to exchange them or recognise what people give.
- 4Networks form around individuals, so when people move on the connections disappear with them.
- 5Collaboration depends on who you already know, closing the door to new voices and fresh perspectives.
- 6Trust is hard to build at scale, with no shared record of who did what and how it helped.
- 7The value created through peer exchange stays invisible to funders, leaders and the network itself.
Here's how we help you fix it
NHS Talent
National Health Service
A national NHS platform where talent is valued equally. This peer networking solution helps NHS staff connect, share skills, and advance their careers through timebanking and mentoring.
We know that transparent and equitable mechanisms for offering bespoke support to staff from under-represented groups are needed across the whole of health and social care. That's why we built a national platform, based on timebanking principles, dedicated entirely to talent management.
Karen Chummun — Head of Talent – London, NHS England
Future Towns Innovation Hub
University of Southampton
Based at Southampton Science Park, the Future Towns Innovation Hub is a hybrid innovation space - both digital and physical - designed to bring people together to shape happier, healthier and more prosperous places.
It is a genuine breath of fresh air to work with Made Open. Engaging with a team and a platform built on a shared, purposeful vision, and a clear determination to make things happen, is inspiring. Made Open demonstrate what’s possible when collaboration and practical problem-solving genuinely sit at the heart of a service.
Professor Clint Styles (MBA) — Associate Dean Enterprise, University of Southampton
Parents 1st UK
Parents 1st
Parents 1st is an open-access platform empowering perinatal peer support, sharing what works across the UK during pregnancy, birth and beyond. A community-led network for parents and carers.
We want perinatal peer support to flourish and the awesome Made Open platform is helping us to make that happen.
Celia Suppiah — Founder of Parents 1st
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