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ARA vs the rest of your stack.

The tools intentional communities actually use, what each one is good at, and where ARA does something they don't. No marketing trash-talk. We don't think these tools are bad. We think they were built for offices.

workspaces

ARA vs

Google Workspace

Most communities already run on Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and Groups. Where that works, where it stops, and what ARA does that it doesn't.

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chat

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WhatsApp

The community chat is fast and everyone is on it. Until the meeting-time change is buried under memes. What to keep, what to move.

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how_to_vote

ARA vs

Loomio

Loomio is excellent at consent-based decisions. Where ARA's Council covers the same ground, and where it wraps the rest of community life around it.

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Excel & Sheets

For the one person quietly maintaining the chore-rota spreadsheet, the contributions log, the dues tracker, and the inventory.

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dashboard

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Notion

Notion is a beautiful canvas you have to design yourself. ARA ships with the shapes a community actually needs already in place.

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Not sure which one you're closest to?

Walk through Riverbend Commons, a fictional ecovillage running on ARA. Click around, open Gardens, read a proposal, see the chore wheel. Read-only, no signup.

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