Learning
Teaching, tutoring, mentoring, writing curriculum, running a class.
Leap of Faith Labs · Pune, India
The good people do,
The good people do,
seen, valued, and carried forward.
We are a small studio in Pune. We make open tools, card decks and research that anyone can use. There is nothing to sign up for, and nothing tracks you.
LOFL Design Rule #1
Agents propose. Policy decides. Evidence before everything.
How value is made
The same six steps, every time
Every project follows the same six steps, in order — from something a person actually does, through to value coming back to them and to the commons. We never skip a step. What each step means →
1
Do it
Someone learns, teaches, makes, tends or cares for something.
2
Show it
Whatever shows it happened — work, notes, photos, recordings.
3
Check it
Someone checks that evidence against criteria agreed in advance.
5
Use it
That record can now open doors: recognition, work, support.
6
Give back
Value returns to the person and to their community.
What a contribution earns
Four kinds of credit, earned not handed out
When someone finishes something and it has been checked, they earn one Impact Unit. It is a credential — proof of what they did — not something that can be traded.
Skill
Trade training, craft skill, proven competence at a job.
Cultural
Oral tradition, art, ritual, keeping a language alive.
Green
Caring for water bodies, growing trees, tending and recording an ecosystem.
Impact Units cannot be sold or transferred. They say what you did. They are not money and not an investment.
In the field
Programs that leave something behind
We judge our own work by what is still there after we leave: something that runs, people who know how to run it, and results somebody checked.
In build
Aikā ऐका
A printed card deck you work through in a session, drawn from Indic philosophy, made for learners in aspirational districts.
Read more Cohorts openingAI for ALL
Learning to use AI with judgement — for civic platforms, cooperatives, NGOs and artisan clusters, plus an open course anyone can join.
Read more Held as an ideaSchool continuity
What keeps a school connected to its community after the bell rings. An idea we are holding until it has a site and a steward.
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What we hold to
Four principles. When they clash with what is convenient, the principles win
Systems thinking first
Map the whole system before proposing a fix. Name who is involved, what moves between them, and how it can fail. Something that looks right up close can break everything around it.
Indic & ethical lens
Balance, dharma and care for what we hold in common — alongside plain modern ethics: ask permission, collect as little as possible, take nothing that is not offered, and treat every contributor with dignity.
Open by default
Open formats, tools that work with other tools, built for public good. What we make is Creative Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0 — unless a page says otherwise, and then it says why. Locking anyone in has to be argued for.
Product + capacity
Every piece of work leaves behind something that runs and people who understand it. A beautiful document nobody can use is a failure.
The test everything has to pass
The Sita Tai Test
This is not a usability test. It is a fairness test, and every piece of work has to pass it before it starts.
Three more tests go with it: can a teacher run this in fifteen minutes a week, is there evidence before any claim, and can it actually be deployed. All four tests →
Could Sita Tai — a semi-literate woman in a Konkan village who teaches five children in her home — take part in this, have her work checked, and get real recognition for it, without being embarrassed, without a fight, and without needing anything she cannot reach?— If the answer is not yet, we name what has to change before the work is done.
Open by default
Made to be reused, changed, and carried forward.
Our main specifications are published under CC-BY-SA 4.0 — take them and use them. If you run a school, a cooperative, an NGO or a fund, or you just want to help, there is a way in.