Your map and your database
are the same thing.
Every element in one place. Work visually on a map, filter it as a database, open any item as a page. Nothing duplicated. Nothing to synchronise.
Get startedMap and database
Both worlds,
and beyond.
Place elements on a map and they are also rows in a database. Change a property in the table and it appears on the map. One model, three ways to look at it. There is nothing to synchronise because there is only one thing.
Connections
A connection is a thing,
not a line.
Draw a line between a funder and a project, name it Funds, add a grant amount and a date. Open it later and those details are still there. Filter the map to show only Funds connections. In other tools, the line is a visual mark. It returns nothing.
Funds
Three views
Three ways to see
the same thing.
Every element exists as a position on the map, a row in the database, and a page with a rich text body and a list of connections. These are not copies of different objects. They are three views of the same underlying record. Change anything in one view and the others reflect it.
Structure
No structure
imposed on you.
Name your connection types what the work calls for — Funds, Challenges, Reports to, Is precondition for. Create the properties that matter. Scopic has no preset categories, stages, or relation types. You define the structure and the tool holds it.
Walkthroughs
Walk someone
through it.
Mark a path through your map. Add a note to each stop. Share a link and the recipient follows the path you laid out — one element at a time, in the order you chose. The map becomes a guided argument, not just a diagram.
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Ford Foundation began funding Zenith in early 2024, ahead of the Series A close.
General purpose
If you can map it,
you can build it here.
Research networks. Stakeholder maps. Competitive landscapes. Knowledge graphs. Theory-of-change diagrams. Curriculum dependency maps. Scopic makes no assumptions about your domain. The structure you define is the structure it holds — nothing more, nothing less.
Why Scopic
One thing.
Three ways to see it.
Most tools help you organise what you know. Scopic helps you organise how things relate. The connection between a researcher and a finding, between a funder and a programme, between a competitor and a market — these carry meaning. They should be as easy to open, filter, and annotate as anything else in your work.
When you add something to the map it is also a row you can sort. When you draw a line between two things it is a record you can open. Switch between the map, the table, and the page whenever the work calls for it — nothing needs to be exported or synchronised because there is only one thing you are looking at.
We built Scopic because we kept needing it: a place where the diagram and the structured list stay in sync because they are the same object. Not two things to maintain. One thing seen from different angles.
How it works
Six layers.
One model.
01
Map
Place elements on a canvas. Connect them. Name the connections. The layout is a spatial argument about how things relate — no template, no preset structure, just the shape you build.
02
Database
The same elements are rows in a database. Sort by any property, filter by any value, group by any field. Nothing is exported or duplicated — the table and the map share the same underlying records.
03
Page
Open any element as a page. Write a rich text body. See every connection listed below it — what it connects to, what type, what properties the connection carries.
04
Connections
Every connection has a name, a type, and properties you define. Open any connection as a record. Filter the map to show only one type. Query connections in the database the same way you query elements.
05
Walkthroughs
Mark a path through the map. Add a note to each stop. Share a link and the recipient follows your path one element at a time. The map becomes a presentation without leaving the tool.
06
Sharing
Share the whole project as a link. Viewers can explore freely — switch between map, database, and page view. The model is live. There is no export, no screenshot, no snapshot that goes stale.
Ford Foundation
Funder
Notes
Connections
Ford Foundation began funding Zenith in Q1 2024, ahead of the Series A close.
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