Every regenerative land project hits the same walls. Most hit them alone.
A working network for the founders of regenerative communities and land projects. Twelve months of shared strategy, Elua's systems analysis on your real decisions, and a collective intelligence that gets sharper with every project in the room.
Everything you can see on the land grows from what you can't.
Different land. The same four walls.
Costa Rica, Mexico, Lombok, Ibiza, North Carolina. The details change. The hardest problems arrive in the same order, and each founder pays to solve them from scratch.
Roads, water and power have to be built before a single home sells. How do we fund the first years without handing the land to investors who want their money back by year three?
The cash-flow gap that stalls more projects than anything else.Permits, zoning and foreign ownership rules can take longer than the build. How do we structure the land so residents can share it, the vision is protected, and it's all legal?
One wrong structure is very expensive to unwind.Who belongs here, and how do we decide things together once they arrive? How does the founder stop carrying every decision alone?
Most communities fracture over people, not soil.Every plot sold pays the bills, and every plot sold puts pressure on the water, the forest and the neighbours. How do we stay financially alive without breaking the promise we made to this land?
Where "regenerative" either becomes real or becomes marketing.These walls are high when you face them alone, and much lower when a whole network of founders faces them together. That's what this network is for.
Every session has real work on the table.
Most networks fade because the calls turn into hanging out. Here the analysis happens between sessions, so every call starts with something concrete to review, question and build on together.
We run the analysis
Andrew and James take what surfaced last time and run it through Elua: stakeholder analysis, root causes, solution criteria.
We review it together
We walk through the findings live. Everyone learns from every project, including the ones that don't look like theirs.
You revise and add
Members challenge the map, add new objectives and dig a layer deeper into the root system.
The root system grows
Every round leaves the shared map richer, so the next decision, yours or anyone's, starts further ahead.
Twelve months inside the work.
What you share stays private unless you choose to share it.
Your project, mapped by Elua
We take your team and key stakeholders through Elua's process. We find the root system behind your hardest problem, agree on the criteria a good solution has to meet, and score your real options against them. You leave with a Mission Strategy Tree and a Thesis you can put in front of partners, buyers and funders.
On its own, an Elua analysis is a paid engagement. Here it's part of membership.
Root system reviews
Small pods of six to eight founders. We review the analysis done since the last session, and one member's live decision gets the full attention of the room.
Whole network sessions
Everyone together, on one of the four walls, with a practitioner who has built it on real land.
Your project's second brain
Your calls, decisions, analyses and plans in one private place, connected to a shared commons that holds what the whole network has learned.
People who've done it
Introductions to the engineers, lawyers, designers and builders other members have hired and would hire again.
The gatherings
Two in-person gatherings a year on members' land. We walk the site, see the work up close and do the deep strategy that only happens in person.
Project Defense
You present your updated strategy and your pod tests it hard. It's often the most valuable three hours of the year.
How the year unfolds.
Every member follows the same arc, so the network learns from work it can compare.
Exploratory conversation
An honest conversation about your land, your stage and what's in your way, to see whether this is the right room.
Map the root system
Your Elua analysis, with your second brain set up and loaded with your project's history.
Build with your pod
Monthly reviews, network sessions and two gatherings, with every decision feeding the commons.
Project Defense
Show what changed, sharpen your thesis and set the priorities for the year ahead.
It gets wiser with every project.
Elua is trained on the Regenesis living-systems approach to regenerative development. Every analysis we run adds to what it knows.
- Root system maps
- Capital structures
- Legal models
- Governance patterns
- Vetted builders
- What failed, and why
Most AI tools hand you a confident answer to whatever you type. We built this the other way round. We drive every analysis ourselves, so the intelligence works on the right question, with the right people, before it recommends anything.
Over time the commons holds what every project in the network has tested on real land. So a founder can bring the question that keeps them up at night:
"We've sold six of eighteen plots and need $3 million for roads, water and power before we can sell the rest. How have other communities funded this stage without giving up control of the land?"
and work through it with answers drawn from founders who have already been there, and the names of the people who helped them do it.
One room instead of six advisors.
On a multi-million dollar land project, a single wrong call on capital, structure or governance costs more than years of membership.
Going it alone Fragmented
- A separate advisor for strategy, legal, governance, design and capital
- Each one sees a piece; nobody holds the whole system
- Builders and lawyers found by trial and error
- Hard-won lessons stay buried in your inbox
- The founder carries every decision alone
Mycelium Integrated
- One systems map of the whole project, built with your stakeholders
- A pod of founders who have faced the same decision
- Builders and experts other members vouch for
- A second brain that remembers everything, private and shared
- A strategy thesis your partners and funders can follow
For founders already on the land.
Who's in the room matters more than anything else, so we choose carefully.
A strong fit
- You lead a regenerative community, residential or land project
- The land is secured or under contract
- You make the decisions, or sit beside the person who does
- You're ready to show up monthly for a year
- You'll share what you learn, including what went wrong
Not yet
- Still searching for land or a co-founder
- Looking for a done-for-you consultant
- Wanting answers without sharing the journey
Pay what it's worth. You choose the number.
There's no fixed price. Membership runs on a sliding scale: each founder chooses a monthly contribution that reflects what this network is worth to their project.
Where many founders land.
Most founding offers fall between $500 and $2,500 a month. Offer more if you can, less if you need to. Drag the slider to explore; you'll set your real number with us in the exploratory conversation.
- SelectionFit comes first. Your contribution is part of your application, and a generous one helps everyone start sooner.
- Until we beginNobody is charged until the round reaches its minimum
- Group sizeNo fixed number of seats. Pods of six to eight form as founders join.
- CommitmentTwelve months from the start date
$20,000 a month, combined, is the minimum to begin.
That's the total from every founding member, not what any one person pays.
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Generosity makes room
Elua was created to be a gift, not a transaction. When members who can give more do, it opens space for Indigenous-led and Global South projects that couldn't otherwise be here.
How do I decide what to offer?
Most founding offers fall between $500 and $2,500 a month. Think about what one wrong decision on capital, structure or governance would cost your project, and what a year of clear strategy is worth to you. Then offer what feels right. We'll talk it through with you in the exploratory conversation.
What if the round doesn't reach its minimum?
Nobody pays anything. We'll keep you updated as the round fills and only begin when there's enough to do this properly.
Why no fixed number of seats?
So we can reach the minimum with the right group rather than a set headcount. Pods stay small however many founders join.
How much time does it take?
About four hours a month for the sessions, plus whatever time you give your own project's analysis. The gatherings are optional, but members who come get the most out of the year.
Method and container.
One of us brings the method and the intelligence. The other holds the room and the relationships. Together we drive every analysis.
Andrew Hewitt
Founder of Elua, the process that brings funders, doers and thinkers together around a complex problem to build a shared strategic map, so capital can flow with confidence toward the highest-leverage work. He has spent years designing purpose-driven organisations and regenerative ecosystems.
James Sol Radina
James has spent twenty-two years in personal development and ten years holding international retreats, where people come to do their deepest work. He's on the ground at Tampah Reserve in Lombok, where he built the project's second brain, the system this network now extends.
What may grow from here. A network of projects that trust each other could one day pool capital, share infrastructure and invest in each other's work. That comes later, and only if the members want it.
Nothing regenerative grows alone.
Start with a conversation. The founding round is open to a small number of projects. Tell us about your land and what's in your way, and we'll explore together whether this is your room.