CauseMatch · Capability Graph אֵמוּן

The whole community, as one map of who can do what.

Not a directory, and not a wall of stars — a living knowledge-graph of the people, organizations and vendors CauseMatch clients trust, and the skills they've been vouched for. Search a name or a skill, open any node, and follow the chain of who vouched and how we know them. Every vendor here was nominated by a real client — no one lists themselves.

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Scroll to zoom · drag to pan · click a node 100% · — nodes

The same graph, as text — one card per vendor, showing who vouched (name · organization · what they did), what they're vouched to do, and the projects behind it. A capability gap the community hasn't filled yet is listed last.

How a node gets its data

Trust is interviewed in, warmth is recorded in.

A vendor can't type their own node into existence. It's built from two sources, kept visibly distinct wherever the vendor appears — the hard-to-fake trust layer first, the story layer second.

Step 1 · the reference

A short interview with the client who hired them

Five to eight questions to a real CauseMatch client: what was the need, what did the vendor do, what changed, would you hire them again. This becomes the named endorsement and the project story — the trust triangle you see on every vendor node.

In the client's words
Step 2 · the vendor

A voice note about the work they love

Later, the vendor records a short voice note about what they do and their favorite project. Auto-transcribed, it adds the warmth and the craft — the vendor's own voice, kept clearly apart from the client's.

In the vendor's words
Photo slot: community leaders at a gala / a vendor at work — real Jewish imagery lands here

An honest read

Where the graph wins, and where it loses.

Where it wins

  • Answers "who can do X?" and "who vouched, and how do we know them?" in one consultative view — ideal for a live walkthrough on a shared screen.
  • Reveals capability clusters and, more usefully, gaps — a skill with no vouched vendor is visibly a hole in the community, not a silent absence.
  • Every path is trust made literal: endorser → their org → the vendor they hired, drawn as an actual triangle you can trace.

Where it loses

  • Heaviest of all the directions to build and keep current — every node needs real, fresh data or the map feels thin.
  • Can overwhelm or hairball if it isn't curated; it needs enough density to feel alive without becoming noise.
  • Not the fastest path to a single vendor — someone who just wants "a good designer, now" is better served by the directory (v1) or the matchmaker (v3).

Sample profiles shown are illustrative.