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Welcome to News & Noodlings — the Resolana CoLaboratory blog where we think out loud about technology, cooperative economics, storytelling, and the messy, meaningful work of building digital tools for mission-driven organizations. No jargon, no thought leadership posturing. Just honest writing from people who are living this alongside you.
Once the team stopped trying to fix the broken thing and started asking what they actually wanted to build, the energy shifted. Benjamin Bradley describes how Resolana’s new identity — and new name — began taking shape from a blank canvas, and what it means to stay one step ahead in a technology landscape that’s still forming.
Before you can build something new, you have to genuinely let go of what came before. Benjamin Bradley recounts how the Resolana team held an actual funeral for their old company — eulogies, virtual wake, and all — as a way to clear the emotional space needed for something better to emerge.
In 2024, Polycot Associates — a worker-owned web development cooperative — faced a hard question: was a rebrand enough, or was the whole model broken? Benjamin Bradley, the last of the original four founders, shares how the team began confronting the future of an industry being reshaped by AI — and whether there was still a path forward together.