Gitcoin Grants 24: Strategic Sense Making Framework

Hi @deltajuliet ,

It looks like Hydrapad’s report was generated by LLM based on Mathilda’s template, with the primary goal of selling Hydrapad’s solution.

Tools Used:

  • Root cause analysis of startup failure metrics
  • Comparative study of fundraising mechanisms (SAFTs, ICOs, bonded curves)
  • On-chain liquidity analysis (Dune, DeFiLlama)
Source Key Finding Severity
Dune Analytics 68% presale tokens crash >90% Critical
GG19 - 23 92% founders lack mentor access High
Hydrapad [value proposition] Solution

Data clustered around 3 themes:

  • Capital Access: Fragmented tools increase failure rates.
  • Operational Burden: Compliance/KYC slows launches.
  • Liquidity Mismatch: Static presales cause volatility.

This is as far from complexity-informed sensemaking that @owocki described as possible.

Unfortunately the current framework is vulnerable to this kind of “sensemaking through AI-generated reports”. If Gitcoin wants to address Ethereum ecosystem as a complex environment (which it is), it’s important to implement the “probe-sense-respond” approach and make sure that reports are not about “solving problems”, incl. pitches or self-advertising. Sensemaking isn’t about creating the proposals for what should be done, but rather understanding the environment.

A few members of Sensemaking Scenius (including myself) have collaborated on this proposal: [Gitcoin 3.0] Complexity-Informed Sensemaking Pilot

We would really appreciate your feedback. Our intention is not to challenge the existing framework, but rather to invite the Gitcoin community to a serious conversation about sensemaking.

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