Futuh. An Arabic-Andalusian word. It means openings — in the plural, as received by those who allow themselves to be opened. Ibn Arabi, born in Murcia around 1165, formalises it in his Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya as the illuminations that knowledge grants to those who await them with care.
It is not a word of conquest. It is a word of threshold. What opens within when one thinks with care, not what is won outward.
This platform is that: an infrastructure of management, data and artificial intelligence that opens — to the third sector, to the social economy, to the cooperatives and associations that sustain the commons. It does not conquer organisations. It does not flatten them. It accompanies their own way of justifying, of imputing, of accounting to their counterparts.
An ERP that flattens difference is not helping; it is erasing.
That is what Futuh seeks to be technically: the place in which different third sector organisations collaborate without diluting themselves. Architecture follows concept — stable UUIDs, data federation, an intermediate layer that allows your instance and ours to dialogue without either losing autonomy.
We build on five convictions:
First. Sectoral knowledge is an asset to be codified, not noise to be filtered out. The years of operating from inside — NexoONG at ACPP (more than 100 people and more than 130 simultaneous cooperation projects) and the ESS Toolkit at CAIS (five years accompanying social intervention entities) — are not incidental on a CV: they are the two corpora from which the product's logic is born. Futuh fuses them into a single system.
Second. AI is useful when it operates on well-structured data, not when it is glued on as a chatbot over a generic ERP. That is why we work with open European models — Mistral as the frontier model — self-hosted at trusted cooperatives, not in San Francisco. The organisation chooses where its data runs.
Third. Pricing is a declaration of alignment. Against the exclusive logic of the ERP sector — charging per user, per feature, per added module, per new access — we propose an inclusive logic: fees proportional to budget, as the sector's coordinating bodies do — CONGDE, REAS, CAIS, POAS —. An organisation with a budget of 300K € cannot and should not pay the same as one with 3M €. And every person sustaining the work must be able to use the tool without counting licences: unlimited users, unlimited features. Technology must not exclude anyone from the team that sustains it.
Fourth. Data sovereignty is not a legal checkbox. It is the real possibility — technical and contractual — of taking one's data, migrating, auditing, exporting. Open source on Odoo Community 19. No artificial moat.
Fifth. Futuh is not a standalone product: it is an enabling common infrastructure. An ecosystem — ERP, school, funding radar, federation between member organisations, AI assistant — where each piece stands on its own and together they enable what none would separately: that third sector organisations share infrastructure, learnings and daily work without giving up their autonomy. Ostrom showed that the commons work when there are clear rules, not when there are none. Federici reminded us that infrastructure is invisibilised care work. Futuh embraces both: clear rules and visible work.
We name it as Ibn Arabi named his illuminations, eight centuries before us. Futuh. Not conquests. Openings.