For everyday shoppers
Help shape your local economy.
Start with your everyday choices.
Symbio brings people and local businesses together to create more ways to meet everyday needs—giving your spending a wider purpose and you more choice.
Explore the pilot →Your invitation to help shape the first Symbio communities.
Our Mission
Putting economic choice in people’s hands.
The more our economic lives depend on systems we do not control, the more valuable it becomes to preserve meaningful alternatives.
Dependency creates vulnerability.
Alternatives create resilience.
Choice creates agency.
Symbio exists to make that alternative practical — opening more ways to access what you need, support the businesses around you and help value circulate within your community.
Not to replace money. To make sure money is not the only way value can move.
Start with the things you already need.
Groceries, everyday services, accommodation or a meal out. Your everyday choices can be a starting point for participating in Symbio.
Everyday services
Accommodation
Eating out
Your interests will help us identify which businesses to bring into the pilot.
Shop locally. Earn credits. Explore more.
Businesses taking part can offer Symbio credits on eligible purchases. You can then use those credits with other participating members.
1. Find an offer
See which purchases earn credits.
2. Shop & earn
Make an eligible purchase and receive credits.
3. Choose where to spend
Use credits on participating goods or services.
Offers, availability and any cash portion will be explained before you choose.
What would make Symbio useful to you?
The value of a community exchange depends on whether it offers things you actually want. Tell us what you buy regularly and where you would like more choice.
No extra business to run.
A new way to take part.
Your choices.Local connections.
Help shape a pilot around real everyday needs.
We’re inviting selected communities to explore Symbio. Your answers will help us understand local demand and where a useful pilot could begin.
Could Symbio fit your everyday life?
Tell us what matters to you. No commitment to join.
Have goods, skills or services to offer? Explore the business & freelancer route →