Getting Started and Overview › Glossary for Networking Language · 4 min read
The Tratt is an orientation and reflection tool within the Pacman Office.
The concept originated in Sweden in the context of collaboration with a contact person in Sweden and the Swedish organization Reformaten (external). Experiences from Reformaten’s formats and meeting spaces influenced the question of how complex projects, ideas, and decisions can be examined collectively.
The Tratt is used to reflect on projects, ideas, funding, strategies, and decisions using comprehensible questions.
It is not a control instrument or an automatic evaluation system. It helps people make connections visible and better understand complex situations.
The Tratt did not emerge solely at a desk as a theoretical evaluation model.
A key starting point was encounters and joint development processes in Sweden with this contact person and Reformaten (external).
Reformaten works with various formats in which people come together around food systems, social change, and shared responsibility. These include events, dialogue spaces, communal meals, public programs, workshops, and other forms of collective learning and action.
From this environment, the following question arose:
How can we make the different perspectives, impacts, and relationships of an initiative visible without reducing complexity to a simple evaluation?
The Tratt develops this idea into a structured reflection space.
The goal is not to automatically determine at the end whether something is "good" or "bad."
The goal is to better see what is interconnected.
Many decisions simultaneously affect:
For example, a project may appear economically viable while also producing ecological or social consequences that hardly become visible in a traditional project evaluation.
The Tratt is intended to help consider these different levels together.
The Tratt functions as a structured reflection space.
It asks questions such as:
This does not result in a simple score but rather a more nuanced picture.
Ethical Artificial Intelligence can support the Tratt.
It can help:
A fundamental principle applies here:
Artificial intelligence supports reflection. It does not make the decision.
The Tratt therefore never decides on its own.
Responsibility remains with the people involved.
The Tratt does not attempt to eliminate complexity as quickly as possible.
It helps make it perceptible and discussable.
Different perspectives can coexist. Contradictions do not need to be resolved immediately. Uncertainties can remain visible.
This is precisely how decisions can become more conscious, comprehensible, and transparent.
The Tratt can thus also be a tool for Collective Intelligence: Not a single person or artificial intelligence must have all the answers. Different knowledge can be brought into relation with one another.
Chapter 100 can provide the Tratt with a shared knowledge base.
Experiences from other projects, regions, and communities can thus be incorporated into a reflection process.
For example, it can become visible:
The Tratt does not thereby become an evaluation system based on a database.
It becomes a tool that helps people develop better questions from shared knowledge.
The Tratt aims to improve the quality of decisions and strengthen the ability of communities, projects, and networks to orient themselves collectively.
The goal is not to reduce people or projects to a number but rather to perceive connections.
The Tratt does not say what should be decided. It helps make visible what should be considered in a decision.
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By the TEIKEI editorial team, with support from AI (ChatGPT) · Contributors: a contact person in Sweden, Reformaten
Created on June 10, 2026 · Last updated on October 10, 2026
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