Other flavors of PIE
The PIE Cookbook’s Other flavors of PIE section surveys related programs — Oregon Story Board, Daimler SPIN, Startup PDX Challenge, the Newberg Innovation Accelerator. The point of the section is that one methodology can be re-cooked in many kitchens.
The third audience: collectives and accelerators
Section titled “The third audience: collectives and accelerators”Beyond the first-time builder and the builder-operator, there’s a third way this catalog gets used: as shared infrastructure for programs. Anyone running a cohort where participants need to make tooling choices fast — civic-tech groups, impact hubs, feminist tech collectives, accelerators — can point people at the relevant build-flow stage and use the recipes as starting points.
Instead of writing an internal wiki for the tenth time, a program gets:
- a vetted ingredient list that’s already license- and policy-checked,
- a decision flow participants can follow without a facilitator in the room,
- and recipes that encode the safe way to wire common tools together.
Why this is more durable than a wiki
Section titled “Why this is more durable than a wiki”Internal wikis rot because nobody owns them and nothing checks them. This catalog’s enforcement engine and weekly automation keep it honest without a human in the loop for the routine cases — so a program can rely on it being current rather than a snapshot from whenever someone last had time.
If you run a program and want to adapt this for your cohort, see Contribute & maintenance for how the automation works and how to fork it.