Kumu is an online platform that visualizes data in network graph format.  A personal account is free. Each account can have unlimited 'projects'. Projects that are indexed and viewable by the public are free. Private projects cost roughly $10/month. Private essentially means that the project isn't indexed anywhere, and the only people who can access it are given access via their Kumu account. You can share your private project with any number of Kumu users, w/o incurring extra cost - it's still just $10.

There are other online network graph tools but Kumu is our favorite tool - because of it's beauty, it's interactivity, it's flexibility, and it's accessibility.

But great as Kumu is, it won't collect your data for you.

Which isn't a problem if you're graphing things about which you have sources of known data. But real relationship data about people - that can be hard to come by. It's relatively easy to get information from people about themselves. But if you want to understand the connections between people or organizations - you have to ask them, and you have to ask them using an interface that makes that kind of asking easy, and using a tool that structures the data gathered in a way that works the way a network graph visualization requires (which normal surveys are terrible at).

So that's what sumApp does. It helps you gather the data for a person-to-person/organization-to-organization/person-to-organization network graph - directly from the persons or organizational representatives themselves. It then feeds the data directly into Kumu so that you don't have to even look at it, let alone clean it up & move things around. It's even live so that when a person updates their info in sumApp, that info shows up in Kumu within minutes. It's so seamless that it's easy to think the two platforms (sumApp & Kumu) are one.

So - sumApp gathers social system data. Kumu visualizes it.