Our mission & Why We Care
Our mission is to bring people together to protect the independent places that make communities feel alive.
Xplorable isn’t about nostalgia or rejecting modern life — it’s about choosing a more local world: real places, real people, real character.
We help people discover and share extraordinary independents, and help businesses stand proud as Certified Independent — building the Independent Map together, place by place.
Because real change doesn’t come from the top down. It starts with all of us, choosing different.
Meet our founders
How it all started...
From the streets of Lashkargāh in Afghanistan to the bazaars of Baghdad in Iraq, whilst serving in the British Special Forces, our founder Greg, repeatedly experienced and shared simple acts of humanity in situations where you would probably not expect it.
Often or not these experiences came about through the need to trade. Whether buying bread from the local baker in Afghanistan or coffee in Baghdad, these opportunities to trade on common ground pulled down barriers.
In 2013, having left the military and back in the UK, Greg came to realise that he didn’t want to live in a world where these opportunities to experience different people and trade didn’t exist. Enter xplorable, and a passion to build an alternative economy that revolved around independent businesses—the common ground wherever you are in the world.
