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Connect.
Control.

Control how AI systems understand your community. Together, we are building the trusted knowledge layer no commercial platform can own.

What

Infrastructure for Representational Power

Turn fragmented community information into structured knowledge that is intelligible to machines and grounded in your authority.

This is the foundation for a shared knowledge commons where people, places, organizations, and events connect through shared standards that let you collaborate without losing control over your data. You build collectively while retaining your context, voice, and control.

It is about power and access. Today you cannot directly change the knowledge graphs that platforms like Google and OpenAI use to decide what is true. When your knowledge becomes machine-readable on your terms, you gain a seat at that layer, protecting your story while helping build the trusted knowledge network no commercial platform can own.

Why

Reclaim Knowledge Authority

AI systems are already learning about your community from scraped data, platform content, and algorithmic guesswork. If you do not structure your knowledge, Google, Meta, and other commercial AI platforms will do it for you.

This is not about better websites or social media. It is about who controls the foundational layer that decides how your community is understood in an AI-driven world — and who has access to it. Today you cannot directly change the knowledge graphs that these platforms use to decide what is true.

We create infrastructure that returns representational power to your hands and gives you a seat at that layer before it is permanently absorbed by commercial platforms.

HOW

Strategic Architecture. Semantic Precision.

We build the technical layer that lets your knowledge travel across systems without losing what makes it yours.

Our semantic infrastructure, tested across Canada’s cultural sector, bridges human understanding and machine logic. Your information becomes discoverable, durable, and interoperable while staying rooted in your context and authority.

This is how local knowledge moves through AI systems and digital ecosystems. It works everywhere, but it still belongs somewhere, anchored in the community that created it.

What We Offer: 3 Ways to Act Now

FOOTLIGHT CMS

Turn your content into connected knowledge.

Footlight CMS structures the people, places, organizations, and events your work touches as you publish. Originally built for the complexity of arts and culture, it generates metadata that machines can read while preserving your voice and context. It can also draw from existing verified records in open knowledge graphs to enrich your content and avoid duplication.

Your data flows into trusted public infrastructure instead of being trapped in platform silos, giving you lasting control over how your work is represented in an AI-shaped world.

TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Build knowledge systems that grow in value over time.

We create semantic infrastructure from any starting point, whether working with legacy systems, spreadsheets, or sprawling data silos. From metadata modeling to linked data publishing, each system becomes more connected, relevant, and authoritative through use.

Every system we build links to a broader knowledge commons, placing your information in the machine-readable layer that AI will trust while keeping it anchored in community-defined meaning.

Consulting Services

Design and governance for complex information challenges.

We guide organizations moving from isolated data systems to connected knowledge infrastructure, especially when values, representation, and long-term control are at stake.

With expertise in metadata, digital systems, and public-interest technology, we help clarify what matters now and what will endure. From prototypes to policy alignment, we design strategies that secure lasting authority over how your community is represented in an AI-shaped world.

Team

For nearly a decade, we have built and tested infrastructure in Canada’s cultural sector, combining semantic web expertise, cultural fluency, and systems thinking to create knowledge systems that scale with integrity and protect community authority in an AI-shaped world.

Abhishek P. Anil
Dev
Caitlin Troughton
COO
Dev Aravind
Dev
Gregory Saumier-Finch
CTO
Kim Davis
Special projects
Sabrina Mirza
Finance
Stéphanie Giroux
UI/UX
Suhail Aliyar
Dev
Syam Babu
Dev
Tammy Lee
CEO
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