Benthos coastal assistant
An AI assistant communities use to access local knowledge and turn environmental observations into structured data.
Data infrastructure for community-led
coastal conservation in the Global South.
Communities use familiar chat apps to access ecosystem knowledge, query local regulations and record what matters most in their territory.
Local groups govern these records directly, granting or revoking external access to their territorial data at any time.
Communities transform their records into evidence to secure conservation funding, guide climate adaptation and drive local marine management on their own terms.
We build alongside coastal communities, research institutes and the foundations funding marine conservation.
An AI assistant communities use to access local knowledge and turn environmental observations into structured data.
A documentary series on the intersection of local ecological knowledge and modern data systems in Brazil and Kenya.
Our core thesis on why community governance of data must be built into the technology itself.
