Conversational assistant
Live in Arraial do Cabo as Atcheza. Answers on coastal regulation and local knowledge, on WhatsApp and web, with cited sources.
Infrastructure for coastal data. A roadmap for
technical evolution. Stories from the frontline.
Atcheza is our first Benthos deployment, built in continuous partnership with the artisanal fishers of Arraial do Cabo. Built on a RAG architecture, it delivers fully cited responses in the local Portuguese dialect on coastal regulations and local expertise. Users can interact via voice and text on WhatsApp, or explore the public web preview.
Evolving from an open Q&A assistant into
a community-controlled data system.
Live in Arraial do Cabo as Atcheza. Answers on coastal regulation and local knowledge, on WhatsApp and web, with cited sources.
Evolving into a two-way data exchange. Communities can submit field observations with explicit consent, accessible offline via SMS.
Communities hold the keys to their own archive. Data lives in community-controlled infrastructure rather than in a cloud someone else owns.
scales
the information.
anchors
the meaning.
Roots and Algorithms documents grassroots knowledge at its source. Filmed by local filmmakers across Brazil, with special episodes from Kenya and beyond, it follows community voices as their knowledge meets science and technology.
