Knowledge,
valued.
We aim to provide paid ecological intelligence to industries, public institutions and AI builders. Knowledge contributors share in its value through agreed access, rights and compensation.
Intelligence,
in concert
with life.
We’re building ecological superintelligence and shared knowledge to help people understand living systems, create new markets and fund restoration.
Explore the demosA living world.
A shared intelligence.
Water, soils, species, cities and economies are connected. The knowledge we hold about them is scattered.
We want AI that notices change, investigates relationships and learns with the people who know a place. Intelligence that makes the living world more understandable—and helps us act within it.
Our horizon is planetary. Every useful answer begins somewhere specific.
Observe with care.
Question what follows.
Learn in relation.
Knowledge should
travel further.
A field observation, a research paper and a satellite record can inform the same question. Their meaning depends on who knows what, where and when.
We’re developing a shared foundation for connecting evidence and interpreting a changing world. One body of knowledge, useful through many ways of seeing.
Explore it through a placeConnect evidence.
Bring measurements, research and place-based knowledge into relationship, with clear sources and terms of use.
Keep its meaning.
Preserve dates, geography and uncertainty. Let new evidence change the interpretation.
Make it useful.
Help people and other AI systems investigate a question, make a decision or coordinate action.
One foundation.
Many possible expressions.
Atlases.
Research.
Agent tools.
New markets.
This is the direction we’re building toward. The demonstrations below explore parts of it, with their sources, assumptions and limits visible.
New markets.
More life.
What becomes possible when we can see ecological need, understand shared value and connect the people able to act?
Our ambition is to make knowledge more valuable, care more viable and ecological health part of how value moves through the world.
Knowledge,
Care,
commissioned.
Our aim is commissioned physical restoration, with a capable steward, a purchaser and a defined service. Delivery terms and evidence make the work assessable.
Value,
returned.
Our proposed business model combines paid intelligence access with separately agreed coordination or transaction fees. Stewardship budgets fund physical care, while contributor agreements reward the knowledge behind it.
Markets we have yet to build.
Relationships we can begin to see.
One planet.
Many starting points.
Four places to explore how ecological intelligence could become shared knowledge, new markets and funded care.
Sacramento
Working waters. Living landscapes.
Agriculture, habitat and water meet in a landscape shaped by the needs of people and other life.
Explore the full demoSalish Sea
A coast held in relationship.
Shorelines, sediment and intertidal habitat connect a changing coast to the people who could restore it.
Explore the demoNew York
The living city.
Rain, rooftops and urban waterways reveal how living infrastructure could change a city’s relationship with water.
Explore the demoMagdalena
A river and its many worlds.
Community nurseries, riverbanks and wetlands connect restoration work to the livelihoods of a basin.
Explore the demoEach place pairs a cited regional study with a live investigation workspace. New findings need evidence review before becoming a stewardship funding proposal. Proposed buyers, offers, prices and returns remain illustrative until agreed.
Gaia
A body of work.
A living inquiry.
Gaia brings together our work in ecological knowledge, material flows and environmental assessment. This body of work informs Symbiocene’s independent research into intelligence that works in concert with life.
Explore GaiaFollow materials through the world.
Overshoot is a public atlas for exploring materials, places, facilities, trade, waste and their documented connections. It makes the physical systems behind everyday life available to investigate.
Queries retain their sources, so records and observations can be checked. Documented connections offer a starting point for tracing material flows and asking what the evidence reveals.
Make knowledge available in context.
Earlier work on semantic knowledge graphs and Knowledge Organization Infrastructure (KOI) explored how AI can connect ecological context while preserving where information came from.
Registry-related tools and demonstrations formed part of this groundwork. These earlier collaborations and prototypes inform our thinking about an ecological intelligence layer that other AIs can use.
Read Gaia’s historyAsk what ecological change means.
The Ecosystem Integrity Index (EII) explores how observations, provenance and change over time could support environmental assessment. Work includes a v0.2 research paper, competitive research and prototype groundwork.
EII remains research and prototype development.
This is one step toward intelligence that can test explanations, surface uncertainty and decide what evidence to seek next.
Let ideas travel beyond the lab.
Gaia’s public record also spans grant work, Planetary Return on Investment, the Gaia Greenpaper and publishing experiments—including The Gaian Times, Encyclopedia of Regeneration and Regen Digest.
Futures and cultural work explore how ecological intelligence can enter public life. These investigations sit alongside our technical work, opening different ways to think about the relationship between AI and the living world.
Explore Gaia’s public recordEarlier explorations
Earlier project demonstrations explored ecological questions involving SeaTrees, Kellanova/Mars and Conservation International. These explorations inform Symbiocene’s independent research agenda.
That history also includes publishing, grant work and talks. Gaia’s public record gives the wider context behind the work we are carrying forward.
A living world.
An open conversation.
We welcome researchers and builders exploring ecological intelligence, and practitioners, stewards and organizations with real ecological needs.
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