PLANETAI is a federated AI causal-inference instrument for distributed production at bioregional scale. Four pilots — Barcelona, Boston, Santiago, Bali — coupled to Earth foundation models, community sensor networks, and the global fab-lab infrastructure.

This site is the coordination layer for the program: what we have built, the decisions that shaped it, and the work-tracks open for partner contribution.

What changed

Work in progress

Things being built right now — partners can view live previews and leave feedback before anything is final. The WIP surface lists every active prototype with status, what kind of feedback is useful at this stage, and what is intentionally not ready yet.

Where to plug in · seven open tracks

The forward surface of PLANETAI. Each track has concrete entry points a partner can land in one hour, one day, or one week — the tracks page will surface those. Today these are scaffolds; partner-collaborative fill-out begins this week.

Scoping
Pilot Deep-Descriptions
Full per-pilot description for Barcelona, Boston, Santiago, Bali — operational reality, named contacts, MoU state, on-the-ground constraints.
Stage 2 mockups
Bali Hyperlocal Dashboard Prototype
Stage 1 IA shipped 4 May; Stage 2 = mockups; Stage 3 = data hookup against Bali Satu Data + Smart Citizen + Fab Lab Bali GIS.
Scoping
Fab Lab Network Activation
Moving fablabs.io / Fab Academy / Fab City Collective from registry to actively contributing nodes. Tier-1 and Tier-2 deployment work.
Scoping
Hamburg + CBA Metrics Alignment
Alignment with Hamburg (Boeing 2024 / Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Moritz et al.) and MIT CBA on metrics. Pairs with PITO/DIDO cell-weight ratification.
Opening
FAB26 Actions
FAB26 + Fab City Summit, Cambridge MA, 27–31 July 2026. Present observatory, run Tier-1 deployment workshops, lock pilot alignment in person.
Opening
Funding Scenarios — With / Without Google
Explicit scenario planning at full funding ($2.96M), partial funding, no funding. What survives, what shifts, what becomes one-pilot-only.
Scoping
Other Funding Opportunities
Parallel funding tree — Mozilla TF, Sloan, Schmidt Sciences, EU Horizon, IDRC, philanthropic climate stack. Hedge against base-rate honesty.

Canonical artifacts

Single source of truth for PLANETAI state, with version and supersession visible from the decision log.

Contribute

Most coordination work happens by editing files in this repo. Four paths in, depending on what you want to do:

A free GitHub account is required for the first three. Setup takes sixty seconds at github.com/signup.