Where journalists, communications professionals, academics, and knowledge workers formulate new relationships with the technologies reshaping their work — led by veterans of the transition.
A field-lab nonprofit with five years of build history. Grants fund protocol development. Field engagements validate the protocols. EDU distributes the results as open infrastructure. Three loops — build, learn, research — one network.
Journalist-led. Practitioner-owned. Three loops feed one another — field engagements produce protocols, protocols become curriculum, and trained practitioners carry the methods into new organizations.
Developers build alongside our team at hackathons, in-person events, and virtual builder sessions. Current focus: Seed Protocol, PermaPress, the early-stage decentralized AI stack, and embed engagements — bounded builds installing sovereign AI and resilient comms capacity inside partner organizations, then exiting. Each embed field-tests an open protocol.
Cohort training for small teams at nonprofits, newsrooms, and mission-driven orgs — plus individual knowledge workers. Participants leave with portable operating systems built on Obsidian and AI workflows keeping human judgment in the loop of production. Every curriculum comes from field-validated protocols, taught by the people who ran the validation.
The engine of the flywheel. Field engagements surface the problems; research sprints extract the protocols; publication turns the protocols into public goods. The pattern has run once already — a founding cohort engagement became the documented methodology now taught through EDU. Focus areas: decentralized AI, factchecking protocols, hyperlocal knowledge systems, sovereign AI implementation.
Not locked behind prod. Not stuck on a whiteboard. Live, open, ready to play with.
Decentralized publishing protocol on Ethereum/EAS — permanent attestation, version control onchain, indexed across every Seed-compatible client. A public good. No commercial layer, no walled garden.
seedprotocol.ioThe publishing client built on Seed Protocol — offline-first, multi-chain storage (IPFS + Arweave), and no business dependency between you and the work you put into it. Commercial launch targets Q4 2026.
permapress.xyzThe original Factland project — decentralized, crowd-sourced factchecking through gamified protocols. A multi-year track record; the platform that grounded the 501(c)(3) work from the start.
Long-term R&D. Scope-doc pending. The throughline: infrastructure freeing Factland and the practitioner network from frontier lab dependency over the long horizon. Scope-doc work advances as grant pursuit and field research align.
Newsletter, community access, cofounder conversations, monthly AMA call.
Individual practitioners building first-time relationships with emergent tech.
Async support plus scheduled office hours for practitioners building independently.
Self-guided building of decentralized tech stacks, OS systems + human-centric AI workflows
Custom cohort — one organization funds a private container for its team to learn human-centric AI workflows with expert guides. Scope, duration, and seats shaped per proposal.
Internal teams at nonprofits, newsrooms, and mission-driven orgs.
60 years of journalism, 20 of academia, 10 in decentralization, plus the AI development that followed.
Co-founder · Director of Development
Co-built CommsOS. Leads the education + reskilling layer. Ex-Consensys Director of Community, ex-Fuel Labs Head of Marketing. 25+ years as photojournalist & producer. Co-host and producer of The Human Layer.
LinkedInCo-founder · Executive Director
Leads the three tech columns and JournoLABS LLC formation. Former Wired editor. Full-stack developer; two years of applied AI building. Primary grant writer.
LinkedInAdvisor · LEF President
President of the Learning Economy Foundation and co-creator of the CommsOS methodology. Leads ScholarOS for academic practitioners and connects Factland cohorts to portable, real credentialing. Co-host and producer of The Human Layer.
LinkedInCo-founder · Advisor
25+ years across CNET, Forbes, NPR, Inc. Magazine, and the Warm Regards podcast. Senior PR at Consensys. Designated lead for NewsroomOS.
LinkedInAll four built JournoDAO's foundation. After half a decade running it as a sister organization to Factland, the two consolidated under the 501(c)(3) in Q2 of 2026. What emerged is a communal container for building, learning, and research at the intersection of emergent technology and the craft of communicating.
Three loops, four nodes, all in public — follow the daily build on LinkedIn. Or write to us directly.