A Guide is an AI-powered multimedia publication: part book, part community, part advisor, part living memory. Unlike a traditional website or app, a Guide does not merely describe a subject: it helps people participate in it.
> A Guide is a problem turned on its head.
Any problem, place, movement, or activity can become a Guide: a Guide to local food, a Guide to Rivers, a Guide to Democracy, a Guide to Peace. But the purpose is never only documentation - it is an invitation to play, an invitation to act.
# Opinionated and Perspectival
Guides are intentionally opinionated and perspectival. They are not neutralised, lowest-common-denominator encyclopedia entries designed to flatten disagreement into bland consensus.
A Guide has a voice, a culture, and a point of view — often several. Different communities, practitioners, and traditions can contribute their own approaches, critiques, and lived experience inside the same evolving Guide ecosystem.
Rather than pretending there is only one “correct” answer, Guides embrace the richness of multiple perspectives, allowing best practice to emerge through dialogue, comparison, experimentation, and collective learning.
# An Invitation
Every Guide includes a living invitation to participate through a Request for Guidance call - enabling communities to gather knowledge, coordinate action, and collectively build the future they wish to inhabit.