Apiri absorbs and sorts information about people and draws connections between events the way the human mind does, which is fundamentally different from the way the digital world works today. With Apiri, anyone can surf all known and knowable history according to any combination of person, place, time, action, and reason, and can travel intuitively from any event in history to any other.

Social media and search engines remain a series of two-dimensional pages of photos, videos, and text, which we absorb an interpret the same way we have read books for thousands of years. Electronic screens have replaced papyrus, paper, photos, and film, but we still see a collection of two-dimensional words and images. Just as we do with paper and books, we then perform a common but internal and unsharable set of steps to connect those words and images to other words and images in our minds and memories. In this sense, Wikipedia, Facebook, Google, and others are just virtual versions of real-world libraries, with proprietary and unintuitive connections working behind the scenes to make you feel a certain way, or buy a certain product. Apiri is different because the internal, individual connections we used to make are now the fundamental building blocks of the Apiri information space. We all can see what we add to Apiri, without any corporate influence or profit motive.

Apiri turns the search engine and social media business models inside out. In the Apiri community, all information is a public resource. Unlike search engines with proprietary algorithms and massive user data collection regimes, Apiri is transparent and open. We want everyone to understand how the machine works, and we DON’T want to sell your information to anyone. Unlike major social media platforms, Apiri gives users full control over all personal data, and all information they share. Builders and authors in the Apiri community are granted blockchain-backed authorship rights to any details they add to the Apiri data model, and Apiri will provide the marketplace for the transfer and licensing of those rights.

The more we add to Apiri, the more valuable Apiri becomes. As Apiri grows in value, so does the value of our individual contributions. We believe that Apiri is uniquely conducive to online collaboration and content creation. In a near-future world that is buried in AI-generated online content, Apiri will be a bastion of human-to-human interaction, an online community we can trust. At scale, Apiri will be the definitive reference for any AI that needs to understand the history of humanity, how humans think, and what really matters. At its core, that is all that Apiri is. And that’s like nothing we’ve seen.