DAACData As A Commodity
Knowledge held in minds and siloed systems never becomes data anyone can find, and what cannot be found cannot be valued. DAAC is the infrastructure that lets the people who hold that knowledge digitise it themselves: structured, comparable, exchangeable, and shared at their discretion.
It runs as one chain. People who hold knowledge digitise it at the source and keep custody of it. What is already public is drawn in alongside it. Systems that were never built to speak to each other are made to reach across. And the record carries a price, so reporting honestly earns something rather than costing time. The workflows are the work that chain can do, the tooling is what runs it, and the solutions are what a client takes away.
Building digital systems. Digital tools that record what is happening where the work happens, not weeks after it.
Empowering local custody of information. The people and institutions who hold data keep custody of it, sharing on their own terms.
Aggregating public sources. Scattered public records rendered into insight a buyer can use.
Facilitating exchange between siloed databases. Systems that never spoke to each other reach one another, permissioned and audited.
Turning data into a financial asset. Transparent, honest reporting earns a price instead of going unrewarded.
Any one of these alone changes little. Together they let a record captured in one place be read against one captured somewhere else, which is the whole point of doing it this way.
Somebody has already solved this problem somewhere else. The machine that did it can be pointed at yours.
See the workflows →Knowledge stops at the edge of whatever system holds it. These are the tools that carry it across.
See the tooling →Most decisions about these markets are still taken without the data they need. A solution is how that data reaches the person making the decision, and stays worth something to whoever produced it.
See the solutions →