Built for markets too small to matter before.
Digital tools capture the field and hubs open the public record; every solution here stands on that supply. What a buyer takes away is data they can act on, a system built to run their own operation, or analysis already turned into something they can hand to a board or a regulator.
Data marketplaces
Priced, permissioned access to reconciled data: a query surface, an API, or an MCP feed (the protocol a buyer’s own AI agents connect through), or an integration into their systems. Spine is the exchange underneath; it stands at spec today.
Better access to data lets a buyer underwrite an investment they could not justify before, and measure the impact of the one they already made.
Sector hubs
Open, source-rated reference hubs for opaque sectors, a public good, a front door, and public-data supply.
All the data on a topic, scattered across the public internet, ends up in one interactive hub a visitor can read across.
See the hubs →Digital tools
Working tools built on a framework, capturing frontier data where the work happens: the ecosystem’s first-party supply. Built on the Datastake framework today, on Frame in the DAAC-native form, or on whichever framework Forge is tasked against.
A digital tool records what is happening at the source, so a decision about the field rests on the state of the field now, not on a report written weeks later.
See the proof →Digital system frameworks
For when the need is not one tool but a whole software system: the framework other tools are then built on, which Forge builds and rebuilds while it runs. Datastake is the worked example; Frame is DAAC’s own target framework.
Holding the framework with DAAC means it never quietly falls behind what runs on it, so the system keeps being customised as the buyer’s own needs change.
How the framework evolves →Customised agentic workflows
Customised agentic workflows scoped to one operational job, distinct from the multi-stakeholder digital tools above. Forge builds them the way it builds those, composed against a framework under supervision.
One operational job that used to need a standing team instead runs as a supervised agentic workflow, scoped to exactly that job.
The Tools that build them →Delivered HITL and headless workflows
Workflow engagements already in the field: human-in-the-loop, where a person holds the checkpoints, and headless, where the loop runs unattended once proven. Each is one instance of the same reproducible operating model.
A workflow proven under a person’s checkpoints keeps running once the loop is proven, unattended, without dropping the checkpoint it was built on.
The operating model behind it →Research reports
Findings written up and sourced, held to the same corroboration standard Crawl holds its hubs to, delivered as a document a buyer can act on.
A buyer acts on findings that are sourced and corroboration-rated, not a summary they have to take on faith.
Ask about a report →Websites
A public front door built from config-driven templates, and re-shipped whenever the record behind it changes: the same practice stood up the door for every digital tool in the ecosystem below, and for partners beyond Datastake’s own portfolio.
A front door built from a template gets rebuilt only where the property differs, so the site follows the record instead of being rebuilt from scratch each time.
See a site built for a partner →Presentations
The same findings, reshaped for a room: a deck built to brief a client or a partner on what the data shows.
A partner walks into the room already briefed on what the data shows, not still being introduced to it.
Ask about a deck →Every build starts from a sector’s public record, or a system somebody already depends on.
It starts from a sector’s public record, scattered but real, or from a system somebody already depends on, with its data and its edge cases intact, never from a proposition. That is what makes it buildable at all.
A hub is what the scatter becomes.
Most of what is known about an opaque sector is already public and unusable: registers, portals, reports and datasets, in incompatible shapes, at unknown freshness, behind no single front door. Crawl runs a loop over that scatter and Mason stands the door in front of it, open for anyone to read.
- 01ScanRegisters first
Fan out across a sector’s public sources, source-anchored rather than keyword-guessed. The authoritative registers are enumerated first, then the periphery.
- 02VerifyRated by corroboration
Every finding is rated strong, moderate, single or contested, and its sources recorded. A single-source claim is labelled as such, never dressed as corroborated.
- 03OrganiseThe record core
Findings are arranged into a navigable structure shaped against the suite’s primitives. Crawl emits identity, sources, corroboration, freshness and provenance, and nothing downstream overwrites them.
- 04Front doorMason’s side of it
Mason builds the door over the record Crawl owns, and re-ships it whenever Crawl refreshes what is behind it.
- 05MaintainDated and re-checked
Every record carries a last-verified date and a link-health signal, and the scan is built to re-run on a cadence. Crawl’s own words: freshness is the moat.
each run folds back into the sector’s memory, tuning discovery, never the bar
A digital tool arrives with its history intact.
It begins with a system somebody already depends on, and the work is to move it onto Frame without dropping anything it had learned. A production app has already made that move, checked to behave identically to the one it replaced.
- 01Start from what runsAlready in service
The upstream input is an application people already depend on: its data, its users, the edge cases it learned the hard way. Convert mode takes a running system, not a brief.
- 02Recompose on FrameForge, convert mode
Forge maps every construct in the source system to the closest unit Frame already owns before proposing a new one, and records each mapping so the reasoning can be audited later.
- 03Prove parityBehaviour, not opinion
Gauge proves the rebuild behaves identically to the system it replaces. The bar is need-fit, prior behaviour and data fidelity together.
- 04ShipOn the build line
The rebuilt app ships on the build line. That is where the relationship starts, not where the job ends.
a person signs off on the client brief, on anything promoted into the substrate, and on the first deploy of every app
The same Tools build systems that look nothing alike.
Each one opens a channel of data that existed in no system before. Once that data is comparable and exchangeable, the people who hold it can realise value from it on their own terms.
Bank KYC and onboarding for artisanal mining
Gold supply-chain due diligence
Civil-society monitoring and evaluation
Conflict and GBV incident monitoring
Climate and nature MRV infrastructure
Responsible-gold programme platform
ASM ESG and investment facilitation
ASM self-assessment, due diligence and operator profiles
Responsible Minerals Credits infrastructure
Child-labour monitoring and remediation
A sector’s record holds up because every claim carries the evidence behind it.
Alongside the data the ecosystem captures, DAAC publishes open reference hubs: a public good, a front door to the work, and the ground a sector’s community forms on once it has one shared record to gather around. Crawl crawls the public web and re-checks them as the record moves.
DRC Cobalt Hub
The independent reference for artisanal and industrial cobalt in the DRC: stakeholders, initiatives, a source-rated news feed and a library, re-checked as the record moves. A sector everyone depends on and no one had mapped.
cobalt.daac.ai ↗ASM Hub
The reference for the systems that formalise artisanal mining worldwide: source-rated traceability, certification, formalisation and monitoring platforms, mapped across the sectors that rely on them. In FR and EN.
asm.daac.ai ↗Extractives Transparency Hub
The open record of who owns what and who gets paid in DRC extractives: contracts, revenues and beneficial ownership, the 2026 Validation, and a source-rated updates feed in EN, FR and SW.
nashiriki.com/eiti ↗Climate & Nature Hub
The link-checked front door to Global-South climate work: nature-based projects, funders, standards, developers and datasets, each carrying a freshness stamp so the record can be trusted, not just found.
climate.daac.ai ↗Gold Hub
An open, source-rated reference on responsible gold: the standards, rules, programmes, data and technology that govern how gold moves from mine to market, with every claim rated by the evidence behind it.
gold.daac.ai ↗