More and more of life is arranged by AI assistants: finding a role, a course, a grant, a service. Organisations are building assistants to reach people, and people will have their own. We build the trusted ground they meet on: who's who, what's true, and what each side has agreed to, with each person in control of their own information.
There are good opportunities everywhere to learn, work, get active, give back and meet people. But they're scattered across countless websites, apps and services that don't talk to each other. People start again every time they move between them, and organisations spend money reaching the same people and running the same checks.
And as more people ask an assistant rather than visit a website, the organisations doing the most good are often the hardest for those assistants to find or trust.
Most of today's tools help one side win the other. We work for both: people get help that's on their side, and organisations get found and trusted by the people they exist to serve. Never one sold to the other.
Today, people have to know where to look, and start again on every site. We're building the other way round: what fits a person's goals reaches them, through the website, app or AI assistant they choose, and they take part with the record they already hold.
The next part of the internet is being built now. Assistants will soon find, book and apply for things on people's behalf. We think it should be built around people: not captured by a few platforms, and not one central database either.
Across every service, not inside one.
Not by us, and anyone can build to them.
And take their record with them.
More agency, fairer chances, and happier, healthier, better-connected people.
The thinking behind this is set out in The Human Web, a proposal for how this new layer of the internet should work for people.
A record of what you do, confirmed by the organisations you do it with, checks done once, and an AI helper that works for you.
Organisations of every kind, from community groups to businesses and funders, can post opportunities once, host communities, run grant rounds, and be found and trusted, by people and their assistants.
The open list of opportunities, the tool that keeps it in sync across platforms, and the network's rules, built to be open so any platform, and any assistant people choose, can take part.
People decide what's shared, with whom and for how long. They can see every share, take their record with them, or delete it.
Records are built on open standards. Checks from other certified digital ID apps are accepted, and other platforms keep their own systems.
What an organisation confirms is shown as confirmed, with its name. What a person says is labelled as theirs. Trust you can see.
Our AI says why it suggests things, never acts without a person's say-so, and is off for under-18s.
We represent people and organisations alike, and never sell one side's attention or information to the other.
We're a small team with a long history in civic technology: we've built platforms used by millions of people and tens of thousands of organisations. Navita Labs is where we bring that together, to help people navigate life and communities thrive.
Whether you run a programme, fund one, or build a platform that could work with ours, we'd like to hear from you.
hello@navitalabs.com