The future we want
Imagine a world where every person has access to abundant, nutritious food.Agriculture
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What we believe
Technology should serve people, not the other way around
OpenHI exists because the intelligence age needs infrastructure that stays open, human-centered, and collectively held.
Open by design
Standards, APIs, and platform layers belong in the commons. What one organization builds to solve a hard problem should be available to every other.
Human intelligence first
Domain experts, clinicians, engineers, and operators shape the roadmap. AI amplifies human judgment; it does not replace the people closest to the work.
Built together
Community identifies problems, thought leadership defines direction, and open source turns ideas into reusable infrastructure everyone can build on.
Eight sectors. One mission.
Civilization depends on eight essential sectors. OpenHI organizes its work around them so communities can solve problems together instead of in isolation. Shared standards, APIs, and infrastructure make progress in one sector available to every other.
Mission
One shared future
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From ideas to infrastructure.
OpenHI connects the people who understand the problems, develops research that defines the solutions and releases open source technology that makes those solutions available to everyone.
- Community
Experts, builders, researchers, founders, and supporters work together to identify real problems and shape the future they want to build.
- Thought Leadership
We publish research, roadmaps, world models, and reference architectures that help communities align around what should be built next.
- Open Source
We build shared standards, APIs, ontologies, and infrastructure that everyone can use so every sector can build on common foundations instead of starting from scratch.
More people create better ideas. Better ideas create better infrastructure. Better infrastructure empowers more people.
Community
Starting in Atlanta. Building everywhere.
OpenHI began in Atlanta, Georgia. We are building community hubs around the world where local builders, researchers, and organizations can collaborate on shared infrastructure for humanity.
Atlanta, GA
HQ
Thought Leadership
Research published by the consortium
The consortium publishes research, roadmaps, and architecture in the open, defining direction and sharing what we learn as shared infrastructure takes shape.
Open Source
Build once. Benefit everyone.
Every sector rebuilds the same foundations including identity, data models, APIs, security, and workflow engines. OpenHI builds those layers once in the open so communities everywhere can focus on solving new problems instead of rebuilding existing ones.
Shared Standards → Shared APIs → Shared Infrastructure → Infinite Applications
Roadmap
Building in the open
Every milestone, every contribution, and every dollar moves OpenHI closer to a shared foundation for humanity. Our roadmap is public because our progress should be too.
$359,768 of our $500,000 first year goal has been secured.
72% funded
Where support goes
Community • Thought Leadership • Open Source
Live
In development
Early access
Public release
Open ontology framework
ours.dev
Platform API infrastructure
Auth, data, and REST control plane
Documentation & reference architecture
openhi.dev
Design system & reference applications
Shared components and reference apps
AI model & research
Open to AI research collaborators
Public code release
Target end 2027
Consortium members and partners get early access to all contributions two years before the public, as part of the OpenHI Early Access License. Read more about our consortium here .
Join the mission
Help build the future
Whether you contribute time, expertise, code, or financial support, every contribution strengthens the shared foundation that everyone can build upon.