Researched for CIBC's first demo day. Same field set per entity. Confidence is honest: some entities are caught, some spotted, some rumored, one unverified.
Aggregate map and strategic reading
Relationships among the six peer orgs. Three of the six cluster around deliberative democracy with personal links. Democracy Next (DemNext) co-coordinates the DelibTech Network with the AI & Democracy Foundation. DemNext lists Audrey on its International Advisory Council, tying it to the Plurality cluster. Agora Citizen Network operates as an open-source deliberation tool in the same problem space. A second cluster sits around Dark Matter Labs (DML): Charlie's LinkedIn lists his current position as Komma Systems in Berlin while still affiliating with DML. DML co-hosted a March 2024 property conference with RadicalxChange Foundation, which sits inside the Plurality cluster via Glen. Metagov is the loosest cluster member: its Public AI project is fiscally hosted and runs through Switzerland, with no documented Maine or Portland local AI server project.
CIBC's position. CIBC is parallel-to-orthogonal to most of these. CIBC is upstream of DemNext, the DelibTech Network, and Agora on the local-first and data-sovereignty axis: those orgs need infrastructure CIBC is building. CIBC is parallel to Metagov on governance tooling and to DML on civic technology architecture. CIBC is downstream of Plurality on theory framing.
Highest-leverage actions.
Invite Gurden (DML Civic Tech Co-Lead, Berlin) to the demo day. He is the likely match for "Gordon."
Ask Charlie whether Komma Systems is presenting-ready, and use him as a bridge to DML's Civic Tech Studio.
Ask for an intro to Claudia to share the demo day with DelibTech Network members under Chatham House conditions.
Post in the Metagov Slack (after completing their onboarding survey) 7 to 10 days before the event.
Resolve the "Newsweek" reference with Artem before any outreach.
Open questions. Identity of "Gordon" (Gurden is the strongest match but not confirmed). Whether "Coma" is "Komma Systems." Identity of the "Newsweek" political-tech group. Whether RegenOS refers to the Regen Network RegenOS/KOI substrate or to a separate Discord or Telegram surface.
Caught · Tier 1
Dark Matter Labs
One-line
Not-for-profit research and prototyping org building institutions, instruments, and infrastructure for civic economies.
Distributed. Team in Berlin, London, Seoul, Canada. Germany entity listed as Dark Matter Labs Germany.
Founded
2016
Stage / size
Mid-size. Dozens of named members across Labs, Arcs, and Studios. Exact headcount not publicly disclosed.
Funding
Not-for-profit autonomous organization that works with partners and clients. Conference work supported by Rockefeller Foundation and Omidyar Network per the Property and Beyond Lab.
What they ship
Research, prototypes, civic tech tools, reports. Examples: CircuLaw (regulatory tooling for circular economy), TreesAI (urban forest financing), Material Registry, Permissioning the City, CivicAI use cases. GitHub.
Strong on civic tech and regenerative systems. Civic Tech Studio explicitly names sovereignty, sensing technologies, classification and data ontologies, and shared infrastructure commons. Direct overlap on civic tech architecture and partial overlap on local-first and data sovereignty. No public evidence of AT Protocol or knowledge-graph work specifically. Some overlap with deliberative democracy through the CivicAI Collective Climate Action use case.
Strategic read
Invite Gurden to demo day. DML is parallel to CIBC and a relationship makes sense both as ecosystem peer and as a target for the share-link blast. The framing of "infrastructures of tenderness, doubt, and attentiveness" on the Civic Tech Studio page maps closely to CIBC's anti-extractive frame.
Rumored · Tier 1 · Disputed Identity
Coma (Komma Systems)
Disambiguation
CIBC's "Coma" is almost certainly "Komma" (German for "comma"). No matching website found via available search.
One-line
Berlin-based consultancy or studio led by Charlie, focused on regenerative land, housing, and governance.
URL
Not publicly available as a standalone domain. LinkedIn lists "Komma Systems" as current employer.
Geography
Berlin
Founded
Not publicly available. Would require German Handelsregister or Charlie's CV.
Stage / size
Solo to small. LinkedIn does not list other staff under Komma Systems. Fisher's bio describes him as a "Multi-org Founder and Doctoral candidate."
Funding
Not publicly available. Charlie's profile describes "a decade of Director and Founding experience of social-enterprises," suggesting consulting fees and project-based revenue.
What they ship
Services and research. Applied research, participatory governance design for decentralized organizations, advisory work on cohousing, community land trusts, and decentralized housing finance.
Recent work
No public output identified under the "Komma Systems" name in the last 12 months. Fisher is completing a PhD on urban affordable housing delivery. He remains active in OASA, the Swiss Association for tokenized land trusts.
Known people
Charlie · founder · ex-Dark Matter Labs · founding committee OASA. Flagged in CIBC network as ex-DML.
Strong adjacency on regenerative systems, commons-based land holding, and decentralized technologies for housing. Direct overlap with data sovereignty through Fisher's OASA work on "tokenised trust" land. Less direct overlap on AT Protocol, knowledge graphs, or local-first software. Strong philosophical overlap on anti-extractive framings.
Strategic read
Invite Charlie directly. He sits at the personal bridge between CIBC, DML, and OASA. If Komma Systems is presenting-ready, invite as a demo-day participant; otherwise invite as ecosystem peer and discussant. Confirm whether "Coma" and "Komma Systems" are the same entity before public outreach.
Caught · Tier 1
Democracy Next (DemNext)
One-line
International nonprofit research and action institute building citizens' assemblies based on sortition, deliberation, and rotation.
Stichting DemocracyNext, The Hague, Netherlands. Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal 58, 2511 CJ. Team is small core, internationally based.
Founded
2022 by CEO Claudia
Stage / size
Small core team. Exact headcount not publicly available.
Funding
Grants and consultancy. Disclosed funders: Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy, Open Society Foundations, One Project. Also consultancy assignments and individual donations via Open Collective Europe.
What they ship
Research, guides, training, network convening, technical advisory. Outputs include "Assembling an Assembly" guide and the OECD Deliberative Democracy Toolbox (Chwalisz's prior OECD work).
Strong overlap with deliberative democracy. Partial overlap on civic tech via the DelibTech Network. Their AI-and-deliberation paper explicitly discusses civic infrastructure and the limits of technology-only solutions. No direct overlap with local-first, AT Protocol, or knowledge graphs.
Strategic read
Send a share link via a Claudia intro if available. The demo day is plausibly relevant to their portfolio if framed around tech-enhanced deliberation. Best route is via the DelibTech Network rather than a direct DemNext partnership ask. Mutual ecosystem awareness at minimum.
Spotted · Tier 2
Deliberative Network (DelibTech Network)
One-line
Invite-only network of technologists, practitioners, and researchers building or studying technology for deliberation.
International. Members from MIT, OpenAI, City of Toronto, University of Cambridge, Notre Dame, Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab, Berkman Klein Center.
Founded
Not publicly available. Early phase with seed funding for initial meetings.
Stage / size
Small invite-only group. Published goal: keep the size such that "everybody knows one another." Exact count not publicly available.
Funding
"Small amount of seed funding" disclosed. Seeking funds. Source and amount not disclosed.
What they ship
Convenings, principles and protocols for deploying technologies in deliberative processes, member coordination. Meetings held under Chatham House rules.
Recent work
No publicly listed publications attributed to the DelibTech Network as a body. Co-coordinators (Chwalisz, McKinney, Ovadya, Redman) publish individually.
Members: Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou (MIT), Tyna Eloundou (OpenAI), Daniel Fusca (Toronto), Lisa Schirch (Notre Dame), Alice Siu (Stanford), Samantha Shireman (Berkman Klein), Matthew Stempeck
Habitat
Single DemNext project page. Meetings are not public.
Overlap
Direct overlap on civic tech for deliberation. Indirect overlap on local-first via members like Stempeck's "Civic Tech Field Guide" work. Less overlap on AT Protocol, knowledge graphs, or regenerative systems.
Strategic read
Not invitable as a group, since it is invite-only and runs under Chatham House rules. Best path is to ask Chwalisz (or Aviv Ovadya separately) for a private network-internal mention of the demo day. Mutual ecosystem awareness is the realistic ceiling.
Caught · Tier 1
Agora Citizen Network
One-line
Open-source citizen network built by ZKorum for large-scale public debate using zero-knowledge proofs and LLM-based sensemaking.
Twitter handle joined March 2023. Specific incorporation date not publicly available.
Stage / size
Small. Crunchbase lists 1 to 10 headcount and two employee profiles.
Funding
Grant. Lead investor disclosed as European Commission; total funding amount obfuscated on Crunchbase. No public revenue disclosure.
What they ship
Tools. Agora is an open-source facilitation tool for collecting opinions, mapping disagreement, identifying shared priorities, and converting collective input into decisions. Uses ZK Proof of Passport for sybil resistance and LLMs for sensemaking.
Recent work
Active blog presence on the AT Protocol via WhiteWind, with Agora Citizen Network running a Bluesky and AT Protocol identity
Nicolas · co-founder, CTO · almost certainly the "Nicola" referenced in the CIBC brief
Habitat
Website · GitHub (zkorum) · X @join_agora · Bluesky @agoracitizen.network · WhiteWind blog
Overlap
Direct overlap on civic tech, deliberation tools, and AT Protocol. Their WhiteWind and Bluesky presence is direct evidence of AT Protocol use, which is a precise match for CIBC's stack. Strong overlap on data sovereignty via ZK proof-of-personhood. No direct overlap on regenerative systems.
Strategic read
Invite Nicolas to demo day. Highest match score of the six peer orgs for CIBC's specific tech stack (AT Protocol plus deliberation tooling). Likely demo-day presenter or commenter.
Spotted · Tier 1
Metagov
One-line
Research collective for governance of online communities and AI, with fiscally hosted projects and an active member network.
November 2025 zine-making session on AI and collective governance hosted by Nathan
Public AI Switzerland fellow role advertised
Known people
Liz · Executive Director and Research Director (deliberation facilitation work)
Josh Tan and Nick Vincent · Public AI Research Directors
Joseph Low · Public AI research engineer and technical lead
Nathan · member contributor
None match CIBC's known network
Habitat
Site · Substack (metagov.substack.com) · Slack (gated by survey) · Luma calendar · PubPub repo · YouTube and Internet Archive for seminars
Overlap
Strong overlap on civic tech, governance UX, and AI infrastructure. Direct overlap on member-built tools and a Playtester program that mirrors a demo-day audience. Moderate overlap on local-first via Public AI's public-infrastructure framing. No direct overlap on AT Protocol or regenerative systems.
On the "Maine, Portland local AI server" question
No Metagov project named or described as a "local AI server" in Maine or Portland has been identified. Metagov's Public AI work is explicitly oriented toward Switzerland. Maine has separately been in the news for AI data center policy and for a planned large data center at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, but neither is a Metagov project. CIBC should treat the "Metagov local AI server in Maine, Portland" reference as unverified.
Strategic read
Invite Liz and post the share link in the Metagov Slack after onboarding. Metagov's Playtester program is the highest-leverage soft entry for a demo day. Treat Metagov as parallel and as a high-fit marketing channel.
Rumored · Tier 2 · Marketing Channel
RegenOS
Disambiguation
Two candidates carry this name. "ReGenos" at regenos.com is a collagen supplement product and is not the right entity. The right candidate is the RegenOS substrate within the Regen Network ecosystem, referenced in the Regen Network forum thread "Agentic Organization Design and Collaboration" as "Regen Network's RegenOS + KOI substrate," part of a converging pattern with Regen Coordination's Org-OS template and Egregore (Curve Labs). Given Brayden's described systems-change community context, the Regen Network ecosystem is the better match.
What it is
Community and network. A Discord-anchored, blockchain-adjacent network around regenerative finance and ecological credits, with adjacent forums and working groups.
Open. Discord invite is public; Community Incentives Program requires KYC and a membership form.
Audience size
Regen Network Discord shows 3,246 members at the time of the listing snapshot. Discord invite previews update live and CIBC should re-verify before any decision.
Audience profile
Mix. Land stewards, scientists, developers, builders of regenerative tooling, validators, and crypto-native contributors. Builder share is meaningful given the GitHub-and-forum-centric workflow.
Posting culture
Informal but technical. The forum carries long-form technical writeups (e.g. the Org-OS / RegenOS / Egregore convergence post), while Discord handles real-time coordination, polls, and governance signal.
Geography
Global, with US, Brazil (Amazon biodiversity credits), and European concentrations.
Fit for share link
Depends. Strong fit if framed around agentic organization design, KOI, or regenerative coordination tooling. Weaker fit if framed as deliberation or local-first only.
How to post
Post in the Discord general or a project channel after a brief introduction. A long-form post on the forum will outperform a Discord drop alone. Brayden, as an existing member, is the right poster.
Unverified · Cannot identify
Newsweek (political technology group)
What it is
Not identifiable from available public sources. Search attempts returned only results for the news magazine Newsweek and unrelated Telegram coverage. None of the surfaced results match the description of "political technology oriented group doing their own political tech projects." No Telegram or Discord community named "Newsweek" in the political-tech sense was found in available search.
Where it lives
Not publicly available.
Access
Not publicly available.
Audience size
Not publicly available.
Audience profile
Not publicly available.
Posting culture
Not publicly available.
Geography
Not publicly available.
Fit for share link
Cannot be assessed.
How to post
Cannot be assessed.
Search attempts
Queries run included "Newsweek political technology Telegram group" and adjacent variants. Available web search consistently returned results for Newsweek the magazine, not a political-tech community. CIBC should ask Artem directly for: the channel link or invite, the canonical name (CIBC may be misremembering the spelling), and the platform (Telegram, Discord, or Signal).
Spotted · Tier 1 · Disambiguated
Plurality
Disambiguation
Three candidate surfaces exist. (1) The Plurality book at plurality.net by Glen, Audrey, and the Plurality Community is the published manifesto and a community-translated open-source GitHub project. (2) The Plurality Institute at plurality.institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that operates as the institutional hub. (3) RadicalxChange, founded by Weyl, is a parallel nonprofit. For CIBC's framing of "a community organized around plurality," the canonical organizing surface is the Plurality Institute, since it explicitly convenes the Plurality Network and runs research, programs, and a microgrant pipeline. The book at plurality.net is the canonical text rather than an active community surface.
What it is
Network and nonprofit. Plurality Institute is "a hub connecting researchers, practitioners, and leaders across academia, industry, civil society, and government."
Multi-surface. Website, GitHub (pluralitybook), email newsletter, in-person events including LLMs & Public Discourse Symposium and the February 2025 LLM Workshop.
Access
Mixed. The book and research are open. The Network is convened by the Institute and has the look of a soft-gated convening rather than an open Discord. Microgrant programs exist.
Audience size
Not publicly available. The Institute does not disclose member counts. The LLM Map references more than 70 tools and contributors.
Audience profile
Mix tilted toward researchers and policy-adjacent practitioners. Affiliations include Harvard, UC Berkeley, Jigsaw, Google.org, Microsoft Research, RadicalxChange. Builders are present but the dominant culture is research and policy.
Posting culture
Formal. Outputs are research reports, peer-reviewed-style papers, and symposia. The Plurality Substack and book repository carry longer writing rather than rapid posts.
Geography
US-concentrated leadership (San Francisco for the Institute team page) with global community contributions, and Taiwan as a foundational reference point via Audrey.
Fit for share link
Depends. Strong if the framing emphasizes plural technologies, bridging tools, and AT Protocol or knowledge-graph deliberation work. Weaker if framing leans purely local-first without a deliberation angle. Audrey's role on the DemNext advisory council means a single intro could reach both Plurality and DemNext.
How to post
Submit to the LLM Map if applicable
Email the Plurality Institute team via their contact form for a newsletter mention
Post in adjacent Discords (RadicalxChange) where Plurality-aligned builders gather
Post in the Plurality GitHub discussions on plurality.net for the book community
Notes on data quality and unresolved items
"Gordon" at Dark Matter Labs is most likely Gurden, Civic Tech Co-Lead in Berlin. Confirm with the CIBC member who introduced the reference.
"Coma" is most likely Komma Systems, Charlie's current Berlin employer per his LinkedIn. No standalone web property was found in available search, consistent with a small consultancy that operates primarily through LinkedIn and direct relationships.
"Nicola" at Agora Citizen Network is almost certainly Nicolas, co-founder and CTO of ZKorum.
The Metagov "local AI server in Maine, Portland" claim is unsupported by available public sources. Metagov's Public AI work is Switzerland-oriented. Maine's data-center activity is policy and development news unrelated to Metagov.
"RegenOS" most plausibly refers to the Regen Network RegenOS / KOI substrate cluster, surfaced through the Regen Network forum and Discord. Confirm with Brayden which surface he is active on.
"Newsweek" as a political-tech group is not identifiable from public sources; ask Artem for the exact invite link, platform, and spelling.