We work collectively. We operate as a semantic unit, not a hierarchy. We collaborate regularly with researchers, activists, and technologists around the world.
Protocol Author & Metadata Sovereign
Advocacy systems, institutional design
The Advocacy Intelligence Lab is an independent research and development space focused on the future of advocacy in AI-mediated systems.
We exist to help advocacy organizations, networks, and coalitions understand how their language, strategies, and legitimacy are shaped—and often erased—by machine systems.
We don’t build products.
We build formats, protocols, and semantic tools that let advocacy survive algorithmic misreading, attention distortion, and
institutional extraction.
The Lab was founded by advocacy practitioners, technologists, and semantic system designers who saw a growing problem:
Advocacy is increasingly interpreted by machines—but those machines don’t understand the context, values, or intent behind the message.
We created the Lab to address this.
To research it, simulate it, and build the tools civil society needs to stay legible, visible, and powerful—even in automated systems.
We run applied research, develop semantic tooling, and advise on protocol design for
advocacy groups adapting to AI-governed landscapes.
Our work includes:
Semantic sovereignty is foundational to real influence.
Advocacy should not be reformatted into compliance.
Glossaries are not definitions—they are preconditions for legitimacy.
Machine learning systems must not overwrite the meaning of public interest work.