Infrastructure for spatial intelligence

The Memory
of Matter

ARQ is building a memory layer
for the sensed physical world

Origin made visible
Decision provenance Building in private

The moment
passes.
The record
remains

When systems act on the physical world, an outcome is only part of the story

The decision needs its context

Turquoise coastal waters and sand islands seen from above
The physical world Always in motion

Decision provenance for
the sensed physical world

A record of the decision
in its moment

After the fact, the record must be reconstructed

What was known and who could act may sit in different systems. Later, those fragments must be brought back to the same moment

A strip of forest at dusk
01

Telemetry

What the sensors saw

A strip of forest at dusk
02

Authorization

Who had authority to act

A strip of forest at dusk
03

Environment

The world around the decision

The same forest, reduced to coarse pixels
04

Model state

What the system understood

A strip of forest at dusk
05

Human action

Where a person changed the course

Separate systems. Separate clocks.
Reconstruction leaves room for disagreement

The question arrives later. A regulator, an underwriter, a lender, a court: the decision needs its context

Origin · who actedState · what it knewTime · when it happened

Where sensing
meets consequence

The physical world is not one market.
It is the common ground

Intense wildfire flames and smoke
Fire · The landscape under stress

One underlying question.
What was known at the moment of decision?

Built quietly.
With intention

A new layer deserves
a considered foundation

Company builders.
Platform architects.
Infrastructure engineers

We welcome conversations with people building, operating, or investing in the next generation of spatial intelligence

John Boas

John Boas

Founder & CEO

Two decades building data, research, and decision platforms

Connect with John

What did your
system know,
and when?

For those shaping what spatial intelligence becomes

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Tell us what your system decides, and who needs the record

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