Where spatial computing meets knowledge architecture, community intelligence, and the wisdom already embedded in place.
Technology that listens to what a place already knows, rather than extracting from it.
InnerCartography is Michael's practice — a San Francisco-based studio at the intersection of spatial computing, knowledge architecture, and community technology.
The work spans building tools for multi-agent collaboration, designing knowledge systems that compound over time, and helping communities develop the technological sovereignty to shape their own futures.
Named for the belief that the most important maps are the ones we make of the territories we actually inhabit — interior and exterior, digital and physical, personal and collective.
Every location carries embedded intelligence. The work is learning to read it.
Technology that strengthens communities rather than harvesting them. Open standards over platform dependency.
Tensions between frameworks aren't errors to resolve. They're the most generative nodes in any map.
Knowledge systems that get smarter over time. Every question answered makes the next question better.
WebXR experiences, spatial knowledge graphs, and 3D interfaces for the open metaverse. Building scanning, digital twins, and Gaussian splat pipelines. Built on open standards, owned by communities.
Personal and organizational knowledge systems that compound over time. Second brains, wiki infrastructure, and agent harnesses for LLM-maintained knowledge bases.
Tech infrastructure for communities and place-based organizations. Tools for governance, coordination, and collective intelligence. Non-extractive by design.
Knowledge systems for property management and real estate operations. Building scanning and digital twin creation. AI integration for complex multi-property portfolios.
Strategic guidance on spatial computing and AI integration. Workshops and residencies for builders and organizations ready to think differently about knowledge and place.
Long-form writing for founders, technologists, and practitioners. Essays, dispatches, and thought leadership at the intersection of technology, place, and wisdom.
Dispatches from the practice — spatial epistemology, knowledge architecture, and the philosophy of place-based intelligence.
Dive in and reach out. Open to consulting engagements, collaborations, teaching residencies, and conversations that don't fit a category — yet.