THE FUTURE ARRIVES LOCALLY.
Most small businesses are figuring out AI alone.
Ground Floor connects them. We are building one global network of small business owners, builders, researchers and trainers that runs across local economies, so what one community works out, the next one inherits instead of starting from zero.
Every community is already living through technological change.
The ones who come through it well are the ones who learn together, on purpose, and keep at it.
Continuous learning
Learning is no longer something a community finishes. It is something it returns to, again and again.
Collective visibility
The knowledge is already there, scattered across people in one town who have never been in a room together. What one owner works out is the next owner's starting point.
Collective agency
Agency is believing your community can shape what happens next, and then holding the proof that it did.
Collective visibility makes collective agency possible.
Communities need places where they can practice learning together — again and again.
Ground Floor exists to create those places.
GOA FIELD LAB.
For three weeks this October, seven builders and researchers are working with business owners across North Goa.
The first Ground Floor field lab.
For three weeks this October we are working with business owners across North Goa, alongside the state government, Edge City, and partners who have been on this coast for years.
Seven builders and researchers are coming. They will run hands-on sessions with owners, then build beside them on whatever that business actually needs. It costs the owner nothing.
Who we’re building with.
We bring together frontier builders, local operators, civic leaders, researchers, artists, entrepreneurs, and long-term partners committed to building alongside one another.
- 01Local business owners
Owners putting new technology to use inside real businesses, on their own terms.
- 02Builders and researchers
Engineers, artists, storytellers, and operators working alongside local economies.
- 03Funders and partners
Supporters of long-term research, field labs, and the relationships that make them possible.
- 04Institutions and places
Cities, universities, neighborhoods, and organizations exploring what is possible together.
- 05The network
People staying connected to future field labs, research, and gatherings.