Understory is a digital garden, a micro-publishing space for you to plant the seeds of your ideas and grow them into bi-directionally linked web portals.
Come take a walk with us and learn what we're about.
We're tired of our data being walled off into third-party siloes. It's time for us to reclaim the power of our data and create a stable home for our identities online.
Understory believes that developing our ideas is a never-ending, continuous journey. We don't think in terms of linear connection, polished writing, and "published" ideas, so why are we building our web content this way?
You are unique — your online identity should be too. Social media boxes us into prescriptive ideas of who we are to make it easier to collect advertising revenue, while exploiting your data in the process. We make it easier to express yourself in a way that YOU design, in a way that YOU control.
Our brains work better together. That's why we're building a knowledge management system that allows you to collaborate and share ideas across organizations. No more siloes, no more walls.
Communities are the heartbeat of our world, and we think every community deserves the tools they need to rally people around a shared vision.
Understory combines the power of lightweight web-publishing with co-operative data ownership made possible by Solid, creating a whole new way to access and build the web that's accessible to everyone regardless of their ability to write code.
Plant the seeds of your ideas, and nurture them over time. We help you connect the dots and unlock the power of building a second digital brain.
We operate on the 7 cooperative principles and plan to "exit to community" so that our users can truly own their data without having to learn how to self-host.
Solid makes this possible.
Find out how.
Humans are social, and our orgs are social too. We make it easy to connect across the borders of your communities so that we can all grow towards collective knowledge.
