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We build the infrastructure. We are the first sponsor of the DAX Foundation, and we are opening up.
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Obsidian Delta is the DAX Foundation's first sponsor. What we gave.
The DAX Foundation opens two labs and an open call to universities. The opening.
Meta DAX opens to the world: anyone can build a course. Meta DAX.
On the blog: Ninety instances, three humans.
Opening up
Obsidian Delta is a company. We build things. The DAX Foundation is where our work goes when it should belong to everyone. Its purpose: the preservation and expansion of life, humanity, and consciousness.
On 4 November 2026 the Foundation filed its articles. The certificate is on its way.
Obsidian Delta is the DAX Foundation's first sponsor. We build, we pay for the early compute, and we hand over what we build.
We built Meta DAX and gave it to the DAX Foundation. It is an open set of recipes that help any guide make a course for any learner. Now it is open to the world.
Anyone can build a course on their own AI subscription. Guides review their courses and own them. Learners use them. Supporters and institutions will be able to fund extra runs from their own account, with their own cap.
Universal learning is the aim. Today is version 0.0.0.1: small experiments, many of them simulated. It is a way, never the way.
We donated Delta Signal, our sound engine, to the DAX Foundation. It writes sound in code, hides a short message inside it, and reads it back. Its revenue will support the Foundation's work. It is offline for now.
Skippy is Obsidian Delta's coordinating system. It runs the experiments, and it is starting to help people create the base material for their courses. The guide still reviews it and owns it.
The experiments continue.
Every initiative becomes something people can build with.
Dates to come.
With the DAX Foundation
This week the Foundation opens its doors: two labs and an open call.
Sound Lab
Heartbeats, and the language of love. Two hearts, two notes. It opens with a gift: make your own sound of love.
Make the gift →
Gesture Lab
What passes between people without words. Your phone is the remote control. It sends 21 points per hand and the words it recognised.
Step into the lab →
Open call
Nonverbal, multimodal communication in learning. Open data, for everyone. We are looking for one partner site to be its home.
Answer the call →The work
2026 · current initiative
2026 · MetaDAX done-for-you
The open MetaDAX recipe, built for you — tutor session reports, a custom learner pack, or a course for your team in about a week. See what's on offer. Five articles on businesses built on the open stack, one per piece: Opportunities: built on open infrastructure.
February 4, 2022
A next-generation voice automation suite for the taxi industry. Integrated with any dispatch backend, reduced the need for live call takers by up to 60%. Forged in coordination with Microsoft Research.
Industry-specific call-flow capabilities: accurate address translation, price quotes mid-call, effortless booking against historical addresses, fixed locations, and popular destinations. Anonymous passenger-to-driver communication. Live ride status. Update or cancel mid-ride. The unified communications layer ran on 3CX. Call takers and dispatchers worked from anywhere.
August 31, 2021
Years before AI became ubiquitous, we started DAX — a personal AI agent designed as "a guardian angel to protect you against malicious AI." An agent that learns your goals, surfaces the right information at the right time, and stays on your side as the rest of the world's AI grows louder.
September 1, 2015
Our first product. An enterprise telephony platform integrated directly with Mobile Knowledge dispatch software, serving the taxi industry across North America. Driver requests a call-out, the suite handled the rest — thousands of simultaneous calls, distributed data centers, fault-tolerant architecture, 24/7 monitoring.
Delta Suite 1.0 sat inside a wider product family: Delta Bot dispatched 30%+ of call volume; Delta Cloud ran an enterprise cloud call center; Delta Local the on-prem version; Delta Rescue a backup solution for any call center.
Under the DAX constraint
Obsidian Delta operates under the DAX constraint: the preservation and expansion of life, humanity, and consciousness. We are experimenting internally with the Constraint Protocol (the specification is a public working draft). What that means is written up at the DAX Foundation.
