Substrate

Substrate is an open-source framework focused on human understanding, meaning, and progress. It aims to surface and structure conceptual objects—ideas, problems, beliefs, models, frames, goals, arguments, sources—to make them more transparent, discussable and actionable. The goal is to enable communities to collectively build and maintain a repository of these objects so that complex systems of meaning and progress can be mapped, analyzed and improved. It is relatively ambitious in scope—seeking to help humanity organise knowledge and action around matters that matter rather than purely technical concerns. The project invites crowdsourced contribution and is structured as modular lists of object types that can interlink and form larger networks of thought. While still early, it reflects a philosophical stance: that in order to progress we must first clarify the objects and relations of meaning, belief, and decision.