TechnoEthos C3 builds ethical digital infrastructure that helps communities and mission-driven organizations evaluate technology, coordinate resources, and shape the digital systems affecting their lives. Its flagship product, TEED, is a web application for organizational ethics and compliance assessments that produces transparent alignment scores based on legal, regulatory, and ethical frameworks. The company also operates TERN, a relationship network for discovering aligned collaborators across the nonprofit and mission-driven sector.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Most digital platforms are designed to maximize engagement, data capture, and shareholder returns rather than community well-being. As AI and digital infrastructure become more central to daily life, communities, non-profits, educators, and mission-driven organizations are increasingly affected by systems they cannot meaningfully understand, influence, or govern.
Solution
TechnoEthos C3 provides TEED, a web application that helps organizations evaluate digital systems against ethical frameworks, accessibility considerations, responsible AI practices, and human-centered governance principles. TEED structures product and governance information, attaches evidence, runs evaluations through configured backends, and generates alignment scores that provide transparent context rather than binary good-or-bad labels. The platform supports database-backed workspaces, AT Protocol sign-in, and optional publication of public score records to the AT Protocol network. TechnoEthos also operates TERN, the TechnoEthos Relationship Network, which helps nonprofits, startups, researchers, funders, and community organizations discover aligned collaborators and coordinate support.
Target Audience
Primary users are mission-driven organizations, non-profits, educators, researchers, and technology builders in high-responsibility environments including education technology, AI-enabled systems, and mission-driven digital platforms.
Features
- Structured ethics and compliance assessments with evidence intake, scoring, and reporting capabilities
- Alignment score generation that surfaces misalignment between a product and legal, regulatory, and ethical frameworks
- AT Protocol (ATProto) integration for decentralized identity sign-in and optional public publication of score records
- Browser-derived extraction payloads that process document text locally without uploading raw binary files
- Configurable evaluation backends and optional enrichment endpoints for flexible deployment
- Open-source tools and frameworks designed to promote an accessible and community-driven web
- Organization workspace management with membership roles, invitations, and collaborative assessment workflows