Orion Fund for Living Intelligence

Supporting creators who build enduring systems of knowledge and decision-making that help humanity navigate long-term risk.

The Orion Fund for Living Intelligence supports creators who build work designed to help humanity think more clearly across time. We seek projects grounded in living intelligence: systems that deepen how humans observe the world, make decisions, and steward complex realities. This includes ontological design, decision systems, ecological sensing, and regenerative knowledge infrastructure that address long-term human risk. The fund celebrates slow knowledge—work created for durability and clarity rather than speed or visibility—and supports creators willing to take responsibility for ideas meant to endure.

Eligibility

This fund supports projects that confront failures in human decision-making and long-term systemic risk through thoughtful, durable work. We are interested in creators building knowledge frameworks, sensing systems, research, or tools that help people better understand complex systems over time. The strongest projects generate regenerative knowledge—insight that compounds in value and remains useful beyond its immediate context.
To qualify for this fund, projects must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Living Intelligence: The project must improve how humans observe, understand, or respond to complex systems over time.
- Long-Term Human Risk: The work must address a specific failure mode in human decision-making or a meaningful long-term systemic risk.
- Ontological Design or Decision Systems: Projects should develop frameworks, models, tools, or systems that help people interpret reality and make wiser decisions.
- Regenerative Knowledge: The project should produce knowledge that compounds in value over time and contributes to long-term understanding.
- Slow Knowledge: The work should be designed for durability and reflection rather than rapid production or short-term attention.
- Enduring Value: The project must retain value outside its immediate context and remain meaningful beyond a single platform, trend, or cycle.
- Intellectual Custodianship: The project must have a clearly identified lead creator who assumes intellectual responsibility for the work.
- Creator Commitment: We especially welcome creators who take meaningful intellectual or creative risk in bringing their work into the world.
- Not Engagement-Optimized: Projects primarily designed for engagement, scale, virality, or visibility are not eligible.

Projects (42)

30 submitted · 8 curated · 4 funded

Project	Status	Raised
W8W Creative Hub	funded	$86
ToGather Project, Documenting Living Systems	funded	$8,193
CL-067 Network	funded	$82,228
Abductive Pathways	funded	$23,899
Kokonut Network	curated	$1,885
Green Goods	curated	$66,866
The Eyes of Argus	curated	$10
Unplug to Upskill: The Card Game That Brings AI Literacy to Every Child	curated	$62,725
Kind Design for Healthcare	curated	$10
DeSci Onboarding Hub	curated	$0
A Regenerative Network Society Lab in Liminal Village	curated	$1,526
CL-074	curated	$32,443
Dandelion	submitted	$210,381
Coralverse - Reef Revival	submitted	$3,709
CL-057 Inner Alchemy	submitted	$5,569
FutureZoo	submitted	$215,046
Neurodevelop: Neuromodulation for everyone	submitted	$1,790
International Artists Project	submitted	$462
🔮 The Oracle: The Earth's Guardian 🌱	submitted	$6,710
CL-072	submitted	$1,882
Nitrous Oxide Rocket Engine Testing for an Open-Source Design Bible	submitted	$48,820
Greenpill Network - GreenSci	submitted	$398
Reset and Rise	submitted	$0
Voices of the Land	submitted	$19,991
TEENTOK - Future unlocked	submitted	$9,731
Akuya	submitted	$234
OpenSentry	submitted	$89,384
Landscapes of Opportunity	submitted	$1,373
GrantPass	submitted	$0
Wordsmith's Corner ✒️	submitted	$23,751
CHAINWARS .wtf || Cypherpunk Space-Opera	submitted	$15,713
SITIO-FLORESTA-ESCOLA	submitted	$29,340
THE SYSTEM	submitted	$5,474
La Maison Passerelle, an Earth based Cultural Research and Invention Center	submitted	$258,788
Artisanal Intelligence — Exhibition Tour	submitted	$5,915
The International Artists Project Documentary	submitted	$563
Tapping into Your Creative Power!	submitted	$9,214
The Primordial Dream: Reimagining Ourselves as Oceanic Composites	submitted	$5,667
Plantamor Regenerative Community	submitted	$49,636
Element of Chawaza	submitted	$1,356
Project Keystone: AI-Powered Engineering Document Intelligence	submitted	$1,373
Why Are You Not Here? Tv Series	submitted	$7,627