About
About the Webspinner Foundation.
A short page. If you want depth, the Mission page and the Manifesto are where the substance lives.
Steward-owned, by structure.
The Webspinner Foundation is a steward-owned non-profit institution dedicated to the democratization of Synthetic Intelligence. Our 501(c)(3) determination is in process; until it issues, gifts to the Foundation are not yet tax-deductible. Tax-deductibility status will be posted on this page as soon as the determination is final.
Six programs, one mission.
We run six operational programs — the Academy, Cloud, FX, Studio, Governance by SI, and Sovereign SI. Each is a real offering with a clear audience.
Five things we will not do.
Stating non-goals is as important as stating goals.
- Sell anything. The Foundation does not monetize patrons, products, or services.
- Collect or broker private information. There are no leaks because there is no harvest.
- Send spam, marketing email, or behavioral advertising of any kind.
- Point fingers, name villains, or campaign against specific companies. Our posture is constructive, not adversarial.
- Lobby. The Foundation builds working alternatives rather than petitioning for permission.
Structural commitments.
The Foundation is incorporated, deliberately and in writing, in a form that is not for sale. The trust deed that holds the operating company says — in legal language — that the institution must keep doing the work it was founded to do, that it cannot ever be sold, that the surplus revenue must flow to mission rather than dividends, and that the user community has elected representation on the body that governs the whole arrangement. The deed will be published in full once executed.
Founder, briefly.
The Foundation was founded by John David Marx, a long-time technologist with prior credits including the design of an early 4GL Unix-application generator. The Foundation is not about him; it is about the institution he is building and the people he is inviting in. A short founder biography will appear here once the institution’s public-facing identity is finalized; for now, the rest of the site is the right place to look.
Contact.
Press, partnerships, anchor-donor introductions, and good-faith advisory inquiries: get-involved. For the founder directly during this pre-launch window:
Advisory roles, open.
The Foundation seeks advisors and trustees in these categories during the founding window:
- Nonprofit governance and 501(c)(3) administration.
- Foundation grant-making and major-gift fundraising.
- Accessibility advocacy and the populations the Academy will serve.
- Civic-tech infrastructure and the legal architecture of trust law and steward ownership.
If your professional life has put you near these questions, write to us. The early advisors who shape an institution at this stage tend to have the most enduring influence on what it becomes.