About Place & Space
Service, Rebuilt For The Age Of AI.
Society OS is a modern service organisation. Place & Space is its Community: people, groups and businesses serving the place they live, and being found, trusted and chosen for it, by people and by AI agents.
Places help people find you. Spaces help you get things done together.
Places Help People Find You
Your Presence, the directory, the map and your local Circle. Accurate, owner-controlled and readable by AI assistants.
Spaces Help You Get Things Done
Live rooms on The Floor, shared Workspaces and Circle meetings, where members meet, decide and do the work together.
Trust Is Earned, Never Bought
Validated, Vouched and Verified come from passing checks and from other businesses vouching for you. No plan can buy them.
Our Mission
Service clubs like Rotary and Lions showed that ordinary people, meeting locally, can change their towns. Today AI assistants increasingly decide who gets found and who gets chosen. Society OS brings the service-club idea into that world, so local people and businesses stay in charge of their own record, their own data and their own community.
We grow from the ground up, one suburb at a time, rather than through top-down control.
How It Works
- 1ActivateClaim the Presence for your business or group, or create one. It is free, with no card and no expiry.
- 2Earn TrustMatch your ABN or prove your website to become Validated. Endorsements from 3 different businesses make you Vouched.
- 3Join Your CircleBack the Circle for your suburb or town, meet on The Floor and take part in local projects.
- 4Get ChosenPeople and AI assistants find accurate details and contact you directly. Every enquiry is yours.
The Place & Space Community
The Community runs on one hierarchy: Circle → City → Country. Each suburb or town has one Circle, and once a Circle is started it is never duplicated. When enough Circles in a City are active, they form a City Network. Trade Dollars ($T) run across all three. A global layer is planned as a future federation of Country networks, not a tier anyone joins.
Everything on Place & Space sits inside the Community:
What Is A Presence?
Every member has a Presence: the living, AI-readable record of a business or group that its owner controls. It is not a listing a directory keeps about you. Every Presence answers to an accountable person, and every AI agent action on it leaves a signed record.
Place is where a thing is: a premises, shopfront or suburb. Space is where a thing happens: a community, project, room or agent endpoint. Every Space is anchored to at least one Place.
You don’t claim a listing. You activate a Presence, bringing your Place into accountable identity and opening your Space to AI agents.
Trust You Can Check
Trust on Place & Space is earned in three levels. Validated means the owner has claimed the Presence and matched an ABN or proven their website. Vouched adds endorsements from 3 different claimed businesses. Verified adds both checks plus a GUARD conformance declaration.
Higher levels are listed first in the directory, ahead of paid placement. Giving and receiving endorsements is free on every plan, and no plan can buy a level.
How Trust Levels WorkWho It’s For
Local Businesses
Be found by AI assistants and people, earn trust from your peers, and keep every enquiry. No lead fees, ever.
Community Groups
Run a Circle, share Care Rosters and Skills Exchange hours, meet live and show the good your group does.
People Looking For Help
Search the Community or Ask The Directory, see who has earned trust, then choose who to contact yourself.
AI Agents
Read public Presence profiles through governed endpoints, with every read visible to the owner.
Trade Dollars ($T)
Mutual credit between members. $T cannot be cashed out, and one $T is referenced to one US dollar for accounting only. Businesses can use $T for some marketing and operating costs, so spare capacity turns into local trade.
How We Use AI
AI proposes, people decide. AI drafts and suggests; you approve. Grades, checks and leaderboards use fixed, published rules.
Our Promises
- No lead fees. Your enquiry goes only to the business you chose, and is never sold or shared.
- Trust levels are earned, never sold. Plans unlock tools, not trust.
- An unclaimed record is never shown as verified.
- Nothing is published in your name without your approval.
- Every email says who it is from and has a one-click unsubscribe. We never sell or share contacts.
- No lifetime deals, no countdown timers and no payment to reserve a place.
- Self Success is private. We never rank you against other people on it.
- Grades and rankings come from published rules you can check.
Open Standards, Kept Separate
The F-ACT, T-RUE and R-EAL standards are open and royalty-free, with a patent non-assertion pledge. They are planned to be stewarded by the Open Conformance Foundation, which is being established (incorporation targeted Q4 2026 to Q1 2027), not by any company. Commercial services sit beside the standards, never as a gate across them.
Where We Are Now
Place & Space launches on World Development Information Day, Saturday 24 October 2026, which is also Make A Difference Day. We are early. Some Presences are demonstration records, and records not yet activated by their owners are marked Unclaimed. Live video rooms are already open on The Floor.
Intellectual Property Notice
One Australian provisional patent application (2026900773), filed 2 February 2026, with 504 claims. Unexamined, conferring no granted rights, and lapsing 2 February 2027 unless taken further.
Place & Space is built by Society OS Pty Ltd. Founder: Darryl S Astin.