OrgBox is a free, open-source architecture that packages everything a foundation model needs to be trustworthy in a specific domain — structured knowledge, cross-domain reasoning, behavioral identity, cost-aware routing, interaction patterns, and evaluation — into a single portable artifact. The model is a replaceable utility. The Box is the asset.
OrgBox is a seven-layer architecture. The intelligence lives in the Box — not in any particular model. Swap the model, the Box keeps working.
Knowledge domains are silos. The connections between them — where the same phenomenon appears under different names, where an intervention in one field produces effects in another — are real and consequential, but scattered across literatures that don't cite each other.
The bridge ontology encodes those connections as structured, typed, validated data: concept mappings, structural analogies, causal chains, intervention chains, contradictions, and abstraction mappings. Compressed to ~1–2K tokens and injected into the prompt at query time.
OrgBox is grounded in Self-Determination Theory — autonomy, competence, relatedness guide every interaction. The system suggests, never demands. It makes people better at their work, not dependent on the system. It strengthens human connection rather than replacing it.
The organization is treated as a living system, not a machine. OrgBox is connective tissue — routing knowledge, surfacing connections, coordinating workflows — without occupying a position of authority.
Apache 2.0 for code. CC BY-SA 4.0 for specifications and content. No paid tier, no feature gating, no "community edition" missing the good parts. Every organization gets the full system.
Architecture fully designed — 7 layers, 80+ components. Philosophy frozen. 20-domain knowledge taxonomy defined across 300+ subfields. Sprint plan covers 16 sprints.