Coordination
Co-developing the infrastructure necessary for ocean governance.
Infrastructure for the ocean's hardest coordination problems
Ocean Agentics is building open tools that help marine managers, researchers and policymakers use inaccessible ocean data for governance.
The capabilities of governance are falling behind. Building open infrastructure together is how we catch up.
The challenge
AI is empowering industry, while research, management, and governance fall further behind, especially in developing countries. Underresourced, marine stakeholders are reliant upon systems too cumbersome for effective governance.
The opportunity
We believe global ocean governance requires engineering in partnership with delegations, scientists, and institutions across the world to co-develop the systems needed to share the ocean's resources for this and future generations.
Equity
Open tools that all ocean stakeholders can equitably access.
Trust
Traceable evidence on biodiversity, productivity, and ocean health.
Coordination
Co-developing the infrastructure necessary for ocean governance.
Equity
Open tools that all ocean stakeholders can equitably access.
Trust
Traceable evidence on biodiversity, productivity, and ocean health.
Our focus: The UN High Seas Treaty.
The UN BBNJ High Seas Treaty creates a pathway to protect two-thirds of the world's ocean, centered on a Clearing-House Mechanism for sharing information and coordinating action. But the infrastructure to make that possible does not yet exist, and we're building open tools to help make it real.
What we're building together
Infrastructure in progress
How governance gets built
Area Based Management Tools
Designating high-seas Area-Based Management Tools under BBNJ requires stitching together biodiversity, fisheries, oceanographic, and policy data that were never built to work together. We're building open marine evidence infrastructure that lets researchers and BBNJ Parties generate reproducible, source-linked evidence packages in hours, with collaborators including Global Fishing Watch, the Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner, the University of Queensland, and NOVA School of Law, and a phased plan from core data integration to case-study workflows and open release.
Truecolor Daily
Visible surface
Truecolor Daily
Visible surface
BBNJ priority
Where the work starts
Tracking Marine Genetic Research
When a marine sample becomes a pharmaceutical, a research dataset, or a published study, its origin needs to travel with it across institutions and decades. We're prototyping the standards and technical implementation for the Standardized Batch Identifier system that make that traceability reliable, in support of the High Seas BBNJ Agreement's commitment to fair benefit sharing.
Coordination challenge
From real stakeholder needs
Portugal Innovation Workshop on the BBNJ
With Júlia Schütz Veiga and collaborators at NOVA School of Law / NOVA OCEAN, we're building a Portugal-based convening and hackathon where legal scholars, technologists, and underrepresented BBNJ partners co-design the agreements and prototype structure needed for marine genetic resources implementation. Ocean Agentics serves as backbone and technical lead, turning that work into shared governance, participation frameworks, and a roadmap for more equitable High Seas Treaty infrastructure.
Evidence assembly
Decision-ready evidence
Tracking FAD Fishing Effort with GFW
Using Global Fishing Watch data, we're tracking drifting Fish Aggregating Device fishing effort in the Western and Central Pacific to study how purse seine behavior changed after the 2024 high seas FAD closure shift and to lay the groundwork for AIS-based FAD detection. The work is in collaboration with Dr. Christopher Noren of SCS Global Services, a Marine Stewardship Council Team Leader specializing in WCPO purse seine tuna fisheries and FAD management.
Infrastructure in progress
How governance gets built
Area Based Management Tools
Designating high-seas Area-Based Management Tools under BBNJ requires stitching together biodiversity, fisheries, oceanographic, and policy data that were never built to work together. We're building open marine evidence infrastructure that lets researchers and BBNJ Parties generate reproducible, source-linked evidence packages in hours, with collaborators including Global Fishing Watch, the Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner, the University of Queensland, and NOVA School of Law, and a phased plan from core data integration to case-study workflows and open release.
Truecolor Daily
Visible surface
Truecolor Daily
Visible surface
BBNJ priority
Where the work starts
Tracking Marine Genetic Research
When a marine sample becomes a pharmaceutical, a research dataset, or a published study, its origin needs to travel with it across institutions and decades. We're prototyping the standards and technical implementation for the Standardized Batch Identifier system that make that traceability reliable, in support of the High Seas BBNJ Agreement's commitment to fair benefit sharing.
Coordination challenge
From real stakeholder needs
Portugal Innovation Workshop on the BBNJ
With Júlia Schütz Veiga and collaborators at NOVA School of Law / NOVA OCEAN, we're building a Portugal-based convening and hackathon where legal scholars, technologists, and underrepresented BBNJ partners co-design the agreements and prototype structure needed for marine genetic resources implementation. Ocean Agentics serves as backbone and technical lead, turning that work into shared governance, participation frameworks, and a roadmap for more equitable High Seas Treaty infrastructure.
Evidence assembly
Decision-ready evidence
Tracking FAD Fishing Effort with GFW
Using Global Fishing Watch data, we're tracking drifting Fish Aggregating Device fishing effort in the Western and Central Pacific to study how purse seine behavior changed after the 2024 high seas FAD closure shift and to lay the groundwork for AIS-based FAD detection. The work is in collaboration with Dr. Christopher Noren of SCS Global Services, a Marine Stewardship Council Team Leader specializing in WCPO purse seine tuna fisheries and FAD management.
Help build the infrastructure that turns commitments into action.
Research partnership
Co-author papers, integrate datasets, and design tools together.
Walkthrough
See the prototypes we're building, the data systems we're connecting, and where your work could plug in.
Fund a workstream
As a U.S. nonprofit, we're building open infrastructure that outlasts any single grant cycle. Each of our four workstreams welcomes targeted philanthropic support.
Advisory roles
Help guide our technical, scientific, and policy direction.