ANTk: Adjacency-Native Toolkit

Bear Tompkins

ANTk: Adjacency-Native Toolkit

A relational simulation toolkit empowering Indigenous communities to design quantum, AI, and biomimetic technologies from adjacency and memory.

Bartlesville, OK, USA

USA

Not registered as any organization

Indigenous nations are often excluded from the design of emerging technologies—especially quantum computing, AI, and advanced digital infrastructure—despite stewarding over 80% of the world’s ecosystems. This disconnect not only threatens data and energy sovereignty, but risks embedding cultural erasure and extractive logic into the very foundations of future technologies. Many Indigenous communities lack access to platforms that align with their knowledge systems—those that honor relational thinking, regenerative feedback, and cyclical time. Meanwhile, the global tech industry continues to grow rapidly: the AI market alone is expected to exceed $1.8 trillion by 2030, yet these tools are being built without Indigenous voices or epistemologies at the table. This creates a multi-layered problem: Technological systems are advancing without cultural accountability. Indigenous youth lack access to tools that reflect their ways of knowing. Future tech infrastructures risk being incompatible with Indigenous self-determination and climate stewardship. I am solving for the lack of culturally-aligned, ethically grounded, and sovereignty-empowering technological platforms for Indigenous communities to build, design, and govern their own quantum, AI, and ecosystem technologies.

ANTk: Adjacency-Native Toolkit is a modular simulation and computing platform that empowers Indigenous communities to build and prototype advanced technologies—from artificial intelligence to quantum architectures—using relational logic rooted in Indigenous worldview. Rather than designing systems from linear time, extractive control, or centralized data, ANTk uses adjacency—the principle that everything emerges through relationships and proximity. This mirrors how many Indigenous cultures understand the universe: as a web of living interactions, not separate parts. ANTk lets users build systems that evolve like ecosystems: growing, learning, stabilizing, and forming loops—just like cells, seasons, or stars. It includes tools to simulate memory-based networks, quantum-inspired behavior, regenerative system design, and biomimetic intelligence. The toolkit has already demonstrated working simulations: including one where a universe collapses into a single node and re-expands through relational cycles—modeling time and rebirth without using a clock or timeline. It is free, modular, and can be used to design culturally aligned technologies, educational platforms, or future infrastructure—all within a relational logic that honors Indigenous values. ANTk turns ancestral wisdom into a next-generation design language for community-first technology.

ANTk is built for Indigenous peoples, tribal nations, and culturally grounded innovators who want to create technology on their own terms. It serves youth, educators, technologists, and community leaders who are often excluded from the design of emerging tools like AI, quantum computing, or digital infrastructure. These communities are currently underserved in two ways: 1. Access – Most frontier technologies are controlled by institutions far removed from Indigenous values or stewardship. 2. Alignment – The logic behind modern technologies (extraction, control, centralization) clashes with relational worldviews held by many Indigenous nations. ANTk addresses both gaps. It provides a free, modular, and open simulation platform that encodes relational intelligence, cyclical thinking, and loop-based memory—all foundational in Indigenous philosophy. It enables users to model systems that behave more like rivers and ecosystems, not spreadsheets and control panels. By using ANTk, communities can: Build their own culturally aligned tech systems Teach youth quantum, AI, and regenerative design in ways that reflect their stories Reclaim sovereignty over how knowledge, data, and intelligence are encoded ANTk empowers Indigenous peoples to shape the next era of technology with the same values that have sustained them for millennia.