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Typed knowledge that crosses organizations.

Genval is the company behind Kanonak Protocol — an open protocol for defining, versioning, and sharing semantic ontologies across distributed publishers.

Anyone with a domain name can publish a typed schema. Anyone can import it, validate against it, and reason over it.

Explore Kanonak See it in production
contacts.kan.yml
Person:
  type: rdfs.Class
  label: Person
  comment: A person in the contacts directory

fullName:
  type: owl.DatatypeProperty
  domain: Person
  range: xsd.string
npm i -g @kanonak-protocol/cli

What it is

An open protocol for distributed ontologies.

No central registry. No gatekeeping. Publishers own their namespace at their own domain; consumers pin versions with semver and resolve imports over HTTP.

publishers
Any domain name. Publish from a static HTTP origin you already control.
packages & versions
Stable URIs of the form publisher/package@version/name. Pin with semver.
.kan.yml schemas
Clean YAML. Classes, properties, instances — typed against core RDF/OWL/XSD vocabularies.
CLI & tooling
@kanonak-protocol/cli for validation and dependency resolution; VS Code extension for live feedback.
Read more kanonak.org

In production

Worldview — Kanonak in a real domain.

An open-source daily macro-market worldview, published as versioned Kanonak snapshots.

Typed theses, machine-evaluable invalidation, citation-backed evidence — the working illustration of how the protocol holds up under a domain that changes daily.

Open Worldview Read more

Methodology

The protocol came from a methodology.

Kanonak is the operational form of Derivative Centric Development — the methodology we authored at Genval. Specifications stay authoritative; downstream code, models, and integrations are derived.

DCD describes the why. Kanonak provides the typed, versioned, distributed scaffolding to do it across organizational boundaries.

  1. 2024

    Derivative Centric Development

    The methodology. Most code is derived from a human-authored spec; AI handles the derivation.

  2. 2026

    Kanonak Protocol

    The protocol. Typed, versioned, distributed ontologies — published from any domain.

Read the DCD paper

Console legacy

The Genval console.

The Genval console is where DCD was first proven. It remains available; the work Genval is doing publicly today lives in Kanonak.

console / refactor

Autonomous codebase refactor

A scattered VIX-analysis project is restructured into clean services, models, and documentation — functionality preserved.

console / generate

Generate a full ecommerce stack

A Process chain turns Markdown specifications into a working ecommerce stack — DCD demonstrated end-to-end.

Launch console Pricing

More platform demos: Industry solutions · Getting started

Get going

Start with the protocol.

  1. Read the spec

    The rules every Kanonak document obeys, at kanonak.org.

  2. Browse Worldview’s schemas

    A published ontology, running in production at worldview.genval.ai.

  3. Publish your first package

    From a domain you already own.

Explore Kanonak View on GitHub