Genval builds on the protocol we built.
Genval is the company behind the open-source Kanonak Protocol. We use Kanonak as the substrate of everything we build — internal systems, customer-facing platforms, and the next generation of Genval itself.
Company
The company
Genval is the company behind the open-source Kanonak Protocol. Kanonak is the operational form of Derivative Centric Development — the methodology we authored for systems where most artifacts are derived from a typed, versioned source of truth rather than hand-maintained file by file.
We started by building DCD inside a hosted platform. What we learned there became Kanonak. The protocol is now open; the next generation of Genval is being built on top of it.
How we work
How we work
Kanonak isn’t something we ship and walk away from. It’s the substrate underneath every system we build — internal tooling, customer-facing platforms, our own publishing infrastructure. Each of them is a Kanonak publisher and consumer. The same protocol we ask others to adopt is the protocol we live in every day.
The working example you can read is Worldview — a real-world Kanonak ontology, published openly, with every snapshot versioned and every claim citation-backed.
Team
The team
A small team. Engineers and researchers, working in the open. You can read what we ship at github.com/kanonak-protocol and github.com/genval-ai.
Beliefs
What we believe
- Knowledge worth sharing needs types.
- Versioning belongs to ontologies, not just to code.
- No central registry. Anyone with a domain should be able to publish.
- The protocols you ask others to adopt are the ones you should live in.
Contact
Want to talk?
If you’re curious about Kanonak, want to publish your own ontology, or are interested in what we’re building next — we’d like to hear from you.