Local Culture Deserves Better Infrastructure
- Events are scattered across platforms.
- Organizers post everywhere, reach no one.
- Communities miss what matters most.
Togather is a collaboration for the future of events data. We are making a data commons for open events ecosystems.
Our Opportunity
We’re at an inflection point. AI agents are emerging as personal assistants that can help people discover, evaluate, and plan events. We can build open infrastructure so local, open source, privacy-first software can help you, rather than algorithms optimizing for engagement and ads.
This changes everything. What if event discovery worked like the internet should?
- Personal AI curators: Agents that learn your taste, coordinate with your calendar, and surface events you’d actually love
- No platform lock-in: Publish once, appear everywhere (calendar apps, websites, feeds, your audience’s inbox)
- Privacy by default: Personal curators run locally or through trusted instances. No tracking, no profiling
- Open and improvable: All code is inspectable. Standards-based. Anyone can build compatible tools
- Built for grassroots: DIY shows, community workshops, artist talks, neighborhood gatherings—the events that make culture alive
- Organized, not controlled: The togather Foundation grows the ecosystem; no single company owns it
How It Works
Three interconnected layers:
1. Data Production & Collection
Open standards and tools for publishing event information combined with distributed collection and cleaning of event data.
2. Data Storage & Retrieval
A Shared Event Library: community-owned infrastructure. No vendor lock-in. No surveillance.
3. Applications & Agents
Personal AI curators, calendar assistants, neighborhood discovery apps, all built on the same open foundation.
What’s Next
We’re at the beginning. The protocols are being drafted. The first curators are being built. The ecosystem is taking shape.
If this resonates—if you have expertise, see the opportunity, or want to help make this real—let’s talk.