Contributors
Create tools and reusable geospatial workflows. Share your expertise and explore how your work could support other GriidAI users.
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GriidAI Partner Ecosystem
Build tools, advance learning, grow communities, or bring geospatial AI to organizations.
Explore ways to contribute your expertise, collaborate with GriidAI, and create value through geospatial analysis. Whether you are an individual practitioner, educator, researcher, community builder, consultant, or organization, find a path that fits what you want to contribute and achieve.
Build
Educate
Grow
Sell & Deliver
What is the GriidAI ecosystem
The GriidAI ecosystem brings together people and organizations interested in extending how geospatial AI is built, taught, shared, and applied. It connects technical contributions, education and research, community participation, and customer-facing partnerships around the GriidAI platform.
The four paths describe different ways to participate. You can express interest in more than one and discuss the right fit with the GriidAI team.
Find your place in the ecosystem
Choose a path to explore who it is for, how you could participate, and the opportunities it can open.
Education & Research Partners
Bring geospatial AI into teaching, student projects, research, workshops, and institutional learning.
Explore Education & ResearchCommunity & Growth Partners
Share knowledge, engage communities, recommend GriidAI, or introduce relevant business opportunities.
Explore Community & GrowthSolution & Reseller Partners
Help organizations adopt GriidAI through services, implementation, integration, training, support, or local sales.
Explore Solution & Reseller PartnershipsContributors
Build with GriidAI
Contribute practical geospatial knowledge through tools and reusable workflows. If you have a useful analytical method, a repeatable sequence of GIS operations, or a tool that could help others solve spatial problems, tell us what you would like to build or share.
This path is for GIS practitioners, developers, data and AI engineers, researchers, and domain specialists who want to turn their expertise into reusable capabilities. You can start with an existing contribution or a well-defined idea.
Tools: propose a focused operation or utility that addresses a clear geospatial task.
Reusable workflows: describe a sequence of data preparation, analysis and output steps that others could adapt.
Practical documentation: explain required inputs, expected outputs, validation checks and known limitations so a contribution can be assessed and understood.
- Inputs
- Method
- Outputs
- Validation
Explore how your work could reach relevant users, demonstrate your expertise, and develop through feedback. Tell us if you are interested in publication, verification, or commercial opportunities; the team can discuss what is available and the requirements for your contribution.
Sharing an idea starts a review conversation. Publication, verification and monetization depend on the agreed route and are not automatic outcomes of submitting interest.
Education & Research
Bring geospatial AI into education and research
Explore how GriidAI could support teaching, student projects, research, workshops, and institutional learning. Connect spatial questions with data, analytical steps, and results that learners and researchers can inspect and discuss.
This path is for educators, researchers, universities, colleges, training providers, student groups, and individuals developing their geospatial skills. Tell us whether you are exploring a personal project, a classroom activity, or a wider institutional collaboration.
Teaching and workshops: introduce geospatial AI through guided demonstrations, exercises and discussions of analytical methods.
Student projects: explore a defined spatial question and communicate the inputs, process and interpretation of the results.
Research collaboration: discuss a use case, method or evaluation where geospatial analysis can contribute.
Institutional learning: explore how a department, training provider or organization could include GriidAI in its learning activities.
- Question
- Data
- Analysis
- Discussion
Discuss the product access, practical guidance, learning resources, or collaboration support that could fit your proposed activity. The available support and participation arrangements will depend on the project and the agreed scope.
Education and research participation does not require you to act as a salesperson or content promoter. If you also want to teach publicly, mentor a community, or share your experience, you can express interest in the Ambassador route as well.
Community & Growth
Share expertise and connect opportunities
Help more people discover where GriidAI can be useful. This path brings together community participation, content-led recommendations, and introductions to organizations with a relevant need.
Choose the relationship that matches how you want to contribute. Ambassador, Affiliate and Referral Partner participation have different expectations and reward structures.
Share knowledge and support the community
For practitioners, educators, researchers, and community leaders who want to teach, create useful content, mentor others, share product feedback, or contribute to geospatial AI discussions. The focus is practical knowledge and an independent voice.
Ambassador participation centers on contribution, recognition and collaboration. Any access, activity support or compensation is agreed for the role; it is not a commission for each signup or referral.
Recommend GriidAI through your content
For creators, publishers, trainers, and community operators whose audiences may benefit from GriidAI. The Affiliate route is designed around tracked recommendations that lead to eligible paid subscriptions.
Affiliate participation uses performance-based rewards under agreed program terms. Tracking, qualifying subscriptions, commission rates and payment arrangements are confirmed before participation begins.
Introduce a relevant business opportunity
For consultants, advisors, system integrators, complementary vendors, and professional networks that can make a qualified introduction to an organization with a relevant need.
Referral Partners introduce the opportunity and may help with discovery. GriidAI or the appropriate reseller manages the sale and customer relationship. Any referral reward depends on an accepted opportunity and the agreed terms.
Teaching or building community points toward Ambassador participation. Driving signups through content points toward Affiliate participation. Introducing a named organization points toward the Referral Partner route. If your work spans these activities, describe it in the form so we can discuss the appropriate arrangement.
Solution & Reseller
Bring GriidAI to organizations
Help organizations apply geospatial AI to their work through professional services, implementation, integration, training, support, or local sales. This path is for consultancies, system integrators, geospatial service firms, and commercial partners with relevant customer relationships and delivery capability.
Deliver expertise around the platform
If your strength is helping customers adopt technology, describe the services you can provide: use-case scoping, workflow development, integration, onboarding, training, or ongoing support. Tell us whether you want to deliver services independently or explore a closer collaboration with GriidAI.
Carry the commercial relationship in your market
The Reseller route is for organizations prepared to manage the sales relationship and agreed responsibilities for local contracting, billing, first-line support, and renewals. It involves a deeper commercial and operational commitment than making an introduction.
- Scope
- Implement
- Train
- Support
Sales and renewal responsibilities
Explore how your market knowledge and customer expertise could combine with GriidAI. Technical enablement, joint opportunity development, marketing collaboration, and commercial arrangements are discussed according to the role, market and agreed scope.
You can express interest in services, reselling, or both. If you only want to introduce an opportunity and hand over the sale, select the Referral Partner route instead.
Explore the value of working together
A useful partnership starts with a clear contribution and the support needed to make it work. Depending on the participation route and agreed scope, a conversation with GriidAI can cover the following opportunities.
Product and technical guidance
Discuss the product access and technical guidance relevant to your contribution, learning activity, or customer engagement.
Learning and practical resources
Explore materials and guidance that could help you understand the platform and explain its use in your own context.
Recognition and visibility
Discuss opportunities to share relevant work, experience, or contributions with the wider community.
Collaboration and feedback
Connect around a defined project or activity and bring practical feedback into the conversation.
Business opportunities
For commercial routes, discuss how introductions, subscription recommendations, services, or resale could create value under agreed terms.
Benefits vary by route and agreement. Expressing interest does not automatically grant access, funding, partner status, publication, leads, or earnings.
Which route fits what you want to do
Start with the activity you want to pursue. You can select more than one interest or ask us to help you choose.
| I want to | Suggested route |
|---|---|
| Create a tool or reusable geospatial workflow | Contributors |
| Teach, research, run a workshop, or explore an academic project | Education & Research |
| Share expertise, mentor, or engage a community | Ambassador |
| Recommend GriidAI through content and tracked links | Affiliate |
| Introduce an organization with a relevant business need | Referral Partner |
| Implement, integrate, train, or support customer use | Solution delivery |
| Manage subscription sales and the local commercial relationship | Reseller |
Start with a conversation
Tell us what you would like to contribute or achieve. The next steps depend on the path and the scope of the proposed relationship.
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Express interest
Share your background, the path or paths that interest you, and a brief description of your idea or goals.
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Discuss the fit
The GriidAI team reviews your inquiry and follows up about the relevant opportunity and any information needed.
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Agree the scope
If there is a fit, clarify responsibilities, available support, participation requirements, and any applicable terms.
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Begin the agreed activity
Move into the appropriate contribution review, collaboration, or onboarding process once the arrangements are agreed.
Submitting the form expresses interest; it does not confirm acceptance into a program.
Frequently asked questions
Both can express interest. The appropriate route depends on the activity and the responsibilities involved. Educational, contributor, and community interests may come from individuals or organizations; reselling requires an appropriate commercial arrangement.
Yes. Select all relevant interests and describe how they connect. Participation across programs is subject to the agreed rules; selecting multiple options does not create multiple reward entitlements.
No. Contributors may bring technical tools or analytical methods, while other paths focus on teaching, research, community participation, introductions, or customer services.
Ambassadors focus on knowledge, community contribution and feedback. Affiliates focus on tracked recommendations that lead to eligible paid subscriptions. Their participation and reward arrangements differ.
A Referral Partner introduces a qualified opportunity and hands over the sale. A Reseller takes on an agreed commercial relationship, including responsibilities such as billing, support and renewal.
Yes. Select solution delivery and describe the implementation, integration, training, or support you would like to provide. The team can discuss whether there is a suitable collaboration route.
No. Submission of interest starts a conversation. Publication, verification, licensing and any commercial arrangements need to be discussed and agreed for the contribution.
Access, support and commercial benefits depend on the route and agreed terms. The interest form does not automatically grant free accounts, funding, commissions or other benefits.
It is an expression of interest. Further information, review and agreements may be needed before participation begins. You do not need to submit financial documents, code, or customer records at this stage.
Choose Help me choose and tell us what you want to contribute or achieve. You can also describe an interest that does not fit the listed options.
Tell us how you would like to participate
Bring your expertise, community, ideas, or customer experience. Share what you have in mind and explore the right way to work with GriidAI.
Not sure where to start? Choose Help me choose in the form.