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Building civic tech without venture capital in Atlantic Canada
Digital Journal profiles Atlas Atlantic and Jesse Sharratt's approach to building civic technology through community-driven ideas, practical AI tools, and a deliberately lean model outside traditional venture capital.
Digital Journal · March 31, 2026
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In The News
Man keeps streets of Dartmouth clean, one piece of litter at a time
CTV News features the community cleanup movement in Dartmouth, spotlighting the kind of grassroots civic action that inspired World Litter Run — an Atlas Atlantic venture turning local litter pickup into a global movement.
CTV News · April 2, 2026
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Permagent: An Agent That Lives on Your Machine, Not in Someone Else's Cloud
Permagent is a local-first AI agent desktop OS for macOS Apple Silicon—your agent, its memory, and your data live on your own hardware. Here's where it is today and the road ahead.
Read articleWhy We're Building Spectral
Why we're building Spectral, an open-source (Apache 2.0) frequency-domain memory system for AI agents: deterministic recall, honest benchmarks, and 81.5% on LongMemEval.
Read articleThe Civic Case for AI
Why using AI to build civic technology is critical. Lessons from Grocery Saver, Aidvocate, and Reckonize — three free community tools from Atlas Atlantic.
Read articleThe Fork as First Act
Why forking an agent runtime can be the first serious infrastructure decision, not a shortcut
Read articleHow AI Tools Are Expanding Access to Remote and Distributed Work
On how AI is systematically removing the friction points that stalled distributed work after 2020, and what this means for individuals, teams, and the future of how we organize work.
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