Introduction

A knowledge base of the world’s systems

System is a free, open, and living public resource that aims to explain how anything in the world is related to everything else.

Today, System comprises millions of relationships between thousands of topics, and counting. As the world becomes increasingly complex and interdependent, our vision is to statistically relate everything as one system. We believe that seeing the whole system will help us all make better decisions — at home, at work, and as a society.

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Platform

System is built on top of the System Platform, which comprises a suite of APIs, connectors, and packages powered by a large-scale graph database.

The platform extracts, enriches, normalizes, resolves, and stores metadata about things that are related statistically. These relationships can be searched and retrieved through open standards. The essence of the platform is the statistical relationship.

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Evidence

The statistical evidence on System is retrieved from peer-reviewed scientific papers, open data, and open machine learning models.

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License & Sustainability

Like Wikipedia, System is being built by and for the world under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. We’re committed to maintaining free and open access to System, and to sharing the statistical metadata on System in an open and interoperable format. We actively support open data and open science.

We are well-funded through a combination of VC and grants. This has given us the time and space to focus on building System the right way while testing various paths to a sustainable business model that aligns with our charter.

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Represent all the world's knowledge as a system

System (www.system.com) is a free, open, and living public resource that aims to explain how everything in the world is related. Powered by AI and structured as a large-scale graph, System comprises millions of evidence-based relationships between tens of thousands of topics. System is growing daily as science advances. 

As the world becomes increasingly complex and interdependent, our vision is to relate everything as it is — one system. We believe that seeing the whole system will help us all make better decisions at home, at work, and as a society.

Finally, we can see it all connected.

Always free and open

Committed to open science
and knowledge

Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License

See the system of a topic

Explore the system of a particular topic and discover what impacts it and what it impacts.

Dig into a relationship

Dig into a particular relationship and analyze the data
backing it up.

Get to sources quickly

Go directly to the sources from which System has extracted
the data.

See the
whole system