Why ChangingGraph?

Making informed decisions requires transparency.

Change means shifting your perspective — thinking differently, acting differently, deciding differently.

The data exists. What's missing are the connections.

ChangingGraph connects information.
For transparency. For informed decisions.

The Problem

Our shopping list is a ballot.

Every few years we elect a government. But our real power is exercised every day — at the checkout.

Do we support large corporations? Or small businesses?
Industrial production? Or the farmer down the road?

We like convenience. That's okay. That's human.

But: large corporations use connected data in closed systems. Loyalty programs. Online retail. They track our shopping behavior and optimize their supply chains.

The organic farmer? The local coffee roaster? The repair café?
They don't have those options.

They are there. But they're hard to find.
Initiatives work in isolation. Small businesses stay invisible.

How do we make sure the "small ones" don't fall through the cracks?

We have to make them visible. And connect them.

The Solution

ChangingGraph creates connections.

Not just between data points — but between people, initiatives and alternatives.

What began as a knowledge graph for food is growing:
An open system that connects information. Across databases. Across organizations. Across borders.

This is how a counterweight to the big corporations emerges.
Not through regulation — through visibility.

Cooperation instead of a hundred silos

Anyone looking today for a farm shop, a community-supported farm or a repair café finds hundreds of maps and portals — each with a fraction of the information. OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, individual websites, regional directories. All competing, none complete.

This is not a technical problem — it's a cooperation problem.

ChangingGraph relies on federated, open data instead of central silos. Different instances can talk to each other — over the Fediverse, the same open standard that Mastodon uses. Data doesn't have to be maintained twice. What exists on one instance can be found on another.

Think regionally, cooperate openly — it makes no sense to import a cucumber from Spain when it grows next door. But we cooperate with Spain where it does make sense.

Why this matters: The AI future

Artificial intelligence learns from data.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude — they are all trained on text from the internet.
What is online exists for them. What is not online does not exist.

Large corporations have teams that put their data online in a structured form.
Small initiatives? The organic farmer? The repair café?

They exist — but not in the data that AIs are trained on.

What this means: In a future where AIs advise us...
...the "small ones" are invisible.

ChangingGraph changes that.

Open, structured data.
Not for the large corporations — for everyone.
So that the AIs of tomorrow know the alternatives too.

The Vision

An open network for connected information.

ChangingGraph is for everyone:

For people who want to make informed decisions.
Who want to know where their products come from. Who are looking for alternatives.

For initiatives that want to become visible.
The community-supported farm. The repair café. The local roastery. The organic farm.

For developers who want to build on top.
Open APIs. Standardized interfaces. Federated systems.

For researchers who want to understand relationships.
Open data for nutrition research. Anonymized. GDPR-compliant.

As open as possible. As closed as necessary.

We would love to offer everything for free and open source.
But: people need to make a living from their work.

So: fair and realistic.
Some data open. Some services paid.
Open source as the goal — as soon as it's sustainably funded.

What began as a knowledge graph for food is growing.
Step by step. Pragmatic. Honest.