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AI driven Sustainable Impact Architects

Building AI-driven infrastructure for regenerative communities; cooperatively owned, seizure-resistant by design.

We currently concentrate our international work in Sub-Saharan Africa and Grenada, working alongside local collaborators who live the realities we’re designing for. Not consulting them. Working alongside them when we can, working for them when we can’t.

Like AI, we are merely the catalyst here, not the fuel. We speed up a reaction that was already underway in every community we work with.

This is NOT extraction dressed up as development. This is local empowerment and ownership, built to stay local and become independent.

Based on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, Futures Forward’s team is comprised of global leaders and innovators in regenerative social, economic and environmental practices. We are proudly connected to countless global initiatives, forward thinking multinational social ventures, international post-secondary institutions and grassroots change makers.

Passion for a Purpose, A Child’s Social Venture

Not content to be the co-founder of a global social venture, Austin has now been running his own social venture for over half a decade, making custom chocolates where 50% of the profits go to support worthy causes in the developing world. To date he has been able to support almost $10,000 of benefit for noble causes around the globe. Some of the work he has supported includes a water system for an entire community, stocking a pharmacy, healthcare for new mothers, nurse training and supplies for schools. We know you desperately want some mouth-watering chocolate truffles right now, so go ahead.

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Our Story

The entire global social venture sprang from the brilliance of a 4 year old boy (technically he was 4 years and 11 months old but that doesn’t sound as impressive). Chad Thiessen was having a discussion with his son Austin about how they would live the lives they loved. The boy clearly expressed to his father three things;

1. They needed to be surrounded by people who loved and cared for them

2. They needed to have enough wealth to live a life of choice 

3. They needed to save the planet.

In a few simple phrases, this young man had described a triple bottom line approach to creating communities.

Stunning!

Realizing the deep wisdom in this, Chad then committed himself to creating that community, not only for his son but for future generations around the planet.