Future Guide

Future Guide (sometimes styled **Guide From The Future**) is an agentic AI companion for the Space Congress ecosystem. It acts as a live, contextualised guide that emerges at the end of each satellite Congress event, including Restaurant From The Future dinners and local assemblies, and then persists as a personalised mobile app and networking device. Future Guide combines retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) from the overall Space Congress knowledge base with locally captured interactions, speeches and artefacts, producing a guide that is unique to each participant and each event.

# Purpose Future Guide exists to: - Capture the **situated intelligence** of each satellite event and return it to participants as a live guide. - Make the Space Congress experience **continuous and portable**, rather than confined to a few days of meetings. - Provide a **trusted networking space** that connects participants across events and themes, under the governance of the Space Commons charter. Membership in Future Guide is tied to membership of the Space Congress, including associated voting rights and participation privileges.

# Relationship To Space Congress And The Substrate Future Guide sits on top of The Substrate, which holds the shared memory, charters, transcripts and artefacts of the Space Congress. - The Substrate stores recordings, notes, documents and decisions from assemblies and dinners. - Future Guide uses agentic AI and RAG to turn that stored content into personalised, conversational guides. - Outputs from Future Guide (such as follow-up questions, local insights, proposed connections) flow back into the Substrate and inform future events. In this way, each local experience becomes both a source and a consumer of the collective knowledge base.

# Live Contextualised Guides At the end of a satellite event, Future Guide can be “summoned” as a live, context-aware companion. - Context capture Audio, text and structured notes from panel discussions, dinner speeches and governance games are transcribed and tagged within The Substrate. - Localised RAG Future Guide builds a local knowledge shard for that event, combining global content (Space Commons principles, prior Congress outputs) with the specific conversations and decisions from that venue. - Personalised onboarding Participants receive a unique link or token that activates Future Guide for them, preloaded with their sessions, role, interests and any consents they have given. From that point onward, each participant can ask questions such as “What did our table agree on about debris?” or “Who else in this city is working on space law and fisheries?” and receive answers grounded in their own event context.

# Use In Restaurant From The Future At a Restaurant From The Future dinner, Future Guide becomes part of the performance and the follow-up. - During the event Prompts, toasts and debates can be registered in simple ways (QR codes, short polls, table cards). The AI agents observe the structure of the evening without intruding on intimate conversation. - End-of-night reveal As dessert or epilogue, guests receive access to their personal Future Guide, framed in diegetic terms: “Your Guide From The End Of The Universe is now online”. - After the event The guide can replay key moments, summarise the local governance game, surface recipes, quotes and sketches, and propose next steps, reading lists or people to connect with. This keeps the emotional and narrative energy of the dinner alive in the days and weeks that follow.

# Networking Device Future Guide also functions as a **sophisticated networking device** within a trusted community. - Verified membership Only recognised Space Congress participants and allies can join the network. Membership implies acceptance of the Space Commons charter and associated codes of conduct. - Fine-grained approach controls Participants can set preferences such as “open to approaches from fellow legal scholars”, “happy to mentor students”, “no unsolicited commercial pitches”, or “only introductions via mutual contacts”. - Thematic channels Guides can suggest connections based on shared themes (debris, lunar resources, dark-sky protection, Global South capacity-building) rather than only institutional affiliation. - Ongoing cohorts Participants in similar sessions or dinner-theatre storylines can be grouped into informal cohorts that persist between events, allowing long-term collaboration. Future Guide thus becomes a socially aware routing layer for introductions, not just a directory.

# Agentic AI And Autonomy Future Guide is described as **agentic AI** because it can take limited, transparent actions on behalf of the user within agreed boundaries. Examples of agentic behaviour include: - Watching for relevant calls for papers, fellowships or consultations connected to themes the user has engaged with at Space Congress. - Proposing small-group calls or follow-up micro-assemblies when several participants in a cohort share compatible interests and time windows. - Drafting first-pass summaries, memos or proposals based on conversations the user has tagged as important. All such actions are subject to explicit user consent and privacy controls, aligned with the governance framework of the Space Commons.

# Membership And Voting Future Guide is also the interface for certain aspects of Space Congress membership. - Membership status The guide can show a participant’s membership level, voting rights, and any roles they hold (fellow, host, facilitator, committee member). - Voting and signalling Members can participate in polls, preference signalling and formal votes through their guide, with cryptographic or procedural safeguards as appropriate. - Local-to-global pathways Outputs from local assemblies and Restaurant From The Future events can be ratified, amended or challenged through follow-up processes mediated by Future Guide. This makes the guide a **civic interface** to the Space Congress, not just a personal assistant.

# Privacy And Trust Because Future Guide operates in sensitive social and professional contexts, trust and privacy are core design constraints. - Consent layers Participants can choose which parts of their interactions (e.g. public speeches, panel questions, off-record comments) are available for RAG and which are private. - Pseudonymity options In some settings (for example, sensitive governance debates), users may interact with Future Guide and each other under pseudonyms while remaining verifiably part of the Congress network. - Transparent logs Users can inspect and correct the data that their guide uses to make recommendations, and can export or delete their profile in line with the Space Commons data charter. Future Guide itself is governed as part of the Space Congress infrastructure, with technical and legal oversight rather than operating as a standalone commercial platform.

# Bootstrapping Future Guide Initial steps to create Future Guide include: - Defining a minimal **data and consent model** that can be implemented at early satellite events. - Building a prototype **mobile or web interface** that can show personalised summaries and simple recommendations after a single event. - Integrating with The Substrate’s storage and tagging model, ensuring that transcripts and artefacts are accessible in structured form. - Testing basic **networking features** (opt-in profiles, approach controls, suggested introductions) in a small Fellowship cohort before rolling out widely. - Iterating with guidance from the Space Law Committee on privacy, consent and governance for agentic AI systems. As Future Guide matures, it can become the primary way that participants experience Space Congress as an ongoing, living process, carrying a little piece of the future in their pocket.