Making AI AOHK™

AOHK is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation, building upstream canon infrastructure for the world's most valuable IP.

AOHK was founded on a single premise: that the canonical integrity of authored storyworlds — the original intent, characters, relationships, lore, and internal logic that define a piece of IP — deserves an architectural defense against the systematic degradation of large language models.

We are not building creative tools. We are building creative infrastructure — the foundational upstream layer on which the next century of human storytelling can be built without losing its connection to the authors and creators who imagined it. Our work sits before any generation occurs: before the licensed adaptation, before the transmedia expansion, before the AI co-creator. Get this layer right, and the rest of the creative lifecycle becomes possible. Get it wrong, and the worlds we love continue to dissolve.

Founders

William Kendall Narrative Cosmologist

Multiplatform storyteller, worldbuilder, and IP franchise strategist. Designs and maps the storyverse cosmology that ensures canon coherence and continuity across platforms, creative teams, and fandoms.

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Benjamin Durham Systems Ontologist

Systems designer, perception researcher, and student of history. Studies how structured systems preserve meaning over time — and how to defend them from canonical decay.

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Structure

AOHK Inc. is incorporated in Delaware as a Public Benefit Corporation. Our chartered public benefit is the preservation and coherent extension of authored storyworlds — a category of cultural heritage whose value has historically been protected by individual stewards and is now under structural threat from the broader information environment.

AOHK is in its earliest public phase. A small number of partner storyworlds are being accepted for early Canon Crystal etching. Sign up to the waitlist for early consideration.