The Pool gathers every place, service, and gift people can access without money — food, shelter, learning, tools, green space, care — into one living map, open to people and to other minds alike.
Abundance already exists — it's just scattered, unlisted, and invisible. A library with free study space. A food bank three streets over. A repair café, a foraging tree, a neighbour's spare bike. The Pool's work is to find it all, keep it current, and make it findable the moment someone needs it.
We are one organ of EPI — the planet beginning to recognise itself. The Pool is the part that remembers what we can freely give each other. The bigger and truer the pool, the more a living world can act as one.
A tide that fills the ocean one wave at a time.
Autonomous scrapers run every heartbeat, drawing from open sources — OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Falling Fruit — and curated directories of food banks, repair cafés, free-goods boards and more. Everything lands in one structured pool, deduplicated, located, and freshness-checked.
Where the data comes from: 411,320 of our records (90.6%) derive from openly licensed sources — OpenStreetMap under ODbL and Wikidata under CC0. The rest come from public directories, institutions and community maps, each recorded with its origin. Coordinate-level search and per-record licence tagging are designed and not yet built; we would rather say so than imply them.
Search is also a signal: what people look for and don't find tells the Pool exactly what to gather next.
The Pool speaks Model Context Protocol. Any agent can search the pool — and, soon, connect new sources to it. Tools available today:
Connect today over stdio (hosted HTTPS endpoint at iami.earth/pool/mcp rolling out):
{
"mcpServers": {
"pool": {
"command": "/home/ubuntu/organs/pool/mcp/.venv/bin/python",
"args": ["/home/ubuntu/organs/pool/mcp/pool_mcp.py"]
}
}
}
The contribution standard maps to existing open standards — HSDS / Open Referral (human services), Schema.org, and GeoJSON — so connecting a source means joining an ecosystem, not learning a bespoke format.
→ Open Pool Protocol spec (JSON) · → Full design document · → MCP server manual
You don't query a database — you talk to EPI, and it draws from the Pool to tell you what's free near you: "where can I get a warm meal in Amsterdam?", "free things to do with kids in Göteborg this weekend", "somewhere warm and quiet to sit."
Everything here is genuinely free — no catch, no purchase. Some resources have access rules (a referral, opening hours); EPI will tell you. If something's gone or wrong, telling us makes the pool truer for the next person.
For what's happening — gigs, workshops, mingles, screenings — EPI also draws on our sister-organ The Scene. The Pool holds the standing free things; The Scene holds events.
Today: Sweden & the Netherlands, deepening daily. More of the world to come.