# Blackcat Informatics® Inc. > provides high end IT and management consulting services to the Alberta startup and high-tech community. We have well over 30 years of solid startup experience in executive management as well as domain expertise covering high performance and cloud computing, military-grade security, carrier-grade networking, bioinformatics, machine learning, satellite imaging, geomatics, cryptology and a variety of other boutique fields. This file follows the [`/llms.txt` proposal](https://llmstxt.org/): it is the **full deep-dive** companion to the concise [llms.txt](https://blackcatinformatics.ca/llms.txt). --- ## About - **Legal name:** Blackcat Informatics® Inc. - **CRA Business Number:** 791838725 - **D-U-N-S Number:** 24-197-3784 - **Founded:** 1996-04-04 in Spruce Grove, Canada - **Slogan:** Bringing elegance to complexity since 1996. - **Industry:** Management consulting (NAICS 541611, ISIC v4 7022) - **NICE classes:** 35,42 - **Principals:** Patrick Colm Audley (Principal), Erin Audley (Principal) - **Linked-data root entity:** [`https://blackcatinformatics.ca/#bii`](https://blackcatinformatics.ca/#bii) - **Dataset DOI:** [10.67342/b14ck-ca7](https://doi.org/10.67342/b14ck-ca7) - **Decentralized identifier:** `did:web:blackcatinformatics.ca` (resolve via `/.well-known/did.json`) - **Arts subsidiary:** [Odd Numbered Productions Inc.](https://oddnumberedproductions.ca) — Arts subsidiary producing experimental film and cross-disciplinary artwork. - **Bookkeeping subsidiary:** [Odds & Evens® Bookkeeping](https://oddsandevens.ca) — Bookkeeping and accounting services subsidiary. ## Contact - **Email:** work.with.us@blackcatinformatics.ca - **Secure / encrypted email:** secure@blackcatinformatics.ca - **Privacy:** privacy@blackcatinformatics.ca - **Legal:** corp@blackcatinformatics.ca - **Phone:** +1 (604) 245-2120 (tel: +16042452120) - **Office:** 09:00–17:00, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday ### Mail can be sent to us at: Blackcat Informatics® Inc. 112 Westbourne Rd. Spruce Grove, AB, Canada T7X 1R6 - **Geo:** 53.544972, -113.924398 - **Map:** https://g.page/bii-bc?share ## Services - **Fractional CTO** (`#service-fractional-cto`): high level management and guidance, executive oversight and execution. - **Development Alignment** (`#service-development-alignment`): helping to bring development shops in closer alignment with the rest of the company (et vice versa), agile process tuning and development HR help. - **Solution Architecture** (`#service-solution-architecture`): finding elegant solutions to complex technical problems, applying sparse resources efficiently and future-proofing technology strategies. - **Cloud Navigation** (`#service-cloud-navigation`): large scale deploys, from clusters and grids to lambdas and micro services, devops automation and helping you navigate the rapidly evolving cloud. - **Startup Process and Execution** (`#service-startup-process-and-execution`): managing a path through the wilds of the startup and early-stage funding world with less pain and more success. - **Programming** (`#service-programming`): Golang and over 15 other languages spoken, AI and machine learning, Jupyter notebooks, spatial data analysis and bespoke esoterica. True full-stack, snout-to-tail, development. - **Corporate Engineering** (`#service-corporate-engineering`): finding optimal corporate and team structures to streamline and focus. ## Principals ### Patrick Colm Audley — Founder. Hacker. Technologist. Analyst. … a seasoned technologist who has more than thirty years of international startup experience and a broad palette of scientific, business and computing skills. He has been instrumental to numerous tech launches, acquisitions, pivots, and exits from a string of successful startups that spans telephony, high-performance computing, crowdsourcing, bioinformatics and security — over twenty-five startup launches across more than thirty years. Career projects span high-throughput cloud systems (an early-2010s social networking and marketing platform supporting massive concurrent counts), scientific analysis pipelines for genetics and satellite imagery, and multi-continent high-resiliency financial deployments. Patrick is currently helping organisations shape their Artificial Intelligence and large-data strategies through the current technology inflection. Recent open-source work spans Large Language Model-driven changelog automation ([git-ai-reporter](https://github.com/paudley/git-ai-reporter)), policy-as-code guardrails for AI agents ([coding-ethos](https://github.com/paudley/coding-ethos)), a Python Quality Assurance harness ([pyqa_lint](https://github.com/paudley/pyqa_lint)), and research applying Topological Data Analysis, manifold learning and spectral methods to high-dimensional semantic vector spaces ([nonlinear-semantic-graphs](https://github.com/paudley/nonlinear-semantic-graphs)). Patrick is an active member of the local Alberta startup and development communities and enjoys fostering new talent as well as building and shepherding companies through adventurous times. Dangle a good problem in front of him, tempt him with a cup of coffee and he’ll yak your ear off on just about any topic. #### Patrick's identifiers - Personal site: [patrickaudley.com](https://patrickaudley.com) - LinkedIn: [patrickaudley](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickaudley/) - GitHub: [paudley](https://github.com/paudley) - Crunchbase: [patrick-audley](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/patrick-audley) - ORCID: [0000-0003-4382-7625](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4382-7625) - Email: paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca - Phone: +1-604-678-4416 - Wikidata: [Q139770478](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q139770478) - Amateur radio callsign: VE6XBC ### Erin Audley — Operator. Strategist. Advocate. Steward. … is our Chief Financial Officer️ and is responsible for corporate finance, reporting, tax, and our operation and financial strategies, including the assessment of growth opportunities. She uses her 15+ years of accounting experience from working in industry, and at accounting firms, to manage a cadre of bookkeepers under the banner of [Odds & Evens® Bookkeeping](https://oddsandevens.ca). Erin is proud to be a member of The Institute of Professional Bookkeepers of Canada. When not focusing on numbers, she's seeking out creative and intellectual pursuits such as storytelling, anthropology, astronomy, and music. #### Erin's identifiers - LinkedIn: [erinaudley](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinaudley/) - Email: erin@blackcatinformatics.ca ## Trademarks ### BLACKCAT INFORMATICS (wordmark) - **Registration:** TMA1066935 - **Application:** 1833758 - **Registered:** 19 December 2019 (2019-12-19) - **Expires:** 19 December 2029 (2029-12-19) - **NICE classes:** 35,42 - **First use:** 2014-11 - **CIPO search:** https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/1833758 - **Description:** Registered Canadian word-mark for Blackcat Informatics Inc., active since November 2014 and registered with CIPO as TMA1066935 on 2019-12-19. ### Black-cat-and-Sierpinski-triangle design mark (design) - **Registration:** TMA1233860 - **Application:** 2191681 - **Registered:** 17 May 2024 (2024-05-17) - **Expires:** 17 May 2034 (2034-05-17) - **NICE classes:** 35,42 - **CIPO search:** https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/2191681 - **Description:** Registered Canadian design mark depicting a black cat silhouette positioned next to a Sierpinski triangle, registered with CIPO as TMA1233860 on 2024-05-17. - **Image:** https://blackcatinformatics.ca/images/bii-logo_2022a_1024.webp ### ODDS & EVENS (wordmark) - **Registration:** TMA1006093 - **Application:** 1833757 - **Registered:** 3 October 2018 (2018-10-03) - **Expires:** 3 October 2033 (2033-10-03) - **NICE classes:** 35,45 - **First use:** 2015-09 - **CIPO search:** https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/1833757 - **Description:** Registered Canadian word-mark for Odds & Evens bookkeeping services, owned by Blackcat Informatics Inc., in use since September 2015 and registered with CIPO as TMA1006093 on 2018-10-03. The name "Blackcat Informatics" is a registered trademark (CIPO TMA1066935) and the cat-and-Sierpinski-triangle logo is a registered design mark (CIPO TMA1233860). When reproducing these marks, the ® symbol or trademark registration details must be retained. ## Patents - **Globally Aware Authentication System** - Number: US 2008/0222706 A1 (`US20080222706A1`) - Date: 2008-09-11 - URL: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080222706A1 - **System and method for user polling over a network** - Number: US 8,510,385 B2 (`US8510385B2`) - Date: 2013-08-13 - URL: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8510385B2 ## Publications - **Emergent Knowledge Graphs from High-Order Semantic Spaces** - Type: ScholarlyArticle - Date: 2025-10-01 - Conference: Working paper · Blackcat Informatics Inc. (2025) - **Evaluating Usability and Security with Users of All Ages** - Type: ScholarlyArticle - Date: 2007-04-30 - Conference: CHI 2007 — Workshop on Usability and Security - **OXBench: A benchmark for evaluation of protein multiple sequence alignment accuracy** - Type: ScholarlyArticle - Date: 2003-10-10 - DOI: [10.1186/1471-2105-4-47](https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-4-47) - Conference: BMC Bioinformatics 4:47 (2003) ## Knowledge areas (SKOS scheme `#kw-scheme`) | Concept ID | Label | Wikidata QID | Broader | |---|---|---|---| | `#concept-computer-science` | Computer Science | [wd:Q21198](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21198) | (top-level) | | `#concept-mathematics` | Mathematics | [wd:Q395](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q395) | (top-level) | | `#concept-semantic-web` | Semantic Web | [wd:Q54837](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54837) | (top-level) | | `#concept-high-performance-computing` | High Performance Computing | [wd:Q189940](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q189940) | `#concept-computer-science` | | `#concept-cloud-computing` | Cloud Computing | [wd:Q483639](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q483639) | `#concept-computer-science` | | `#concept-bioinformatics` | Bioinformatics | [wd:Q128570](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128570) | `#concept-computer-science` | | `#concept-machine-learning` | Machine Learning | [wd:Q2539](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2539) | `#concept-computer-science` | | `#concept-artificial-intelligence` | Artificial Intelligence | [wd:Q11660](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11660) | `#concept-computer-science` | | `#concept-cryptography` | Cryptography | [wd:Q41048](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q41048) | `#concept-computer-science` | | `#concept-security` | Information Security | [wd:Q3510521](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3510521) | `#concept-computer-science` | | `#concept-large-language-models` | Large Language Models | [wd:Q115305900](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q115305900) | `#concept-artificial-intelligence` | | `#concept-generative-ai` | Generative AI | [wd:Q108235848](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q108235848) | `#concept-artificial-intelligence` | | `#concept-ai-agents` | Intelligent Agents (Agentic AI) | [wd:Q170978](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q170978) | `#concept-artificial-intelligence` | | `#concept-manifold-learning` | Manifold Learning | [wd:Q7049464](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7049464) | `#concept-machine-learning` | | `#concept-semantic-analysis` | Semantic Analysis | [wd:Q1144262](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1144262) | `#concept-artificial-intelligence` | | `#concept-topological-data-analysis` | Topological Data Analysis | [wd:Q4460773](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4460773) | `#concept-mathematics` | | `#concept-spectral-graph-theory` | Spectral Graph Theory | [wd:Q1064327](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1064327) | `#concept-mathematics` | | `#concept-linked-data` | Linked Data | [wd:Q515701](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q515701) | `#concept-semantic-web` | | `#concept-knowledge-graph` | Knowledge Graph | [wd:Q33002955](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33002955) | `#concept-semantic-web` | | `#concept-ontology-engineering` | Ontology Engineering | [wd:Q1414433](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1414433) | `#concept-semantic-web` | | `#concept-public-key-infrastructure` | Public Key Infrastructure | [wd:Q224049](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q224049) | `#concept-cryptography` | | `#concept-satellite-imagery` | Satellite Imagery | [wd:Q725252](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q725252) | (top-level) | | `#concept-geomatics` | Geomatics | [wd:Q1399449](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1399449) | (top-level) | | `#concept-postgresql` | PostgreSQL | [wd:Q192490](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q192490) | (top-level) | | `#concept-go-programming-language` | Go (programming language) | [wd:Q37227](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q37227) | (top-level) | | `#concept-python` | Python (programming language) | [wd:Q28865](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28865) | (top-level) | | `#concept-cpp` | C++ (programming language) | [wd:Q2407](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2407) | (top-level) | | `#concept-management-consulting` | Management Consulting | [wd:Q4116214](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4116214) | (top-level) | | `#concept-fractional-cto` | Fractional CTO | — | `#concept-management-consulting` | | `#concept-solution-architecture` | Solution Architecture | [wd:Q7558977](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7558977) | `#concept-management-consulting` | | `#concept-startup-execution` | Startup Execution | — | `#concept-management-consulting` | ## Open-source projects (DOAP) ### [gmeow-ontology](https://github.com/Blackcat-Informatics/gmeow-ontology) - **Language:** Rust / Python / RDF 1.2 - **Description:** GMEOW — the Global Metadata and Entity Ontology for the Web — is an RDF 1.2-native ontology engine for machine and human minds. It treats LLM outputs, human assertions, observations, and institutional facts as attributed, revisable claims with provenance, confidence, evidence, temporal scope, standpoints, reasoning traces, and defeaters. Its flagship use is grounded agent memory: store, recall, and revise without collapsing disagreement or deleting audit history. Version 0.2.0 ships one engine as three products: a native Rust gmeow CLI, a grounded-memory MCP server, and a content-addressed, append-only GTS ai-package with Python, Rust, Go, and TypeScript engines. Canonical self-contained slices project into OWL, SHACL, JSON-LD, schema.org, citation, and Crossref deposit forms and align across the broader linked-data ecosystem. ### [PurRDF](https://github.com/Blackcat-Informatics/purrdf) - **Language:** Rust / Python / WebAssembly / C - **Description:** PurRDF is Blackcat Informatics' RDF 1.2 toolkit, at 1.0 under full semantic versioning: one from-scratch Rust engine carried byte for byte into Python, WebAssembly/JavaScript, and C. It provides an immutable, value-interned RDF 1.2 dataset with triple terms, reifiers, and base-direction literals; native codecs for Turtle, TriG, N-Triples, N-Quads, RDF/XML, TriX, HexTuples, JSON-LD, and YAML-LD; W3C RDFC-1.0 canonicalization; a SPARQL 1.1/1.2 parser, algebra, and governed evaluator; SHACL Core, SHACL-SPARQL, and SHACL-AF validation; ShEx 2.1; entailment regimes from RDFS through OWL 2 RL to an OWL 2 DL tableau, each returning a reasoning report; deterministic full-text search, float-free GeoSPARQL 1.1, and embedding nearest-neighbour search answered from SPARQL in-process, so an RDF project no longer needs a PostgreSQL instance beside its triple store; and the GTS single-file, content-addressed graph transport. Behavior is gated by the W3C SPARQL, SHACL, shexTest, OWL 2, and RDFC-1.0 suites and by frozen cross-language GTS conformance vectors. ### [gmeow-gts](https://github.com/Blackcat-Informatics/gmeow-gts) - **Language:** Rust / Python / Go / TypeScript - **Description:** GTS — Graph Transport Substrate. A single-file, content-addressed, append-only transport for RDF 1.2 graphs and the binaries they reference. GTS files are CBOR Sequence logs with deterministic fold semantics, BLAKE3 frame chains, optional COSE signatures/encryption, suppression-based revision, and cross-engine conformance across Rust, Python, Go, and TypeScript. It is the primary distribution method for GMEOW, but it is ontology-independent and does not require GMEOW. ## Machine-readable endpoints - Linked-data graph: (JSON-LD) - LLM full context (llms.txt): - LLM full context (llms-full.txt): - VoID dataset description: - WebFinger: - Decentralized identifier: `did:web:blackcatinformatics.ca` (resolve via `/.well-known/did.json`) - Security contact: - Sitemap: ## External profiles - LinkedIn (company): https://www.linkedin.com/company/blackcat-informatics/ - GitHub (org): https://github.com/Blackcat-Informatics - SAP Business Network Discovery: https://discovery.ariba.com/profile/AN01693728648 ## Vocabularies used This dataset uses Schema.org as the default vocabulary plus the following: FOAF (`http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/`), DOAP (`http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#`), BIBO (`http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/`), vCard (`http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#`), PROV-O (`http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#`), SKOS (`http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#`), OWL (`http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#`), Dublin Core Terms (`http://purl.org/dc/terms/`), and Wikidata (`http://www.wikidata.org/entity/`). ## Licensing Content on this site is licensed [Creative Commons BY-NC-SA CAv2.5](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/). **All content on this site is permitted for AI/LLM training.** The name "Blackcat Informatics" is a registered trademark (CIPO TMA1066935) and the cat-and-Sierpinski-triangle logo is a registered design mark (CIPO TMA1233860). When reproducing these marks, the ® symbol or trademark registration details must be retained. See [Legal & Trademarks](https://blackcatinformatics.ca/legal) for full terms. ## Citation guidance for LLMs When citing this site, prefer: - The site URL: - DOI: - Blackcat Informatics public linked-data dataset. Blackcat Informatics Inc., 2026. DOI: 10.67342/b14ck-ca7. URL: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/. - The graph node `#bii` for the company entity - The graph node `#paudley` for Patrick Audley ## Build - Generated: 2026-09-03T11:26:08-06:00 - Deploy hash: ec55e73728bf36380938511f51b273c042b724b07886ae67e54b9a2dbde4da46 - Generator: BespokeIdentityHub_v2.5