# 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) - **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:Q1191596](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1191596) | `#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:Q7825166](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7825166) | `#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) ### [git-ai-reporter](https://github.com/paudley/git-ai-reporter) - **Language:** Python - **Description:** Git-driven AI analysis and reporter; keeps CHANGELOG and NEWS files up to date automatically. ### [coding-ethos](https://github.com/paudley/coding-ethos) - **Language:** Go - **Description:** Policy-as-code enforcement for AI agents: MCP server, CEL policies, git hooks, SARIF, and static-analysis guardrails. ### [pyqa_lint](https://github.com/paudley/pyqa_lint) - **Language:** Python - **Description:** Opinionated quality-assurance harness shipping a Typer-based CLI (pyqa) for Python projects. ### [nonlinear-semantic-graphs](https://github.com/paudley/nonlinear-semantic-graphs) - **Language:** Python - **Description:** Discovering emergent knowledge-graph relations in high-order semantic vector spaces through manifold learning and spectral analysis. ### [ai-notes](https://github.com/paudley/ai-notes) - **Language:** Shell - **Description:** Notes for working with local models and machine-learning experimentation. ### [lru_cache](https://github.com/paudley/lru_cache) - **Language:** C++ - **Description:** Least-Recently-Used C++ template. ## 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: - The graph node `#bii` for the company entity - The graph node `#paudley` for Patrick Audley ## Build - Generated: 2026-06-05T12:30:56-06:00 - Deploy hash: b438c2e82d1a5c43c823814adcf3b24d586a1c7415c2363df4c1bfead721181f - Generator: BespokeIdentityHub_v2.5