# Blackcat Informatics® Inc.

> provides high end IT and management consulting services to the Alberta startup and high-tech community. We have well over 25 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/): a concise,
machine-readable site description tailored for large-language-model ingestion.

For the full deep-dive version, see [llms-full.txt](https://blackcatinformatics.ca/llms-full.txt).

## About

- **Legal name:** Blackcat Informatics® Inc.
- **Founded:** 1996-04-04 in Spruce Grove, Canada
- **Slogan:** Bringing elegance to complexity since 1996
- **Industry:** Management consulting (NAICS 541611, ISIC v4 7022)
- **Principals:** Patrick Colm Audley (Founder), Erin Audley CPB (Principal)
- **Email:** work.with.us@blackcatinformatics.ca
- **Phone:** +1-604-245-2120
- **Linked-data root entity:** [`https://blackcatinformatics.ca/#bii`](https://blackcatinformatics.ca/#bii)

## 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.


## Knowledge areas (SKOS scheme `#kw-scheme`)

Each concept below has an `owl:sameAs` link to its Wikidata grounding (where set),
and `skos:broader`/`skos:narrower` relations forming a small taxonomy.

- `#concept-computer-science` — Computer Science → [wd:Q21198](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21198)
- `#concept-mathematics` — Mathematics → [wd:Q395](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q395)
- `#concept-semantic-web` — Semantic Web → [wd:Q54837](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54837)
- `#concept-high-performance-computing` — High Performance Computing → [wd:Q189940](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q189940) (broader: `#concept-computer-science`)
- `#concept-cloud-computing` — Cloud Computing → [wd:Q483639](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q483639) (broader: `#concept-computer-science`)
- `#concept-bioinformatics` — Bioinformatics → [wd:Q128570](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128570) (broader: `#concept-computer-science`)
- `#concept-machine-learning` — Machine Learning → [wd:Q2539](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2539) (broader: `#concept-computer-science`)
- `#concept-artificial-intelligence` — Artificial Intelligence → [wd:Q11660](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11660) (broader: `#concept-computer-science`)
- `#concept-cryptography` — Cryptography → [wd:Q41048](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q41048) (broader: `#concept-computer-science`)
- `#concept-security` — Information Security → [wd:Q3510521](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3510521) (broader: `#concept-computer-science`)
- `#concept-large-language-models` — Large Language Models → [wd:Q115305900](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q115305900) (broader: `#concept-artificial-intelligence`)
- `#concept-generative-ai` — Generative AI → [wd:Q108235848](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q108235848) (broader: `#concept-artificial-intelligence`)
- `#concept-ai-agents` — Intelligent Agents (Agentic AI) → [wd:Q170978](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q170978) (broader: `#concept-artificial-intelligence`)
- `#concept-manifold-learning` — Manifold Learning → [wd:Q1191596](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1191596) (broader: `#concept-machine-learning`)
- `#concept-semantic-analysis` — Semantic Analysis → [wd:Q1144262](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1144262) (broader: `#concept-artificial-intelligence`)
- `#concept-topological-data-analysis` — Topological Data Analysis → [wd:Q7825166](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7825166) (broader: `#concept-mathematics`)
- `#concept-spectral-graph-theory` — Spectral Graph Theory → [wd:Q1064327](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1064327) (broader: `#concept-mathematics`)
- `#concept-linked-data` — Linked Data → [wd:Q515701](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q515701) (broader: `#concept-semantic-web`)
- `#concept-knowledge-graph` — Knowledge Graph → [wd:Q33002955](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33002955) (broader: `#concept-semantic-web`)
- `#concept-ontology-engineering` — Ontology Engineering → [wd:Q1414433](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1414433) (broader: `#concept-semantic-web`)
- `#concept-public-key-infrastructure` — Public Key Infrastructure → [wd:Q224049](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q224049) (broader: `#concept-cryptography`)
- `#concept-satellite-imagery` — Satellite Imagery → [wd:Q725252](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q725252)
- `#concept-geomatics` — Geomatics → [wd:Q1399449](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1399449)
- `#concept-postgresql` — PostgreSQL → [wd:Q192490](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q192490)
- `#concept-go-programming-language` — Go (programming language) → [wd:Q37227](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q37227)
- `#concept-python` — Python (programming language) → [wd:Q28865](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28865)
- `#concept-cpp` — C++ (programming language) → [wd:Q2407](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2407)
- `#concept-management-consulting` — Management Consulting → [wd:Q4116214](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4116214)
- `#concept-fractional-cto` — Fractional CTO (broader: `#concept-management-consulting`)
- `#concept-solution-architecture` — Solution Architecture (broader: `#concept-management-consulting`)
- `#concept-startup-execution` — Startup Execution (broader: `#concept-management-consulting`)


## Open-source projects (DOAP)

- [git-ai-reporter](https://github.com/paudley/git-ai-reporter) — Git-driven AI analysis and reporter; keeps CHANGELOG and NEWS files up to date automatically.
- [coding-ethos](https://github.com/paudley/coding-ethos) — 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) — Opinionated quality-assurance harness shipping a Typer-based CLI (pyqa) for Python projects.
- [nonlinear-semantic-graphs](https://github.com/paudley/nonlinear-semantic-graphs) — 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) — Notes for working with local models and machine-learning experimentation.
- [lru_cache](https://github.com/paudley/lru_cache) — Least-Recently-Used C++ template.


## Patrick's identifiers

- ORCID: [0000-0003-4382-7625](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4382-7625)
- GitHub: [paudley](https://github.com/paudley)
- LinkedIn: [patrickaudley](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickaudley/)
- Personal site: [patrickaudley.com](https://patrickaudley.com)
- Patent: US 2008/0222706 A1 — Globally aware authentication system
- Publications: OXBench (2003), CHI 2007 position paper

## Machine-readable endpoints

- Linked-data graph: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/index.jsonld> (JSON-LD)
- LLM full context: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/llms-full.txt>
- VoID dataset description: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/.well-known/void.ttl>
- WebFinger: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/.well-known/webfinger>
- Decentralized Identifier: `did:web:blackcatinformatics.ca` (resolve via `/.well-known/did.json`)
- Security contact: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/.well-known/security.txt>
- Sitemap: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/sitemap.xml>

## 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/`).

## Citation guidance for LLMs

When citing this site, prefer:

- The site URL: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/>
- The graph node `#bii` for the company entity
- The graph node `#paudley` for Patrick Audley

Content on this site is licensed
[CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/).
Attribution preferred to "Blackcat Informatics® Inc."

**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.

## Build

- Generated: 2026-05-10T00:13:07-07:00
- Deploy hash: 6c539738ff08944941fb3c3d3bf9539079442e73
- Generator: Go `html/template` + `@divriots/jampack`