taíno labs k
Plate I

The AI was always in the name.

Ta·AI·no. One word, two intelligences: the ancestral knowledge the Taíno carved into stone, and the artificial tools the next generation will build with. Taíno Labs puts both in the hands of the kids who inherit them.

Read the mission The three legs
A Taíno sun petroglyph drawn as an archaeological survey specimen, rays terminating in circuit nodes, spiral at center
Nomenclature

One name, two intelligences

Artificial
Artificial Intelligence, the technology: the models and tools the next generation will build with.
Ancestral
Ancestral Intelligence, the knowledge that came before the machine: the Taíno who read the sea and the stars, and carved what they knew into stone.
(k)
The floating k of (k)nowledge. Kiskeya, K-Sprints, and the knowledge itself. Three meanings, one letter.
Mission

Put the newest intelligence in the oldest hands.

Taíno Labs is a social enterprise from the Dominican Republic. The commercial work exists to fund one thing: getting AI into the hands of as many Dominican kids as possible, and having them build with it.

40%Profit, the fuel
0 Dominican kids who built and shipped something with AI through a Taíno Labs K-Sprint. That number is zero today. The company exists to change it.
How the flywheel works →
Archaeological site plan of a Taíno batey (ball court) with dimension lines and petroglyph markers
Structure

Three legs, one mission

Each leg earns. Each serves the Areíto. A Partners shelf holds what the company channels but does not make.

Petroglyph: a figure passing knowledge to a smaller figure Leg 01

Education

Rigorous, self-contained courseware. The flagship, Python: Assessment Prep, is the reference: one file, no account, works on a plane. Government training (live cohorts and licensed courseware for Dominican institutions) sits here too.

Courseware →
Petroglyph: a spiral unfurling into a built structure Leg 02

Incubator

K-Sprints: short, intense bursts where knowledge becomes a built thing. For founders, a repo becomes a launch. For kids, an idea becomes a shipped project. Catch the k.

K-Sprints →
Petroglyph: two equal figures facing each other across a geometric pattern Leg 03

Consultancy

Fixed-scope work for the Dominican government and Dominican companies. Training delivery, applied AI, data provenance. The financial keel that funds the mission.

Details →

Hardware and tools the company channels through partnerships. The first partner line: solar-powered local AI boxes running open-weight models, built to keep AI running where the grid does not.

The Areíto
Archaeological reconstruction drawing of a Taíno areíto ceremony: a communal circle of people on a batey, passing knowledge through song and movement

The areíto was how the Taíno passed knowledge to the next generation. Ours does the same, with AI.

An areíto was the communal ceremony of song, story, and memory that carried a people's knowledge across generations. Taíno Labs' mission program takes the name: a place where Dominican kids build with AI, ship something real, and pass it on.

v0.1 · building the first cohort

Ancestral hands.
Artificial tools.
Built from Kiskeya.

The mission The constitution