RAIS WAKA KŌTUKU

RUAUMOKO ANCESTRAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM

Knowledge with
provenance.

A living research environment for whakapapa, whenua, history, law, archives and human connection — built to preserve sources, distinguish evidence from inference, and make serious research accessible to everyone.

TIKAPONOTIKANGA
White kōtuku / heron

WAKA KŌTUKU

ONE WAKA • ONE PEOPLE • ONE PLANET

PUBLIC GATEWAY LIVE Public visitors can use selected working RAIS browser tools without an account. Private records, AI services and Owner Core modules remain behind authorised access.

MISSION

Evidence before assertion.
Sources before certainty.

Waka Kōtuku RAIS brings research, evidence, records, legislation, whakapapa, whenua, media and community knowledge together under one controlled system. AI assists the work; it does not replace the source or own the knowledge.

CREATED & DESIGNED BYMATT NAYLORIndependent research-system design • Waka Kōtuku RAIS

PUBLIC RESEARCH HUB — WORKING DEMOS

Try the RAIS workflow.

These public browser tools are active. They demonstrate the RAIS evidence-first workflow without exposing the private Owner Core. Records you save here stay in this browser unless you deliberately export them.

EXPLORE THE METHOD — PUBLIC EXAMPLES

See how RAIS treats a source.

These examples show the evidence-first method without publishing private whānau records. One uses an official public source; the others are clearly marked method demonstrations so a visitor can see how oral history and whenua research should be structured without inventing a historical claim.

SOURCE VERIFIEDLEGISLATION

Resource Management Act 1991

Official source: New Zealand Legislation. The source identifies the Act as 1991 No 69. RAIS treats the official instrument and its dated version as the source; any wider legal conclusion still needs the relevant sections and context.

OPEN OFFICIAL SOURCE
METHOD DEMOWHENUA

Whenua research record

This demonstration shows the fields RAIS expects before drawing a conclusion: block/place, exact minute-book or title reference, page, date, people named, map or survey source, and the evidence classification.

No private whānau claim is being published in this demonstration.

ORAL HISTORYKŌRERO

Oral-history record

RAIS preserves the speaker, date, consent, recording reference and the kōrero itself as oral history. Corroborating documents can be linked later without silently converting the kōrero into documentary proof.

This is a method demonstration, not a claim about a particular whānau.

CONFLICT VISIBLERESEARCH

When two records disagree

RAIS is designed to preserve both sources, record the disagreement and identify what further evidence is needed. The system should not hide a conflict simply to produce a tidy answer.

WHAKAPAPA & WHENUA

People, whenua and source evidence stay connected.

Private whakapapa and whenua records can be organised with documentary sources, maps, court material and oral history while preserving the difference between proven evidence, inference and community knowledge.

Whakapapa

Names, relationships, whakapapa lines, uncertainty and provenance.

Whenua

Land blocks, maps, titles, boundaries and historical records.

Oral History

Preserved and respected without silently turning oral tradition into documentary proof.

EVIDENCE — WORKING CLASSIFIER

A source should travel with the claim.

Click a classification below. RAIS will open the public visitor workspace and apply that evidence state to the record you are building.

Select a state to start a classified research record.

PRIVATE RAIS CORE

Private means private.

Owner credentials, private evidence, API secrets and the Super Master are not inside this public website. Public visitors can use the safe browser demos; authorised members receive only the access they are permitted to use.

ACCESS INFORMATION

STUDIO ONE

Film • image • voice • storyboard.

Studio One turns selected research into films, images, narration, storyboards, presentations and educational media. Generated material remains separate from verified evidence unless it has been independently sourced and checked.

RECORD→TRANSCRIBE→SOURCE→STORYBOARD→REVIEW→PUBLISH

WAKA KŌTUKU COMMUNITY PLATFORM

Our community and social-media system.

The Waka Kōtuku Community Platform brings social communication and research together while keeping private research permission-controlled.

HOMEPEOPLEPHOTOSVIDEOSPLACESRESEARCHRARE SEARCHRAIS AIGROUPSEVENTSMESSAGES
WAKA KŌTUKURAIS COMMUNITY PLATFORM
Home · People · Photos · Videos · Places · Research · RARE Search · RAIS AI · Groups · Events · Messages
NEWS FEED

Community posts, research, images, stories and discussion.

RAIS AI ASSISTANT

Works with private RAIS records only when the signed-in member has permission to see them.

RESEARCH

Source records and community discussion remain distinguishable from one another.

ACCESS

The public can explore it.
Private systems remain permission-controlled.

No account is needed for the public research demonstrations on this page. Private member workspaces, community records and Owner Core services require authorised access.

PUBLIC

Public Gateway

See the architecture, modules, kaupapa and current capability.

AUTHORISED

Private Workspace / Node

Signed-in access with defined permissions and controlled private records.

OWNER CORE

RAIS ONE

Super Master administration, security, backup and owner integrations.

SIGN UP / REQUEST ACCESS

LEGISLATION

Official legislation research is built into RAIS.

The private RAIS legislation environment is active. The public website shows the capability but does not give away the private research module or its saved records.

NZ LEGISLATION RESEARCHActs • Bills • Regulations • historical versions • source register

CONTACT

Waka Kōtuku RAIS

Research • Evidence • Whakapapa • Whenua • Community • Creative Intelligence

contact@wakakotuku.nz

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NOTICE

WAKA KŌTUKU RAIS • PROTECTED WORK

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The original website design, written content, software code, graphics, Waka Kōtuku RAIS presentation, research architecture and original media displayed here are protected to the extent provided by applicable copyright and other intellectual-property laws.

RUAUMOKO ANCESTRAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM™ / RAIS™ / WAKA KŌTUKU™ are used as project and brand identifiers. A New Zealand trade mark application has been filed for Ruaumoko Ancestral Intelligence System. No statement on this site should be read as claiming a granted patent or registered trade mark unless and until that status is confirmed.

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Public access is permission to view the public gateway only. It does not grant access to, or rights in, the RAIS Owner Core, private source code, credentials, API secrets, private evidence, member records, security architecture, private nodes, or unpublished materials.

For licensing, authorised use, collaboration or permission: contact@wakakotuku.nz