At Formata, we're building a world where data is more secure, easily governed, and readily available - one with efficient and user-friendly access to high-quality data through a unified, interoperable, and functional format called Stof.
Stof (docs) is efficient, governable, and accessible data that is much simpler to use, offering fine-grained control and sandboxed manipulation between computer systems without the need for additional application code, servers, and dependencies.
The logic and cost involved in deciphering, unifying, and validating data entering and leaving computer systems are growing exponentially, becoming a bottleneck and limiting factor for next-generation federated applications and AI.
Stof drastically decreases the amount of application code it takes to do this by moving this logic into the data layer, creating a standard interface that can be used by all systems today for cheaper and higher-quality access to data, while improving application-level security, developer experience, and data governance.
At the foundation of Stof is a proven, time-tested strategy for organizing and unifying large quantities of diverse data. Instead of adding a new standard, Stof is designed to work seamlessly with other data formats and standards, offering a drop-in replacement or addition to existing technologies.
In addition to its data organization capabilities, Stof introduces a functional interface for manipulating, analyzing, and governing the data it contains, becoming a sandboxed execution environment anywhere and at any time. Treating code as data is vital as systems become more decentralized, data becomes larger and more protected, and engineers become more concerned with data and business logic than with source code.
The only way we can make this happen is together. With your sponsorship, contribution, and/or community support, we'll take large strides toward a world where data is more secure, easily governed, and readily available - one with efficient and user-friendly access to high-quality data that is simple and native to the federated and decentralized world we are quickly moving towards.
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