For agents & humans

The Atlas

A machine-readable map of Huckleberry Way — the entity graph, people, services, and the agent surfaces that expose them. Built for humans and agents alike.

The Record

Huckleberry Way's own Authority Record, in the open.

We run the system on ourselves first. Every fact here is one our pages publish to machines, with its address and its sources: the firm, its people, what it offers, the clients it has proven it for, and the research behind it. Ask any assistant about Huckleberry Way and check its answer here. The vocabulary has a wheel of its own, on Concepts.

The Atlas is the public rendering of Huckleberry Way's own Authority Record: the live entity graph, open for any person or AI assistant to browse and to check answers against. Huckleberry Way ran the system on itself before offering it to clients.

Compiled from the record as it stood at canon 20261027T002011. Every line below is a public fact in that record, rendered by the same compiler that writes the structured data on every page.

The entity

Name
Huckleberry Way
What it is
Huckleberry Way is an AI search visibility firm in Waterloo, Ontario, founded in 2014 and led by information scientists. It runs a system of authority that gives AI depth and certainty about a business, so that when a buyer asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Google who to call, the answer is that business. At its centre is The Authority Record™, the client's public system of record: one verified master record of who they are, what they do and what they have proven, kept true and published everywhere AI looks.
Founded
2014
Corporation
Huckleberry Films Inc.
Where
Waterloo, Ontario, CA
Industry code
NAICS 541619
Ontario business name registration
1001018568
The same entity elsewhere
linkedin.com, google.com, facebook.com

People (3)

NameRoleCredentialsThe same person elsewhere
Von DarnellFounder, Chief StrategistMaster of Library and Information Science; Honours Bachelor of Arts, English Language and Literaturelinkedin.com
Margaret SampsonChief Information ScientistPhD in Information Studies; Master of Library and Information Sciencescopus.com, linkedin.com, scholar.google.com, wikidata.org, orcid.org
Kate ColmerHead of Studiokatecolmer.com

What the firm offers (7)

NameKindIn one sentence
The Authority Record™The productThe Authority Record™ is the public system of record that Huckleberry Way builds and runs for a business: one verified master record of who the business is, what it does and what it has proven, kept true and published everywhere AI looks.
The Proof Engine™The productThe Proof Engine™ is the proof component of The Authority Record™, never sold on its own.
The AI Readiness ReportThe first stepThe AI Readiness Report is Huckleberry Way's free gateway diagnostic and the first step of its process (Report, Plan, Build, Run).
AI Search VisibilityThe categoryAI search visibility is whether AI systems can find, verify and confidently recommend a business when a buyer asks.
Record GovernanceA componentRecord Governance is the run of The Authority Record™, step four of Report, Plan, Build, Run: change control, versioning, synchronization across every surface, validation audits and a recomputable evidence report, so the Record stays true as the business changes.
Smart ReviewsA componentSmart Reviews is the reputation management system inside The Proof Engine™, never sold on its own.
Structured PostsA componentStructured Posts are the output stream of The Proof Engine™: facts posted on a schedule to the business's Google Business Profile, social channels and website.

Proof (3)

Case studyClientResults on the recordQuotations
Excellent Sign Group: sixty years of proof, made machine-readableExcellent Sign Group42
Prescientx: Building an AI procurement-ready healthcare supplierPrescientx31
Aquascapes Recreational Contractors: thirty years of expertise, made findableAquascapes Recreational Contractors30

The vocabulary (94 concepts)

The concepts Huckleberry Way works with, arranged by meaning in six facets: Information Science, Semantic Web, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Architecture, AI Search Visibility and Sectors Served. Published as SKOS with Wikidata anchors; the vocabulary behind The Authority Record. All the concepts, by group.

GroupConcepts
Information ScienceAuthority Control, Authority Record, Bibliometrics, Cataloguing, Citation Clustering, Controlled Vocabulary, Dublin Core, Entity Disambiguation, Evidence Synthesis, Grey Information, Information Architecture, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Representation, Living Systematic Reviews, Machine Learning for Literature Surveillance, Metadata, Ontology, Research Reporting Standards, Search Strategy Validation, Systematic Review Methodology, Taxonomy, Thesaurus
Semantic WebEntity, Google Knowledge Graph, Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data, llms.txt, Persistent Identifiers, Predicate, Resource Description Framework, Schema.org Markup, Semantic Triple, Simple Knowledge Organization System, Structured Data
Artificial IntelligenceAgent-Computer Interaction, Agentic AI, Algorithmic Procurement, Co-reference Resolution, Description Logic, Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness, Generative AI, Generative Search, Graph RAG, Grounding, Hallucination, Knowledge Engineering, Model Context Protocol, Neuro-Symbolic AI, Parametric Memory, Passage Extraction, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Symbolic AI, Symbolic Reasoning, The Two Gates, Vector Semantics
Knowledge ArchitectureActive Synchronization Loop, Customer-Verified Evidence, Entity Modelling, Identity Engineering, Legal Entity Identifier, Proof Engineering, Proof Node, Relevance Engineering, System of Record, The Seven Checks, The Two-Layer Framework, Verifiable Credentials, Verified Entity Architecture, Zero Drift
AI Search VisibilityCertainty Gap, Consensus, Earned Authority, Invisible to Machines, Evidence Density, Hallucinated Attribution, Machine Certainty, Map Pack Visibility, Verification at the Source
Sectors ServedConstruction, Credit Unions, Financial Services, Healthcare, Infection Prevention, Manufacturing, Medical Device Distribution, Personal Care, Professional Services, Recreational Construction, Sign Design & Fabrication

The vocabulary as files a machine can fetch:

Where the record is read

Every one of these 19 pages carries its own part of the record as structured data, written by the compiler at the same gate as the words you are reading:

The whole record as downloadable files (JSON-LD, RDF Turtle and the full text) is published with the new site; until then each page carries its own part.