911 Trust LedgerFoundation
AI-Ready 911 for Every Community — Not Just the Biggest.
An independent, nonprofit foundation building verifiable trust infrastructure for America's emergency communications ecosystem.
AI is coming to 911 dispatch. The data isn't ready.
AI is coming to 911 dispatch — predictive routing, real-time triage, automated resource allocation. But every vendor building AI for public safety today is quietly bleeding compute on the same problem: data normalization.
Every jurisdiction runs different CAD schemas, inconsistent timestamp formats, and location data that degrades as it passes through multiple systems. Each vendor solves this individually, for every customer, every time. None of that work creates value. It just gets you to the starting line.
And the AI that emerges is only as good as one center's data. A major metro PSAP takes 500 calls a day — strong outcomes. A rural ECC takes fewer than 10. The centers with the most data get the best AI. The communities with the least fall further behind.
There is a second problem. Federal 911 funding doesn't incentivize outcomes — it funds technology. You can't change that without a trustworthy, tamper-resistant data layer capable of measuring outcomes across the full arc of a public safety event.
These two problems have the same solution.
Shared infrastructure. Universal AI quality.
911TL handles normalization once, at the protocol layer, for everyone. Every participating center contributes event data that's already clean, verified, and consistently formatted. For vendors, every new jurisdiction is a plug-in, not a three-month integration project.
And because the commons spans the entire ecosystem, a rural ECC with 8 calls a day trains on the verified, combined experience of thousands of centers nationwide. The data is pooled. The AI quality is universal.
Shared normalization at the protocol layer
Vendors stop paying the normalization tax. Jurisdictions stop being integration projects. Every system contributes data that's already clean and consistently formatted.
A universal AI training commons
Every center — metro or rural — contributes to and benefits from the aggregate. Small centers get big-center AI quality. The data disparity gap closes.
Privacy by architecture
PII never touches the shared layer. Hashed, normalized metadata only. Sensitive data stays within existing systems. Local sovereignty is preserved.
Open, neutral governance
Built on Hyperledger Fabric, governed like the Linux Foundation. No single vendor controls the commons. Governed by its member community — PSAPs, ESInet operators, vendors, and state authorities.
Your competitive advantage was never the raw data. It's what you build on top of it. 911TL gets you there faster, cheaper, and on better data than you can get there alone.
The window to build this openly is open right now.
NG911 is digitizing now. AI adoption in public safety is accelerating now. The window to build shared normalization infrastructure — before every vendor locks in a proprietary pipeline — is open right now.
Once those silos are established, interoperability becomes structurally impossible and the normalization tax becomes permanent. Once the founding cohort closes, the rules will already be set. Founding members help write them.
Co-author the protocol. Govern the standard before it's set.
Founding partners hold governance seats, co-author integration standards, and shape how the data commons works — including who contributes and how rewards are distributed. The founding cohort closes at five organizations. Once full, standard membership opens at market rates, without governance rights or co-authorship.
- Seat on the Technical Advisory Committee
- Co-authorship of integration standards and proof type specifications
- Logo and permanent attribution in all Foundation materials
- Early access to open APIs and reference implementations
- Named participant in NIST/PSCR and federal grant applications
- Preferred integration support during pilot phase
- Permanent Data Commons licensing discount (30% / 20% / 10% by tier)
- Lead Founding Partner designation (permanent, never re-issued)
- Foundation Board observer seat
- TAC Chair eligibility
- Lead standards authorship
- Exclusive right to name pilot PSAP / jurisdiction
- 90-day early API access
- 30% permanent Data Commons discount
- Founding Member designation (permanent)
- Voting TAC seat
- Co-authorship rights on all standards
- Permanent reserved TAC seat
- 60-day early API access
- 20% permanent Data Commons discount
- Founding Member designation (permanent)
- Observer TAC seat
- Review and comment rights on all standards
- 30-day early API access
- 10% permanent Data Commons discount
Where we are and where we're going.
Five organizations to build this with us.
- NG911 vendors & ESInet operators
- AI & analytics companies in public safety
- Philanthropic foundations (civic tech / public safety)
- State 911 authorities & PSAPs
"AI in public safety isn't a question of if — it's a question of whether the data it runs on can be trusted. 911TL makes that trust verifiable."
Jon Whirledge · Founder, 911 Trust Ledger Foundation
Let's build this together.
Whether you're a vendor looking to eliminate the normalization tax, an AI company building on public safety data, a state authority invested in outcomes, or a funder committed to public-interest infrastructure — we want to hear from you.
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