Founding Members Get Early Access before June 2026
As a founding member, you help shape the tools, policies, and priorities of a charitable trust built to serve communities across Aotearoa New Zealand - and you hold us accountable to that mission.
Digital Reef exists to close the gap between the information governments publish and the communities those decisions affect. Founding members are the people and organisations who believe that gap matters enough to help close it.
There are no locked-in time periods or obligations - you can cancel your subscription at any time. We are looking for people who can test the tools and give us much needed feedback.
Interested in becoming a Founding Member?
- Register your interest via the link below or email us directly
- We get in touch to understand your needs and you can ask all the questions
- Choose your tier (learn more here)
- Shape what comes next

The challenge we are here to solve
Every week, New Zealand central and local government agencies publish resource consents, plan changes, gazette notices, and environmental decisions that directly affect community groups, recreational users, and conservation organisations. Most of those groups never see them.
Consultation windows open and close. Fast-track applications progress. Legislation changes. The information is technically public, but it is scattered across dozens of websites, buried in PDFs, and published in formats that assume you already know where to look.
The result is civic information asymmetry - well-resourced organisations can track what matters to them, but community groups, volunteer-run clubs, and small non-profits cannot. By the time they find out, the window to participate has often closed.
Digital Reef is building the infrastructure to fix that. Automated monitoring, structured alerts, shared spatial data, and participatory mapping tools - all designed so that the groups who care most about a place have the information they need to act.
Why become a founding member?
Early Access to Every Tool
Be first to use Nemo, Aronnax, and our shared GIS infrastructure as they launch. Your experience in those early weeks directly shapes what the platform becomes.
Priority Support
Founding members receive priority onboarding, dedicated support channels, and faster response times during the build-out period and beyond.
Input into the Roadmap
Tell us what matters. Founding members participate in roadmap reviews and feature prioritisation - your needs set the direction.
The six guilds
Digital Reef organises its work around six thematic guilds - Waterspace, Landspace, Airspace, Accessibility, Conservation, and Emergency Response. Each guild maintains curated spatial layers, monitoring rules, and community networks relevant to its domain.
When you join, you choose the guild (or guilds) that match your work. Your membership supports that guild directly, and your voice shapes its priorities.
For details on membership tiers and how our pricing works, see our Pricing page.
Timeline
12 - 14 May 2026
Green Pavlova showcase
Live demonstration of Nemo, Aronnax, and the shared GIS platform. Founding member sign-ups open on the day.
30 June 2026
Full public launch
All products go live. Membership tiers fully operational.
30 June 2026
Founding member window closes
After launch, the founding member programme closes permanently. Standard membership terms apply from this date.