About the Tulsa Ecosystem Map
The Tulsa Ecosystem Map is a plain-language guide for founders in Tulsa who are learning the ecosystem of building an AI company: the standard terms they will hear, the well-established products, and the local organizations, investors, programs, user groups, schools and places to meet, with how they are publicly connected. It is also published as the Founder Glossary at founder-glossary.samcarlton.com; both addresses show the same site.
Who makes it
Sam Carlton made the map and maintains it independently, with help from Techlahoma, Latam to Tulsa, Tulsa Local Ventures and Tulsa Innovation Labs. The organizations on the map are described from their own public pages. None of them has reviewed or approved its entry.
Contact
To reach Sam, use his website, samcarlton.com. To report a mistake on a page, see Corrections. To ask for a list as data or for a report, see Data access and reports.
How the map is made
Methodology explains how entries and connections are chosen, how funding figures are sourced and labelled, and the map's known limits.
How to cite it
Cite the page you used, with its address and the date at the foot of the page:
Tulsa Ecosystem Map, by Sam Carlton. "Page name." https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/page-address. Page last changed (date shown on the page); accessed (the date you read it).Each entry lists the public sources behind it. For a fact about an organization, cite its own source as well.
Reusing the content
[ask Sam: licence]
Developers and agents can read the map through its MCP server and JSON API.
This glossary is plain-language orientation, not legal or financial advice. Before you decide on a company structure, a contract, taxes or a fundraising deal, talk with a lawyer or an accountant.