Portal.Place is building a network of Smart Villages—flagship sites where families, creators, and purpose-driven people return year after year to live, work, and regenerate in nature. Our first 400-acre property in Interior BC is already operating as a destination, and we are seeking operators collaborators and capital partners to help scale this vision into a global village network.
400-acre flagship site in Interior BC, already welcoming guests and events.
10+ years of community-building via the Future Thinkers podcast (millions of views and downloads).
Strong existing audience, distribution channels, and track record in marketing and content launches.
Multi-entity ecosystem and long term strategy for land, infrastructure, network, and tech.
We believe the next major real estate category will be lifestyle-first villages—regenerative, tech-enabled communities where people return seasonally or long-term for health, connection, and meaningful work. As AI and automation reshape the global economy, demand is shifting from cities and generic resorts to places that offer belonging, health, and resilience.
Seasonal villages designed for a world where many jobs are automated: wellness, family friendly environments, educational programs, coworking, maker spaces and creativity, and regenerative culture.
A scalable model: multiple villages across regions and biomes sharing culture, systems, and tech—creating brand, loyalty, and defensibility.
Physical hospitality operations, Village Ai (tech-enabled coordination), and a mature media ecosystem that drives demand and tells the story at scale.
From a flagship 400-acre prototype to a distributed network of villages.
Our first site, Wells Gray Village in Interior British Columbia, serves as the living prototype—a functioning destination with cabins, domes, RV and tent sites, event infrastructure, and evolving wellness, coworking, and maker facilities. From here, we’re developing a repeatable playbook: acquiring or partnering with properties that can be upgraded into Smart Villages, all connected by shared culture, technology, and brand.
Over time, members will be able to move fluidly across the network—returning to their “home” village while exploring others in different climates and regions, with a consistent standard of culture, community, and experience.
The flagship site is already welcoming guests, families, and events. This is not a dream—it’s an operating hospitality destination with a long history of positive visitor feedback and a clear path to higher-end, longer-stay village living.
The site has a long track record of strong Google reviews from campers, families, and event guests who return for the natural beauty, atmosphere, and hospitality.
Environment design that improves the human baseline.
Current System
Belonging
(social bonds / being known)
Meaning & Contribution
(useful, needed, reciprocal)
Embodied Health
(movement, sleep, sunlight, food)
Nature Exposure
(green time / outdoors)
Nervous System Calm
(stress load / mental ease)
Rhythm & Ritual
(weekly cadence, shared practices)
Intergenerational Support
(kids, elders, shared care)
Safety & Trust
(low social threat, reliable norms)
Village life
A convergence of forces is making Smart Villages not just desirable, but inevitable. Rising urban costs, remote work, AI-driven job shifts, social isolation, and a desire for wellness and meaning are pushing people to seek regenerative, community-oriented places to live part-time or long-term. At the same time, investors are searching for opportunities backed by strong narratives, demand, and brand.
Mike leads the vision, strategy, and development of Portal.Place and the Smart Village Network.
Euvie guides culture, community experience, and storytelling across the Portal.Place ecosystem.
Gordon provides expert guidance on real estate valuation, feasibility, and long-term development planning.
Dean is a veteran builder who advises on construction and infrastructure projects.
Future Thinkers is our media and nonprofit platform for education, culture design, and community development, anchored by a 10-year podcast exploring the future of civilization, technology, and regenerative living.
Design Spore provides high-end storytelling, brand strategy, and AI-powered content systems for mission-driven creators and projects.
Wells Gray Village is our 400-acre flagship site in BC, offering nature-immersive stays, events, and early Smart Village infrastructure.
Portal.Place builds a network of seasonal, culture-forward, tech-enabled Smart Villages designed for a post-AI, lifestyle-first future.
We’ve spent the last 10+ years exploring the future of civilization, technology, and culture through the Future Thinkers podcast and community—hosting conversations with many of the world’s leading thinkers in systems change, Game B, regenerative villages, governance, and futurescaping. The podcast has reached millions of people globally, and our work has led to speaking engagements and consultations with governments, organizations, and movements exploring new models of living.
Alongside this, we’ve run Design Spore, a launch and content studio helping thought leaders, authors, founders, and organizations craft narratives and media that reach large audiences. We understand how to position, launch, and tell the story of ambitious projects—and we bring that same capability to the Smart Village network.
At Wells Gray Resort, we’ve been living and working on the land, upgrading infrastructure, hosting events, and prototyping the rhythms, culture, and systems that make a Smart Village work day-to-day.
Our nonprofit arm, the Future Thinkers Foundation, is focused on the cultural, educational, and regenerative aspects of this work—researching and piloting meta-skills, governance models, and community practices that can be adopted across the village network.
The Foundation ensures that the culture, education, and long-term human development at each village remain world-class.
Beyond capital, we’re partnering with companies whose products and technologies can be showcased in a living, operational Smart Village—from cabins, energy systems, and fabrication tools to wellness, mobility, and AI infrastructure. These partners gain a high-profile, cinematic demonstration site and long-term involvement in a growing village network.
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