Fat Monk Media is the Calgary-based publisher behind 40 niche local sites covering events, dining, sports, services, and civic life. The network is connected by Dusty, an AI Calgary concierge that answers visitor questions across every property and via voice phone and SMS.
Google, social platforms, and AI generalists keep getting better at world questions and worse at city ones. Fat Monk Media is the opposite trade: deeply specific Calgary publications, written and edited by humans, indexed for the AI era, and built to last for a long time.
Every property in the network is operated by Jordan personally, with a small group of contributors he has worked with for years. The cadence is editorial: a launch, a season of stories, a redesign, never a maintenance contract.
Each site is built editorial-first. The writing, the structure, and the categories come before the data plumbing. We adopt a fair-dealing posture on venue and event trademarks: every site is operated by Fat Monk Films Ltd. (Alberta), trading as Fat Monk Media, as an independent editorial property, with clear disclaimers separating us from the rights-holders we cover.
Dusty, the network's AI concierge, runs on top of all of this. One Calgary-savvy model spans the web (live on every tenant), voice (a phone line that answers in seconds), SMS (text-the-city for itinerary planning), and iOS. The same context, the same voice, the same editorial spine, wherever Calgarians and visitors meet us.
Tour the full publisher network, or get in touch directly.
Press: press@fatmonkmedia.com · Partnerships: partnerships@fatmonkmedia.com