Privacy-first freedom technologies.
We build systems that expand human agency in the digital age — applied cryptography, local-first AI, and resilient infrastructure for the people and organizations who keep the internet free.
Cryptography as a load-bearing primitive, not a marketing line. Default deny, minimal trust, audited code paths.
The user's device is the source of truth. The network is an optimization, never a dependency.
Systems that degrade gracefully — under load, under censorship, under attack, under indifference.
Tools that help groups think and act together, without becoming a single point of leverage.
Research with users on the other end. Field testing under conditions that matter.
Auditable code, documented threat models, published failure reports. Trust is built, not asserted.
Routing, relay, and pluggable transport work for journalists and civil-society orgs operating in restrictive networks.
Privacy-preserving signal aggregation for first responders. End-to-end encrypted, source-anonymous by construction.
Inference on-device, sync via CRDT, no data leaves the laptop. Built for researchers handling sensitive corpora.
Zero-knowledge donation rails for political dissidents, nonprofits, and public-interest legal funds.
Shared workspaces with no server-side plaintext. Designed for cross-org coalitions and investigative reporting.
Quadratic mechanisms and trust networks for allocating attention and funding to neglected open infrastructure.
If your organization is facing a hard problem at the intersection of privacy, AI, coordination, or resilience — we want to hear about it. Paid engagements, grant-funded partnerships, and pro-bono work for aligned causes.
Propose an initiative →↳ For collaboratorsIf the work above is the work you'd want to be doing — engineers, cryptographers, researchers, designers who code — there's a deliberate seven-question application.
Join the network →You have a problem. We have a small, deliberate studio for problems like yours.
We take on a handful of engagements per year — paid projects with mission-aligned organizations, grant-funded partnerships, and pro-bono work for public-interest causes. If your problem lives at the intersection of privacy, AI, coordination, or resilience, send us a brief. We read every one and respond within five working days.
We're staffing a small, deliberate network — not hiring a team.
Especially interested in people working at the intersection of privacy, AI, coordination, and freedom technologies. We work asynchronously, across time zones, in small focused cells.