“If we really believe we are fighting for a peoples’ peace, all the rest becomes easy.” — Henry A. Wallace
We are building solutions.
Made Open is a movement to take back control of our data. Data is the most powerful resource on earth — unlimited, exponentially valuable, and your basic human right to own. What privacy was to the last decade, agency is to this one: if you don’t own your data, someone else decides what your tools, your assistants, and your future do on your behalf. We’re not writing manifestos. We’re building the substrate — a user-owned platform for everything that acts for you. Same rules. Better competition. We are hacking capitalism.
The problem has two faces.
Extraction took your past. Agency capture is coming for your future. Both are the same problem: you don’t own your data.
Face 1 — Your past
They came for your past.
Every tap, scroll, pause, and purchase generates data. Platforms collect it, package it, and sell it. Your location history, your search patterns, your private messages — all monetized without your knowledge or consent. The digital economy was built on extraction.
The people who create the value don’t share in it. Signing terms-of-service isn’t the same thing as agreeing.
Attention is the scarcest asset in the knowledge economy — and it is being taken from you.
What “sharing economy” really means
| Platform | They Take | You Keep |
|---|---|---|
| Uber | 25-30% | Your data sold |
| Airbnb | 15-20% | Your data sold |
| TaskRabbit | 15-30% | Your data sold |
| Fiverr | 20% | Your data sold |
| Etsy | ~20% | Your data sold |
| Made Open | 0% | You own everything |
Face 2 — Your future
They are coming for your future.
A new generation of AI assistants will soon act on your behalf — screening your messages, scheduling your meetings, deciding who gets through. Useful. But every one of them lands your email, your calendar, your memory, and your identity inside a system you don’t control.
Platforms already took your past. They captured your present with attention. They are now competing to shape your future.
Privacy asks who can see your data. Agency asks who can shape what you do next. Data ownership is how you answer.
The platform that owns the assistant owns the conditions under which you decide and act.
“We can use their game and their resources to build alternatives that make them irrelevant. Not by fighting them — by making them unnecessary.”Read the full manifesto
Past. Present. Future.
Platforms took your past. They captured your present with attention. They are now competing to shape your future. Data ownership is how you stop the pattern — your past, your present, and your future, all under your control.
The Immutable Record
Every call, message, email, location point, and document — stored permanently, queryable, searchable.
Your Current State
Where you are right now. Real-time context that powers rules.
What's Coming
Calendar, tasks, commitments. Proactive intelligence.
The Principle
Data ownership is the boundary around your agency.
Privacy asks who can see your data. Agency asks who can shape the conditions under which you decide and act.
Without data ownership, someone else holds your memory, your identity, your rules, and the authority under which actions are taken on your behalf. That isn’t a privacy failure. It’s an agency failure.
Own the substrate, and anything that acts for you — assistants, apps, other people — does so inside limits you define.
The foundation. The outcomes.
One user-owned substrate. Three kinds of freedom it makes possible.
A user-owned data platform
“A substrate for anything that acts on your behalf.”
Your communications, your memory, your rules, your identity — all land in infrastructure you control. The floor under your digital life, not a service you rent.
- →Unified inbox — calls, SMS, email, voicemail, video
- →Full phone system with IVR builder and call recording
- →Email client with AI compose, priority scoring, thread summaries
- →Video meetings with transcription and action item extraction
- →Rules engine that evaluates in <100ms — explicit policy, not heuristics
- →28 AI agent tools with RAG and knowledge graph
- →Plugin sandbox — per-capability, logged, revocable
- →Zero-touch setup: download → import wallet → running
A Made Open economy
“Same rules. Better competition.”
A zero-fee peer-to-peer economy where the people who create value capture 100% of it. No platform. No middleman. No extraction.
- →Sell data products — your data, your terms, privacy engine strips PII
- →Sell services, goods, and skills directly — 0% platform fees
- →Smart contract escrow — trustless payments, no intermediary
- →Time banking — 1 hour of any service = 1 credit, always
- →Resource coordination — offers, needs, and mutual aid matching
- →Federated discovery via ActivityPub — no central server
- →Portable reputation via W3C Verifiable Credentials
- →Community dispute resolution — not corporate arbitration
Self-governing communities
“We can allow the market to guide them to their irrelevance.”
Real democratic tools for real communities. DAOs, federation, self-sovereign identity — governance without corporate platforms.
- →Community DAOs with charters and treasuries
- →5 voting systems: majority, supermajority, quadratic, consensus, liquid democracy
- →Proposal lifecycle — draft → discussion → vote → execute
- →Federation via ActivityPub — your hub is a Fediverse server
- →Self-sovereign identity with DIDs — not platform usernames
- →DIDComm encrypted messaging — no corporate relay
- →7-domain reputation system with time decay and rehabilitation
- →Community treasuries fund shared goals — not corporate profits
Assistants that work for you
“Not the other way around.”
Bring any assistant or agent. It runs inside boundaries you define — scoped context, logged actions, explicit permissions. Replace it, remove it, or run many. The substrate is yours, not theirs.
- →Scoped context — assistants see what you decide, not everything
- →Explicit policies — rules evaluated before any action
- →Logged actions — every proposal and write, auditable
- →Revocable capabilities — no assistant accumulates power it can't lose
- →Portable memory — your history doesn't belong to the assistant
- →Bring any AI — replaceable workers, not the system of record
- →Works with OpenClaw, future AI frameworks, and plugin-based agents
- →Agency as a security boundary — the full argument on stage at DEF CON
This is not a roadmap. This is working software.
Every feature below is implemented, tested, and shipping.
Unified Inbox
Calls, SMS, email, voicemail, video — one feed with AI priority scoring and cross-channel threading.
Full Phone System
Multi-line, DND, visual IVR builder, call recording, warm/cold transfer, parking, conference rooms.
Email with AI
Folders, threads, drafts, attachments. AI compose with 3 tones, thread summaries, follow-up detection.
Video Meetings
Twilio Video with recording, AI transcripts, action items, and post-meeting analysis.
Rules Engine
'If Partner calls while at Work → send SMS.' Compound conditions, <100ms evaluation.
Knowledge Graph
LightRAG entity extraction, pgvector embeddings, Meilisearch full-text. Deeply queryable.
Plugin Sandbox
V8 isolate sandboxing. Connector, channel, and rule plugins. Declared permissions, no escape.
Zero-Touch Setup
Download → import Bitwarden/1Password/Chrome → auto-provisions your entire platform.
4 Native Apps
Hub (Fastify), Web (Next.js 15), Android (Kotlin), Windows (Tauri). All connected via NATS.
Federation
ActivityPub + DIDs + DIDComm + Verifiable Credentials. Your hub becomes a Fediverse server.
Marketplace
Zero-fee economy. Data products with Privacy Engine. Smart contract escrow. Federated discovery.
Community Governance
DAOs, 5 voting systems, dispute resolution, time banking, community treasuries.
Their game. Our rules.
The market will guide them to their irrelevance.
Their Way
- ✗Your data on their servers, behind their APIs
- ✗Your identity is a username they can revoke
- ✗They sell your attention to advertisers
- ✗15–30% platform fees on every transaction
- ✗They write the rules — no appeal
- ✗Banned? Lose your history, reputation, everything
- ✗Reputation locked in their silo
- ✗AI can't see your data across services
- ✗Your assistants run in their system — they own your memory
- ✗'If you don't like it, leave' (and lose everything)
Our Way
- ✓Your data on your server, queryable, exportable, yours
- ✓Self-sovereign identity — cryptographic DID you control
- ✓You control your attention. Period.
- ✓0% fees — there is no platform between you
- ✓Community writes the rules. Transparent. Open appeal.
- ✓Your data follows you forever — federated, portable
- ✓Portable reputation via W3C Verifiable Credentials
- ✓AI has full context — all your data is unified
- ✓Your assistants run in your substrate — you own your memory
- ✓'Don't like it? Fork it.' MIT licensed.
A peaceful revolution in three phases.
We can do this now, both easily and peacefully.
Early Adopters
Privacy-conscious individuals, open-source enthusiasts. Self-hostable platform.
Communities & Cooperatives
Community organizations, managed self-hosting, data cooperatives.
Mainstream Adoption
Credible alternative to Google/Apple/Meta, zero-knowledge hosting, federation network effects.
We are hacking capitalism.
Same rules. Better competition. Built by the People, for the People.
Open source. MIT licensed. No credit card. No subscription. No surveillance. Your data. Your solutions. Your resources. Your future.