“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, our economy, and our communities. Data is the most powerful resource on earth — unlimited, exponentially valuable, and your basic human right to own. We’re not writing manifestos. We’re writing software, building marketplaces, and creating governance tools. Same rules. Better competition. We are hacking capitalism.
The People plant the seeds, cultivate, harvest — and are left on the plantation while the owner goes to market.
Every tap, scroll, pause, and purchase generates data that platforms collect, package, and sell. Your location history, your search patterns, your private messages — all harvested and monetized without your knowledge or consent. The digital economy was built on extraction.
These platforms didn’t create the value. You did. They just built the walls around it and charged admission.
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 |
You are not the customer. You are the product. The platform’s real customers are the advertisers who buy access to your behavior.
“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
Not problems. Solutions.
Three pillars. All built. All open source. All yours.
Sovereign Software Platform
“If we are creating the solutions, then we should own the solutions.”
A complete personal data platform running on your infrastructure. Your communications, your AI, your rules — no corporate intermediary.
- →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 — no AI needed
- →28 AI agent tools with RAG and knowledge graph
- →Plugin sandbox — add any integration without surrendering data
- →Zero-touch setup: download → import wallet → running
Sovereign Marketplace
“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
Sovereign Governance
“We can ignore them and allow the market to guide them to their irrelevance.”
Self-governing communities with real democratic tools. 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
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.
Sovereign 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
- ✗'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
- ✓'Don't like it? Fork it.' MIT licensed.
Data across time. Intelligence from unity.
Most systems only have the past. Made Open organizes data across three temporal planes — enabling proactive intelligence no corporate silo can match.
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.
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.