Privacy Focused Infrastructure and Ai Development

Technological sovereignty,

Ai automation,

& professional self-hosting services.

We believe everyone deserves digital sovereignty. It's your right to own your tools, control your data, and harness AI to amplify human creativity and productivity without renting from tech giants.

Own Your Tools

Control Your Data

Save On Subscriptions

You're Paying Rent on Tools You Could Own

The average company wastes 48% of its software spend on licenses no one uses. That's not a typo. Nearly half your SaaS budget is disappearing into subscriptions that sit idle while vendors raise prices 8.7% annually, whether you asked for new features or not.

For a 50-person company, that's $70,000+ per year in pure waste. Not investment. Not equity. Just rent paid to someone else's infrastructure, compounding forever.

The Companies That Stopped Paying

37signals ran the math. They were spending $3.2 million annually on cloud services. After investing $700,000 in their own servers, their yearly infrastructure bill dropped below $1 million. Projected savings: $10 million over five years. Same team. Better performance. Owned assets.

Dropbox did it earlier and bigger: $75 million saved over two years. Their gross margins doubled from 33% to 67%.

GEICO learned the hard way. After a decade of cloud migration, their bills hit 2.5x projections while reliability got worse. They're now repatriating to open-source infrastructure and cutting costs by 50% per compute core.

Mature companies, reclaiming margin that was being extracted by vendors.

Rent Builds Their Wealth. Ownership Builds Yours.

Every month you pay Salesforce, HubSpot, or AWS, you're financing their data centers, their shareholders, their growth. At the end of ten years, you own nothing. The moment you stop paying, the tools vanish.

Self-hosted infrastructure flips that equation. The server you buy today is still running in year five, fully depreciated, still productive, still yours. The open-source CRM doesn't send invoices. The analytics platform you control can't lock you out of your own data.

Ownership means rejecting the assumption that renting forever is the only option.

What's Your Number?

Add up your monthly SaaS subscriptions. Multiply by 120. That's ten years of rent. Now ask: what would it cost to own the equivalent? What could you build with the difference?

If you don't know the answer, that's the conversation worth having.

Our Core Values

Digital Sovereignty

  • Own Your Tools: Use software you control, not rent

  • Control Your Data: Your information stays on your infrastructure

  • Escape Vendor Lock-in: Freedom to migrate, modify, and evolve

Human-Centered AI

  • Human in the Loop: AI augments, humans decide

  • Task Replacement: Automate work, not workers

  • Creative Amplification: Technology serves human potential

Operational Excellence

  • Simplicity: Complex problems, simple solutions

  • Efficiency: Measure and optimize systematically

  • Value-Based: Pay only for what serves your goals

  • Self-Hosting: Run locally when possible, cloud when practical

Productivity Philosophy

  • Systems Thinking: Build processes that scale

  • Automation First: If it's repetitive, automate it

  • Focus Protection: Eliminate busywork to enable deep work

  • Continuous Improvement: Track, measure, and optimize relentlessly

Self-Hosted Solutions

Whether it's on-premise or off-site hosting, we're here to help.

On-Premise Hosting

Migrate platforms and services to your private control.

Managed Hosting / Managed Private Server (Off-Site)

Providers handle setup, updates, backups, security.

VPS (Virtual Private Server) Hosting (Off-Site)

Partial resource isolation and customization, more affordable than dedicated servers, but user manages OS/setup.

Self-Hosted AI Knowledgebase (RAG)

"We want to use AI with our company knowledge, but can't trust OpenAI/cloud providers with confidential data"

We install a done-for-you self-hosted RAG system that you own.

(Ollama + vector DB + Document Search + simple interface)

Privacy-First Google Analytics Replacement

"Google Analytics is bloated, privacy-invasive, and we might lose access to our data"

Managed Plausible/Matomo/Umami hosting + migration service

Helping you achieve digital sovereignty through open-source solutions and human-centered AI automation.

Self-Hosting + Privacy + Automation

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