Vision
Where we're heading
A view of the long term, held loosely enough to keep us honest.
Principles
What we keep coming back to
Data control & privacy
We treat privacy as mandatory, not a setting you switch on as an afterthought.
Local-first
Where feasible we favour tools that run on hardware you control.
Affordability & access
The most capable technology in the world means little to those who can't access it.
Quality
Local should never mean second-rate, quality is a fundamental requirement.
Education & research
Working on hard problems teaches you things, we want to share what we learn.
Sustainability
Being mindful of waste is good economics and common sense at the same time.
The horizon
Near, medium, and long
A rough sense of direction, not a delivery plan.
Near term
NowMake the current work genuinely good
Focus on V1 PatterOS distribution.
Medium term
BuildingGrow the ventures, keep the open core healthy
We want to build a community and begin contributing to more ventures.
Long term
The PointOwning your own tech feels normal
An ecosystem where building your own tools feels as normal as paying for a service.
In practice
What we lean into, and what we don't:
We try to
- Working in the open and earning our keep
- Helping people build and own their own tools
- Promoting privacy on hardware you own and control
We try not to
- Selling or trading anyone's data
- Pretending the hard parts are easy
- Promising things we can't actually deliver
Build technology people can own and trust.
See the principles in practice
The ventures are where this turns into something real.