The vision
We’re building a workspace you can use today and a shared data layer for tools people can make tomorrow. The essays explain why ownership, open systems, and consent matter to that work.
Permanence
A notebook still opens when the shop that sold it closes. Software should offer that same ordinary kind of ownership. Keeping the master copy on your device is the beginning. Open formats, backups, and a usable way out are what make it meaningful.
The Hundred-Year Machine →
Interdependence
A forest makes room for more than one species. We want the same of our tools: different views and different ways of working, growing around data people can share by choice. The open protocol is the common ground. A richer ecosystem is what we hope people will grow on it.
Data Should Work Like Soil →
Creative agency
Some of the most interesting things people make were never on the original product roadmap. A new view. A small tool. A way of working nobody thought to prescribe. xNet’s source, schemas, and plugin foundations are an invitation to change the tools you use.
The Workshop and the Walled Garden →
Consent & control
A useful tool lets you see what happened and change course. Our work on AI starts from that obligation: permission before action, changes with an author, and a record people can understand. The foundations exist. Making that feel natural in daily use is still ahead of us.
Hand on the Tiller →
The commons
A community’s value lives in its people, their knowledge, and the things they make together. We want those things to survive a change of host. Portable identity, shared tools, and an open commons are part of the longer journey, built on a workspace people actually use.
The World’s Greatest Record Store →
A more humane web
Software doesn’t need to turn every pause into a problem. The essays on calm, attention, and the right to leave shape the kind of product we want to make. Our charter puts those intentions on the record, alongside the code that backs them and the gaps that remain.
Timeout →The charter records what the code enforces, what the architecture supports, and what remains unfinished.
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