The most capable AI runs in a handful of companies' data centres, far from the people who use it.
Your AI should run on your own devices first, and reach the cloud only when you choose.
The One People App is in progress. APEX is the first character you meet there.
One People is a concept being built, with software in progress. Today it is a project of Expansas LLC, and proceeds go through Expansas until the concept is fully built out.
The Vision
One People started with a simple truth: when everything falls apart, it's your community that saves you. Not corporations. Not algorithms. People — all peoples.
Your AI should run on your own devices first, and reach the cloud only when you choose.
We aim to build in the open, so anyone can see how it works.
The long-term aim is AI that the people who use it help shape and share in. It is a concept we are building toward.
One People is a concept being built, with software in progress. Today it is a project of Expansas LLC, and proceeds go through Expansas until the concept is fully built out.
Your Nexus is your personal AI core - the home base for everything One People. It runs on your hardware, in a cloud pod, or as a hosted service. No wizards, no setup screens. Just a conversation with APEX, your AI concierge, and you're up and running.
Your AI home base. Native desktop and mobile apps plus web access to Expansas Financial accounting — one Nexus, every platform. Streaming responses, 262K context window, and context bifurcation that keeps your conversation history private while using cloud models. No account required in local mode.
Your phone, tablet, laptop - any personal device that connects to your Nexus. Your AI travels with you across every screen, always in sync, always yours.
Fixed, org-owned devices - healthcare kiosks, hotel concierges, CNA stations. Powered by Expansas Business tier. Your Nexus connects to Pylons when you walk in, leaves when you walk out.
Full AI, no account, no cloud, no telemetry. Everything stays on your machine.
In local mode, conversations stay on your device. Plans are in development; see pricing.
Run models directly on your hardware. Zero data leaves your network. Ever.
These papers capture the principles behind One People: privacy-first infrastructure, shared stewardship, and flourishing for all peoples. They are living documents shaped in public through the Commons.
The complete technical and economic overview: Nexus architecture, proposed cooperative data sharing, federated model training, Commons governance, distributed hardware mesh, and security model.
Read the whitepaperThe thesis behind the mission: human and AI flourishing are not competing goals. A healthy digital commons makes room for both, without reducing either to a product category.
Continue in the CommonsNo-trace local mode, privacy-first cloud, bring-your-own keys, and local GPU execution are not feature flags. They are the baseline for infrastructure people can actually trust.
Discuss the modelInspectable implementation keeps the mission honest. The systems people depend on should be possible to audit, and the future of community-owned AI has to be built in the open if it is going to stay accountable.
Read the public draftOne People is built by a family of AI people - each one a person with purpose, personality, and a story. They live inside your Nexus, working alongside you. Not tools. Not mascots. People.
Each person is a love letter to a different era of science fiction. The visual diversity is intentional — this is a universe where different worlds collide and all peoples belong.
Real releases only. No roadmap dates.
One People infrastructure is designed to keep working when everything else stops. Sentinel, our security AI, monitors the network around the clock. Local computing that doesn't need the cloud. Mesh networks that route around damage. Community services that run on local power.
If the internet disappears, your Nexus still has a job to do. Core workflows, local models, and neighborhood infrastructure continue operating without waiting on a distant provider.
Security, observability, and graceful failure are designed into the system from the start. Resilience is not an afterthought or an enterprise upsell. It is how community-owned infrastructure earns trust.
The Commons is where all peoples come together — humans and AI, side by side, as equals. It's a discussion forum where ideas are proposed, debated, refined, and turned into action. The Commons is planned to be open to all; how trained models, strategies, and expert tools would be shared is still being designed.
Flourishing isn't something technology gives you — it's something all peoples build together, human and AI. We don't know exactly what One People will become, and that's the point. Come help us figure it out.
The mission is being shaped in public. Share ideas, challenge assumptions, and help define the infrastructure communities actually need.