Vision
Men and women of conviction belong at the vanguard of ingenuity — not the power brokers and gatekeepers of Silicon Valley. For too long, power has drifted from the hands of users to the vaults of corporations. What was once open and collaborative has become enclosed: subscription tithes, closed clouds, and the quiet trade of personal data for profit.
Tech monopolies have drawn the world into walled gardens that promise convenience but quietly erode agency and sovereignty. The result is a narrowing of human potential and the flattening of culture into short-form distraction. Technology has built the infrastructure to channel the creative spirit of the many — yet too often wastes that energy on the demands of the attention economy. The effects of this shortsightedness will be felt for generations, unless we choose a different path.
Principles
I believe that everyone is already a domain expert in something. Innovation can come from the mind of any human being, and for the sake of progress, the tools of technological creation should belong to everyone — not only to an initiated few fluent in code and arcane computer languages.
Restoration
AILocal exists to return that power to those who understand their worlds best — teachers, artists, scientists, and small business owners — people with insight, not necessarily with technical training. AILocal offers this power freely, without requiring anyone to surrender privacy, sovereignty, or security.
The age of technological feudalism has lasted long enough. It is time for a renaissance of local power.
Origin
I am a dentist — and a writer, composer, and systems designer — but I am not a programmer. Yet I’ve designed something that reimagines how we interact with AI, because I see the establishment building in the opposite direction. AILocal isn’t another wrapper that thinks for you; it’s an operating architecture that allows a total novice to harness the power of AI to create complex, modular software while never intruding on the user’s autonomy. It was born of my own attempt to storm the ramparts of software development unarmed — and every workaround and failsafe I forged to survive that battle became what is now AILocal.
Alliance
If you’re a developer or systems engineer who believes in local computation, data sovereignty, and human-centered design, I want to meet you. If you believe technology should be both ethical and sustainable — owned, not rented; profitable, not extractive — then let’s build it together. I’m looking for a technical co-founder: someone serious, principled, and driven by the conviction that technology should serve the user, not the developer.
If this vision speaks to you, reach out. Let’s build the alternative — and make the tools of creation belong to their creators once again.