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What you can buy, what you can try, and the thinking behind it. No sign-up, no passwords, no access codes.

What you can buy

Grouped as they are on our pricing page.

Families · Communities & Clubs · Village Small Business · AML/CTF record · Governance & Regulated

Every Village type in production has its own shopfront — a welcome page written for people who are not members yet, at that Village's own address. The Village AI answers questions on the shopfront itself, so you can put questions to it before you subscribe.

One flat price per Village. Twenty-five members included at the entry level, two hundred at the top. Koha if the price is a barrier — written on the page, not something you have to ask for.

Two are off the price list on purpose. Village Kāhui Māori is by arrangement rather than at a listed price: a kaupapa Māori Village should be set up with the people it is for, not sold off a rate card. Village Mortgage Lender is demo and conversation only until the regulatory position is cleared.

Prices and inclusions

What you can try

Grouped as they are on our landing page. Every Village type runs an open demo.

A guest session lasts thirty minutes: no account, and a few questions you can put to the Village AI. Anything you change is rolled back overnight, and nothing asks you to register.

Belonging and everyday life

Community · Whānau · Family · Clubs · Committee · Alumni · Episcopal · Diaspora · Carpool

The same system underneath, different words on top. A new kind of Village is set up, not built from scratch — and here they are, running.

A walk through the Village web app — eight stops, each explained →

Deliberation and governance

Village Assembly · Open Floor · Membership · Kāhui Māori · Deliberation Village

AI rehearses the argument; the people in the room decide; the record seals.

Deliberation Village — a worked demonstration on a contested question →

Party Messaging — a worked demonstration of speaking with one voice through many people →

Enterprise and livelihood

Small Business · Business Copilot · Homeground · Mortgage Lender · Recruitment · Conservation · Certification

The same platform carrying an ordinary working day: quotes, invoices, obligations.

Knowledge and intelligence

Village AI · Governance Academy · Sovereign Database

The situated language layer, and the option of a database of your own.

Two worth opening even if you open nothing else. Homeground puts the questions a buyer has — and the ones they end up putting to a property lawyer — in the open, and puts agents on a fixed fee, competing for the buyer rather than the sale. Recruitment keeps every shortlist and rejection on the record with its reasons. Both show what happens when an ordinary industry is redesigned around a record that cannot be quietly rewritten, and both were built by one person with AI, not by a funded team.

Index of all demos

Joined, not merged

Villages can link up — share a question, run a decision across many rooms, pass word between communities — while each keeps its own members, its own record, its own rules. Nothing is pooled; nothing is swallowed.

Nothing crosses between Villages without consent at both ends: a Village must turn federation on, and so must each conversation. Both default to off. A federation card carries a display name and a Village name, and nothing else.

How federation works

Check it for yourself

We claim a record that does not depend on trusting us. These let you test that rather than take our word for it.

  • The offline verifier is one small file. It runs on your machine, calls nothing home, and tells you whether a sealed record is intact. Where a signer is named by a certificate-based identity (did:x509), it also tells you whether that certificate leads back to a certificate authority you supply, at a time you give it. It does not check revocation.
  • The offline verifier is the part you can hold. Point it at any sealed record a Village publishes to you and it checks the signature on your own machine, with no call back to us. Change one character of the record and it fails.
How it governs itself
  • The governance layer runs in production, not in a policy document. Boundary, verification and deliberation checks run on every member post as it is written, with a second set inside the AI help path. Every consultation is timed and recorded.
  • The guardians are deterministic rules, not models — the system that checks the AI is not itself AI. Loosening a safety threshold demands more confidence than tightening one.
  • Cultural boundaries are enforced in the code. Content can be marked tapu, restricted, contextual, seasonal or relationship-bound; handling ranges from adding context to blocking AI entirely or escalating to a named authority. The code states the limit: an AI system cannot determine tapu status — that requires human cultural authority.
  • Licence-aware AI. The platform recognises the Kaitiakitanga Māori Data Sovereignty Licence alongside Creative Commons and custom terms, blocks AI processing of restricted content, and carries licence metadata into exports so the obligations survive the copy.
  • Equity telemetry. Measured: whether some kinds of community consistently get worse service from the AI than others, reported at product-type level rather than per community.
  • Data-rights requests run on a queue with statutory deadlines. Withdrawing consent follows through into what the AI derived from you — AI memories, help feedback, triage corrections. Erasure destroys the record's key and leaves a signed proof of deletion.
The thinking behind it

How the AI is built, and why it is small

  • Village AI as a Situated Language Layer — from generic models to a language layer that sits inside a community, and the architecture that came out of it.
  • What Is AI, Really? A Guide for Community and Not-for-Profit Leaders — the primer the series stands on.

How it is held accountable

  • Why We Built Guardian Agents — the incident, the recursive-trust problem, and the architecture that answers it.
  • EU AI Act risk classification and management — the platform mapped against Regulation 2024/1689, with a residual-risk table that concedes what is not eliminated. Available on request.
  • A Smaller Room Than You Think and Village AI as a Situated Language Layer are also published in te reo Māori — machine-assisted, marked as such, corrections invited.

Sovereignty, and what it costs to be serious about it

  • The Other 190 — why the countries outside the AI powers need a different answer.
  • In Our Own Hands — the policy proposal.
  • One Question, Many Rooms (and the slides) · Many Rooms, Any Question — federated deliberation without merging anyone's data.
  • Succession — a published plan for what happens to the constitution, the framework and the te Tiriti commitments when the founder is no longer here. A charitable trust is named in it, and no approach has been made yet.

Deliberation in practice

  • The Empty Chair — a published run where a seat was left empty rather than filled with a synthetic voice, and what that cost the deliberation.
  • Federation in Practice: Community Carpooling — the same machinery on an ordinary problem.
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