Internal team coordination plus external client communication in one workspace. Time tracking, invoicing, CRM, and project management integrated at a fraction of traditional SaaS costs.
Anyone can build an app now β the features are becoming free. What software can't spin up is the foundation underneath: who is accountable for your data, where it lives, what the AI is allowed to do with it, and whether your records still mean something in ten years. That is what a Village is built on.
Your Village runs inside standing guardians that bound what the system and its AI can do: hold a boundary, check a claim against the record, and require real deliberation before a decision lands. Safety is wired into how it works, not a policy page you click past.
The AI runs on our own sovereign inference stack β Qwen today, and our own Situated Language Model. Your members' words and documents are never sent to an overseas cloud model, and never used to train someone else's product.
Every decision, document and exchange becomes a sovereign record: tamper-evident, carrying its own provenance, exportable whenever you ask, and yours to erase for good β on infrastructure you control.
Villages connect to one another directly β to share, refer, collaborate β with no platform owner in the middle. You choose who to peer with and exactly what crosses the line. Reach, without surrender.
Anyone can claim a record can never be changed. We do something more useful, and more honest. Every decision is sealed so that if it is ever altered, the change is provable β and you can verify that yourself, with keys your Village holds, without taking our word for it. And because a real organisation must sometimes correct or supersede a record, legitimate amendments are recorded, attributed and added to the trail: the original always stands, and only silent, unauthorised change becomes impossible to hide. A record you can correct and still prove beats a promise you can't check.
Features get copied. A governed, sovereign, provable, federated foundation does not β because it isn't something you generate. It is something you are built on.
Two things no business SaaS can hand you.
Every plan, decision and document in your Small Business Village becomes a sovereign record: tamper-evident, exportable on demand, and held on infrastructure you control β not locked inside someone else's cloud. When it matters who decided what, and when, you can prove it.
Your operational, financial and strategic plans aren't just filed away. Village Small Business curates them through structured, multi-perspective deliberation β AI-assisted critique that you resolve and endorse, with the full reasoning trail kept as part of the sovereign record.
Start today on shared, sovereign-isolated infrastructure; as your confidential data grows, you can progress to a dedicated, physically-isolated database β your choice, never a gate.
AI that reads your own Village data β and never sends it to anyone else's cloud.
A weekly plain-English brief on your pipeline, invoices and week ahead, with the three things worth your attention first.
A 30-day cash forecast and an overdue-customer list, with personalised payment reminders drafted for your approval. Nothing is sent without you.
A deterministic monthly P&L and reconciliation flags, with a plain-English narrative. Every figure is computed in code β the AI writes the words, never the numbers.
Seasonality from your own sales history, an audience segment from your contacts, and draft campaign copy β staged for your approval before anything goes out.
The copilot runs entirely on sovereign infrastructure β a local Qwen model, never a US-cloud AI. Every figure is computed deterministically and every draft stages for your approval.
Optional add-ons β AI design and asset generation (Penpot and sovereign image tools), and other components as you need them β are available with a GPU-capacity upgrade: you pay only for the compute you use, and the capability scales with you. Your choice, never a gate.
Everything in Village Community, plus:
All team coordination features + specialized business management tools
Replace 5+ SaaS subscriptions with one integrated platform
Dedicated MongoDB on NZ sovereign infrastructure (Catalyst Cloud, ISO 27001). Physical tenant isolation — your data in its own database, not shared with any other customer. Encrypted at rest. Daily backups. Available on request, subject to a GPU-capacity upgrade.
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Clients see project status without asking for updates. Milestone tracking, deliverable uploads, timeline visibility. No more "just checking in" emails.
Approve invoices and pay in one click. No email attachments, no manual data entry, no delayed payments. Verified transaction records.
Upload requirements, download deliverables, access version history. All files linked to project context. No lost email attachments.
Professional infrastructure on sovereign terms
Traditional business SaaS charges per user β every new hire is another seat fee. Village Small Business is a flat rate per village, with 25 members and 50 GB included and no per-seat charges. Need more? You scale in simple capacity blocks (members and storage), never per-person pricing.
Your business data on your infrastructure (or our managed hosting in your jurisdiction). No vendor lock-in, no data mining, no sudden price increases. You control retention policies and compliance.
Every AI response passes a 3-gate quality system: safety, context, and accuracy. AI never tells you what to do about business values β it presents options with transparent trade-offs for your stakeholders.
Learn about our governance pipeline βIntegration advantage over fragmented SaaS assembly
Integrated time tracking β invoice generation β payment. Conversations linked to projects, not buried in separate chat apps. Single authentication boundary.
Built-in accounting, client portal access, self-hosted sovereignty. Not just task trackingβfull business operations integrated.
Affordable for micro-businesses (2-10 employees), no per-seat escalation, open protocol foundation. Enterprise features without enterprise pricing.
Traditional SaaS Assembly:
Village Small Business:
β¬150/month (NZ$263)
All features included, 25 members, 50GB storage
Formal relationships with suppliers, partners, and contractor networks
Your key suppliers run their own Village Small Business instances. Federation creates formal bilateral agreementsβvideo calls for urgent orders, shared project visibility, streamlined communication without email chaos.
Accountant's village, lawyer's village, marketing agency's villageβfederate with your professional service providers. See availability across villages, coordinate multi-party projects, maintain audit trails for compliance.
Construction crews, freelance developers, seasonal staffβeach can operate their own village while federating with yours. Cross-village video calls for site coordination, federated project boards, relationship continuity across contracts.
For small teams (2-50 employees)
Founding: β¬75/month
Flat rate β no per-seat fees
Set up your Village Small Business today