Gatekeeper
Lets in members only and hands out tasks. The only way to the Brain. Today it runs the chat, the files and the automation.
A small Linux server
Why
Today, we rent our intelligence.
Every question your family or your business asks lives in someone else’s data centre. Small communities and small businesses have become consumers of other people’s thinking.
What if neighbours built a brain of their own? Not metaphorically. Boxes, cables, a cellar — and rules we agree on ourselves.
What it is
Three boxes, three roles.
The Gatekeeper lets people in, the Memory keeps the data, the Brain does the thinking — and each piece can be swapped without touching the others.
Memory
Files, data, backups — for everyone. It remembers what matters, even while the Brain sleeps.
NAS · 64 TB · planned
Brain
Answers, writes, computes.
up to 8 boxes
It all fits in one cellar and belongs to the community. No server room, no air conditioning — in winter, the cluster heats the place.
What it’s for
Four things you get.
Helper
Work, letters, translations, summaries, spreadsheets, help with school. For your business and your family, day and night.
Creativity
Stories, poems, games, ideas. An AI with time for silly stuff too — no counting credits.
Community
A shared project of neighbours and friends. We learn to work with agents together, and we have our own chat and shared files.
Privacy
Only your AI reads what you write. No big corporations, no ads, no profile of you.
The same class of models you know from the internet — it just runs here, and we play by our own rules.
Privacy
The Brain is shared — conversations aren’t.
Private rooms in the [matrix] chat are end-to-end encrypted: not even the server can read them; only members hold the keys.
Privacy here isn’t meant to be a promise in the terms of use. It’s meant to be configuration. The Brain is designed with no route to the internet, so even a broken model would have nowhere to send data. A model can only propose an action — the Gatekeeper carries it out, after checking who’s asking.
Status: we’re building the Brain’s disconnection from the internet in phase two. Until it’s finished and proven by testing, we don’t claim it works.
Bring a box
Bring a box — the Brain grows.
Your ticket in is a box of your own: 128 GB of memory, 240 W. You plug it into the shared Brain, but it doesn’t dissolve into it — it stays yours.
2 of 8 slots taken · 1,024 GB in total when full
- The power of the whole Brain, not just your own box.
- Your box stays yours — take it home whenever you like. Leaving means pulling a cable, not fighting over a contract.
- Two boxes per member at most — nobody takes over the Brain.
- Overheads are split monthly by the tokens used. No flat fee.
- On your own you have 128–256 GB. Together you have 1,024 GB — and the whole community benefits.
We’ll agree the membership rules together. This is a proposal, not a price list.
The full build in numbers
Bigger on the inside, modest on the outside.
8
boxeseach smaller than a shoebox
1,024 GB
of memory for AIlike eight top-end laptops in one brain
1 kettle
peak power draw1,920 W — less than an electric kettle
300
people it can carryestimate: 150–300 members, 40–80 of them at once
The figures are for eight boxes; the numbers of people are an estimate, not a measurement.
Budget
The whole thing costs less than the village tractor.
| Amount | Phase | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| €40,700 | the whole plan | From the first box to the full build of eight. |
| €9,900 | phase 1 · spent and ordered | The first two boxes, the Gatekeeper, encrypted chat and shared files. |
| €5,480 | phase 2 · expansion | The community Memory (NAS), isolating the Brain, and networking. |
| €25,320 | phase 3 · full build | Growing to eight boxes — only if the community grows. |
A small business can buy one or two boxes on its own. Eight neighbours together have a brain none of them would have alone. It looks like building a cluster — it’s building a community.
Status
Where we are today.
- Phase 1 · nowThe Gatekeeper and the first boxesThe Gatekeeper is up: the community [matrix] chat, shared files, automation and the first agent.
- Phase 2 · nextMemory and isolationThe community Memory (NAS), cutting the Brain off from the internet and verifying it, and an encrypted path to the models. It starts once the first boxes’ performance has been measured.
- Phase 3 · visionEight boxesThe full 1,024 GB build, open to the whole community. Only if measurements confirm it will be used and there’s real interest — otherwise, nothing is bought.
Every expansion comes after measurement, not enthusiasm. Phase three is a vision, not a commitment.
Join in
This isn’t a manual for one village.
It’s a manual for your street and your business. The whole plan is public under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
- Come and see.We’ll show you the boxes live — the hardware, the isolation and the whole path from question to answer.
- Pay only for what you use.Monthly, by your own tokens. The Brain grows exactly as fast as trust does.
A whole in which no one is lost.
Your data. Your model. Your rack.