Local-first AI only works if many institutions take part: some bring capacity, some bring data that never leaves them, some keep the whole thing honest. Here is who does what.
What they bring: Participation in shared training. Hospitals, banks, cooperatives and agencies keep their records on their own hardware.
What they get: Better models than any one institution could train alone, with no records handed over.
What they bring: Guidance on what evidence of compliance should look like, and test cases from real oversight work.
What they get: Systems that produce checkable evidence by design, instead of compliance paperwork after the fact.
What they bring: Co-authorship, independent testing and critique of our methods and claims.
What they get: Open papers, shared datasets where the law allows, and credit for the work.
What they bring: Bug reports, code and ideas on our open-source tools.
What they get: Tools that are free to use, starting with rfgrep, and a say in what we build next.
This page describes the partners we are looking for. We will name partners here only once they have agreed to be named.
Tell us which role fits and what you have in mind. Developers can start on GitHub today.