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§ 00 — IndexIDX / 2026
Now building

Decent
Tech.

Building ethical, decentralized infrastructure — sustainable AI, community networking, off-grid power, and practical systems for compassion, sovereignty, and continuity.
Open SourceField TestedLocal FirstDecentralized
◆ GREENSTONE O.I.◆ KAIRN◆ FREEBIRD MESH◆ EPOD◆ ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE◆ GUARDIAN GRID◆ PROJECT LIGHTWEAVE◆ RELEASE WAVE 01◆ GREENSTONE O.I.◆ KAIRN◆ FREEBIRD MESH◆ EPOD◆ ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE◆ GUARDIAN GRID◆ PROJECT LIGHTWEAVE◆ RELEASE WAVE 01
§ 00 — Premise· · ·
We build software for people and places— not for extraction, attention, or scale for its own sake.
§ 01.5 — Featured/ GS-01Currently in Alpha

Greenstone.

The world's most sustainable AI — a.k.a. your new best friend.

A decentralized, local-first companion preloaded with open-source models. Wire your tools together, run offline, and skip massive datacenters when you don't need them.

  • ◆Connects tools so you can skip massive datacenters.
  • ◆Preloaded with local, offline, open-source models.
  • ◆100% capable of running off-grid and fully autonomously.
  • ◆Build Molecules · condense them into Kairnel stones.
Open the Greenstone page →Request alpha ↗
The Greenstone — a low-poly stone with green sprouts and a glowing eye
gs.stone / 001organic intelligence
Greenstone canvas with multiple connected chat windows
§ 01.7 — Orchestrator/ KR-02BUILDING

Kairn.

A minimalist orchestrator for models, agents, and flows.

Named for the hiking trail cairns hikers leave to mark the way — small stones, stacked thoughtfully. Compose multiple models, agents, and agentic flows from a single, calm interface. No dashboards. No noise. Just the path.

  • ◆Route across providers and local models from one canvas.
  • ◆Agents as cairns — small, legible, stackable.
  • ◆Condense Greenstone Molecules into Kairnel stones.
  • ◆Pebble · Stone · Open view modes for any density.
Open the Kairn spec →
Kairn control panel — Greenstone routed through Hermes, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code
KR-02 / control.panel
Kairn system configuration — Kairnel view modes: pebble, stone, open
KR-02 / system.config
kr.ui / 001 · 002minimalist ai orchestration
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§ 01.6 — Guardian Grid hardware/ FB-03 · EP-04

When the centralized grid stumbles,
your neighborhood keeps talking.

Two pieces of open hardware, designed to work together — a decentralized mesh radio that survives outages, and a balcony-scale power station that keeps it fed.

Freebird decentralized mesh node — wooden bird with solar wing on a mossy branch
FB-03
Mesh nodeBUILDING

Freebird

A small wooden bird that sits on a branch and keeps your neighborhood talking — open hardware for a decentralized community mesh.

read specGuardian Grid
ePod on a balcony — vertical-axis wind turbine, solar panel, battery, and mesh radio
EP-04
w/ SolarScape
Power + meshBUILDING

ePod

Balcony-scale off-grid station — vertical-axis wind turbine, solar panel, battery, and an embedded Freebird mesh node. Decent leads concept and design alongside the SolarScape team.

read specGuardian Grid

Both feed into Guardian Grid — a decentralized backup grid woven from neighborhood-scale nodes.

See the Guardian Grid initiative →
§ 02 — Initiativesfour streams · one mission
◉ four orbits
one center
of gravity
A small cosmology
of useful work.
I-01initiative

Organic Intelligence

Sustainable, local-first AI.

I-02initiative

Guardian Grid

Mesh + solar resilience.

I-03initiative

Project Lightweave

Indigenous tech sovereignty.

I-04initiative

Civic Accountability

Watching the watchers.

Open the initiatives map →
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◉ The discipline · field manual

Decentralized infrastructure is a practice.

Five principles we hold ourselves to on every project. Move through them — each one is a constraint we accept before a line of code is written.

01 / 05
01

Local-first by default

Software runs on the device, in the home, on the block — before it ever reaches a datacenter. Data stays where it is generated unless there is a clear reason to move it.

In practice
Latency: ~5ms LAN vs ~80ms cloud round-trip
§ 02.5 — What we believefour convictions, on rotation
◉ Conviction
These rotate every few seconds. Hover to pause and read. Each one shapes a design decision somewhere in the stack.
All of them, written down →
§ 01 · Accountability

Powerful systems must be understandable, governable, and answerable to consequence.

◉ Threshold era

We need a future that is not merely more automated, but more decent.

The tools now emerging will shape culture, power, memory, governance, labor, and daily life. In such a moment, technical capability alone is not enough. We need better foundations.

Read the full manifesto →
§ 03 — Correspondsignal welcome

Build with us.

Open-source designs, field-ready kits, partnerships, and incubated mission projects — adopted locally, governed transparently.

All channels →
Email
hey@decenttechnologies.org ↗