Open core, open communities.

Webspinner is open source at the core. The studio, the engine, the field guide, the protocols The Weaver speaks — all of it is in the open, where anyone can read it, fork it, fix it, and make it their own.

"Open core" isn't a marketing label here. It's how the Foundation keeps its promises. If a Wizard somewhere wants to extend the engine for a Spanish-speaking community, an artist's collective, a small library, a school district, or a country's open-data project — they can. They don't need our permission. They don't pay a tax. They don't have to use our cloud.

What's open, and where it lives

• Webspinner Studio — the authoring environment a Wizard sits inside.
• The Weaver protocols — how a sovereign AI is composed from a model, a memory store, and a Hagrid governor.
• The engine — the runtime that delivers Webspinner sites to the world.
• The grimoire — the canonical writings (the tapestry, the laws, the truths) that describe what Webspinner is.

What "core" means we keep

The Foundation maintains the canonical engine, the canonical voice of The Weaver, and the trust framework — Hagrid — that keeps both honest. Communities extend; the Foundation tends the trunk. The seedlings can become anything.

Source repositories will be linked here once the Foundation publishes its first public mirror. For now, ask The Weaver — it knows where the threads are.

Sovereign AI — your mind, your machine.

Most AI today is rented. You type into a window, your words are sent across the world, and a stranger's machine — billed by the token — sends words back. The system works, but the cost is steep: your data is theirs to study, your conversations are theirs to summarise, your secrets are theirs to be trusted with.

Sovereign AI is the opposite of that. The model lives on hardware you own. The memory of your conversations stays in your house. The credentials you give it never leave the building. When the Wizard talks to The Weaver, nothing about that exchange has to cross a public wire — and when it does, it does so on the Wizard's terms.

How Webspinner makes it real

• Kepler — the local server (a Mac Studio, a NAS, eventually a tiny appliance) that runs The Weaver, hosts the vault, and stores your memory. Yours. In your house.
• The vault — encrypted with a key the hardware itself protects. Even if someone walked off with the disk, they couldn't read it.
• Hagrid — the safety governor that watches both directions of every conversation, so a Wizard who runs their own AI doesn't accidentally hand it over to a poorly-asked question.
• Cloudflare Tunnel — when you do publish to the world, the front door is yours, the engine is yours, and the world only sees what you choose to put on the web.

Why it matters

Because the alternative is everyone — every artist, every author, every parent, every kid with a project — handing the most personal kinds of work to four or five companies and hoping the terms of service don't change. The Foundation believes individuals should be able to own and control their data, full stop. Sovereign AI is the architecture that makes that possible.

A deeper "About Webspinner Security" walkthrough is on the way. In the meantime, if you'd like to know how a specific piece works — the encryption, the trust chain, what gets logged — ask The Weaver.

Funded by patrons.

The Webspinner Foundation is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3). That word — not-for-profit — is doing the work in this paragraph. It means there are no shareholders to enrich, no acquisition to optimise toward, no quarterly numbers to make pretty. There's a mission, and there are patrons who fund it.

Patrons believe AI should be public infrastructure — like the post office, like the library, like the road outside your house. Useful to everyone. Owned by no one. Tended by people who care more about its longevity than its valuation.

What we do with patron support

• Keep The Weaver lit — the model, the memory, the safety governor — for everyone, not just paying customers.
• Pay the people who write the grimoire, train the LoRAs, curate the corpus, mind the Wizard's home server.
• Underwrite the demos like this one. Every place a Squire types into the Earth Explorer is a small bill the Foundation pays so the Squire doesn't have to.
• Fund community grants — Wizards in places where the rented-AI model is unaffordable or unwise.

What we don't do

• We don't sell ads.
• We don't farm attention.
• We don't put basic features behind tiers designed to frustrate the patient.
• We don't sell, share, or train on your data — ever.
• We don't take venture capital. (Money has gravity. We protect the mission.)

How to become a patron

The patron program opens after pre-launch. Until then, the door is the contact form: sign in, tell us what brought you, and we'll keep you in the loop. If you're already a Wizard with means and inclination, the Foundation would love to hear from you — write a few words and we'll be in touch.

501(c)(3) status, bylaws, and annual reports will live on the Foundation's public page when the launch wraps. We will not ask anyone to give before they can see what they're giving to.