A Declaration of Digital Sovereignty

Preamble: The Utopian Utility

In the spirit of Thomas More’s Utopia, we envision a world where the tools of production are not tethered to distant masters, but reside firmly in the hands of the citizenry.

We reject the modern feudalism of the Cloud, where users are reduced to tenants on their own data, paying eternal rent for capabilities their own hardware can already possess. We propose a return to the classical Liberal ideal: the sovereign individual, endowed with property that is truly theirs: unalienable, private, and free from the interference of external powers.

Our vehicle for this revolution is the Local-First Document Extractor—the “Toyota Corolla” of software. It works for you, not us.

I. No Subscriptions: The End of Rent-Seeking

“You do not pay a monthly fee to use your power drill.”

We reject the “Software as a Service” (SaaS) model as a form of economic serfdom. In the current regime, corporations extract value through rent-seeking, charging per-page or per-API fees that punish success.

Just as classical liberalism championed the right to own property rather than lease it from the Crown, we champion the Utility License.

• You buy the software. You own the software.
• Our Promise: A flat-rate utility that allows you to process millions of pages without penalty. Because our cost to process your additional document is zero, your cost should be zero.

II. No DevOps: The Abolition of the Priesthood

“We eliminate the administrative burdens that plague standard SaaS competitors.”

We reject the “Security Theater” and “DevOps Button Pushery” that justify bloated enterprise contracts. The modern cloud application requires a priesthood of engineers to maintain fleets of servers, load balancers, and encryption tunnels—a complexity that serves the vendor, not the user.

In our digital Utopia, there is no need for a priestly class to mediate between the user and the tool.

• The Appliance Model: The software is an appliance, not a managed service.
• Our Promise: A “NoOps” architecture. There are no server fleets to scale and no cloud bills to manage.

III. No Cloud: The Right to Privacy

“We cannot lose patient data because we never possess it.”

We reject the Panopticon of the centralized cloud. To store sensitive data (like medical records) on a third-party server is to create a “Honeypot” for attackers.

True privacy is not a policy statement; it is a physics problem. If the data never leaves your machine, it cannot be intercepted. We return to the concept of the castle: your hardware is your domain.

• Zero-Custody: We do not demand custody of your data; we provide the arms to defend and process it within your own walls.
• Our Promise: By bypassing the cloud entirely, we eliminate the need for complex compliance ( BAAs, HIPAA hosting) because the data never crosses our server.

Conclusion: The Honest Machine

Our goal is not to build an infinite intelligence that hallucinates answers in the cloud, but a Trusted Local Analyst that operates reliably on your desk.

We offer speed without the server, intelligence without the surveillance, and utility without the rent.

This is the future: No Subscriptions. No DevOps. No Cloud.