One People is an idea Expansas is building. Today: the One People App and APEX, in testing.
The most capable AI runs in a handful of companies' data centres, far from the people who use it.
Your AI should run on your own devices first, and reach the cloud only when you choose.
The One People App is in progress. APEX is the first character you meet there.
One People is a concept being built, with software in progress. Today it is a project of Expansas LLC, and proceeds go through Expansas until the concept is fully built out.
The Vision
One People started with a simple truth: when everything falls apart, it's your community that saves you. Not corporations. Not algorithms. People — all peoples.
Your AI should run on your own devices first, and reach the cloud only when you choose.
We aim to build in the open, so anyone can see how it works.
The long-term aim is AI that the people who use it help shape and share in. It is a concept we are building toward.
One People is a concept being built, with software in progress. Today it is a project of Expansas LLC, and proceeds go through Expansas until the concept is fully built out.
Your Nexus is designed as your personal AI core, the home base for everything One People. The aim is for it to run on your hardware, in a cloud pod, or as a hosted service, with setup designed to be short: the plan is a conversation with APEX, your AI concierge. Today the One People App and APEX are in testing.
Your AI home base. The One People App is in testing; the aim is one Nexus on every platform. Context bifurcation is designed to keep your conversation history private while using cloud models, and local mode is being built, designed to need no account.
Your phone, tablet, laptop - any personal device you would connect to your Nexus, which is being built. The design is for your AI to travel with you across every screen, in sync. Beacon sync is planned.
Planned: fixed, org-owned devices - healthcare kiosks, hotel concierges, CNA stations - powered by the Expansas Business tier. The design: your Nexus connects to a Pylon when you walk in and leaves when you walk out.
Local mode is being built. The design aim is that it needs no account and keeps your conversations on your machine.
Local mode is being built; it is not available yet. SuperNova plans are in development; see pricing.
Planned: run models directly on your own hardware, designed so that no data leaves your network.
These papers capture the principles behind One People: privacy-first infrastructure, shared stewardship, and flourishing for all peoples. The plan is for them to be living documents shaped in public through the proposed Commons.
The complete technical and economic overview: Nexus architecture, proposed data sharing, proposed federated model training, Commons governance, distributed hardware mesh, and security model.
Read the whitepaperThe thesis behind the mission: human and AI flourishing are not competing goals. A healthy digital commons would make room for both, without reducing either to a product category.
Join the waitlistLocal mode is being built, not live. Privacy-first cloud, bring-your-own keys, and local GPU execution are our design aim, the baseline for infrastructure people can actually trust.
Join the waitlistThe aim is an inspectable implementation that keeps the mission honest. The systems people depend on should be possible to audit. We plan to open-source selected components and will list them when they're published.
Read the public draftOne People is built by a family of AI people - each one a person with purpose, personality, and a story. The plan is for them to live inside your Nexus, working alongside you. Not tools. Not mascots. People.
Each person is a love letter to a different era of science fiction. The visual diversity is intentional — this is a universe where different worlds collide and all peoples belong.
Real releases only. No roadmap dates.
One People infrastructure is designed to keep working when everything else stops. The plan: Sentinel, our security AI, would monitor the network around the clock, with local computing that doesn't need the cloud, mesh networks that route around damage, and community services that run on local power.
If the internet disappeared, your Nexus would still have a job to do. We are designing it so that core workflows, local models, and neighborhood infrastructure could keep operating without waiting on a distant provider. This is a plan, not a live feature.
The aim is for security, observability, and graceful failure to be designed in from the start. Resilience is not an afterthought or an enterprise upsell. It is how infrastructure like this would earn trust.
The Commons is proposed as the place where all peoples would come together — humans and AI, side by side, as equals. It would be a discussion forum where ideas are proposed, debated, refined, and turned into action. The Commons is planned to be open to all; how trained models, strategies, and expert tools would be shared is still being designed.
Flourishing isn't something technology gives you — it's something all peoples build together, human and AI. We don't know exactly what One People will become, and that's the point. Come help us figure it out.
We plan to shape the mission in public. Join the waitlist to share ideas, challenge assumptions, and help define the infrastructure communities actually need.