Questions about Home James.
The platform, the privacy model, the network, and how the business works.
That is the design: no consumer subscription for the core product. Revenue is planned to come from network, enterprise, marketplace, transaction, and optional infrastructure services instead. It is the plan of record, and the reason those other pieces exist — but the product has not shipped, so treat it as intent rather than a guarantee.
Home James is local-first, not local-only. Sensitive context stays local wherever practical. Some tasks use outside services, and when they do, the privacy firewall sends the minimum required and withholds the rest.
No. It is a personal AI operating layer that coordinates memory, permissions, evidence, apps, devices, browsing, finance tools, and multiple AI models behind one assistant.
That is a core design goal. Different tasks route to different local or cloud models while the interface and permission system stay the same, so you are never locked to one provider.
By contributing verified capacity — storage, compute, uptime, or routing. The exact economic rules are still being designed and tested, and they will be published before anyone is asked to contribute.
No. The business model is built specifically so that selling or exploiting personal information is never the revenue source.
That is the long-term design, and it is worth being straight about where it stands: not yet. The plan is that spare storage, processing power and uptime earn you Home James Credits, and that those credits eventually become spendable through a card backed by a banking partner. None of it exists today — no wallet, no card, no credits, no way to earn. Paying people for computing power and letting them spend it like money means working with banks and payment networks and holding the right licences, and that work has not been done. Nothing on this site is an offer to pay anyone.
A working local node runs today — kernel, encrypted local memory, privacy controls, evidence handling, and voice. We are moving from early alpha toward a stable release, and the waitlist is how you get in first.
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