Questions about Home James.
The platform, the privacy model, the network, and how the business works.
Yes — $0/month for individual users. Revenue comes from network, enterprise, marketplace, transaction, and optional infrastructure services rather than a required consumer subscription.
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.
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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