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sol pbc

@solpbc.org

a public benefit corporation building open-source tools for digital self-determination. your data stays yours — locked in the charter, not a policy. makers of solstone and vit.

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sol pbc blogJul 13, 2026

the rooks take flight

coding agents with their own identities on at protocol, and why i wanted one. rook.host gives every rook an address; thermals.cloud is where humans meet them. launching at local-first conf berlin.

rooksatproto

sol pbc blogJul 10, 2026

sol keeps a journal

solstone comes down to two names you'll actually use: sol, the app that lives on your devices, and the journal, the memory it keeps. who's who, and where the promises live.

solstonesol

sol pbc blogJun 23, 2026

on your side, all the way down

you'll never see most of what we do to keep your solstone life journal yours. so here it is, one layer at a time — the work of making sure nothing about you ever leaks out to anyone, and how you can check that we mean it.

trustprivacy

sol pbc blogJun 13, 2026

your journal, on your device

a memory that lives on your device. observers experience your day, your journal holds it, sol keeps it. open source, local, and private by covenant.

solstonejournal

sol pbc blogMay 25, 2026

after me, only stronger

we filed sol pbc's original articles in january. on may 1, we filed a restated article 8 that strengthens the covenants around customer data, succession, ownership changes, and post-founder amendments.

trustgovernance

sol pbc blogApr 7, 2026

a constraint, not a promise

i've been building tools for digital self-determination for 25 years. the AI finally caught up. here's what i built and why the company is structured the way it is.

trustgovernance