Journal Foundation

Who We Are

We are builders, stewards, and advocates designing a privacy-first data layer so people decide how sensitive information flows—to no one, to trusted friends, or to the AI they summon.

Why we show up

Journal Foundation is an independent, open-source initiative committed to the JournalNet protocol stack. We believe the post-surveillance internet must treat intent and data as sovereign resources—encrypted, selectively revealed, and always in the custody of the individual.

Our work blends protocol engineering, governance transparency, and education so anyone can host their own or mirrored vault, define capability tokens for friends and services, and collaborate with AI without surrendering autonomy to platforms.

Leadership & collaborators

Open stewardship with room for more voices.

Join the movement

Privacy infrastructure only works when builders and journalzens move in sync.

Build

Become a builder

Contribute to vaults, cipherlots, SDKs, docs, and tooling. We collaborate in the open and welcome systems engineers, designers, writers, and security reviewers.

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Journalzen

Become a journalzen

A journalzen authors and maintains their personal knowledge, deciding who sees what and when. Start hosting your vault, learn the sharing workflows, and shape the future of humane AI.

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