A members-only place for your people to talk, decide, share and organise β away from the noise, on ground you control. Each community sets its own constitution, and Villageβ’ is hosted mainly by Catalyst Cloud in New Zealand and OVH in France, not on a US cloud. The other services involved, what each one touches and where it sits, are set out on our security page.
Key Takeaways:
From β/month flat for your whole Village β 200 members included, no per-seat fees.
Available on request
The Consignment file holds the goodsβ Provenance record, the Email Decision Record of who decided to send it, and the Attested Accounts invoice. One checking program reads all three with no account and no connection to us, and says what it could prove and what it could not.
Three records go into one file. The Provenance record of the goods, the Email Decision Record of who decided to send it and the Attested Accounts invoice are held in the Consignment file. A checking program reads the file offline and reports what it could prove and what it could not.
The goods
Signed supply-chain records for the lot.
The decision
The signed record of who decided to send it.
The invoice
Shows the lot reference, quantity, unit, currency, total and issue date. Every other field stays hidden.
One file
All three together. Sent to one outside recipient once a second person approves.
Whoever holds the file
One readable JavaScript file. It runs offline, with no account, and says what it could prove and what it could not.
It shows that records are unchanged since signing and what they link to. It does not show that goods match the paper or that any rule is met.
Choose one email you are unsure about. The page runs a set of checks on its headers, links and attachment types and shows you what it found. We keep a signed, time-stamped record of what was checked and when, without the message. One email in, one result out, no account. Checked, not cleared.
The Email Decision Record app is available on request. Evaluation access is by invitation: a one-time link, issued at our discretion. There is no self-service signup.
The places we gather online belong to someone else. The rules change without asking, the record belongs to whoever owns the servers, and when the platform loses interest, your history goes with it.
A Village is a place that is properly yours β for your people, run by your rules, with the record kept where you can check it yourself. Nobody reads over your shoulder, and nothing your members share is turned into someone else's product.
And because Villages can join up with one another without being swallowed, a small group doesn't have to stay alone to stay itself. A marae committee, a family, a club, a co-op β each keeps its own ground and still works with the others.
That makes starting one the first practical thing a community can do about the future on its own terms: start small, own the ground, grow with others.
Every Village starts with the same foundation. On top of it, apps for how your community connects, decides, works and knows β pick what fits, add more as you grow.
A home online, on your terms β who sees what is always your members' call.
Stories, events, channels and email for your community β all members, selected members or only you decide who sees what.
Ask for an evaluation linkCommunities & Clubs tier β β/month for your whole Village
A digital home for whΔnau, hapΕ«, and iwi β pΕ«rΔkau, whakapapa, tikanga, organising hui, in te reo MΔori and English. Built so the whΔnau keeps control of its own information and taonga, in line with tikanga.
Ask for an evaluation linkMemories, milestones and the family tree, kept where the family keeps them β passed down, never mined.
Ask for an evaluation linkFamilies tier β β/month for your whole Village
Sports and hobby clubs β cricket, rugby, sailing, cycling, chess, and the rest. Fixture lists, training times, subs tracking, gear booking, AGM voting, and an archive of past seasons.
Ask for an evaluation linkTidy coordination for a committee without the heavy machinery β agendas, task tracking, correspondence, and a money register. Start simple and turn on the rest as the committee grows.
Ask for an evaluation linkFor school and university year groups. A verified member directory, reunion planning, mentoring, class-gift fundraising, and a yearbook archive.
Ask for an evaluation linkFor Anglican and Episcopal congregations β vestry business, parish notices, pastoral care, the church calendar, and ministry rosters. A locally-hosted alternative to the usual church software.
Ask for an evaluation linkFor communities living far from their homeland. Keep oral histories and archives, run language classes and cultural events, help newcomers settle, and link up with sister chapters in other places. Hosted in Europe by default.
Ask for an evaluation linkA regular group of commuters sharing rides. Rota, cost-splitting, route preferences β and members can call each other through the app without swapping phone numbers. Piloting in Amberley, New Zealand.
Ask for an evaluation linkFree β koha (voluntary donation) model
Decisions your members can stand behind β argued in their own words, sealed on a record you can check.
A citizens' assembly built for organisations to run: put a real question to your members and rehearse the argument first. Dissent is kept word-for-word, never averaged into a score; the record carries a cryptographic seal and is yours to check. The software rehearses β your people decide.
Community rate for iwi, marae and civic groups.
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The other half of the staff survey: a survey rates management's questions; Open Floor lets your people raise their own β ideas in their own words, built on and argued out, then drawn together without averaging, so a sharp minority idea survives whole.
Flat price β never per head. Community rate for small clubs, marae and member groups.
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Many rooms, one question β every room's answer drawn into a single map that keeps each minority position whole and attributed, and never averages dissent into a score. For federations running the same question across many Villages.
Open the demo βPer engagement β enquire
For membership groups with AGMs, membership tiers, and formal rules β photographic and historical societies, gardening clubs, choirs, writing groups. AGM voting, competitions and exhibitions, an equipment library, and mentoring.
Ask for an evaluation linkAn interface your own software calls before an AI agent acts: a proposed action goes in and a verdict and a signed receipt come back. It is available on invitation, and no production keys are issued yet.
Sandbox access is a one-time token tied to a single address. There is no self-service signup.
Read more βA kaupapa MΔori version of the governance tools β for iwi authorities, hapΕ« committees, marae trustees, whΔnau trusts, and advisory rΕpΕ«. Te reo MΔori as the main language, decisions made kanohi-ki-te-kanohi through hui. MΔori information stays under MΔori control.
Ask for an evaluation linkStructured deliberation sessions with shared cause-and-effect maps β for working a topic through before it becomes a decision.
Open the demo βFor membership organisations that speak in public through many voices β a library of approved copy, a check that names the rule a draft touches before anyone else sees it, and an approval record signed and dated that the organisation can verify without us.
Open the demo β Read how it works βA walk through what members use every day β home, stories, photos, conversations, events, polls, their own records and the app in five languages β with invented content and a note on what each part does not do.
Take the walk βFor councils and agencies running a consultation. Residents take part through single-use invitation links, with no account: they add ideas in their own words, show a name of their choosing or stay anonymous, support or build on each other's ideas, and can take their own words back. Every idea and every concern is kept whole, nothing is scored or ranked, and the final summary is sealed as a signed record that anyone given the file can check in their own browser.
How it works β
Trade on proof, not platforms β a dependable record carries the trust, and no middleman charges rent on it.
A workspace for a small business β consultants, contractors, professional services, creative agencies. Contacts, time tracking, invoices with NZ/AU GST sorted, and project coordination. Payments run through Airwallex, a New Zealand-regulated provider.
Ask for an evaluation linkVillage Small Business tier β β/month for your whole Village
Invoicing (Peppol e-invoice receiving), quoting, hiring, projects and receipts β the operational suite for a working organisation.
Learn more βIncluded with Village Small Business
A copilot that works from your business's own values and context β running on our machines, never handed to a foreign model.
See it work βVillage Small Business tier β β/month for your whole Village
The property marketplace without a middleman's margin β sealed records carry the trust between buyer and seller.
Open the demo βVillage Small Business tier β β/month for your whole Village
Careful, rule-based candidate screening β a rulebook you can edit with a fixed fairness check built in, a guided assessment, a clear record of decisions, and a person making the call. A CV stays on our own systems, and is never sold on or handed to outside AI.
Ask for an evaluation linkNative planting, river care, predator-free trapping, and citizen science. Organise working bees, keep monitoring records, track grants, get reminders before permits expire, and work alongside iwi on culturally significant sites.
Ask for an evaluation linkFor lawyers, conveyancers, accountants, and trust and company service providers who have to check who they're dealing with β sign-offs done by a person (never filled in by the assistant), a clear trail of the checks done, and a record of how AI was used.
Ask for an evaluation linkEvery step of an export chain β grower, processor, exporter, buyer β written to a tamper-evident, cryptographically sealed record. A buyer in Rotterdam or Singapore verifies the seal offline.
It gives an EU importer a supplier record it can check for itself, ahead of the deforestation due diligence statements required from 30 December 2026 for large and medium importers.
Try the offline check β About Provenance βIt is near the top of this page: three records, one file, one checking program.
See the Consignment file β Download the checker β Evidence index
What your Village knows, working for you β and staying in the room.
Sovereign AI that answers from your Village's own knowledge, values and context β inference on our machines, nothing leaves the room.
Meet Village AI βIncluded with every Village
The companion to the free governance course β a working board Village with members, resolutions and minutes, and a real decision followed from proposal, through discussion, to a recorded resolution.
Ask for an evaluation linkGovernance Β· Deliberative democracy Β· Small business. Short, free courses you can take at your own pace. Nothing to sign up for to start.
See the courses βSix questions about your situation, and you leave with what your answers rule out, what is left worth considering, and a prompt to put to whatever you choose. Then a short sheet of questions to send the supplier, about a product being proposed to you or software you already pay for. A shortlist, never a ranking β and it names no products, ours included.
Work out what you need βFree β your answers are never written to a database or a log
The decision made before a person's or an AI agent's email is sent, and a signed record, time-stamped by an outside authority, that you can check offline, alongside the mailbox you already use.
Evaluation access is by invitation: a one-time link, issued at our discretion. There is no self-service signup.
Read more β Check a record βA request from an AI agent or a person is checked against your Village policy before anything happens. A decision is recorded with a signed receipt, an approval-gated request waits for a different approver, and an allowed request gets a one-use permit. An exported record can be checked offline with a checker you can read.
Built and deployed; switched on only in the Village we use for testing, and no customer has used it. Available to evaluate by invitation.
About Village Gateway β Check a record yourself βWhen somebody asks an assistant instead of a search engine, it names some organisations and not others. This finds out whether an AI crawler can read your site at all, puts real questions to real models and records the answers verbatim, and tells you which of the two problems you actually have. Sealing and time-stamping by an outside authority are built and tested, and a customer's runs can be sealed on request; a qualified timestamp is an opt-in. The work is to improve what they say about you, for the terms your buyers use; the outcome is measured rather than promised, because nobody controls a modelβs answer.
Per project. No Village required. Evaluation access is by invitation β there is no self-service signup.
Read more ββ/month
Finance records that show whether they were changed. Every write to an invoice, quote, recurring invoice, expense or time entry in the Business Village appends an entry signed when it happens, so a later change can be detected. The hash-linked Finance record behind it is built, tested and off by default.
An evidence layer alongside your accounting, not an accounting system or an audit opinion. No self-service signup.
Read more ββ/month per Village
A sealed record of what your AI agents are allowed to do, and which agents exist. A change is a new dated record, the old one is kept, and an auditor can check it offline.
It records authority; it does not block or enforce.
Read more ββ per Sealed Statement
Dedicated database on NZ sovereign infrastructure, with physical tenant isolation. It depends on a GPU-capacity upgrade; tell us if you need it.
Community rate available for whΔnau and governance groups.
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Every app above stands on the same Foundation β its own record, its own intelligence, its own tools, its own ground. See what's underneath β
Villages can link up β share a question, run a decision across many rooms, pass word between communities β while each keeps its own members, its own record, its own rules. Nothing is pooled; nothing is swallowed.
The boundary is the point: what crosses it is only what each Village chooses to send β a question, an answer, a sealed result. Members, content and records stay home.
The rooms, events and decisions your members use every day sit above the waterline. Below it is what makes them safe to stand on: a sealed record, intelligence that stays home, tools that are built in, and ground held under New Zealand and EU law.
Four things, and they come with every plan β not as extras.
Every decision and receipt is sealed so any later change shows up. The record is yours to verify β with us or without us.
Village AI answers from your Village's own knowledge and values, on machines we run. Nothing leaves the room.
Email, calendars, documents, video calls β built in, not bolted on from elsewhere, so no third party sits between your members.
Hosted in New Zealand and the EU, under NZ and EU law, on infrastructure we run ourselves.
Short, free courses you can take at your own pace. Nothing to sign up for to start.
How keeping your own records and running your own AI change the way a group is governed.
Start the course βHow a small group runs its own assembly β and reaches a real decision without flattening a single view into a number.
Start the course βRunning a small business on your own ground, with an assistant that gives you straight feedback.
Start the course βTrailblazer in AI Innovation, 2026. There is a People's Choice vote open until 11.59pm on 4 November 2026, and ours is the last entry in the line-up.
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A Village takes minutes to start and a lifetime to fill. Bring the committee, the whΔnau, the club, the parish β the ground is ready.
From β/month flat for your whole Village β 200 members included, no per-seat fees.