A members-only home for your community β hosted in New Zealand and the EU, not on a US cloud.
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:
No ads. No data-selling. Ever.
No lock-in β your record is yours, and you can check it.
Hosted in New Zealand and the EU, under NZ and EU law β not reachable under the US CLOUD Act, which lets US authorities compel data from US-based companies regardless of where it is stored.
From β/month flat for your whole Village β 200 members included, no per-seat fees.
Why it matters
Most groups live on borrowed ground.
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.
The catalogue
One home, a growing set of rooms.
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.
Connect
Belonging and everyday life
A home online, on your terms β who sees what is always your members' call.
Village Community
Stories, events, channels and email for your community β all members, selected members or only you decide who sees what.
Communities & Clubs tier β β/month for your whole Village
Village WhΔnau
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.
Families tier β β/month for your whole Village
Village Clubs
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.
Tidy 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.
For 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.
For 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.
A 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.
Decisions your members can stand behind β argued in their own words, sealed on a record you can check.
Village Assembly
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.
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.
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.
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.
An 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 offered as an add-on to a Village subscription, 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.
A 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.
For 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.
A 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.
For 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.
Trade on proof, not platforms β a dependable record carries the trust, and no middleman charges rent on it.
Village Small Business
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.
Village Small Business tier β β/month for your whole Village
Village Recruitment
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.
Native 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.
For 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.
Every 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.
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.
Six 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.
Free β your answers are never written to a database or a log
By invitation
Email Decision Record
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.
Access is by invitation: a one-time link, issued at our discretion. There is no self-service signup.
When 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. Access is by invitation β there is no self-service signup.
Finance records that show whether they were changed. Every write to an invoice, quote, expense or time entry in the Business Village is signed when it happens, so a later change can be detected.
An evidence layer alongside your accounting, not an accounting system or an audit opinion. No self-service signup.
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. Access is by invitation or arrangement.
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
Federation
Joined, not merged.
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.
Underneath
What you see is the smaller part.
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.
The Foundation
What every Village stands on.
Four things, and they come with every plan β not as extras.
Its own record
Every decision and receipt is sealed so any later change shows up. The record is yours to verify β with us or without us.
Its own intelligence
Village AI answers from your Village's own knowledge and values, on machines we run. Nothing leaves the room.
Its own tools
Email, calendars, documents, video calls β built in, not bolted on from elsewhere, so no third party sits between your members.
Its own ground
Hosted in New Zealand and the EU, under NZ and EU law, on infrastructure we run ourselves.
