ORIJINS · SOFTWARE //

Software that serves you. Not shareholders.

The modern app store is a slot machine. Every dialog is engineered, every notification is monetized, every default is the one that pays. ORIJINS Software is a return to the original promise — tools made for humans, built in the open, free where they can be free.

$ orijins init / source.git →

0 · trackers

MIT · default license

100% · auditable source

chapter_01 — the_bloat

The web has been enshittified.

Software used to be a tool. It is now a funnel. The product is your attention, the price is your data, and every patch tightens the screw a little more. We do not have to keep building it this way. The compiler doesn't know who profits.

0subs

Avg subscriptions per adult

The average connected adult now juggles nearly fourteen recurring software subscriptions — a death-by-paper-cuts model that gets worse every year, and benefits exactly one party.

Source: Deloitte, Digital Media Trends 2025

Apps with third-party trackers

Of the top 10,000 mobile apps that send data to at least one third-party advertiser, broker, or analytics vendor — usually before the user has even tapped "agree."

Source: Exodus Privacy / Mozilla Privacy Not Included, 2025

Documented dark patterns

Distinct dark-pattern UI elements catalogued in the FTC and EU enforcement databases since 2020 — engineered confusion sold as "growth optimization."

Source: FTC + EU Dark Patterns Report, 2024

Devs who hate their stack

Of professional developers who report shipping product features they personally disagree with on ethical grounds — surveillance, dark patterns, or addictive engagement loops.

Source: Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 2025

What if your software
was actually on your side?

// no growth team. no tracker. no upsell. just tools.

chapter_02 — the_build

ORIJINS Software is the apology the industry owes you.

We are building the toolchain we wish someone else had built first: open, auditable, local where possible, paid only where it must be. GAIA at the core, and a stack designed to lose gracefully if you ever want to walk away.

Open Source by Default

Every ORIJINS app ships under MIT or GPL. The source is on GitHub on day one, the build is reproducible, and the binary you run is the binary you can compile yourself.

// MIT · GPL · reproducible

Zero Telemetry

No analytics. No event pings. No "anonymous usage data." The first network call any ORIJINS app makes is the one you explicitly ask it to. Audited. Receipts in the repo.

// 0 third-party SDKs · 0 trackers

Local-First GAIA

GAIA runs on your machine first. Your prompts, your context, your model weights — never leave the device unless you tell them to. Cloud is opt-in, never default.

// on-device inference · BYOK cloud

Pay Once, Or Don't

No subscriptions. Most tools are free forever. The few that have real per-user costs are sold once, owned forever, with the source still open. Buy the bits, not the rent.

// $0 default · one-time when needed

Your Data, Exportable

Every byte you create is yours. One-click export to plain JSON, Markdown, or SQLite — no proprietary container, no migration consultant required. Lock-in is a bug.

// open formats · 1-click export

Defaults That Care

The first toggle ships in your favor. No infinite scroll. No notification spam. No autoplay. No "remind me later" loops. Sane defaults, every release, audited every quarter.

// quarterly default audits · public

chapter_03 — the_math

$1,400 a year, vs. $0.

The average household now spends over a thousand dollars a year on subscriptions to software that, in many cases, costs almost nothing to run. The tax on attention is even larger. The numbers work for someone — just not for you.

Avg household SaaS spend / year — 14 active subscriptions $1,422 100% — what you currently pay for software rent Equivalent ORIJINS Software stack — GAIA, drive, mail, docs, calendar, dev tools $0 0% — same outcomes, free at the point of use Hours / year on optimized engagement — infinite scroll, autoplay, notifications ~1,300 hrs 76% of waking leisure time captured by attention markets You can pay $1,400 per year for software designed to extract you, or $0 for software designed to serve you. The reason the second option doesn't dominate is not technical. It's that no one has bothered to ship it at scale. We are.

chapter_04 — the_roadmap

By 2050, the default install won't watch you.

A roadmap, not a manifesto. We ship in public. Every release notes what we measured, what shipped free, and what we walked away from. Rip and replace as needed.

2026 · now

GAIA Desktop + the core stack

Local-first GAIA assistant for macOS, Windows, Linux. Plus open-source replacements for the four worst-offender categories: notes, mail, calendar, browser. All free, all auditable, all yours.

2028

10 million weekly active humans

10M people running at least one ORIJINS Software tool weekly, with verified zero telemetry beacons. We measure adoption — never users. We ship a quarterly audit by an independent firm.

2032

Sovereign AI for everyone

A complete on-device GAIA stack — voice, multimodal, agentic — capable of replacing a household's full SaaS dependency. Runs on any 5-year-old laptop. Open weights, open evals, open everything.

2040

Default OS choice on shipping devices

ORIJINS Software available as a first-party bundle on consumer devices in 30+ countries — pre-installed, fully removable, no upsell. The first generation that grows up assuming software respects them.

2050

Surveillance capitalism, retired

A fully open, fully audited software ecosystem covering every category a typical human uses. Engagement-optimized, ad-funded, dark-pattern software is a historical curiosity, not the default. Dignity, restored to the install screen.

chapter_05 — you

Ship software that respects.

Engineers, designers, security folks, product people who are tired of the metrics they were handed — there is a place for you here. Pull requests welcome. So is just leaving your name.

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