Back to the Future
Back to the Future
Back to the Future
Back to the Future
Call to action from Sundae Labs, a Public Benefit Corporation founded with the purpose to domesticate tech to aid human flourishing, to make tech virtuous, to go back to the future we all want, and deserve.
Call to action from Sundae Labs, a Public Benefit Corporation founded with the purpose to domesticate tech to aid human flourishing, to make tech virtuous, to go back to the future we all want, and deserve.
To domesticate is, adapted over time (as by selective breeding) from a wild or natural state to life in close association with and to the benefit of humans.
Human flourishing is, a state of well-being and optimal development, encompassing both individual and collective aspects of human life. It involves thriving in various areas of life, including mental, physical, social, and psychological well-being, while also contributing positively to society. Flourishing is about living a fulfilling life, with a sense of purpose and meaning, and actively pursuing one's potential.
To domesticate is, adapted over time (as by selective breeding) from a wild or natural state to life in close association with and to the benefit of humans.
Human flourishing is, a state of well-being and optimal development, encompassing both individual and collective aspects of human life. It involves thriving in various areas of life, including mental, physical, social, and psychological well-being, while also contributing positively to society. Flourishing is about living a fulfilling life, with a sense of purpose and meaning, and actively pursuing one's potential.
Everybody wants to rule the world. One byte at a time.
Every minute, we’re creators of original content, but not beneficiaries. Our personal data is gathered, bought, sold, stolen - analyzed, inferred and used by others, for their benefit. Algorithms and Centralized AI of tech companies, advertisers, social media platforms and political campaigns, grab our attention and manipulate our thinking, using our data against us. The harms and exploitation is well known and gaining massive momentum globally. It’s not just a bad idea for our society, it’s a very, very, very, very, very, very bad design (each very is a different kind of bad). Advocacy to play nice, to be kind, to slow down, have fallen to deaf ears. It’s not working and not going to.
In the world’s largest GDP and the most advanced civilization, the US of A, 67% of people are not tech savvy. 7 billion people living in the developing world stand no fighting chance either. Low- and middle-income countries are set to remain “LMICs” for the foreseeable future given the fast-growing techno-techbro-surveillance capitalism model. The meaning crisis is at an all-time high, exacerbated by tech itself. We’re in an untenable double bind: our tech dehumanizes us and yet we are hopelessly dependent on it; we’re not able to keep up and we’re not able to slow down. How do we fix this, and make progress?
Better Design
We can course correct by “engineering a familiar surprise”, to borrow from Derek Thompson, while adhering to the first principles as explained below. An innovation that is not too different in its makeup from what we use today but one that would profoundly enhance our relationship with tech. We have the parts required, they just need to be configured better, with a new design, for a better purpose, for our individual and collective good. Derek Thompson calls it MAYA, most advanced yet acceptable – new yet familiar - the code behind every successful transformation.
We propose to equip the individual to gather their own data, bring it in their physical possession, and put it to use for their own benefit – with informed consent, privately and safely. By data we mean voice, vision, vitals, haptics, movements, environment, digital and social activity, the lot of it. Anything and everything that is gatherable from the devices and wearables we interact with daily, from computers, smartphones, home speakers, peripherals and wearables. Of course, this is to be done with informed consent of the user, and exclusively for their benefit.
Everybody wants to rule the world. One byte at a time.
Every minute, we’re creators of original content, but not beneficiaries. Our personal data is gathered, bought, sold, stolen - analyzed, inferred and used by others, for their benefit. Algorithms and Centralized AI of tech companies, advertisers, social media platforms and political campaigns, grab our attention and manipulate our thinking, using our data against us. The harms and exploitation is well known and gaining massive momentum globally. It’s not just a bad idea for our society, it’s a very, very, very, very, very, very bad design (each very is a different kind of bad). Advocacy to play nice, to be kind, to slow down, have fallen to deaf ears. It’s not working and not going to.
In the world’s largest GDP and the most advanced civilization, the US of A, 67% of people are not tech savvy. 7 billion people living in the developing world stand no fighting chance either. Low- and middle-income countries are set to remain “LMICs” for the foreseeable future given the fast-growing techno-techbro-surveillance capitalism model. The meaning crisis is at an all-time high, exacerbated by tech itself. We’re in an untenable double bind: our tech dehumanizes us and yet we are hopelessly dependent on it; we’re not able to keep up and we’re not able to slow down. How do we fix this, and make progress?
Better Design
We can course correct by “engineering a familiar surprise”, to borrow from Derek Thompson, while adhering to the first principles as explained below. An innovation that is not too different in its makeup from what we use today but one that would profoundly enhance our relationship with tech. We have the parts required, they just need to be configured better, with a new design, for a better purpose, for our individual and collective good. Derek Thompson calls it MAYA, most advanced yet acceptable – new yet familiar - the code behind every successful transformation.
We propose to equip the individual to gather their own data, bring it in their physical possession, and put it to use for their own benefit – with informed consent, privately and safely. By data we mean voice, vision, vitals, haptics, movements, environment, digital and social activity, the lot of it. Anything and everything that is gatherable from the devices and wearables we interact with daily, from computers, smartphones, home speakers, peripherals and wearables. Of course, this is to be done with informed consent of the user, and exclusively for their benefit.
Everybody wants to rule the world. One byte at a time.
Every minute, we’re creators of original content, but not beneficiaries. Our personal data is gathered, bought, sold, stolen - analyzed, inferred and used by others, for their benefit. Algorithms and Centralized AI of tech companies, advertisers, social media platforms and political campaigns, grab our attention and manipulate our thinking, using our data against us. The harms and exploitation is well known and gaining massive momentum globally. It’s not just a bad idea for our society, it’s a very, very, very, very, very, very bad design (each very is a different kind of bad). Advocacy to play nice, to be kind, to slow down, have fallen to deaf ears. It’s not working and not going to.
In the world’s largest GDP and the most advanced civilization, the US of A, 67% of people are not tech savvy. 7 billion people living in the developing world stand no fighting chance either. Low- and middle-income countries are set to remain “LMICs” for the foreseeable future given the fast-growing techno-techbro-surveillance capitalism model. The meaning crisis is at an all-time high, exacerbated by tech itself. We’re in an untenable double bind: our tech dehumanizes us and yet we are hopelessly dependent on it; we’re not able to keep up and we’re not able to slow down. How do we fix this, and make progress?
Better Design
We can course correct by “engineering a familiar surprise”, to borrow from Derek Thompson, while adhering to the first principles as explained below. An innovation that is not too different in its makeup from what we use today but one that would profoundly enhance our relationship with tech. We have the parts required, they just need to be configured better, with a new design, for a better purpose, for our individual and collective good. Derek Thompson calls it MAYA, most advanced yet acceptable – new yet familiar - the code behind every successful transformation.
We propose to equip the individual to gather their own data, bring it in their physical possession, and put it to use for their own benefit – with informed consent, privately and safely. By data we mean voice, vision, vitals, haptics, movements, environment, digital and social activity, the lot of it. Anything and everything that is gatherable from the devices and wearables we interact with daily, from computers, smartphones, home speakers, peripherals and wearables. Of course, this is to be done with informed consent of the user, and exclusively for their benefit.
Sundae Labs has filed a non-provisional patent application that describes a novel invention titled “An Autonomous, Consent-Driven, Generative Device, System or Method that Promotes Privacy, Self-Knowledge and Well-Being”. With it, we’re developing AGNi, Autonomously Generative Non-invasive Interface that will enable your everyday tech to know you, assess your wellbeing, while serving your requirements. It’s a ubiquitous and autonomous system that “learns and infers” in real-time. It has the capability to “learn” you, the user, multi-modally and is designed to continuously evolve “your wholistic personal avatar” as you grow through life. AGNi technology can be implemented in a chip, computer or any personal device, peripheral or wearable. AGNi technology is partly isolated from the world and partly connected, under a novel design that bio-mimics the human brain and body, in that it is both autonomous and agentic, generative yet consent driven, private and non-invasive. We can unlock tech’s potential for the next frontiers without requiring internet connectivity and centralized AI:
Know Thyself: Knowing oneself, or self-awareness, is crucial for personal growth, better decision-making, and building strong relationships. It allows individuals to identify their strengths and weaknesses, understand their values and motivations, and ultimately live more authentically and purposefully.
Mental & Behavioral Health Monitoring & Counselling: Your devices can watch over you for early signs of mental or behavioral health decline, or the onset of neuro-degenerative disorders.
Personal AI as your Chief of Staff, Advisor, or Guide for work, assistance, education, nutrition, fitness and well-being. This is your AI, fully aware of your context, accessible 24/7, no internet.
Artificial Context Modelling Engine (ACME) gathers your bio-psycho-sociometric profile to improve your memory, to reduce distractions, to remove you from the countless filters of various services, to provide you a new exoskeleton of tech that protects you from outside harms, while empowering you with an inner-private-dialogue with your tech.
Proof of Humanity Devices enabling Zero Knowledge Transactions. You don’t need to share your identity, personal details and yet prove that you are indeed you.
A Safe Human Internet for Life - companionship, employment, community and reflection. Bots can’t get on this new internet because human proof of humanity is a prerequisite to access it.
You may relate AGNi to J.A.R.V.I.S. from Marvel movies or Genie from Aladdin, a technology that magically knows the user, protects the user and serves his/her needs. However, AGNi is not conscious in any way, it is simply a better configuration of the existing tech but built to aid human flourishing, as its purpose. The AGNi-verse is made of:
Sol Garden, an AI super-computer and a data-factory in your home, to empower your productivity, privacy, self-knowledge, well-being, health, education and entertainment.
Orchard, your safe and reliable AGNi-verse of devices that help reduce harms inflicted by tech (home-speaker, laptop, mobile phone), wearables (watch, ring, glasses) and robots.
Toolshed, a new privacy by design app-store that enables AI developers to build trustworthy AI services.
First principles, first.
Current designs and incentive structures are not aligned with people. The core is missing that would imbue and enable trustworthiness in tech. This is the “back” part of “Back to the Future”. To move forward, to go faster than ever before, we must go back and look at the design principles that have enabled us with speed, power and control - enabled progress and growth for all humanity – in short, they have served us well. It’s how we achieved lasting progress, call it flourishment for all.
We domesticated the fire, then electricity, even the wild gray wolf into a pet dog, emblematic to human servitude, companionship and loyalty. Unquestionably well done by us humans. Cars and airplanes have scaled globally to aid progress because they are built with safety first. Even the human body, is a design embedded with these core tenets. These essential and empowering first principles are:
Safety (is Speed)
Privacy (is Power)
(Informed) Consent (is Control)
Context (is King)
AI experts, historians, authors, ethicists, philosophers and many others have advocated extensively to expose the vast variety of harms that are being unleashed on us as these first principles are ignored. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether this is happening blatantly or ignorantly, a bad design must be outcompeted because it will create more harm than good, further exacerbate the meaning crisis and stall our collective progress.
Proven Designs.
Home is an awesome expression of human ingenuity and trustworthy design, an elegant metaphor, both philosophically and technologically. A home is where we chose to live, it’s our most preferred resting place, a place where we grow and flourish our individual selves, it’s where a family becomes a family. Home is one place on earth where we are in charge, where we have complete freedom of expression, a place where we feel most safe and secure, where privacy is the highest, often with intimacy and warmth.
The roof and the walls of the home protect us from the exterior elements, the walls also provide privacy, while the windows enable us to peer/look outside at-will, and curtains provide us further control, from the inside to enhance privacy just-in-time, and finally the two-way permeable membrane called door, enables anyone to willfully exit and permit in those with a special key. With little maintenance, the home serves you for years or even decades.
Home is where our context comes together, it’s where we flourish and nourish our identity, as an individual and as a family, both essential and central to human society, values and goals.
Home is the seat of privacy and safety, this is self-explanatory.
Finally, home is where we are in control, where things happen with our consent. We can easily go outside and get back inside, as we wish.
Sundae Labs has filed a non-provisional patent application that describes a novel invention titled “An Autonomous, Consent-Driven, Generative Device, System or Method that Promotes Privacy, Self-Knowledge and Well-Being”. With it, we’re developing AGNi, Autonomously Generative Non-invasive Interface that will enable your everyday tech to know you, assess your wellbeing, while serving your requirements. It’s a ubiquitous and autonomous system that “learns and infers” in real-time. It has the capability to “learn” you, the user, multi-modally and is designed to continuously evolve “your wholistic personal avatar” as you grow through life. AGNi technology can be implemented in a chip, computer or any personal device, peripheral or wearable. AGNi technology is partly isolated from the world and partly connected, under a novel design that bio-mimics the human brain and body, in that it is both autonomous and agentic, generative yet consent driven, private and non-invasive. We can unlock tech’s potential for the next frontiers without requiring internet connectivity and centralized AI:
Know Thyself: Knowing oneself, or self-awareness, is crucial for personal growth, better decision-making, and building strong relationships. It allows individuals to identify their strengths and weaknesses, understand their values and motivations, and ultimately live more authentically and purposefully.
Mental & Behavioral Health Monitoring & Counselling: Your devices can watch over you for early signs of mental or behavioral health decline, or the onset of neuro-degenerative disorders.
Personal AI as your Chief of Staff, Advisor, or Guide for work, assistance, education, nutrition, fitness and well-being. This is your AI, fully aware of your context, accessible 24/7, no internet.
Artificial Context Modelling Engine (ACME) gathers your bio-psycho-sociometric profile to improve your memory, to reduce distractions, to remove you from the countless filters of various services, to provide you a new exoskeleton of tech that protects you from outside harms, while empowering you with an inner-private-dialogue with your tech.
Proof of Humanity Devices enabling Zero Knowledge Transactions. You don’t need to share your identity, personal details and yet prove that you are indeed you.
A Safe Human Internet for Life - companionship, employment, community and reflection. Bots can’t get on this new internet because human proof of humanity is a prerequisite to access it.
You may relate AGNi to J.A.R.V.I.S. from Marvel movies or Genie from Aladdin, a technology that magically knows the user, protects the user and serves his/her needs. However, AGNi is not conscious in any way, it is simply a better configuration of the existing tech but built to aid human flourishing, as its purpose. The AGNi-verse is made of:
Sol Garden, an AI super-computer and a data-factory in your home, to empower your productivity, privacy, self-knowledge, well-being, health, education and entertainment.
Orchard, your safe and reliable AGNi-verse of devices that help reduce harms inflicted by tech (home-speaker, laptop, mobile phone), wearables (watch, ring, glasses) and robots.
Toolshed, a new privacy by design app-store that enables AI developers to build trustworthy AI services.
First principles, first.
Current designs and incentive structures are not aligned with people. The core is missing that would imbue and enable trustworthiness in tech. This is the “back” part of “Back to the Future”. To move forward, to go faster than ever before, we must go back and look at the design principles that have enabled us with speed, power and control - enabled progress and growth for all humanity – in short, they have served us well. It’s how we achieved lasting progress, call it flourishment for all.
We domesticated the fire, then electricity, even the wild gray wolf into a pet dog, emblematic to human servitude, companionship and loyalty. Unquestionably well done by us humans. Cars and airplanes have scaled globally to aid progress because they are built with safety first. Even the human body, is a design embedded with these core tenets. These essential and empowering first principles are:
Safety (is Speed)
Privacy (is Power)
(Informed) Consent (is Control)
Context (is King)
AI experts, historians, authors, ethicists, philosophers and many others have advocated extensively to expose the vast variety of harms that are being unleashed on us as these first principles are ignored. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether this is happening blatantly or ignorantly, a bad design must be outcompeted because it will create more harm than good, further exacerbate the meaning crisis and stall our collective progress.
Proven Designs.
Home is an awesome expression of human ingenuity and trustworthy design, an elegant metaphor, both philosophically and technologically. A home is where we chose to live, it’s our most preferred resting place, a place where we grow and flourish our individual selves, it’s where a family becomes a family. Home is one place on earth where we are in charge, where we have complete freedom of expression, a place where we feel most safe and secure, where privacy is the highest, often with intimacy and warmth.
The roof and the walls of the home protect us from the exterior elements, the walls also provide privacy, while the windows enable us to peer/look outside at-will, and curtains provide us further control, from the inside to enhance privacy just-in-time, and finally the two-way permeable membrane called door, enables anyone to willfully exit and permit in those with a special key. With little maintenance, the home serves you for years or even decades.
Home is where our context comes together, it’s where we flourish and nourish our identity, as an individual and as a family, both essential and central to human society, values and goals.
Home is the seat of privacy and safety, this is self-explanatory.
Finally, home is where we are in control, where things happen with our consent. We can easily go outside and get back inside, as we wish.
Sundae Labs has filed a non-provisional patent application that describes a novel invention titled “An Autonomous, Consent-Driven, Generative Device, System or Method that Promotes Privacy, Self-Knowledge and Well-Being”. With it, we’re developing AGNi, Autonomously Generative Non-invasive Interface that will enable your everyday tech to know you, assess your wellbeing, while serving your requirements. It’s a ubiquitous and autonomous system that “learns and infers” in real-time. It has the capability to “learn” you, the user, multi-modally and is designed to continuously evolve “your wholistic personal avatar” as you grow through life. AGNi technology can be implemented in a chip, computer or any personal device, peripheral or wearable. AGNi technology is partly isolated from the world and partly connected, under a novel design that bio-mimics the human brain and body, in that it is both autonomous and agentic, generative yet consent driven, private and non-invasive. We can unlock tech’s potential for the next frontiers without requiring internet connectivity and centralized AI:
Know Thyself: Knowing oneself, or self-awareness, is crucial for personal growth, better decision-making, and building strong relationships. It allows individuals to identify their strengths and weaknesses, understand their values and motivations, and ultimately live more authentically and purposefully.
Mental & Behavioral Health Monitoring & Counselling: Your devices can watch over you for early signs of mental or behavioral health decline, or the onset of neuro-degenerative disorders.
Personal AI as your Chief of Staff, Advisor, or Guide for work, assistance, education, nutrition, fitness and well-being. This is your AI, fully aware of your context, accessible 24/7, no internet.
Artificial Context Modelling Engine (ACME) gathers your bio-psycho-sociometric profile to improve your memory, to reduce distractions, to remove you from the countless filters of various services, to provide you a new exoskeleton of tech that protects you from outside harms, while empowering you with an inner-private-dialogue with your tech.
Proof of Humanity Devices enabling Zero Knowledge Transactions. You don’t need to share your identity, personal details and yet prove that you are indeed you.
A Safe Human Internet for Life - companionship, employment, community and reflection. Bots can’t get on this new internet because human proof of humanity is a prerequisite to access it.
You may relate AGNi to J.A.R.V.I.S. from Marvel movies or Genie from Aladdin, a technology that magically knows the user, protects the user and serves his/her needs. However, AGNi is not conscious in any way, it is simply a better configuration of the existing tech but built to aid human flourishing, as its purpose. The AGNi-verse is made of:
Sol Garden, an AI super-computer and a data-factory in your home, to empower your productivity, privacy, self-knowledge, well-being, health, education and entertainment.
Orchard, your safe and reliable AGNi-verse of devices that help reduce harms inflicted by tech (home-speaker, laptop, mobile phone), wearables (watch, ring, glasses) and robots.
Toolshed, a new privacy by design app-store that enables AI developers to build trustworthy AI services.
First principles, first.
Current designs and incentive structures are not aligned with people. The core is missing that would imbue and enable trustworthiness in tech. This is the “back” part of “Back to the Future”. To move forward, to go faster than ever before, we must go back and look at the design principles that have enabled us with speed, power and control - enabled progress and growth for all humanity – in short, they have served us well. It’s how we achieved lasting progress, call it flourishment for all.
We domesticated the fire, then electricity, even the wild gray wolf into a pet dog, emblematic to human servitude, companionship and loyalty. Unquestionably well done by us humans. Cars and airplanes have scaled globally to aid progress because they are built with safety first. Even the human body, is a design embedded with these core tenets. These essential and empowering first principles are:
Safety (is Speed)
Privacy (is Power)
(Informed) Consent (is Control)
Context (is King)
AI experts, historians, authors, ethicists, philosophers and many others have advocated extensively to expose the vast variety of harms that are being unleashed on us as these first principles are ignored. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether this is happening blatantly or ignorantly, a bad design must be outcompeted because it will create more harm than good, further exacerbate the meaning crisis and stall our collective progress.
Proven Designs.
Home is an awesome expression of human ingenuity and trustworthy design, an elegant metaphor, both philosophically and technologically. A home is where we chose to live, it’s our most preferred resting place, a place where we grow and flourish our individual selves, it’s where a family becomes a family. Home is one place on earth where we are in charge, where we have complete freedom of expression, a place where we feel most safe and secure, where privacy is the highest, often with intimacy and warmth.
The roof and the walls of the home protect us from the exterior elements, the walls also provide privacy, while the windows enable us to peer/look outside at-will, and curtains provide us further control, from the inside to enhance privacy just-in-time, and finally the two-way permeable membrane called door, enables anyone to willfully exit and permit in those with a special key. With little maintenance, the home serves you for years or even decades.
Home is where our context comes together, it’s where we flourish and nourish our identity, as an individual and as a family, both essential and central to human society, values and goals.
Home is the seat of privacy and safety, this is self-explanatory.
Finally, home is where we are in control, where things happen with our consent. We can easily go outside and get back inside, as we wish.
Now think about the Human Body, as a home of one. Who one truly is, is only knowable to the one resident of that home, the self. Every human individual has the agency to think, feel, act, or speak, combined with autonomous features like blood circulation, digestion, pupil dilation, etc. We innately trust our senses and access reality through them. We have privacy of thought and imagination. We have the safety of skin protecting our internal organs.
The concepts of Home and Human Body are awesome designs, evolved and matured over a millennia. These designs have been diligently and constantly configured to match the requirements of evolution and culture. We can learn from these designs to re-shape and re-configure our digital homes and life, our personal technology, devices and data - to the benefit and growth of its users. When configured with the first principles so well embodied in the Home and the Human Body, our digital homes can enhance our lives, provide us the exoskeleton to flourish and grow.
Back. To the Future.
Protecting privacy is paramount. Designing consent driven hardware and software for absolute safety is the uncompromisable priority of Sundae Labs, the configurations that allows for everything else to be possible. If we design our tech this way, it will begin to free us from the double bind; hardware that is safe, that gives us more control, supports us, and makes us less dependent on itself. What if we had a technology that actively pointed away from the virtual world and back at real life? Sundae Labs will design a tool that helps you manage the excess of information around you, the excess of possibilities available at any given moment. It will help you detect real patterns in your data using sound science, help you picking up your states of mind, and identify trends in your life without being obtrusive or presumptuous. Ultimately, we need a tool that helps us navigate the world without becoming a crutch, something that can catch our sunshine and reflect it in a way that helps improve our lives and fulfill our potential as human beings.
Now think about the Human Body, as a home of one. Who one truly is, is only knowable to the one resident of that home, the self. Every human individual has the agency to think, feel, act, or speak, combined with autonomous features like blood circulation, digestion, pupil dilation, etc. We innately trust our senses and access reality through them. We have privacy of thought and imagination. We have the safety of skin protecting our internal organs.
The concepts of Home and Human Body are awesome designs, evolved and matured over a millennia. These designs have been diligently and constantly configured to match the requirements of evolution and culture. We can learn from these designs to re-shape and re-configure our digital homes and life, our personal technology, devices and data - to the benefit and growth of its users. When configured with the first principles so well embodied in the Home and the Human Body, our digital homes can enhance our lives, provide us the exoskeleton to flourish and grow.
Back. To the Future.
Protecting privacy is paramount. Designing consent driven hardware and software for absolute safety is the uncompromisable priority of Sundae Labs, the configurations that allows for everything else to be possible. If we design our tech this way, it will begin to free us from the double bind; hardware that is safe, that gives us more control, supports us, and makes us less dependent on itself. What if we had a technology that actively pointed away from the virtual world and back at real life? Sundae Labs will design a tool that helps you manage the excess of information around you, the excess of possibilities available at any given moment. It will help you detect real patterns in your data using sound science, help you picking up your states of mind, and identify trends in your life without being obtrusive or presumptuous. Ultimately, we need a tool that helps us navigate the world without becoming a crutch, something that can catch our sunshine and reflect it in a way that helps improve our lives and fulfill our potential as human beings.
Now think about the Human Body, as a home of one. Who one truly is, is only knowable to the one resident of that home, the self. Every human individual has the agency to think, feel, act, or speak, combined with autonomous features like blood circulation, digestion, pupil dilation, etc. We innately trust our senses and access reality through them. We have privacy of thought and imagination. We have the safety of skin protecting our internal organs.
The concepts of Home and Human Body are awesome designs, evolved and matured over a millennia. These designs have been diligently and constantly configured to match the requirements of evolution and culture. We can learn from these designs to re-shape and re-configure our digital homes and life, our personal technology, devices and data - to the benefit and growth of its users. When configured with the first principles so well embodied in the Home and the Human Body, our digital homes can enhance our lives, provide us the exoskeleton to flourish and grow.
Back. To the Future.
Protecting privacy is paramount. Designing consent driven hardware and software for absolute safety is the uncompromisable priority of Sundae Labs, the configurations that allows for everything else to be possible. If we design our tech this way, it will begin to free us from the double bind; hardware that is safe, that gives us more control, supports us, and makes us less dependent on itself. What if we had a technology that actively pointed away from the virtual world and back at real life? Sundae Labs will design a tool that helps you manage the excess of information around you, the excess of possibilities available at any given moment. It will help you detect real patterns in your data using sound science, help you picking up your states of mind, and identify trends in your life without being obtrusive or presumptuous. Ultimately, we need a tool that helps us navigate the world without becoming a crutch, something that can catch our sunshine and reflect it in a way that helps improve our lives and fulfill our potential as human beings.
Call to Action
Sundae Labs is bringing together philosophy, technology, psychology and linguistics with a clear vision - “Let’s Make Technology Virtuous”. Our mission is to “Develop technology that protects your data, unlocks its potential, and puts it back in your service”. We have carefully chosen the path to be a public benefit corporation (PBC); Our vision and mission are deeply intrenched in the company’s Articles of Incorporation and represented in our breakthrough intellectual property filings. Our founding team and advisors, further exemplify a commitment to help improve the human condition, through their life’s work.
Call to Action
Sundae Labs is bringing together philosophy, technology, psychology and linguistics with a clear vision - “Let’s Make Technology Virtuous”. Our mission is to “Develop technology that protects your data, unlocks its potential, and puts it back in your service”. We have carefully chosen the path to be a public benefit corporation (PBC); Our vision and mission are deeply intrenched in the company’s Articles of Incorporation and represented in our breakthrough intellectual property filings. Our founding team and advisors, further exemplify a commitment to help improve the human condition, through their life’s work.
Call to Action
Sundae Labs is bringing together philosophy, technology, psychology and linguistics with a clear vision - “Let’s Make Technology Virtuous”. Our mission is to “Develop technology that protects your data, unlocks its potential, and puts it back in your service”. We have carefully chosen the path to be a public benefit corporation (PBC); Our vision and mission are deeply intrenched in the company’s Articles of Incorporation and represented in our breakthrough intellectual property filings. Our founding team and advisors, further exemplify a commitment to help improve the human condition, through their life’s work.
We’re looking to collaborate with,
Companies and developers that can help gather biometric, psychometric or sociometric human data through computing devices and wearables.
Thought leaders in philosophy, cognitive science, behavioral psychology, linguistics, Socratic reflection, wisdom traditions, AI/ML,
Philanthropists and capital investors that are aligned with our vision and mission.
Governments interested to empower their citizens at a wide-scale.
We can be reached at Hello@SundaeLabs.io or by filling out the contact us form on our website.
More on significance.
One’ desires, fears and aspirations, preferences, likes and many other personal traits - a person’s broadscale bio-psycho-sociometric profile can be gathered using their everyday renewable and abundant personal data streams, as collected by personal devices. Unfortunately, this framing has led to reducing human data to being considered as the new oil, something to economically benefit from when this learning could have catapulted us to the next frontier of privacy, self-knowledge and well-being.
Our technology gives us access to the world — opportunity, community, productivity, education, entertainment, social life and love. If we opt out of it, we opt out of life. We can’t go back to a world without devices and technology, and we can’t thrive in a world where we are losing ground every day. Our digital homes are full of unwelcome guests while our data is fueling the global AI engine but benefitting very few. Centralized AI is not just threatening jobs and making us second guess the need for humans, it is rapidly accelerating the hijacking of our attention, agency and autonomy along the way. As a result, each of us is experiencing an untenable double-bind: our tech dehumanizes us, but we are hopelessly dependent on it. For a deeper dive, please read our Document of Significance.
Compared to our physical home, our digital home(s) are crowded with unwelcome tenants, unsavory guests, even intruders and thieves. Each of us have signed away our rights, our privacy and our data under many unread agreements from various operating systems, apps, and cookies on websites. Tech is so complex and has so many layers and players, we have no way of knowing who is listening, watching or collecting our personal, social and digital data. It’s 2025 and we’re realizing that the “silicon age”, after having built the calculator, the personal computer, the Internet, the smartphone and smart-everything, followed by artificial intelligence and machine learning, has rapidly become consumed by a specific flavor of technology viz. Large Language Models or LLMs. These LLMs built on stolen data, their makers are unfoundedly hoping to realize Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which would also require insane amounts of energy and all the data ever produced and will be produced. It requires us to mindlessly expose ourselves, our families and friends, our daily lives, conversations, health metrics, photos and videos, file and documents - our entire bio-psycho-sociometric context! This is not just a bad idea, it’s a very, very, very, very, very, very bad design (each very is a different type of bad).
We’ve seen the trailer before - what’s happening with your data has happened with your money. Banks were supposed to be safe warehouses or responsible custodians of our money but often they irresponsibly leverage our money primarily for their benefit, and our risk. Like it or not, we’ve come to depend on large companies to store our personal information and the compounding effect of how they are using and leveraging our data is way worse than what was ever possible with money.
There is one difference though; unlike money, you can bring all your data home and use it like it’s nobody’s business!
Your data is sunshine. Not oil.
Much like how the plants absorb sunlight to grow and thrive, your devices can absorb your renewable, abundant and unique sunshine of data – locally and purposefully. That purpose is to expand and enhance your abilities, to help your growth, protection, self-knowledge, well-being – overall flourishing. As you will read further in this paper, you can be equipped with a consent driven, safe and private, hyper-personalized tech-verse around you. Tech that’s shaped by you, for your benefit, tech that’s architected to serve you loyally, protect you from distractive notifications, manipulative nudging, attention hungry algorithms and agency hijacking AI. Tech that watches over and observes changes in your physical, behavioral, and cognitive self over time, picks up early signs of mental health decline. Tech that can enhance and expand your productivity with informed and educated assistants always ready at your service with deep knowledge of your context. Tech that can help lift the most vulnerable amongst us, non-tech savvy amongst us, our elderlies and younglings, each and all.
Your context is meaningful and personal. In the wrong hands, it can be used to harm or manipulate you. But in your hands, it can be a powerful tool for good. What if, from the time of its creation, you had complete and outright ownership of the data you create? With the help of cognitive scientists, clinical psychologists, philosophers and software developers, it would become possible to reshape the current tech landscape, how it operates, how we relate to it, and how key stakeholders benefit i.e. users, developers, innovators, manufacturers, investors, etc. Many stand to benefit, not few. Your data in your hands, enables it to be put back in your service, giving you the ticket to a better future.
Our world of tech is here to stay, and it must be innovated with a new kind of relationship, a new vision. The mission of Sundae Labs is to flip the script on these broken promises, and use our tech to serve our humanity. If our tech is going to help resolve the problems it created, and be an aid to enhance human capacity, it must prioritize the following values:
Safety & Privacy. Use cutting edge hardware to prevent data breach and identity theft, safeguarding privacy above all else, and making sure your data is yours and only yours.
Self-Knowledge. Help you navigate the overabundance of your own data, and help find real, relevant and revealing patterns in your bio-psycho-social metrics, creating a personal mirror that only you can see.
Health & Stability. Use rigorous scientific measures to help make sense of your data, providing you with insights and credible recommendations to help chart and improve your physical and mental health.
Meaning & Relationships. Provide tools to help you find focus and vocation in your life, and create conditions to afford deeper connections with other human beings.
The key perspective that human data is akin to sunshine and not a commodity to be bought and sold, not crude oil to be used as fuel to drive profits, not a valuable economic asset to gain market control – this one perspective can free us towards realizing a new future to,
course-correct from building harmful AI
go back to the future we all want - with more speed, and a lot more power & control
We’re looking to collaborate with,
Companies and developers that can help gather biometric, psychometric or sociometric human data through computing devices and wearables.
Thought leaders in philosophy, cognitive science, behavioral psychology, linguistics, Socratic reflection, wisdom traditions, AI/ML,
Philanthropists and capital investors that are aligned with our vision and mission.
Governments interested to empower their citizens at a wide-scale.
We can be reached at Hello@SundaeLabs.io or by filling out the contact us form on our website.
More on significance.
One’ desires, fears and aspirations, preferences, likes and many other personal traits - a person’s broadscale bio-psycho-sociometric profile can be gathered using their everyday renewable and abundant personal data streams, as collected by personal devices. Unfortunately, this framing has led to reducing human data to being considered as the new oil, something to economically benefit from when this learning could have catapulted us to the next frontier of privacy, self-knowledge and well-being.
Our technology gives us access to the world — opportunity, community, productivity, education, entertainment, social life and love. If we opt out of it, we opt out of life. We can’t go back to a world without devices and technology, and we can’t thrive in a world where we are losing ground every day. Our digital homes are full of unwelcome guests while our data is fueling the global AI engine but benefitting very few. Centralized AI is not just threatening jobs and making us second guess the need for humans, it is rapidly accelerating the hijacking of our attention, agency and autonomy along the way. As a result, each of us is experiencing an untenable double-bind: our tech dehumanizes us, but we are hopelessly dependent on it. For a deeper dive, please read our Document of Significance.
Compared to our physical home, our digital home(s) are crowded with unwelcome tenants, unsavory guests, even intruders and thieves. Each of us have signed away our rights, our privacy and our data under many unread agreements from various operating systems, apps, and cookies on websites. Tech is so complex and has so many layers and players, we have no way of knowing who is listening, watching or collecting our personal, social and digital data. It’s 2025 and we’re realizing that the “silicon age”, after having built the calculator, the personal computer, the Internet, the smartphone and smart-everything, followed by artificial intelligence and machine learning, has rapidly become consumed by a specific flavor of technology viz. Large Language Models or LLMs. These LLMs built on stolen data, their makers are unfoundedly hoping to realize Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which would also require insane amounts of energy and all the data ever produced and will be produced. It requires us to mindlessly expose ourselves, our families and friends, our daily lives, conversations, health metrics, photos and videos, file and documents - our entire bio-psycho-sociometric context! This is not just a bad idea, it’s a very, very, very, very, very, very bad design (each very is a different type of bad).
We’ve seen the trailer before - what’s happening with your data has happened with your money. Banks were supposed to be safe warehouses or responsible custodians of our money but often they irresponsibly leverage our money primarily for their benefit, and our risk. Like it or not, we’ve come to depend on large companies to store our personal information and the compounding effect of how they are using and leveraging our data is way worse than what was ever possible with money.
There is one difference though; unlike money, you can bring all your data home and use it like it’s nobody’s business!
Your data is sunshine. Not oil.
Much like how the plants absorb sunlight to grow and thrive, your devices can absorb your renewable, abundant and unique sunshine of data – locally and purposefully. That purpose is to expand and enhance your abilities, to help your growth, protection, self-knowledge, well-being – overall flourishing. As you will read further in this paper, you can be equipped with a consent driven, safe and private, hyper-personalized tech-verse around you. Tech that’s shaped by you, for your benefit, tech that’s architected to serve you loyally, protect you from distractive notifications, manipulative nudging, attention hungry algorithms and agency hijacking AI. Tech that watches over and observes changes in your physical, behavioral, and cognitive self over time, picks up early signs of mental health decline. Tech that can enhance and expand your productivity with informed and educated assistants always ready at your service with deep knowledge of your context. Tech that can help lift the most vulnerable amongst us, non-tech savvy amongst us, our elderlies and younglings, each and all.
Your context is meaningful and personal. In the wrong hands, it can be used to harm or manipulate you. But in your hands, it can be a powerful tool for good. What if, from the time of its creation, you had complete and outright ownership of the data you create? With the help of cognitive scientists, clinical psychologists, philosophers and software developers, it would become possible to reshape the current tech landscape, how it operates, how we relate to it, and how key stakeholders benefit i.e. users, developers, innovators, manufacturers, investors, etc. Many stand to benefit, not few. Your data in your hands, enables it to be put back in your service, giving you the ticket to a better future.
Our world of tech is here to stay, and it must be innovated with a new kind of relationship, a new vision. The mission of Sundae Labs is to flip the script on these broken promises, and use our tech to serve our humanity. If our tech is going to help resolve the problems it created, and be an aid to enhance human capacity, it must prioritize the following values:
Safety & Privacy. Use cutting edge hardware to prevent data breach and identity theft, safeguarding privacy above all else, and making sure your data is yours and only yours.
Self-Knowledge. Help you navigate the overabundance of your own data, and help find real, relevant and revealing patterns in your bio-psycho-social metrics, creating a personal mirror that only you can see.
Health & Stability. Use rigorous scientific measures to help make sense of your data, providing you with insights and credible recommendations to help chart and improve your physical and mental health.
Meaning & Relationships. Provide tools to help you find focus and vocation in your life, and create conditions to afford deeper connections with other human beings.
The key perspective that human data is akin to sunshine and not a commodity to be bought and sold, not crude oil to be used as fuel to drive profits, not a valuable economic asset to gain market control – this one perspective can free us towards realizing a new future to,
course-correct from building harmful AI
go back to the future we all want - with more speed, and a lot more power & control
We’re looking to collaborate with,
Companies and developers that can help gather biometric, psychometric or sociometric human data through computing devices and wearables.
Thought leaders in philosophy, cognitive science, behavioral psychology, linguistics, Socratic reflection, wisdom traditions, AI/ML,
Philanthropists and capital investors that are aligned with our vision and mission.
Governments interested to empower their citizens at a wide-scale.
We can be reached at Hello@SundaeLabs.io or by filling out the contact us form on our website.
More on significance.
One’ desires, fears and aspirations, preferences, likes and many other personal traits - a person’s broadscale bio-psycho-sociometric profile can be gathered using their everyday renewable and abundant personal data streams, as collected by personal devices. Unfortunately, this framing has led to reducing human data to being considered as the new oil, something to economically benefit from when this learning could have catapulted us to the next frontier of privacy, self-knowledge and well-being.
Our technology gives us access to the world — opportunity, community, productivity, education, entertainment, social life and love. If we opt out of it, we opt out of life. We can’t go back to a world without devices and technology, and we can’t thrive in a world where we are losing ground every day. Our digital homes are full of unwelcome guests while our data is fueling the global AI engine but benefitting very few. Centralized AI is not just threatening jobs and making us second guess the need for humans, it is rapidly accelerating the hijacking of our attention, agency and autonomy along the way. As a result, each of us is experiencing an untenable double-bind: our tech dehumanizes us, but we are hopelessly dependent on it. For a deeper dive, please read our Document of Significance.
Compared to our physical home, our digital home(s) are crowded with unwelcome tenants, unsavory guests, even intruders and thieves. Each of us have signed away our rights, our privacy and our data under many unread agreements from various operating systems, apps, and cookies on websites. Tech is so complex and has so many layers and players, we have no way of knowing who is listening, watching or collecting our personal, social and digital data. It’s 2025 and we’re realizing that the “silicon age”, after having built the calculator, the personal computer, the Internet, the smartphone and smart-everything, followed by artificial intelligence and machine learning, has rapidly become consumed by a specific flavor of technology viz. Large Language Models or LLMs. These LLMs built on stolen data, their makers are unfoundedly hoping to realize Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which would also require insane amounts of energy and all the data ever produced and will be produced. It requires us to mindlessly expose ourselves, our families and friends, our daily lives, conversations, health metrics, photos and videos, file and documents - our entire bio-psycho-sociometric context! This is not just a bad idea, it’s a very, very, very, very, very, very bad design (each very is a different type of bad).
We’ve seen the trailer before - what’s happening with your data has happened with your money. Banks were supposed to be safe warehouses or responsible custodians of our money but often they irresponsibly leverage our money primarily for their benefit, and our risk. Like it or not, we’ve come to depend on large companies to store our personal information and the compounding effect of how they are using and leveraging our data is way worse than what was ever possible with money.
There is one difference though; unlike money, you can bring all your data home and use it like it’s nobody’s business!
Your data is sunshine. Not oil.
Much like how the plants absorb sunlight to grow and thrive, your devices can absorb your renewable, abundant and unique sunshine of data – locally and purposefully. That purpose is to expand and enhance your abilities, to help your growth, protection, self-knowledge, well-being – overall flourishing. As you will read further in this paper, you can be equipped with a consent driven, safe and private, hyper-personalized tech-verse around you. Tech that’s shaped by you, for your benefit, tech that’s architected to serve you loyally, protect you from distractive notifications, manipulative nudging, attention hungry algorithms and agency hijacking AI. Tech that watches over and observes changes in your physical, behavioral, and cognitive self over time, picks up early signs of mental health decline. Tech that can enhance and expand your productivity with informed and educated assistants always ready at your service with deep knowledge of your context. Tech that can help lift the most vulnerable amongst us, non-tech savvy amongst us, our elderlies and younglings, each and all.
Your context is meaningful and personal. In the wrong hands, it can be used to harm or manipulate you. But in your hands, it can be a powerful tool for good. What if, from the time of its creation, you had complete and outright ownership of the data you create? With the help of cognitive scientists, clinical psychologists, philosophers and software developers, it would become possible to reshape the current tech landscape, how it operates, how we relate to it, and how key stakeholders benefit i.e. users, developers, innovators, manufacturers, investors, etc. Many stand to benefit, not few. Your data in your hands, enables it to be put back in your service, giving you the ticket to a better future.
Our world of tech is here to stay, and it must be innovated with a new kind of relationship, a new vision. The mission of Sundae Labs is to flip the script on these broken promises, and use our tech to serve our humanity. If our tech is going to help resolve the problems it created, and be an aid to enhance human capacity, it must prioritize the following values:
Safety & Privacy. Use cutting edge hardware to prevent data breach and identity theft, safeguarding privacy above all else, and making sure your data is yours and only yours.
Self-Knowledge. Help you navigate the overabundance of your own data, and help find real, relevant and revealing patterns in your bio-psycho-social metrics, creating a personal mirror that only you can see.
Health & Stability. Use rigorous scientific measures to help make sense of your data, providing you with insights and credible recommendations to help chart and improve your physical and mental health.
Meaning & Relationships. Provide tools to help you find focus and vocation in your life, and create conditions to afford deeper connections with other human beings.
The key perspective that human data is akin to sunshine and not a commodity to be bought and sold, not crude oil to be used as fuel to drive profits, not a valuable economic asset to gain market control – this one perspective can free us towards realizing a new future to,
course-correct from building harmful AI
go back to the future we all want - with more speed, and a lot more power & control