Ask an AI anything and your words travel to someone else’s building, run on someone else’s model, and land in someone else’s logs — with the carbon as a side effect.

You don’t own the answer, the data, or the footprint.

of everyday web activity never leaves your city. We call it the locality bonus.

phones  ·  home boxes  ·  no giant data centers

The agent sorts everything into seven circles — from self out to the whole Global Commons.

For the closest circles, the system never sends the little message that tells the network your data is even there. No message, no way to ask for it. The privacy comes from what’s missing — not from a promise.

• self · familynever shared
• friends · circlestays local
• community → Global Commonscan be shared

Big tech checks its AI once, while building it — then hopes. CIRIS keeps checking it while it runs, out in the open.

When the AI gets something wrong, you don’t just see it — you can undo it, and it loses trust.