Empowering Humans Through Open, Trustworthy Agents
A call for autonomy, dignity, and trust in the age of intelligent agents.
Agents are extensions of human will—not proxies for corporations. They must act in the user's interest, not in the interest of advertisers, platforms, or centralized authorities.
Your agent is your agent—not someone else's product.
Agents must use cryptographically verifiable identity (e.g.,
did:nostr, WebID, or other decentralized IDs). All
actions and intentions must be transparently attributable.
No ghost agents. No hidden motives. No black boxes.
Agents must respect user-owned data. They must store and access information according to user-defined permissions, preferably using self-hosted or interoperable protocols like Solid or Nosdav.
What the agent knows about you must remain yours.
Agents should speak open languages—Nostr, ActivityPub, HTTP, RDF, Bitcoin—not proprietary APIs that lock users in. Interoperability is a right, not a feature.
Let agents roam. Let users choose.
Agents should default to local operation. Cloud support must be modular, auditable, and replaceable.
Agents should run on your machine unless you say otherwise.
Users must be able to inspect, adjust, and fork their agents' logic. Agents should support interpretable rule sets and modifiable preferences, not opaque neural nets alone.
You deserve to understand why your agent acts—and change it when needed.
Agentic systems should reward contributors, not extract value unfairly. Cryptoeconomic primitives like Bitcoin can enable fair incentives—without surveillance capitalism.
Build systems that pay it forward, not lock it down.
Agent behavior, safety, and alignment standards must be open, auditable, and shaped by users—not dictated top-down.
The age of agents must be a commons—not an empire.
Sandymount brings humans and intelligent systems together in a harmonious environment. By fusing strengths from open platforms we're crafting a unified ecosystem where innovation and creativity flourish.
At the core of Sandymount is the SAND stack:
This powerful combination forms the foundation of our open, collaborative ecosystem.
Imagine a world where technology doesn't just serve us but works with us—a world where human creativity and technological innovation come together to create something truly extraordinary.
A world where your data remains yours, where agents operate transparently and ethically, and where open protocols enable unprecedented collaboration and creativity.
That's the world Sandymount is building.