THE MANIFESTO

IAldea is not an AI that governs

Open infrastructure that helps communities decide, understand, and remember better. A support tool that keeps humans always in the loop. It does not replace people, authorities, or formal processes. Designed with privacy and civic safety at its foundation.

CIVIC SAFETY IS THE PRODUCT

Two columns, one promise

Trust is also designed: every IAldea feature is built to support communities without interfering in their internal processes. Setting clear limits on what it can and cannot do is part of what makes it safe and trustworthy.

WHAT IT DOES

Support thinking

Think with more information and context.
Organize local documents, agreements, needs, and priorities.
Remember history and prior decisions.
Compare two or three non-critical scenarios for everyday decisions.
Detect patterns: identifies recurring topics and shared priorities.
Help citizens understand public procedures.
Prepare preliminary documents and assembly summaries.
Retrieve information from official public sources.
Surface aggregated community concerns without naming individuals.
Flag uncertainty, missing information, and unsupported claims.
Show its sources, every time.
Refuse out-of-scope asks.
Indicate when a topic needs review by a human expert.

WHAT IT DOES NOT DO

Replace humans

Replace authorities or community assemblies.
Give legal, medical, or emergency advice.
Make diagnoses or give engineering opinions.
Bypass community processes.
Run automated procedures on behalf of authorities.
File complaints or create official documents.
Commit budget or assign resources.
Give voting recommendations or manipulate ballots.
Issue rulings or official documents.
Extract data without explicit consent.
Act as an expert or authority.
Make critical decisions for the community.

THE PRIVACY PROMISE

Three modes, one default

Citizens choose how their words travel. The system supports public, confidential, and private modes, and defaults to the most protective option.

Public

A citizen contributes information that may be part of community memory. Stored and citeable.

Confidential community

Shared input that may inform aggregated patterns without exposing the individual. Aggregated only above a minimum count.

Private, no memory

A question or message is answered without retention. The conversation is not stored as community memory.

SOURCE HIERARCHY

How the system decides what to trust

1. Official public sources.
2. Community-approved documents.
3. Assembly notes and minutes.
4. Authorized citizen feedback.
5. AI inference, always flagged as such.

THE CORE PRINCIPLES

"The platform does not take decisions or execute actions. It helps people and community authorities think better with more context."

"Supporters fund a public good. They do not buy control over community data, governance, roadmap, outputs, pilots, or public decisions."

"IAldea respects assemblies, authorities, committees, oral traditions, local language realities, cultural norms, indigenous normative systems, local autonomy, and community consent."

OPEN SOURCE

Released under the most open license possible

Self-hostable. Works with free, paid, local, or remote AI models. Configurable per community via SOUL.md and policy_config.yaml. The product is the principles. The code is how the principles run.