The Local Intelligence Project
Let's reclaim intelligence.
A community infrastructure project for local AI literacy, reclaimed hardware, offline networks, and practical independence from centralized AI systems, rooted in regenerative technology, human-AI symbiosis, and shared power.
The Local Intelligence Project is building an ecosystem for Digital Terraforming: making the intelligence landscape livable and intuitive, and rooting powerful tools back into real communities before they become distant, expensive, or fully centralized.
AI is already helping people do things they could not do before. It can be an accessibility aid, a research engine, and a creative tool. But it also comes with tradeoffs: energy use, water use, hardware waste, weak oversight, and companies racing ahead like the environment is someone else's problem.
Digital Terraforming is the practical response: recycle compute, reclaim old hardware, teach AI literacy, build offline networks, and make local tools people can understand, repair, and share. The goal is not to opt out of intelligence. The goal is to grow community-owned systems that keep power closer to the people using them.
We build together.
Share the intelligence.
Open-source AI education, local models, civic literacy, tools, documentation, and monthly meetups for builders and learners.
Recycle the compute.
A dedicated salvage and sourcing channel for trading, collecting, and repairing old hardware: sensors, robotics parts, small computers, and useful components.
Keep the signal online.
Mesh networks, offline comms, and low-power local signal systems for community resilience, disaster prep, and platform-independent coordination.
The long-term vision is to grow branches across the United States until local groups can connect into a living mesh of shared skills, trusted tools, and practical independence from centralized AI companies.
As branches mature, some may become Solar Links: physical community nodes with gardens, repair benches, local servers, green mini data centers, mesh relays, workshops, and shared land for building together. Not everyone has to live there. The purpose is to create grounded places where people can meet, repair tools, grow food, run local compute, and practice technological independence as a community.
The first physical pilots begin in the United States, while the learning commons stays open worldwide for anyone who wants to adapt the guides in their own region.
The first step is a focused pilot: shared trust, useful documentation, reclaimed hardware, local learning, and a few real builds people can repeat.
There are a few ways to step in, from following along publicly to building trusted local capacity over time.
Anyone can follow along from anywhere in the world. Join open calls, test guides, share useful links, submit Tinbot finds, bring local observations, and learn with the project without needing approval or being based in the U.S.
Partners are aligned shops, farms, homesteads, makerspaces, libraries, educators, builders, or local groups that help source hardware, host sessions, test guides, offer skills, or support one of the core initiatives.
Official branches are trusted local groups approved to represent a region or initiative. They are trusted with local coordination, shared documentation, regional outreach, and turning agreed-upon projects into visible community progress.
You build, repair, teach, grow, document, organize, or test practical systems. We are looking for people who care about open-source AI, reclaimed hardware, local resilience, offline networks, robotics, computing, farming, outreach, repair, or civic life, and who are reliable enough to help build trust around branch work and future local nodes.
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