Vitalik Buterin runs AI on his own laptop. No cloud. No data leaving his machine. Full sandboxing. Manual approval before anything gets sent out. His verdict on the mainstream AI industry: "completely and utterly cavalier about privacy and security."
He's right. And what he built for himself is exactly the problem we solve for organisations.
One person can set up a local AI server and write custom security scripts. An organisation with 200 people cannot. They need the same principles: data stays local, choice of AI model, access control, human approval for sensitive actions. But in a form that actually works at scale.
His "human + AI double confirmation" idea
Before any sensitive action happens, both a human and the AI must agree it's safe. That's not new to us. Every Aimable Space enforces rules before anything leaves your environment. The AI and the guardrails work together.
His warning about uncontrolled AI tools
He cites research showing 15% of third-party AI extensions contained malicious instructions. Now picture that inside your company. Consultants building tools on-site. Interns creating assistants. Everyone using a different model with zero oversight. That's not a hypothetical. It's already happening.
His vision for the future
"The more sophisticated software would live on the user's machine and be aligned with the user, instead of being aligned with a corporation intent on extracting value from the user." Replace "user" with "organisation" and you have our entire thesis.
The gap between what Vitalik built for himself and what organisations need is exactly where we work. One platform. Any AI model. Your rules. Your data stays yours.
Self-sovereignty shouldn't require being a Linux power user. It should be the default.