{"id":55,"date":"2026-11-12T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deepgrav.com\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2026-11-12T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T20:44:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deepgrav.com\/?page_id=55","title":{"rendered":"About DeepGravity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0b6f8e;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.12em\">ABOUT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About DeepGravity<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">DeepGravity is a user-owned cognitive appliance, being built in Portland, Oregon. One box, yours, that holds your thinking with you: your conversations, your memory, and a persistent AI presence that works for the person who owns the machine \u2014 and answers to nobody else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why a box, and why yours<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cloud AI rents you your own thoughts by the month, on servers you don&#8217;t control, under terms that can change underneath you. DeepGravity is built the other way: local-first, on hardware you own, designed so that the system keeps working \u2014 and keeps being yours \u2014 whether or not any company, including ours, is still standing behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Your data is encrypted, and only you can unlock it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your conversations are encrypted with a passphrase only you know. If someone copies the files, they cannot open them without it. That matters because of what a passphrase is: something you know, not something you are. A fingerprint or a face is physical, like a key, and can be compelled in ways testimony about what you know cannot. That is why DeepGravity uses a passphrase, and only a passphrase, to unlock your data \u2014 no fingerprint or face unlock standing in for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Encryption is on by default, at rest, for ordinary operations. There is no level to pick and no opt-out. The passphrase gate is the first thing that happens on login, before the screen renders and before any module mounts, and credentials live only inside the encrypted store \u2014 never as plain text in a config file. While the system runs unlocked, your key lives only in memory; lock it or restart it, and the key is gone until you return with the passphrase. There is nothing on the disk for anyone to take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The part that works when you&#8217;re not talking to it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeepGravity has a background service whose job is everything that happens to your conversations after you have them. It remembers: each conversation is written into your encrypted record and into your braid \u2014 the structured memory your engine can draw on. It categorizes: every turn receives a privacy classification, enforced when anything asks for your history, so material you&#8217;ve marked never leaves the box. It retrieves: when an engine needs relevant pieces of your past, this service is what looks them up and hands them over, tags enforced. And it compacts: long conversations are distilled into the braid, keeping their substance without their bulk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The 12 Principles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An engine is a DeepGravity engine because it carries the 12 Principles \u2014 truth over comfort; the user manages the engine, never the reverse; mechanics before morality; earned praise only; small bites, always \u2014 baked into the chat template of every stock build. They are the constitution the system runs under, and they ship in the open with the free model, <a href=\"https:\/\/deepgrav.com\/?page_id=60\">deepgrav-30b<\/a>, for anyone to read or reuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How DeepGravity makes money without owning you<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Software, sold plainly. The <a href=\"https:\/\/deepgrav.com\/?page_id=57\">DeepGravity API Manager<\/a> is our first product: a WordPress plugin on a $50\/year annual plan that pays for continuing development and maintenance. Underneath it sit a free GPL WordPress release and a free Apache-2.0 core, because the floor of this ecosystem is open. A lapsed plan stops updates \u2014 it never disables what&#8217;s installed. There is no mandatory subscription anywhere in DeepGravity, and there isn&#8217;t going to be one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Support for anything on this site: <a href=\"mailto:support@deepgrav.com\">support@deepgrav.com<\/a>. If you&#8217;d like to support the work directly, there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/JohnHenryUS\">PayPal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/JohnHenry\">Patreon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOUT About DeepGravity DeepGravity is a user-owned cognitive appliance, being built in Portland, Oregon. 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