New Developments
Artwork (Unknown) from Cosmos
Moving out of the experimental sandbox, our focus for the upcoming year is all about laying the groundwork and making a small splash with our digital workspace. We’ve already built and tested a live "social studio" prototype over at Orelier Social and now we are officially transitioning it into a production-grade home by kicking off a $55,000 dual-track adventure. The first part of our plan puts $35,000 toward bringing on a cozy little team of two to three contract engineers. They’ll be auditing our staging setup, moving the code into an open-source public repository, and weaving in secure “zero-knowledge” authentication. Since we believe in algorithmic isolation, this setup will completely block sneaky things like behavioral tracking, metadata snooping, and manipulative recommendation loops right from the jump.
Alongside the core app engineering, we are hoping to dedicate $20,000 to curate and share an Open-Access UX/UI/AI Ethical Framework. We’re building this out as an online course hosted on our site using Squarespace course modules packed with interactive code sandboxes for tech folks to play with. Instead of just talking about dry theory, our curriculum shares code blocks that swap out addictive attention traps and infinite scrolls for mindful page boundaries and chronological updates. The framework also sets gentle boundaries for local data storage. By running features locally on a user's own device via WebGPU or WebAssembly, software teams can look out for the planet, protecting fragile local utility grids and dropping server energy demands down to nearly zero.
Our dream is to help tech leaders, designers, and creative businesses easily implement these ethical, human-centric design patterns directly into their own commercial business models. To make it as simple as possible, we are keeping everything totally free of annoying paywalls or gates. Instead, we are relying on a sweet little Honor-System Open Contribution Loop tucked right into the course checkpoints. When commercial teams and software collectives find themselves loving and using our pacing blocks in their business apps, we invite to give back through recurring donations.
To make all of this official, Orelier is now a registered unincorporated association with the IRS, meaning we can formally accept public and institutional donations. This milestone fuels our honor-system loop, blending corporate utility with public-interest research so our public audits, software maintenance, and ethical tech goals can keep growing with style.
