OpenSoul
Network
Local-first intelligence • Consent by default • Verifiable lineage

Intelligence that you can own,
move, and share.

OpenSoul Network is an open system for building “Souls” — portable intelligence packages with explicit data lineage, permissions, and execution rules. You can curate, train, run, and publish without surrendering your work to a black box.

OpenSoul is not an “AI app.” It’s a network standard: how intelligence is created, owned, audited, executed, and exchanged.
What is a “Soul”?
Network unit
Intelligence artifact
One or model(s) or LoRA + metadata that makes it accountable
Lineage + permissions
Where it came from • what it can do • who can use it
Execution rules
Runs on Nodes with explicit privacy and settlement
OpenSoul is built to make intelligence portable without making people extractable.

The Soul lifecycle

A clean path from raw data to a publishable intelligence artifact — with lineage, permissions, and execution baked in.

Lineage Consent Portability
Step 1

Curate

Select what matters. Remove noise. Capture intent. Version datasets so results are repeatable and auditable.

Step 2

Train

Train small, useful intelligence: LoRAs, adapters, or compact models. Tie every artifact back to its sources.

Step 3

Publish & Run

Publish a signed manifest. Run on Nodes with explicit permissions, privacy defaults, and pay-per-token settlement.

Why OpenSoul exists

Today, intelligence is centralized: trained on you, extracted from you, and rented back to you. OpenSoul flips the default.

Ownership

Your work stays yours

A Soul is an artifact you can keep local, move between machines, and share on your terms — not something trapped inside a platform.

Accountability

Lineage is first-class

Every Soul carries provenance: dataset versions, training configuration, and a signed manifest that makes claims testable.

Open + Soul

A network standard, not a captive product

“Open” without “soul” becomes extractive infrastructure. “Soul” without “open” becomes capturable. OpenSoul is designed to be inspectable and human-safe: a standard for creating and exchanging intelligence without turning people into raw material.

Network promises

These aren’t slogans. They’re constraints on architecture, UX, and economic design.

Sovereignty

Private by default

Local-first is the baseline. Sharing is explicit. A Soul can be withdrawn, and withdrawal must actually stop execution.

Curation

Quality over volume

The system is designed to push users toward high-signal datasets — because good intelligence is built, not scraped.

Clarity

Usage, not hype

The network earns legitimacy through work: published manifests, measurable utility, and transparent incentives — not speculation.

Integrity

Verifiable claims

Souls declare what they are and how they were made. The network treats that as audit data, not marketing.

Privacy

No default prompt logging

Nodes can meter usage without turning prompts into surveillance. Privacy should be the default posture.

Permissioning

Consent is enforceable

Access is wallet-based, rules are explicit, and execution can be gated by the Soul’s manifest and owner controls.

Playground

The creation environment: curate assets, version datasets, train identity packs, validate results, and prepare Souls for publication.

Curation UI Training Inference

Network execution

Souls run on Nodes. Nodes are the enforcement layer: permission checks, privacy posture, metering, and settlement — without central custody.

Nodes enforce the manifest

A Soul’s manifest is a contract: what can run, who can access it, and what gets logged. Nodes exist to enforce those rules at execution time.

  • Signed manifests + reputation
  • Wallet-based access control
  • Pay-per-token metering (input + output)

Settlement is utility

The network needs a simple unit of account to pay for compute and reward useful Souls. That mechanism is designed for usage, not fundraising.

Billing unit
input + output tokens
Default posture
privacy-first
Trust layer
manifests + reputation

Open source

OpenSoul is built so the most important claims are checkable: implementation, manifests, and the spec live in public.

Code

GitLab

Repositories, issues, milestones, releases.

Open GitLab →
Spec

Whitepaper

Architecture, economics, governance — written with constraints.

Open PDF →
Proof

Artifacts

Screenshots, workflows, and measurable behavior.

See Playground →

Whitepaper

The canonical spec for the network: how Souls are created, published, executed, permissioned, and settled.

PDF Spec
OpenSoul Network Whitepaper
Download or view the canonical PDF
A practical blueprint for building a network where intelligence is portable, inspectable, and consent-based.