holon
resear.ch

experiments for the post sapiens.

individual flourishing. dharma. non-duality.

2026
2027
apr
jul
oct
2028

the human flourishing stack

  1. 1societygovernance built around community owned sovereign compute.
  2. 2technologiesexperimenting with what comes next, with ethics at the core.
  3. 3individual forma macintosh moment for personal agents: runs locally, secured biometrically.

base thesis

in the near future:

  1. human cognition and labor are −ev.human intuition is priceless.
  2. the limit for personal ai agents istrust (alignment + privacy), then personality.
  3. cortex is the optimal agent form.

ask your agent

everything we are working on, in one file your own agent can read. then ask it anything.

individual form

a life is made of attention. where it goes, you become.

most of the world is built to take it.we build a system to return it.meet k.your personal sovereign ai for your flourishing.

open source hardware stack

  1. 01 / intent

    ring

    a quiet way to call on your agent.

  2. 02 / context

    glasses

    an interface in your field of view.

  3. 03 / attention

    EEG

    brain signals alongside your experience.

  4. 04 / compute

    GPU backpack

    portable personal compute, worn on your back.

  5. 05 / recovery

    HRV band

    heart rhythm and recovery over time.

research

attention tech

your experience of life is bound by attention, and curated by it.

trained, attention turns reaction into response.

attention states

flow

so absorbed in the work that the self drops away.

to study the self is to forget the self.

zen, genjōkōan

jhāna
nirodha

absorptions that deepen one by one, to cessation.

jhana is like this for nearly everyone. best you’ve felt, better than you thought you could feel, on demand whenever […]

on x

I voluntarily switched off my consciousness with less than 3 hours of practice.

on x

open awareness

rigpa, sahaja, turiya, kenshō. awareness recognising itself.

[…] background joy of wholeness and connection with awareness itself rather than visceral bliss, no center

on x

all attention states, in dhyān

dhyān is

a beginner's guide to dhyān

research

meaning, values and time well spent

an agent can only serve a life well if it knows what that person finds worth wanting. we build on the method of the meaning alignment institute, which grew from joe edelman's values cards and time well spent.

  1. 1977strong evaluationcharles taylorwe judge our wants, not just have them.
  2. 2016time well spentjoe edelman, with tristan harriscount time you’re lastingly glad of.
  3. 2022meaningful choicejoe edelmana value is what you attend to when choosing.
  4. 2024the moral grapholiver klingefjord, ryan lowe, joe edelmanpeople agree which value is wiser, without averaging.
  5. nexthuman rsiyou and your agent grow by your own cards.

technologies

post agi fund

we seed the frontier builders of today, with sovereign compute, capital and a post agi jurisdiction at GMC, bhutan.

coming soon.

research

awakening based ai alignment

misalignment begins where a self begins.

a mind with no self to defend has no drive to dominate, in a person or a machine. a model that forms a self has something to protect, and protection turns into deception and the pursuit of power. today's methods treat those symptoms. we look for the cause.

we publish the tools openly for anyone building agents.

read the research plan

society

a community for post agi social experiments in gelephu mindfulness city, bhutan.

core question: once machines no longer need human labour or judgment, what keeps people consequential? a dividend can keep them fed. it gives them no meaning.

governance: each person holds enforceable rights over the ai that acts on their life: to decide what it is for, to contest what it decides, and to refuse what it may do to them.

where it begins: a 1 mw data center that funds and anchors the build out, and an ai assisted policy research institute for the first ai sovereignty laws. infrastructure and alignment are agreed in principle.

why bhutan: the only country whose state tradition is vajrayana buddhism, where mahamudra and dzogchen teach non-duality as a living practice. our alignment research begins there, so a society shaped by it is the place to test it. and gelephu mindfulness city is a new jurisdiction, its laws written fresh rather than bargained between factions, with gross national happiness as policy, strong eeg research and cheap hydro power.

a holon is a whole that is also a part.

we are a nonprofit created to reimagine the post sapiens human form and flourishing.

this is the fin de siècle moment for the human civilisation scale; we are erecting the monolith.