About — Virtues

About Virtues

An independent company building freedom
for individuals.

Open Source 100% Yours $0 Venture Funding Public Benefit Co

Adam & Paul-Henry · Austin · 2026

Why Virtues

A small correction.

The most important things in a life have always been handled closest to home — your faith, your family, your formation, the shape of your days.

It's strange, then, that the record of all of it now lives on machines you will never see, owned by companies you will never meet.

Virtues is a small correction. A server, in your home, that holds the story of your life and answers only to you. Not safer because we promise it is — safer because there is no other way for it to be.

Privacy isn't just a technical preference. It's a moral precondition for self-knowledge: you can't ask honest questions about your life if your honest answers are used to predict you, addict you, and sell you the next thing.

Founder, Virtues

Read the longer manifesto

What Virtues Is

Personal Intelligence, at home.

Virtues is two things at once. A premium home server that holds the data of your life — emails, messages, calendars, health, transactions, journals — under your roof. And the operating system that turns that data into self-knowledge.

The result: a private AI that learns your patterns, writes an honest record of your days, and grounds every model you use in who you actually are. Less brilliant stranger. More personal intelligence.

Who Builds It

Adam & Paul-Henry.

Adam Jace: Founder & software engineer. Read more about Adam here.
Paul-Henry Flynn: Co-founder & product engineer. Read more about Paul-Henry here.

When We Ship

Four versions, in order.

Each version moves more of your intelligence — your data, your inference, your day-to-day computing — under your own roof.

2026 · Q2

// currently shipping

V1

Personal Intelligence.

Reclaim the record of your life onto a private server in your home. AI grounded in who you actually are.
2027

V2

Private Intelligence.

Inference moves home, too. Your AI runs on your own hardware, not the cloud.
2028

V3

Ambient Intelligence.

A live AI woven through your day — present in the background, never extractive.
Beyond

V4

Personal Data Protocol.

A personal internet — every service, every interface, owned by the person living it.

Where We Build

Austin, Texas.

Built out of a small workshop in Austin. Real chairs, real bookshelves. Hardware prototyped on a kitchen table; software shipped from a quiet desk by a window.

Visits by invitation.

The workshop · Austin, TX

How We Build

Architecture, not promises.

Five commitments that shape the way we build, the way we hire, and the way we say no.

Subsidiarity

Decisions about your life belong to you. Tools defer upward, never capture inward.

Praxis

We build for use, not for show. Every feature has to earn its place in an actual day.

Conscientiousness

Privacy by architecture, never by promise. Careful with the parts of a life we touch.

Prudence

Speed is not the virtue. Doing the right thing, at the right time, is.

Autognosis

Know thyself. Our products exist so you can read your own life honestly.

Open source.

Virtues OS is public code. If we ever go away, your server keeps running and the community can fork what we built.

View on GitHub

Currently

Where things stand.

May 2026: V1 hardware shipping to first reservations.
Apr 2026: 270+ users in private beta, shaping every feature.
Q1 2026: Virtues OS source published — open and forkable.
2025: Incorporated as a public-benefit company in Austin, TX.

Built so you can outlive — and outthink — the algorithm.

By dedicated people, in a small workshop, for the rest of your life.

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