A project update
Discussion reveals a decision that needs a smaller group, so invited contributors continue in a restricted space with the context still attached.
Update → discussion → contributor space → decisionA network of adaptable social places
Start with a message. Let it grow.
Aitta Network connects independently controlled places called Aittas. In an Aitta, a message, idea, or conversation can become a shared space where people talk, decide, and use trusted apps together.
Already bring people together? Begin with one meaningful item and one real next need. Want to take part? Join without creating an Aitta of your own.
Inside the Northstar Aitta
Project update · PublicShould we make this public?
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Contributor space · Invited
✓DecisionReady to decide
One place in the network
An Aitta is one independently controlled place.
It is not only a profile, feed, app, or conversation. An Aitta contains the identity it represents, people and access policies, messages and spaces, trusted apps, local data and state, and its own appearance, address, behaviour, and runtime.
How it grows
A message is not the end product. It is the beginning.
Aitta keeps the people, context, and useful tool together as the group's work takes shape.
- 01
Share something real
A project update, idea, question, request, or invitation gives people one clear thing to gather around.
- 02
Let people respond
The conversation stays with the thing that started it instead of disappearing into a general feed.
- 03
Open the right space
When a need becomes clearer, the relevant people can continue together with understandable access.
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Do something useful
A trusted app helps the group ask, decide, organize, or take the next action—right in context.
Anything shared in Aitta can grow into a place where people do something together.
Ways an Aitta can grow
Start with what your group is already doing.
These are illustrative first-version situations—not claims about groups already using Aitta.
A community event
An announcement gathers questions and participation. Organizers open a private coordination space while the public conversation remains where people found it.
Announcement → questions → participation → organizer spaceA direct request
Once a message request is accepted, the private conversation can contain an approval, shared task, structured response, or another useful app.
Request → consent → conversation → shared actionUseful before it is large
Start with people who already know why they are here.
The first network begins with small groups, real relationships, something meaningful to share, and a foreseeable next interaction—not an empty global feed.
For organizers
Bring a group with a recurring purpose.
Start an Aitta for a project, community, company, club, creator group, publication, research group, or working group you already bring together.
Explore Founding AittasFor participants
Join what matters before owning anything.
Follow an invitation or public item, sign in, then follow, join, respond, message, or use apps. You never need to deploy an Aitta to belong.
Join the participant listTaking part without ownership
Join through something that already matters.
Create an Aitta only when you have people or work of your own to organize.
- 01
Open a real item or invitation.
Understand the Aitta or space before signing in.
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Sign in with ChatGPT.
Joining never creates an Aitta silently.
- 03
Follow or join.
Follow public activity or join a bounded space when allowed.
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Take one meaningful action.
Respond, message, decide, or use an app in context.
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Return through Your network.
See activity from Aittas you deliberately follow. It is a view; the original content stays authoritative in its source Aitta.
What we are building first
The smallest real network.
One bounded version that can help an existing group from its first meaningful shared item to its next useful capability.
See the first-version plan →- 01
Create and register an independent Aitta
Give it a purpose, identity, address, appearance, people, and clear boundaries.
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Join with ChatGPT without owning an Aitta
Follow a real invitation or public item, then follow, join, respond, message, or use an app.
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Return through Your network
See relevant public activity from Aittas you explicitly follow while the original content remains authoritative at its source.
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Let shared items grow into spaces
Keep the people, context, access, conversation, and useful interaction connected.
- 05
Start direct conversations by consent
Use requests, acceptance, unread state, blocking, reporting, and clear retention.
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Turn real needs into accountable App Ideas
Make progress visible from clarification through decision, reviewed release, improvement, or reasoned closure.
Built from the conversation
Turn the group's next need into an accountable App Idea.
Keep the need, discussion, decisions, implementation, and eventual release connected. Every idea should visibly reach a decision, prototype, trusted release, improvement, or a clear reason it was closed.
- 1Need
- 2App Idea
- 3Shape together
- 4Reviewed implementation
- 5Trusted release
- 6Use in context
- 7Improve
“Create a private decision space for invited contributors. Let everyone propose options, but only organizers close the decision.”
Configure trusted capabilities
Compose what the Aitta already knows.
ChatGPT can configure installed, bounded fields, choices, actions, conditions, permissions, validation, calculations, state machines, and layouts. No new executable code is added.
Create a new implementation
Keep it as an App Idea until reviewed.
Agents can draft a contract, implementation, tests, security checks, and release notes. A human-approved, versioned release comes before any Aitta can choose to trust it.
Natural-language creation can configure what an Aitta already trusts. It cannot publish arbitrary live code or bypass review.
Explore the App Idea process →How the network works
Independent places. Shared meaning. Trusted software.
The network connects Aittas and members without turning them into one centrally owned space or letting remote senders choose which software another Aitta runs.
AittaSocial
The software platform and product family.
An Aitta
One independently controlled top-level place.
Aitta Network
The relationships and exchanges connecting Aittas and signed-in members.
AittaSocial Hub
Identity, discovery, relationships, authorization evidence, and coordination—not a shared content store.
Events can become spaces.
Every typed event may be a child in one app space and the root of another.
Access stays explicit.
Follow, Join, Read, Write, and Watch remain separate. Parentage grants none of them.
Software stays local.
Events carry typed data and state—not JavaScript, arbitrary HTML, remote scripts, or installable packages.
Unknown types fail safely.
A bounded generic view can show safe static data and why interaction is unavailable without executing sender code.
Why this direction is credible
Evidence for the starting point. Hypotheses for the product.
The evidence supports ingredients behind Aitta—not the finished product or proven market demand. The exact recursive model still needs prototypes, threat modelling, usability testing, and real founding groups.
Activity in small servers
Discord reports that 90% of its activity happens in small, intimate servers. It is a first-party platform statistic, not independent research.
Discord · Thank You for Ten Years ↗People across bounded places
In a qualitative study of private chats, groups, workspaces, and servers, participants associated these bounded places with known audiences, relevant communication, and continuous conversation.
Malhotra · Social Media + Society, 2024 ↗Social-platform users
An incentive-compatible 2025 study found that particular existing relationships explain a meaningful share of measured platform value. It is a working paper, not evidence about Aitta.
Aral et al. · 2025 preprint ↗Small early contributions
WikiProject research found that diverse early membership and many small contributions predicted later activity better than early content volume or a few power users.
Solomon & Wash · ICWSM 2014 ↗What this changes
Read the evidence, precedents, and open hypotheses →Aitta begins with organizers, real relationships, meaningful shared items, and a foreseeable next interaction—not synthetic activity or an empty global audience.
For financial investors
Follow the opportunity as the evidence develops.
Aitta is pursuing a new social application model: independent places, recursively useful context, and trusted software that can grow from real group needs. The first proof is retained participation in small groups—not account volume.
We will share future investor materials when the product evidence and financing context are ready. Nothing on this site is an offer to sell securities.
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Sign in once with ChatGPT, then join any combination of the Organizer, Participant, Builder, and Investor lists separately. The first three express how you may participate; the Investor list is for financial updates and future conversations.
Four independent lists
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Founding Organizer list
Organizer
I already bring together a group with a recurring purpose and a real next need.
Participant list
Participant
I want to join Aittas I care about, follow what happens, and take part without owning one.
Builder list
Builder
I want to help turn shared needs into secure, compatible, trusted apps.
Financial Investor list
Investor
I want to follow the opportunity, product evidence, and future financing conversations.
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