Tools for Sovereignty
We incorporated Tools for Sovereignty a year ago today. We spent the last 18 months navigating the idea maze.
We shipped 6 products all anchored around bridging the utility gap. We started Tools for Sovereignty to give people control over their data. In the age of AI, this means control over their context.
December 2024 What Did You Get Done Today?
Product: A Slack bot automating standup.
Problem: Companies waste a lot of time on coordination whilst all the context already exists.
Description: A Slack bot using LLMs to aggregate the work done across different tools.
GTM: Founder sales.
January - April 2025 The Worldcoin Bet
Product: Mini-apps on World App.
Opportunity: World App was emerging as a novel superapp.
GTM: Build the best AI apps on World leveraging personal context — got to 250k users in the span of a few months.
May - September 2025 Private Memory Infrastructure
Product: Private memory infrastructure sold to AI apps.
Problem: With our apps we realised early that memory was the moat for AI apps — users should control it and be able to share it across apps.
Solution: SDK/API & MCP server for apps to personalise their LLM-based offerings, privacy guarantees via TEEs.
We wrote a manifesto about why the privacy frame mattered, then learned the buyer didn't care.
September - December 2025 The Identity Play
Product: IAM provider with context seeding.
Problem: Users don't have to reintroduce themselves to every app.
Solution: Identity provider with context seeding — think Poke's onboarding as a service.
January - March 2026 Context Aggregator
Products: MCP context aggregator, initially for individuals, then for companies.
Problem: Your context is tied to an LLM provider, you should be able to port it.
Solution: An extension to your AI apps that syncs them to the relevant context.
April 2026 Coworker in Slack
Product: Agent that lives in Slack and gets work done for you.
Solution: A digital coworker that knows your company, adapts to how you work and is accessible directly in your team communication tool.