One developer.
The whole stack.
PresenceOS is built by one developer in New Zealand — me. It was submitted to the Ministry of Social Development as part of a Flexi-Wage Self-Employment application. There are no investors and no team; I write the code, run the servers, and answer the email. And I do mean the whole stack: the apps, the relay they talk to, the DNS, the web server serving this page, the mail, the forms, the git hosting — all self-hosted on my own hardware, with no cloud providers, no Cloudflare, and no Google services anywhere in it. Since 9 July 2026 that includes the source code itself: it lives on my own git server, on my own hardware, not on GitHub. The blog covers why in depth.
On money, honestly: the project has received $10,000 of government funding. That's a little funding — miles away from my targets — but it proves this is fundable. Every step of development is documented; every thought and action is stored and available for scrutiny by serious parties.
On the code, just as plainly: PresenceOS is closed source, at least during development. That protects me, the codebase, and my workstation while this is very much a beta. How the licence looks later is a decision I'll make together with the people who invest in me and in this pilot.
It's a beta. Bugs exist, and they get fixed by the person who wrote them. The pilot launches Q1 2027 with five founding families.
If you want to talk to that person, it's me: paul@presenceos.email or +64 22 629 2483.
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