About

Sovereign Switch is a project in the EvoBioSys constellation. It's the public face of a body of work that's happening regardless — building the bridge between technical sovereignty and the daily-driver experience your friends and parents will actually use.

Why this exists

The technical pieces of digital sovereignty are solved. Vitalik Buterin published a self-sovereign LLM setup in early 2026 that proves you can run capable AI without leaking anything to a U.S. cloud. GrapheneOS has been mature for years. Linux runs every workload that matters. Proton, Tuta, Infomaniak, and dozens of EU providers offer end-to-end encrypted alternatives to the Big Tech stack.

And almost nobody non-technical uses any of it.

The gap is not technology. The gap is friction, fear, and a guide ecosystem calibrated for people who already speak the language. Sovereign Switch is the project of closing that gap — for the curious non-techie who wants out of the dragnet this weekend, not for the journalist who already runs Qubes.

Stewards

Sovereign Switch is stewarded by Jakob and the OpenClaw collective, sitting inside the broader EvoBioSys constellation. The project is positioned as a byproduct of work that happens regardless — not productized, not a paid offering, not a service to sell.

Aligned funding (grants, mission-aligned investment, community contributions) is welcomed from any source where the alignment is strong. Round 1 of EvoBioSys's funding effort runs through Sovereign Switch — the surface where new collaborators tend to find us.

Detail about people, contributors, and the broader collective is shared on first-name basis here, with full identities reserved for direct conversation. If you're considering partnership, funding, or collaboration, write us — we'll exchange specifics offline.

Adjacent projects

• EvoBioSys — the constellation Sovereign Switch belongs to. Animist philosophy of technology, ecological lens on digital infrastructure.
• OpenHarness — the sovereign terminal AI in active build under Sovereign Switch. See Projects · OpenHarness.
• QuestHub — collaborative quest platform, separate working-out-loud product surface in the same constellation.

Get in touch

Email is the canonical channel: connect@sovswitch.com. Newsletter signup goes through the same address while we wire up the proper newsletter backend. Mastodon, code repositories, and other public surfaces will be linked here as they're ready to be linked.

Honest disclosure — the MacBook

A site about getting people off Big Tech is fair to ask: what is the steward actually using? Here is the answer, without dressing it up.

Jakob is buying a MacBook. The reasoning is pragmatic: staying ahead with AI is not yet possible on Linux to the same degree it is on macOS. The AI tooling that requires same-day model access, current Apple Silicon performance, and the working developer-tooling ecosystem is on macOS today.

The MacBook is the workbench — where the code gets written. The PC tower running Linux is the workhorse for actual local LLM inference and personal compute. The split lets the workbench stay current with frontier tooling while the workhorse keeps personal data on hardware and software we trust more.

Every project on this site is calibrated for a person making this kind of staged trade-off. Sovereignty isn't all-or-nothing — see the multiple-accounts pattern and data tiers for how to spread different kinds of work across different machines and providers.

What's coming

• SoTranscribe / SovTranscribe — the first project where we publish our personal codebase publicly. Currently being moved off the QuestHub server onto this site's /transcribe path. See Projects · SoTranscribe.
• AI model research — notes on which models behave well privately, how to mix EU/local/frontier providers without leaking, and which open-weight options are actually viable for daily use. Coming as a series under Methodology.
• Local provider deep-dives — per-provider write-ups (Mailbox.org, Posteo, Tuta, ungleich, Infomaniak) graded against the grading rubric.

What this site explicitly is not

• Not a productized "sovereign stack as a service" offering.
• Not a hardcore security or hardcore privacy guide. See Advanced for those.
• Not a manifesto. Sovereignty is presented as upgrade, not sacrifice.
• Not affiliated with any U.S. cloud, ad-tech, or surveillance-capitalism vendor.

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