Reference implementation
AERIE
A local-first AI knowledge workspace that proves the standard works. Notes, document intelligence, and retrieval — running fully offline.
Local-first
Runs entirely on the operator's machine. No cloud, no accounts.
Zero telemetry
Nothing phones home. Inspect the traffic and see for yourself.
Air-gap capable
Installs and runs on a network with no outbound access at all.
Fully open source
Apache 2.0 licensed. Read it, audit it, rebuild it.
What AERIE actually is
Not a note-taking app. A compliance demonstration kit.
AERIE looks like a knowledge workspace — and it is one. But its real job is to make POSS tangible. A government CIO can plug in a bootable copy, run it on an isolated machine, and verify every principle of the standard in about five minutes.
The notes, the document intelligence, the retrieval — those are the demonstration. The compliance is the product. AERIE is how a procurement officer answers "is this actually sovereign?" by watching it run, not by reading a vendor's brochure.
Status
In active development.
AERIE is the foundation's first reference implementation. It is being built in the open and deploys with a single Docker Compose command. As the standard stabilizes, AERIE will be the first software certified against it.
We do not publish download counts, screenshots of features that do not exist, or release dates we cannot meet. When there is a build to run, the instructions will be here.