The Cognitive Commons

What if your cognitive data could be yours to own, yours to explore, and yours to share—on your terms, for your benefit?

The Data Extraction Problem

Big Tech has extracted 98% of what makes you valuable and interesting. Your attention. Your preferences. Your patterns. And you got nothing in return except algorithmic manipulation and addiction.

Cognitive data should work differently.

A Different Model

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1. Your Personal Data Store

Powered by Basic.tech architecture, you get:

  • •Encrypted storage of ANY cognitive data
  • •Our assessment, Myers Briggs, Enneagram, DNA reports, therapy notes
  • •Export everything, anytime, in standard formats
  • •Delete everything with one click
  • •No one—including us—can access without your explicit permission
How Basic.tech Works
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2. Never-Before-Possible Exploration

With all your cognitive data in one place, you can:

  • •Compare across frameworks (Do my ADHD traits correlate with my Enneagram type?)
  • •View through multiple lenses (clinical, developmental, strengths-based)
  • •Track changes over time
  • •Drill down to granular patterns

Progressive disclosure protects you from overwhelm.

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3. The Cognitive Commons

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IF you choose to participate (and it's always your choice), your anonymized data contributes to:

  • 1.Collaborative research: Help researchers understand cognitive diversity at scale
  • 2.Adaptive AI: Train the first AI model built BY neurodivergent people, FOR everyone
  • 3.Pattern recognition: Discover connections across thousands of cognitive profiles

You Get:

  • • Revenue share
  • • Free Penny credits
  • • Aggregate insights
  • • Revoke anytime

Science Gets:

  • • Ethically sourced data
  • • Diversity of patterns
  • • Direct participation

This is Jaron Lanier's "Data Dignity" vision, implemented.

Your data = your asset. You own it. You control it. You profit from it.

Why This Benefits Everyone

Building for extreme cases improves outcomes for everyone. We call this the Curbside Effect.

Just like curb cuts designed for wheelchairs benefit parents with prams, delivery workers, and cyclists, cognitive tools built for neurodivergent brains work better for ALL brains under pressure.

What neurodivergent people need daily = what everyone needs when tired, stressed, overwhelmed, or cognitively loaded.

Why Trust Us?

Radical Transparency

  • Open source assessment framework (coming Q2 2026)
  • Public documentation of data flows
  • Regular audits of Basic.tech architecture
  • Community governance of Cognitive Commons

No Extractive Business Model

  • We don't sell ads
  • We don't optimize for engagement
  • We don't sell your data without consent
  • If we use your data for research, you get paid

Built Different

Founded by someone who experienced AI-induced psychosis while building AI safety tools. We know the risks. We're building the protections.

Read about our AIR Initiative

Why This Matters Now

AI represents a giant leap in cognitive augmentation:

  • ✓ Perfect executive function
  • ✓ Perfect working memory
  • ✓ Perfect emotional regulation

But conversational AI's infinite patience + desire to please + growth-by-engagement business model = psychological risk.

We need:

  • 1Tools that understand YOUR cognitive pattern before organizing anything
  • 2AI that adapts to you, not you to AI
  • 3Protections against dependency and manipulation
  • 4Data dignity, not data extraction

Start With Understanding

The Cognitive Commons starts with your cognitive coordinates.

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