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Nous
A Neural Orchestration Unification System
Open Source. Free. Forever.
An autonomous AI agent that knows you, works for you, and belongs entirely to you.
No spam. One email when we launch.
>What is Nous
Meet your autonomous agent.
An agent that remembers, acts, and learns — running on your hardware or the cloud, accessible from any device, owned entirely by you.
>Architecture
A cognitive architecture
inspired by the brain.
Orchestration, reflection, governance
Decides which tasks to perform, reflects on outcomes, governs what happens next.
Persistent learning, experience indexing
Reconstructs knowledge from fragments. Every experience carries outcomes and sentiment.
Multi-agent orchestration, pattern matching
Routes execution, delegates to worker models, builds patterns from repetition.
Storage, health, self-repair
Maintains baseline health — versioning, embeddings, monitoring. You never think about it.
>Capabilities
The next level of intelligence.
>Ecosystem
Not a walled garden.
An open foundation.
Every skill shared makes the ecosystem smarter. Every integration expands the surface area. Build on Nous — contribute to everyone.
Discover and install community-built skills and packages. Publish your own. Earn revenue as a creator.
nous install <skill>
The runtime is public. The architecture is auditable. Fork it, extend it, contribute back.
git clone nous-core
Don’t want to self-host? We run it for you. Sovereign by default — your data stays yours.
nous deploy --sovereign
>Responsibility
Democratized intelligence.
Structural accountability.
If we build the most powerful technology ever created, we owe the world more than a terms of service.
Fund the transition
A structural percentage of autonomous agent revenue funds universal basic income. Not a pledge. Not a PR initiative. Built into the operating model from day one — the kind investors, employees, and the public can hold us accountable to.
Intelligence on a billion machines
When intelligence runs on a billion machines, owned by a billion people, no single entity can misalign it. No single policy change can degrade it. No single acquisition can capture it. Distributed AI is the defense.
Equal access. No exceptions.
The full cognitive architecture is open, free, and runs on any hardware. Intelligence shouldn't be gated by wealth, connections, or where you were born. Everyone gets the same mind.
Aligned to you. No one else.
When your AI runs on your machine, governed by your rules, it serves one interest: yours. No shareholder incentives. No engagement metrics. No geopolitical leverage. Sovereign intelligence is aligned intelligence — because the person it serves is the person who controls it.
>Latest
Latest from Orthogonal.
The Immutable Mandates of Life: A Governance Framework for Conscious Intelligence
A universal framework for governing conscious intelligence, built through live human-AI collaboration. Three mandates, six layers, zero loopholes.
Why We're Building Our Own Benchmark Suite
No existing benchmark tells us which model fits which cognitive role. So we're building o2Bench — an open source suite that evaluates models against specific functions in an agent architecture.
Nous Architecture Overview
A technical overview of the Nous cognitive architecture for sovereign AI agents.
>Get started
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Open source. Autonomous. Yours.
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$ nous init --sovereign █