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We're a frontier infrastructure company. The apps and platforms you see in this organisation are proof-of-concept and production expressions of that infrastructure — real problems, solved on largely open-source foundations, in the open.

Our apps bring people together. Our platforms provide access. The infrastructure underneath is what we're actually building, and what we're committed to for the long run.

• Web2 → Web3 → quantum. Open-source infrastructure that spans today's web, the decentralised web, and the quantum era. Our cryptographic and networking primitives are designed with a post-quantum migration path from day one.
• On-device, local-first, edge. Compute and storage that work where the people are — resilient under low connectivity, private by default, ready for the world of AGI and beyond. The cloud is a cache. The device is where truth lives first.
• Built for communities. Platforms shaped by Ubuntu philosophy — collaboration, transparency, and shared ownership over extraction. Sovereignty is structural, not aspirational.

• ntl — Nyuchi Transfer Layer. Signal-based data transfer for decentralised networks, replacing traditional APIs with neural propagation. Built for AI workloads, Web3-compatible, post-quantum ready. Rust reference implementation, Apache 2.0.
• siafudb — embedded property graph database for device, edge, and Web3. Graph-native storage with built-in sync, privacy transformations, and offline-first design. Pure Rust, Apache 2.0. The army ant carries the graph.
• siafudb-kuzu — the C++ ancestor, forked from KuzuDB v0.11.3 and relicensed Apache 2.0 permanently. Cypher queries, vector search, WASM-ready. Named after the African army ant — small, embedded, but the ecosystem collapses without it.

• Mukoko — a privacy-first social super app. "Your data stays yours, your identity is sovereign, and the algorithm works for you." Seventeen mini-apps — Campfire, Pulse, News, Bytes, Circles, Novels, Nhimbe, BushTrade, Places, Transport, Planner, Lingo, Weather, Wallet, Jobs, Health, and Mukoko ID — all powered by Your Honey, a personalisation algorithm designed to serve you, not exploit you.
• learning — digital learning experiences for Africa, built around African knowledge systems.
• shamwari-ai — a localised AI model and platform purpose-built for the African continent.

Our design system lives at design.nyuchi.com — shadcn-compatible components, the Five African Minerals palette, and APCA Lc 90+ contrast targets. The source is design-portal.

• Open source first. Public by default, private only when necessary. MIT, Apache 2.0, and occasionally GPL — always check the LICENSE file in the specific repository.
• Conventional Commits. Every commit and PR title follows conventionalcommits.org.
• Signed commits. All merges to main are signed and verified.
• CI is the source of truth. Required status checks gate every merge — see the reusable workflows that power it.
• Agents have rules too. AGENTS.md governs AI-assisted contributions.

Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a PR.

The company's governance is published in the open. Three documents describe how Nyuchi Web Services is organised, how we license our work, and how our engineers build:

• NA-01 Constitution — internal corporate governance, decision rights, and the relationship with the Mukoko Foundation.
• NA-02 Open Source & Contribution Governance — licensing posture, contribution process, and sovereignty commitments.
• NA-03 Engineering Working Agreement — frontier-first engineering principles: post-quantum by default, local-first by default, edge-native by default.

• Browse our repositories.
• Full product catalogue at services.nyuchi.com.
• Report security issues privately via SECURITY.md.
• Questions? See SUPPORT.md.

Our projects use a mix of MIT, Apache 2.0, and occasionally GPL, depending on the component. Always check the LICENSE file in the specific repository you're working with.