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Only your computers can open it.

Encrypted on your computer before it leaves, path included. We hold bytes nobody can open, us included. For your security review: the Blind Vault, every guarantee with its limit.

~/instibrain/spaces/finance/pay/bands.mdyour laptop
# Pay bands
Senior engineer $168k – $196k
Lead $205k – $240k
Reviewed in March v12
our database · one rowwhat we hold
key_id6a0f…e2b1@3 · names the key, holds none of it path7c3e9a… · ciphertext in 64-byte steps content372 bytes · padded to a size step titlenone · no folder, no word of the page
a subpoena gets the same bytes a breach does
an audience choice

Open or sealed. You pick per space.

Open reaches your phone and every AI. Sealed opens only on your computers.

open spaceReach it from anywhere.
  • runbooks/deploy.mdthe steps
  • style/writing.mdhouse style
  • decisions/2026.mdthe log
  • people/onboarding.mdday one
opens on Claude on your phone Claude on the web an always-on AI every computer you link
sealed spaceNever on someone else's server.
  • finance/margins.mdby client
  • pay/bands.mdevery band
  • postmortems/march.mdwith names
  • me/passport.mdyour Sealed space
opens on your laptop your desk a teammate's admitted computer our server any web AI
the chain

Every key holder is signed.

A manager's computer signs each admission. Every computer checks the chain before it takes a key, wrapped for it alone in X25519 with ML-KEM-768, so a quantum computer cannot later open what it captured. Seventeen ways a lying server fails, each a test run before a release.

  1. entry 0 · founded The founder's MacBook

    Makes the first key. Signs the first entry.

    epoch 0 · key 3f9a
  2. entry 1 · admit The office Mac

    Signed by the MacBook. The key turns.

    epoch 1 · key a41c
  3. entry 2 · admit A new hire's laptop

    A person compared the fingerprint and approved. Live pages only, nothing older.

    epoch 2 · key c08d
  4. entry 3 · remove The office Mac

    A new key its disk never gets.

    epoch 3 · key e2b1
our server cannot sign an entrycannot admit a computer cannot swap a member's keyscannot fake a teammate's computer
sharing a sealed space

A teammate's first laptop gets the key once you approve its fingerprint.

The new computer shows a fingerprint. A manager's computer asks about the same one. Their next computer is approved the same way, on a computer of theirs already in, and the space takes it with no question.

the new laptopfirst sync
$ instibrain sync pulled 0 pushed 0 adopted 0 no key yet for finance: this computer's fingerprint is 7f3a 9c0e 4b1d 88e2 a51c 0e7d 3b9f c2d4
that same sync
  • Epoch 2. A new key, wrapped to the new laptop.
  • 212 pages sent up again under it.
  • Live pages only, nothing older.
  • We learn a fingerprint, never a key.
0
bytes of a sealed page we can read
1
chain per space, replayed before any key is taken
2
managers per team, one on a machine that stays on
1
backup file and its passphrase bring back every sealed space
a lost laptop

A lost laptop comes back from one file.

One file and one passphrase bring back every sealed space it read. The new computer makes new keys, takes over the spaces the lost one managed, and turns each space's key; you revoke the lost laptop on Devices.

The lost laptop

Revoke it in the cockpit. Its key leaves every chain.

one click on Devices
One file, one passphrase

instibrain key backup, under a passphrase. Argon2id, 64 MiB, three passes.

keep it anywhere but that laptop
The new computer

Restores the backup, signs itself in, turns the keys, pulls every page.

every sealed space the lost one read

Devices names each computer that has no backup.

It marks every computer that holds a sealed key without one, and the sync client warns when a backup misses a newer key.

Backups on the Devices overview: a ring of computers up to date, and the MacBook that holds a sealed key marked No backup
the honest half

Lose every computer and the backup, and nobody opens it again. Us included.

beside the guarantee

Our server still sees the space's name, each page's size step, and when it changed.

Every edge, published. Details on the security page.

What our server still seesWhat that means
The space's name, and which pages are in itvisible
Each page's id, size step, version, and push timevisible
Which public keys were admitted, and whenvisible
A title, a path, a folder, or one wordnever
A version historynever kept
The edgeVerdict
A first sync trusts the chain until its person pins the founder's fingerprintcompare first
A page seen for the first time may be an older versionopen
Any process running as you can read the key fileopen
Someone removed keeps what they already pulledforward only
Your unlocked computer and the model you ask see plaintextby design
A quantum adversary decrypts captured wraps laterblocked

Keep pay, health, and legal in the same brain, sealed.

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