Prototype. There's nothing to download yet, no mutuals exist, and no lawyer has read the trust deed or the licence. We're publishing early so it can be tried and argued with.

Owners, not users.

Kanecta is one workspace for your notes, tasks, files, email and code — where everything is an object, and you decide what the objects are. It's held in trust, and it's owned by the people who use it.

What it is

A tree of things you define

Everything lives in one tree, and every node is a typed object. Contacts, invoices, recipes, tickets — you make the types, and they behave like rows in a proper database.

Your toolchain, in one place

Files, calendar, email, boards, a terminal, and AI coding sessions side by side. It can mirror outside things too, like an issue tracker ticket or a code review.

Built from its own data

Screens are components and behaviour is functions, and both are stored in the tree like anything else. So you can change Kanecta the same way you change your notes.

Like open source, except one thing

You get the full source. You can run it, change it, share it and fork it, the same as open source.

The one difference: each person who uses Kanecta joins a mutual, spends five minutes on a short declaration once a year, and pays their dues — or says they can't afford to, and that's the end of it. That makes you an owner, with one vote, the same as everyone else.

How it works →

Held in trust. Owned by nobody.

It can never be sold

The code, the name and the domains sit in a trust whose deed says they can't be sold, licensed exclusively or mortgaged — by anyone, including us.

Nobody profits

Wages for real work, yes. Profit, no. That applies to the people who started it and to every trustee.

You can always leave

Your data is yours and exports cleanly. If the people running things go wrong, the community can fork and walk.

What the trust can and can't do →

Who it's for

People who'd rather own their tools than rent them. Kanecta is big, broad software that needs real, ongoing money to be good — and we'd rather that money came from a lot of ordinary owners than from one company that would then get to decide where it goes.

The idea behind it, open ownership, isn't just for Kanecta. You can read about it at oosl.org.