The founding membership exists because the work — configuring hardened OpenBSD, running self-hosted AI, keeping data sovereign — produces knowledge continuously, and that knowledge has no natural public channel. The briefing is that channel.

What the membership provides

• A weekly note on the current state of self-hosted AI, the tools that are proving reliable, and the operational decisions that follow from deployment on real infrastructure — not from benchmarks or whitepapers.
• Early access to every guide and configuration template before it is published. What reaches the public has been tested and sharpened by the members who saw it first.
• Access to the shared infrastructure that sits behind the public pages — Market, Project, Mail, Wiki, BBS, and IRC — under the same header and with the same permissions that paid consulting clients use. Within the project board, members create and own their projects; collaboration rights are explicit, not presumed.
• A permanent 10% reduction on any future service or consulting block. This is not a promotional discount; it is a structural acknowledgment that founding members underwrote the early phase.

The founding tier is set at 10 places. After they are taken, the price returns to €120 and the weekly briefing becomes a monthly digest — the economics of a small-scale, high-signal operation make no other arrangement sustainable.

The membership suits someone who manages infrastructure, advises on it, or builds it — an IT manager, a sysadmin, a freelancer, a privacy-conscious business owner. The material assumes competence and rewards attention. It does not excite and it does not simplify.

To join at the founding rate, purchase is direct. Welcome materials arrive within 24 hours; the first briefing follows the next scheduled cycle.

Payment and provisioning

Payment is by MBway or Revolut. To receive payment details, send email to contact at sophia dot host stating your interest in the Founding Membership. Provisioning — the creation of any necessary account and the delivery of access — follows within 24 hours of confirmed payment.