The Internet is the most powerful tool humanity has ever built.

It gave us connection, curiosity, and creativity at a scale we'd never seen before.

But it wasn't meant to be like this.

It started as a constellation of open protocols: email, RSS, HTTP, all stitched together with optimism and trust.

That constellation wasn't a divine creation, it was built by people. Idealists. Cypherpunks, hackers, hippies. It was messy, it was cumbersome, but it was beautiful.

Then, platforms took over. And with them came lock-in, surveillance, and silos.

AI has an opportunity to steer us towards a better Internet that inspires a renaissance of the freedom, trust, and privacy that made it humanity's greatest invention.

AI, while revolutionary in scope, threatens to deepen that platform dominance: concentrating power in the hands of those with the most data and compute. Left unchecked, we risk flooding the Internet with noise, losing the values that made it worth saving.

We think it's time to liberate the web. Not backwards to the past, forward to something better.

AI is incredible: a new substrate of software. Everything generated in real-time, tailored to you. But right now, it doesn't know who you are.

We're building Mio because AI needs context: inference on top of your data, mapping who you are and what matters to you.

Not just memorizing facts, but using intelligence: context, seeded from your own data.

Most people are trying to solve personalization backwards: wait until the user does something, then use that information to make future answers better. Preferences are inferred slowly, often inaccurately, based on surface-level interaction data.

We go upstream.

We start with your existing data: the emails you've written, the docs you've edited, the signals you've already produced over decades of being online. The result? Personalization from the very first interaction, while preserving privacy.

Step one: derive preferences directly from personal data.

Step two: augment with usage.

Step three: power everything with a shared context layer that moves across tools and models.

Today, every app has its own algorithm. With Mio, every user brings their own.

Mio is a tool for you to share your preferences across apps.

Mio is your portable identity for the AI era. It's the gateway to an Internet that works for you, is personalized to you and is controlled by you.

Mio is:
Private: We don't store your data. We don't even see it. It's your data, not ours.
Portable: No vendor lock-in. Your context goes where you go.
Simple: It just works. You get immediate personalization.

Developers can think of Mio as context as a service or automated context engineering. Mio isn't just another vector database provider, memory tool or MCP server; it's a compiler that translates user data into preferences for them to be consumed by AIs.

We're moving from algorithms that influence us to agents that act on our behalf.

If we don't fix this now, we lock ourselves into a future where software acts on your behalf, but not in your interest.

The Internet's substrate is shifting. The cost of generating personalized content is approaching zero. For the first time, it's possible to build systems that are tailored to the individual and controlled by the individual.

AI makes everything personal. Programmable cryptography makes everything portable.

Together, they crack open the platform monopoly: and make space for new giants to emerge. We're already seeing it, from your code editor to note-taker and beyond.

This is the moment. We can build something better: private, portable, human-first.

That's why we're building Mio: to carry forward the values the Internet was meant to have, in tools built for today.

This isn't just a manifesto, it's a roadmap. In the next few months, we're shipping the best context tool with:

• Portability by default: your context moves seamlessly across apps.
• Day-one personalization: we derive preferences from your data, so apps feel tailored from the start.
• Two-way integration: apps that read and write to Mio.

Let's build a web that remembers who you are: so AI doesn't just talk to you, it speaks for you. In your voice, on your terms.

If you're building an AI app and care about retention, join our waitlist or book a call directly.

We're onboarding new teams to the beta each week and are already powering apps with hundreds of thousands of users. Join the waitlist.

PS: We're a small team of repeat founders, open-source contributors, AI researchers and applied cryptographers building the connective tissue of a better Internet. Looking for a place to do your life's work? Join us.