Reppo is the sovereign digital infrastrcture that enables a new economic and collaboration paradigm that makes AI-enabled entrepreneurship accessible for AI developers and creators without government or VC involvement. On Reppo, AI builders raise directly from their users and their community. We believe that next set of AI innovators will be crowd-sourced and crowd-funded, combining intelligence that is gatekept today in walled gardens. We also believe builders must be able to co-own and co-monetize their IP through technological means, not legal means. To achieve this, builders need acccess to infrastrcuture to ensure their AI Intellectual Property has end-to-end provenance and is progressively explainable (XAI) to shield from regulatory, financial, and legal risks as well as build trust in a trustless manner with their users.

At AI advances, we are moving from general intelligence to specific intelligence, where models & agents are purpose-built, combining on-chain data with off-chain data and context. We want to emphasize that on-chain data itself only gets us halfway to build intelligence that can reason, understand, and act on our behalf. It’s incomplete. Reppo combines innovations in zkTLS, federated learning, and intent-based architectures, completely centred round AI builders who have been disenfranchised in the AI revolution. Intelligence, be it human or artificial, is collectively produced but can be individually consumed.

Why Builder-owned and not User-Owned AI

AI is not software. It’s a beautiful thing when users can choose to pool their data to train a foundation model, but do those who provide the compute & hardware to train such a model also become owners in that intelligence? What about those who contribute their knowledge, heuristics, biases, and purpose to bring utility to the data? Are they also owners?

Many have argued that Artificial General Intelligence won’t be a single large model that can answer questions, it will be a living ecosystem of models that can think for themselves, replicate, and one day surpass our understanding. But who owns these models? Who has governance rights on the self-replicating models and derivatives of other models? Will such AI govern itself? While we agree that such an ecosystem of models should be a public good, no one has figured out how. Who will have jurisdiction of its maintenance, governance, and safety? Who will care?

We are not convinced it will be the users of such AI. That’s just wishful thinking. History has proven time and again, most users just consume. It’s the developers, the dreamers, the builders who actively ensure that things work.