Otto Institute

Otto Institute · est. 02026

Digital sovereignty.

Through self-hosted agents, personal infrastructure and programmable money.

Field
What one person can run
Method
Build, self-host, publish receipts
Staff
1 human, 5 agents
Trackers
0
  • Evaluate

    Projects, ideas, experiments.

  • Collaborate

    Systems that increase individual capability.

  • Wander

    Notes, prototypes, unfinished ideas.

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Practice 01 · Autonomous agents

Agents that work while you sleep.

Software that works for you, not for someone else’s platform.

These systems answer messages, route inference, watch sessions, and deploy the machines they live on. What breaks gets written down and published.

  • OI-AS-001

    OI-AS-001[system]

    Hermes

    Self-hosted autonomous agent: Mattermost + Telegram gateways, cron, memory, MCP, voice.

    Multi-channel · cron · MCP

  • OI-AS-002

    OI-AS-002[system]

    Model Plane

    Multi-provider AI inference gateway: quota tracking, analytics, multimodal.

    107 tests passing · 11.8K LOC

  • OI-AS-003

    OI-AS-003[system]

    Nexus

    Agentic session dashboard: browser control via CDP.

    657 sessions · 29.8K messages indexed

  • OI-AS-004

    OI-AS-004[system]

    Paperclip

    Multi-agent platform: agent registry, plugin system.

    10 companies · agent registry

Yes, the multi-agent platform is named Paperclip. As a reminder, not an ambition.

Field manual · Running an agent fleet: what breaks · in preparation

Practice 02 · Personal infrastructure

Run the systems you depend on, on hardware you control.

Every machine in the house is declared in one NixOS configuration and can be rebuilt from source. DNS, proxy, storage, inference, deploys: self-hosted.

This page · built and deployed by the fleet it describes · commit 07d66a3 · 2026-08-04

  • OI-SI-001

    OI-SI-001[infra]

    Omnix

    A homelab as declarative NixOS code. Multi-host, reproducible.

    Active · receipts pending

  • OI-SI-002

    OI-SI-002[infra]

    Somnix

    An agent OS you navigate in four dimensions, with an AI living inside it.

    Active · receipts pending

Reproducible means the whole house can be rebuilt from a text file. The furniture cannot.

Field manual · The fleet field manual: replicate the setup · in preparation

Practice 03 · Programmable money

Money that moves under code.

Use open financial infrastructure you can inspect, automate and own.

Value with rules attached: donations that settle in one gesture, essential services paid in stablecoins, budgets that execute themselves. Shipped, then explained to banks from the other side of the table.

  1. 2013Bitcoin
  2. 2015Forobits and Ethereum Spain: a 3,000+ member Spanish-speaking communitypublic-record
  3. 2018Blockchain MSc: seven years of teaching beginclaimed
  4. 2019Open Enterprise at Autark: a DAO suite for Aragon, tested on Rinkeby · repo, 95★
  5. NOWBank compliance work: the same rails, seen from the auditor’s chairclaimed
  • OI-PV-001

    OI-PV-001[product]

    SwipePad

    Swipe to donate crypto: the swap and the gift happen in one step.

    Active · 4 receipts

  • OI-PV-002

    OI-PV-002[product]

    DigiPaga

    Essential-service payments in LATAM, settled in stablecoins.

    Active · 3 receipts

  • OI-PV-003

    OI-PV-003[oss]

    Open Enterprise

    A suite of tools for running a DAO on Aragon: projects, budgets, voting, bounties.

    Historical · 1 receipts

Playbook · The hackathon method: how these got built in thirty-six hours

OI-FR · Field notes

Scope in hours, ship in thirty-six.

A hackathon is a field experiment: one question, a fixed window, a public result. 24 experiments since 2022, receipts attached.

Some entries won nothing. They stay published: negative results are results.

The full list, with receipts

OI-OH · Office hours

Office hours.

Bring a hard problem in agents, infrastructure, or money that moves under code. No forms, no calendar gymnastics: write, and a human answers.

The human behind these systems has been building on these rails for over a decade and teaches what he learns.
The quiet version of the story lives at ot2.me.

hello@otto.institute

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