Privacy for everyone

Our mission is to build software that gives people greater agency, control, and choice in their digital lives. We believe that privacy adoption at scale must work backwards from preserving utility. This means negligible impact on user experience, model intelligence, throughput, latency, tool use & agentic capabilities, and web access.

Tiles was born from the discussions in User & Agents logoUser & Agents, a community focused on shaping the future of user-agent systems. We are also a signatory to the European Social Stack initiative, supporting an open, interoperable, and publicly accountable digital ecosystem for Europe.

We’re a small independent team based out of Bengaluru, India.

We’re currently building Tiles, a local-first, collaborative AI assistant powered by open models and decentralized protocols. It lets you run models locally or remotely over peer-to-peer networks, sync chats with end-to-end encryption, and retain ownership of your identity and data through DIDs, UCANs, and AT Protocol.

Team

The five members of the Tiles Privacy team standing together outdoors.

Advisors

Boris Mann profile pictureBoris Mann@bmann.ca
  • COO, Ink & Switch
  • Project Lead, AT Community Fund
  • Co-founder & CEO, Fission Labs
Dietrich Ayala profile pictureDietrich Ayala@autonome
  • Co-founder, Users & Agents
  • Founder, Web Transitions
  • Ecosystem Lead and Advisor, Protocol Labs
  • Developer Advocate, Mozilla
Gordon Brander profile pictureGordon Brander@gordon
  • Research Fellow, Future of Life Foundation
  • Research Fellow, Cosmos Institute
  • Founder and CEO, Subconscious
  • Web Platform Designer, Google
  • Design Engineer, Mozilla