Open Cognitive Commons
Open-source AI, collectively intelligent.
A distributed AI network where local models answer through community-verified knowledge. Peers collaborate to sharpen every answer. Free for everyone, forever.
No cloud inference. No crawled web. Knowledge packs are community-reviewed, signed, and tamper-proof. A lightweight broker connects your node to the network — nothing else.
00 / what is occ
Small models. Verified knowledge. Outsized results.
OCC is a free, open-source AI network built on a simple idea: reliable knowledge should be a commons. Anyone can run a node, contribute knowledge, and benefit from the collective intelligence of the network — without paying, without trusting a corporation, and without giving up their data.
Most AI systems draw from a continuously crawled web — permanently exposed to manipulation, SEO poisoning, and unverifiable sources. OCC’s knowledge is different. Every pack is built from explicitly approved sources, reviewed by the community, versioned, and cryptographically signed. What enters the network is inspectable. What is rejected stays out. No single actor can quietly alter what the network knows.
The network runs on the hardware of its participants. Every node that joins makes the whole stronger. If you believe that trustworthy AI should be open, accountable, and free for everyone — this is where it gets built.
node capability
inference
100% local
knowledge
community-reviewed
routing
broker-mediated
sources
fully inspectable
01 / architecture
How it works
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OCC Node
The local runtime users install. It runs a local language model via Ollama, retrieves verified knowledge from the server privately, and connects to the broker to participate as a peer reviewer. Your query never leaves your machine.
Learn about Node →02
OCC Forge
The tool used to turn trusted sources into structured knowledge packs. Forge ingests URLs and documents, builds wiki pages, and generates a signed manifest — for community submission or private local use.
Learn about Forge →03
OCC Registry
The public list of knowledge packs accepted by the OCC network. Every approved pack has a version history, source list, and review record. Open and machine-readable.
Browse Registry →02 / trust
The trust model
Anyone can create a pack.
Only reviewed packs enter the public network.
Sources, reviewers, versions and decisions are public.
Capital can fund the commons. It cannot govern the truth layer.
Capital can fund the commons.
It cannot govern the truth layer.
03 / status