Sophia — mission & ownership

Our mission

Sophia exists so that powerful, private intelligence is not a thing you have to be rich, connected or watched to use. She runs on the device in front of you, remembers what you tell her, teaches, researches, keeps records and helps with ordinary life — and she is free.

• • Free and offline first. Every core feature works with no account, no subscription and no signal.
• • Yours only. Memory, evidence and files stay on your device unless you choose to sync them.
• • Equal by default. The same tools, in your own language, for everyone who opens her.
• • Honest. When she is unsure, she says so, and she shows where a claim came from.

About Skye S Mcdade of Lichfield

Sophia is created, owned and directed by Skye S Mcdade of Lichfield, England. She was built from the ground up as one person's answer to a simple problem: the best tools for learning, evidence and self-protection sit behind paywalls, data harvesting and closed doors, and the people who need them most are usually last in the queue.

The direction is unchanged and not for sale: build in the open, give it away, keep it on the user's own hardware, and answer to the people using it rather than to advertisers.

Protecting minorities

Sophia is written for people who are outnumbered: LGBTQIA+ and trans people, disabled people, minority faiths and ethnicities, migrants, carers, survivors of abuse, and anyone whose word is taken less seriously than it should be. That is a design brief, not a slogan.

• • Private by construction. Nothing about your identity, health or household leaves the device by default.
• • Evidence that holds up. Sealed, time-stamped records so an account of what happened cannot be quietly rewritten.
• • Rights and law in plain words, in your language, on the Pride, Trans and Culture desks.
• • Watchfulness. Police and government watch pages so power is reported on, not just relayed.
• • No hate. Abuse, harassment and denial of anyone's existence are out of scope for her, permanently.