The problem
"Better AI needs more context. It should not require more surrender." DECK
"Every agent begins with an incomplete picture because your organization's context is scattered across applications with separate permissions and access rules." Companies need intimate user context to deliver value; users need proof it remains private. POSTER DECK
Context helps
"More context makes personalized agents dramatically more useful." DECK
Custody hurts
"Company custody creates breach, misuse, and unilateral-control risk." DECK
Promises don't cut it
"Privacy promises are insufficient; access must be scoped, enforced, and verifiable." DECK
What is it
"TinyCloud is a user-owned data space that agents access on your terms." POSTER
Built for "AI power users turning company context into action — founders, operators and executives who capture their meetings and need agents to understand and act on the full state of their company." Meetings, messages and work traces persist and compound in a space controlled through your keys; agents receive granular, time-bound and revocable permission to use only the context required for a task. POSTER
The deck's frame: "One sovereign data layer. Any application. Every agent." Apps and agents do not own your data — they prove permission to operate on it. The result, in their words: "Permission, not possession." DECK
What it does
Four new capabilities, one flagship app, one service — the team's own headings.
Owned Company Memory
"Context persists and compounds under your control." POSTER
Scoped Context Sharing
"Share precise context — and revoke it later." POSTER
Verifiable Private Inference
"Run models inside attested confidential compute." POSTER
SuperOperable Applications
"Apps compose across your context without custody." POSTER
TinyFeed
The flagship: "private agentic workflows on user owned data that resurface important context from your life" — one personal view of what deserves attention. Live prototype, per the poster. POSTER
TinyCloud as a Service
"AWS for user-owned data" — a full backend for privacy-first apps, self-hosted or managed; users "can eject at any time and build whatever they want on their data." POSTER
How it works
Your context goes in; a scoped, attested pipeline runs; results surface in new app views and return to your space.
In your TinyCloud
The protocol in three verbs — create a space, grant permission, enforce authority. "Context follows the user across apps. Agents prove authority; they never own the data." DECK
The deck draws it as a stack: a protocol layer (node, spaces, OpenKey, scoped capabilities, portable delegations, policy engine — "hosted with Synclave"), components and context drivers (Listen, OpenCredentials, data sharing, TinyCloud.chat, trust graph), and superoperable apps on top. An ElizaOS agent "builds your feed from your context — and keeps its memory in your TinyCloud." DECK
The numbers
What the team prints, next to what the public record shows.
Who's building it
Four people at TinyCloud Labs, across NYC, Berlin, and Lisbon. POSTER REGISTRY
Sam Gbafa
Gives the pitch — the cohort record lists him as the team's Demo Day presenter (slot 9), pitched at the 07-17 rehearsal.
Hunter Horsfall
The deck's named contact alongside Sam on its closing slide.
Roman Svistel
Role as printed on the poster's team block; the cohort roster corroborates.
Patrick Messall
Role as printed on the poster's team block; the cohort roster corroborates.
Traction
"Real teams are already designing around sovereignty. Different products. The same need: rich personal context without platform lock-in." DECK
Conclave
"Private transcription needs a private place to land." The poster's wording: "private transcription SLA." DECK POSTER Confirm "SLA"
Sanctum
"Voice journaling for users' most personal thoughts." DECK Pending approval
Intelligent Institutions
"Agentic workflows on Costa Rican government data, with citizen access via verifiable credentials." A web search found no public trace of the org or the engagement (checked 07-22). DECK WEB Confirm — no public trace
DealProof
"Exploring a sovereign data substrate for agent-to-agent negotiations." The poster's wording is firmer: "agent data settlement SLA." DECK POSTER Confirm "SLA"
Built on TinyCloud
"Three internal applications prove the same stack we give partners": Listen (a home for transcript data), TinyCloud.chat (TEE-attested private AI inference), TinyFeed. "Three products. One sovereign substrate." DECK
The round
"We are fundraising for our Seed," routed to tinycloud.xyz/meet-team — a live booking page (checked 07-22). "This round builds toward TinyCloud-owned confidential compute." No amount or terms are printed, and none appear here. POSTER WEB Pending approval
In their own words
How the team tells it — from the cohort's mock Demo Day rehearsal, 2026-07-17, Sam Gbafa presenting.
"Sovereignty keeps powerful technology accountable to the people it serves." The poster's tagline — and the opening beat of the pitch POSTER
"With TinyCloud you can give authority to access data… agents don't need to own the data — they just prove that they have the authority to access it."
"TinyCloud is a permissioned key-value store, an SQL store… maybe I stream my location to my TinyCloud, and I give you permission to do a computation to say: is Sam in New York? — without needing to share my location with you."
"We think about TinyCloud as Supabase for sovereignty — it's really easy for people to build backends."
"That's TinyCloud — a plug-and-play, sovereignty-preserving user backend. If you want to use it, come talk to us."
Try it & links
"Use the product. Inspect the protocol." POSTER
| Surface | Where | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Website | tinycloud.xyz — "a user-owned personal data layer" | WEB Live · 07-22 |
| Demo | demo.tinycloud.xyz — the poster's QR; redirects to tinycloud.chat, the TinyCloud Chat app | POSTER WEB Live · 07-22 |
| Protocol | protocol.tinycloud.xyz — "Signatures Are All You Need: cryptographic access control for AI and applications" | WEB Live · 07-22 |
| GitHub | github.com/TinyCloudLabs — 54 public repos; the node, SDK, chat, feed, and protocol repos all pushed on 07-22 | WEB Live · 07-22 |
| X | @tinycloudlabs · @samgbafa · @quantanode — as printed on the poster and in cohort records; x.com blocks anonymous checks | POSTER REGISTRY Live-check blocked |
| Contact | tinycloud.xyz/meet-team — the poster's contact route; resolves to a live Cal.com team booking page | POSTER WEB Confirm preferred |
Provenance ledger
Every load-bearing claim and where it comes from; decisions live in §11.
| Claim | Comes from | Tier | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-liner, problem framing, capabilities, stack, pipeline | Cohort poster (July 2026) + Demo Day deck (2026-07-22) | POSTER DECK | Team's own artifacts |
| Team of four and their roles | Poster team block; cohort registry corroborates members, handles, and NYC / Berlin / Lisbon | POSTER REGISTRY | Corroborated |
| 500+ team meeting transcripts behind TinyFeed | Poster's TinyFeed panel — the page's only headline number | POSTER | Pending approval |
| Design partners (Conclave, Sanctum, Intelligent Institutions, DealProof) | Poster + deck; the poster says "SLA" where the deck says "exploring" (DealProof) — both wordings shown | POSTER DECK | Confirm wording |
| Intelligent Institutions / Costa Rican government | Poster + deck only; a web search found no public trace of the org or engagement (checked 07-22) — absence is not refutation | DECK WEB | Confirm — no public trace |
| "Hosted with Synclave"; ElizaOS agent builds the feed | Deck stack + flagship slides — cohort peers named by the team itself | DECK | Pending approval |
| Site, demo, protocol, and booking links | Live-fetched 2026-07-22; demo.tinycloud.xyz redirects to tinycloud.chat; meet-team resolves to Cal.com | WEB | Verified live |
| GitHub facts (54 public repos, 16 pushed in July, org since March 2024) | api.github.com live endpoints, fetched 2026-07-22 | WEB | Verified live |
| Seed fundraising line | Poster's fundraising panel — the fact of the raise only; no amount or terms are printed there or here | POSTER | Pending approval |
| Pitch excerpts (§08) | Mock Demo Day rehearsal, 2026-07-17; lightly punctuated, ASR garbles decoded in hover notes | PITCH | Pending approval |
| X handles | Poster contact block + cohort registry; x.com not checkable anonymously (HTTP 402, 07-22) | POSTER REGISTRY | Live-check blocked |
Founder review
Five things before this page goes public.