We incubate open-source AI projects — from half-baked idea to graduated standard — in the open, under licenses you can actually read. Bring your code, your conscience, and a strong opinion or two.
CleverThis built CleverLibre and pays the bills — then cut every commercial string on the way out. No products to upsell, no roadmap to serve, no veto over a single line of code. What the two share is a conviction: that AI should be explainable, fair, and built in the open. CleverThis is our patron. The commons is its own.
Joining is free. The things you get are emphatically not — we just decided you shouldn't have to pay for them.
We hold membership in four standards bodies that shape how AI and the web actually work. Contribute here and you take part through us.
Self-hosted Forgejo, generous CI, and runners with real GPUs attached — the kind you would otherwise rent by the minute and resent by the hour.
Our bounty program puts real money behind useful features and honest bug fixes. Open-source labor is not supposed to be free for everyone except the person doing it.
Hand us a promising library, an unfinished idea, or a one-line RFC. We incubate it — infrastructure, governance, and a community — without ever taking it away from you.
Maintainers with decades of shipping behind them, contributors who review in good faith, and connections across the standards world. Knowing the right people, for free.
Help write the guidelines and build the tools that confront bias, opacity, and consent in AI — in the open, where everyone affected can inspect the result.
A seat at the standards table normally costs more than a decent car. With us, you get there by writing good code and showing up.
Open web standards — the semantic web, decentralized identity, and the protocols ethical systems are built on. We sit on the Advisory Committee, one level above ordinary membership.
Through our ANSI membership we participate in ISO standards development — the same route national bodies use to shape global AI and IT standards.
Ethically aligned design and the IEEE 7000 series for autonomous and intelligent systems.
The UN agency for information and communication technologies — global ITU-T standards and the AI for Good platform.
Participation is routed through CleverLibre's memberships and subject to each body's working-group rules.
Real repositories, real maintainers, real bug reports filed at 2 a.m. Pick one and dive in.
A library of conventional and novel AI and artificial-genetics algorithms — the kind of legible, hackable building blocks that demystify how a model actually decides.
The Automated Inference Detection Engine — an inference-discovery tool for surfacing the reasoning a system uses, so it can be audited instead of assumed.
Run native Java on the GPU. Open, inspectable acceleration for everyone who can't expense a rack of proprietary tooling.
An async object-graph mapper on Apache TinkerPop 3 — the graph plumbing behind explainable, provenance-rich knowledge systems.
A TinkerPop 2 & 3 abstraction layer. Battle-tested graph tooling that keeps your data's structure portable and open.
A static site generator and blog that speaks ActivityPub — publishing on open protocols instead of someone else's timeline.
Software that reasons on our behalf must be inspectable by everyone it reasons about.
— ARTICLE 1, THE CLEVERLIBRE CHARTER
The commons is governed by the people doing the work. Funding keeps the lights on; it does not get a vote.
Founder & lead steward
Set CleverLibre loose from CleverThis and has been refusing to attach strings ever since.
Charter & guidelines
Researchers and ethicists who turn principles into requirements engineers can actually ship.
Per-project governance
Each incubated project is governed by the people doing the work — not by a board, and definitely not by a sponsor.
No application fee, no sales call, no badge that expires. Clone the Git, say hello on Matrix, and pick something to push forward.