MerkleTrust

Data sovereignty as infrastructure.

Hash-anchored documents, a daily attestation ceremony, and a swappable discipline contract. Built on the Garrison Node architecture. A library of walkthrough simulations shows what it looks like when records become defensible by mathematics instead of by testimony — and lets you walk one in three to forty-five minutes.

Pick a sim by your work

Each cluster carries three to six sims sharing audience, tone, and four-paths install order. All sims play in your browser. No install required.

Clinical

Clinic owners, dental, pharmacy

Mrs. Alvarez's audit packet, the rhythm of a year-in clinic, defending against a bad-faith demand letter, multi-entity attestation across endodontist + imaging center, recall-in-seven-seconds chain of custody.
5 sims · 40a · 40b · 40c · 40h · 40j
Legal

Solo attorneys, forensic accountants, cross-border

Hernandez v. Hernandez at the bench ruling on FRE 902(14). Mr. Marcus's deposition response. Estate of Don Hernández across Tijuana, El Paso, Miami — three jurisdictions, one chain.
3 sims · 40e · 40f · 40k
Government / civic

City records, county clerks, local votes

Watson Creek brownfield with the 2003-2008 paper-period gap surfaced honestly. The forged-deed pre-acceptance flag at the clerk's window. The HOA recount that holds.
3 sims · 40g · 40i · 40r
IT / engineering

Buyers, engineers, prompt authors, OSS maintainers

The four-objection sales call. Aiyana's authorship chain. libfoo's acquisition packet. Mr. Vega's closet Mac mini. The two-track BitNet wrapper build. The geek-panel architectural deep-dive.
6 sims · 40d · 40p · 40u · 40x · 40y · 40z
Research / science

Postdocs, schools, citizen-science meshes

Compound-X dendritic arborization with a 0.94 reproducibility score and one honest flag. Period-3 Agriculture from seed to lunch tray. The Bayou Springs administrative-hearing transcript.
3 sims · 40l · 40n · 40s
Civic / consumer

Households, small businesses, gameworlds, mutual aid

Lyra's character port across engines. Lourdes's vendor exit (jointly held customer records). Esther's seven-day mutual-aid claim. The Hernández household kit. The Chen residence smart-home subpoena posture.
5 sims · 40o · 40q · 40t · 40v · 40w
Recovery

Forensic asset-recovery firms

Estate of Eleanor M., $210K missing, the trail that stayed hot. Constructive trust, replevin with TRO, brokerage subpoena, indirect reach via the constructive-trust action.
1 sim · 40m
Build & operate

Author your own sim, or operate a node

The 1,000,001th killer app — your sim, authored through the builder skill, voted in by the silos. The 1,000,002th — clone the substrate, run the first ceremony, cross-attest with the parent, join the mesh.
2 sims · 41 · 42
What is this? — the technical primer, in plain language

Two ideas, no jargon.

A merkle tree is a way of fingerprinting a folder. You compute a short hash for each file, then a hash of those hashes, then a hash of those, until one short string at the top represents the whole folder. Change one byte anywhere and that top string changes. Bitcoin uses the same trick to fingerprint blocks of transactions. We use it to fingerprint a folder of documentation. The math is public; you do not need a coin or a network fee to use it.

An LLM (large language model) is the kind of AI you interact with through chat — Claude, ChatGPT, and the local models you can run on your own machine like Ollama or BitNet. LLMs are useful but they make things up. They do better when they are reading documents they can trust. So we hash the documents and let the model verify the hashes before it reasons from them. Trust, but verify.

Put together: a folder of documents whose contents are fingerprinted, where any tampering is caught the next morning, and where the AI you ask questions of can prove which version of which document it just read. That is the entire architecture in two sentences.

The part you do

The system is not autonomous. A daily ceremony walks every file, recomputes the fingerprints, compares them to yesterday's, and publishes a one-line receipt. When something drifts, the ceremony flags it — and a human-in-the-loop (you, or someone you designate) reads the flag and decides whether the change was intentional or not. The bot does the math. You make the judgment call. It is teamwork by design, not autopilot.

The 1,000,001th killer app

Inspired by DeAngelo's YouTube series on the million killer apps for blockchain. The framing is theirs; the substrate is ours; the killer app is yours. Crediting the inspiration, not claiming an endorsement. The builder card (41) walks the contribution flow. The operator card (42) walks the clone-and-join flow.

Three doors

Walk a sim → if you are evaluating whether this is real. Build → if you've walked some sims and want to author your own. Operate → if you've decided to host a node and join the mesh.

All 28 sims · Build kit · Operator onramp