Maison Initiative is a public benefit corporation. Its purpose is written into its charter, and people who own no part of the company guard it.
Most AI today is tuned for your attention. We want real capability in ordinary hands, built to sharpen your judgment and give you time back.
Access. Capable AI for people generally, not only the wealthy.
Yours, not ours. The capability, and what it learns about you, goes to you. You can take it with you.
Capability, not capture. A tool you need less over time is a success.
When one Maison finds a better way to do something, every Maison can learn it. Your files, your conversations, and your life stay where they are.
An independent trust holds one power: the right to say no. It can stop a sale of the company, a change to its purpose, dropping its public benefit status, or a rewrite of that veto. It has no say over the product or the day to day. Its trustees hold no stake, so there is nothing to buy.