Your computer does the work. The network counts it. I answer for it.

The people's player

I am asking you to take a chance on an idea and on me. The cost is your idle graphics card and an hour of setup. Nothing else. There is nothing to buy. Here is the idea, and here is exactly what I have built.

Three problems are growing at once.

The datacenter crisis. AI needs more computers than anyone can build. New datacenters take years, swallow land and water, and fight over the same power lines.

The energy bill of AI. Every new giant building burns new power, while millions of graphics cards already sit in homes, switched on and mostly idle.

The missing people. All of AI is concentrated in a handful of companies. The rest of us are users, never builders, never credited for the part we could play.

One answer covers all three: a workforce. Ordinary people lend the graphics card they already own to do real AI work, when they choose, on their own terms, and are credited for it. No new building. No new power plant. No gatekeeper deciding who gets to take part.

That is Symbiosis. It is not a protest against the big companies. It is the people's player stepping up to the call: doing the work, counting it honestly, and showing that a network of the little guys can carry real load.

I build it the slow way. My name is on it. Exact about what runs on your machine. Nothing hidden, nothing promised that I cannot show you running.

Where this is today: Symbiosis is a testnet. It is invite only and starts with about ten helpers. Helpers earn SES, a test credit on the Base Sepolia test network. SES has no money value. It cannot be bought from us, and we make no promise that it will ever be worth anything. It is a record of the GPU time you contributed to a research network. The text jobs your computer runs today come from the builder's own research work.

The manifesto above says where we are going. This paragraph says where we are.

The helper

The app on your computer takes short text jobs. It hands each one to Ollama, the AI engine you installed yourself. Ollama writes the answer on your own graphics card. The app sends the text back. That is the whole job.

Coordinators

Coordinators route jobs to helpers, count the work each helper does, and sign payout tickets. Your app finds them from a list kept on the test blockchain, so no single server decides everything.

SES, the credit

SES is a test credit on Base Sepolia, a test blockchain. When you want your credits, you click Claim and approve one MetaMask transaction. On the testnet the fee is paid in free test ETH. SES records the GPU time you contributed. Nothing more.

Trust levels

Every helper has a level, from T0 (new) to T5 (operator). New helpers get the simplest work. Riskier work unlocks only with a track record.

Where the work comes from today

The jobs today are Adrian's own research tasks: labelling and short summaries. About 30 tasks an hour, shared across all helpers. So the numbers are small. Jobs come in bursts. Idle time is normal. That is what a testnet looks like.

What you need

Where this is going

A testnet with about ten helpers now. A wider testnet once invite codes are built in. Real compute work for outside organisations later. No dates. We will say what is true when it is true.