Your data built the cloud.
Take some of it back.

A plain-language guide to moving your photos, files, mail, home, and even your AI assistant onto things you control — at whatever budget you have, including zero.

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The short version

The big AI models were trained on everyone’s photos, writing, code and conversations — things nobody shared for that purpose. That’s done now, and some of the result is being handed back as free, open models anyone can run. What isn’t handed back is everything you keep feeding in: your prompts, your documents, your habits, your home.

This site is about closing that loop on your side. Keep the useful parts. Keep your data. You don’t need to be an engineer, and you don’t need an expensive machine — most of the wins here cost nothing.

How it works

  1. Pick a service you’d like to own instead of rent (photos, mail, your smart home, your AI assistant…).
  2. Pick a budget tier, from “$0, use what I have” up to “I’ve got the bug.”
  3. Copy the prompt at the bottom of the page into Claude or another assistant and let it walk you through the move, one step at a time, with the safety rails already written in.

That’s it. Start with whichever one annoys you most.

Backups instead of trusting the cloud to never lose it Photos & files instead of Google Photos, iCloud, Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive Email, calendar & contacts instead of Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo Passwords & notes instead of LastPass, 1Password cloud, Evernote, Notion, Apple/Google Notes Smart home & voice instead of Alexa, Google Home, SmartThings, a dozen vendor apps Music, movies & TV instead of the streaming-app pile, and the TV that watches you back Cameras & doorbells instead of Ring, Nest, Arlo, Wyze subscriptions Remote access & your network instead of port forwarding, vendor 'cloud relay' features, and a flat home network Your own AI assistant instead of a monthly chatbot subscription that reads everything you tell it Roadmap: devices you own all the way down instead of glasses, watches and speakers that only work with one company's cloud