The report too honest for someone else’s cloud.
UpNextFounder collects the one thing you can’t ask a vendor to hold: your people’s unfiltered words about your company. So we built it to run entirely on hardware you control — a Mac mini in your office is enough.
From fully air-gapped to AI-assisted — your call, reversible any week.
Zero external calls. Ever.
Protocol-driven interviews, structural briefs, checklist counsel from the expert bench. Fully functional with no model key configured — the application makes no outbound requests at all. Your data is plain files on your own disk.
No open ports, via Tailscale
Run it inside your own tailnet or any WireGuard VPN. Your team reaches their interview links from their phones over an authenticated private network — the app never faces the public internet.
Full AI, still sovereign
Point the app at a local model (Ollama, llama.cpp) for AI synthesis, adaptive interviews, and expert counsel with zero cloud calls — the model runs beside the data. Or bring your own cloud API key: transcripts only, your account, your data agreement. Swap between them any week.
No telemetry. No analytics. No phone-home.
Self-hosted means self-hosted: the application sends us nothing — not usage stats, not error reports, not a heartbeat. Every outbound integration is one you configure yourself, and each is send-only.
- All state is plain JSON on your disk — backup is copying a folder
- PIN-gated console with rate-limited authentication
- Interview links are unguessable per-person tokens
- Say/do telemetry uses a read-only token you issue and can revoke
- Weekly automation runs from one cron line on your own machine
Running in fifteen minutes.
One machine that stays on, Node.js, and a PIN. The licensed package ships with the full self-host guide: install, Tailscale access, weekly automation, the security checklist, and backup/restore. If you’d rather we walk your team through it on a call, that’s part of onboarding.
Sovereignty is the feature.
Ask about self-hosted licensing on the demo call — we’ll size it to your setup.