Every organization — from Fortune 500s down to the local coffee shop — is becoming a hollowed-out shell for Silicon Valley tech. Businesses rent their customer relationships, their data, their software, and their infrastructure from a handful of platforms whose incentives don't align with theirs. What started with the internet is now eating everything.
Benten Alignment is building infrastructure for the opposite shape: software, data, and AI that people and organizations actually own. Open-source. Local-first. Composable. Forkable at every layer. Built so that knowledge, compute, and value flow to whoever participates — not to whoever captured the platform first.
We're stubbornly optimistic about what people can build when the incentives are properly aligned.
Under active development. First public release planned in 2026.