The AI models shaping the next era of human life were trained on the public internet. Most of that data is performative, marketing-driven, or written for an audience: scraped social media posts, comment threads, advertorial blogs. It is the worst of how humans behave online, and it is teaching machines what to value. The other platforms that gather your reflections quietly harvest and sell that data without consent and without compensation.
Aiua is different. You own your data, you contribute on your terms, and you earn your share of the value it generates. Aiua is a private, encrypted journal for daily reflection where AI helps you explore your values through scoring, reflective feedback, and an advisor that gets to know you over time. You choose whether any given entry stays private, joins the open archive, or appears on the public feed.
The world needs the Aiua Archive: an intentional, authentic record of human values created by real people reflecting honestly, not performing for an audience. When you share a reflection with the Archive, it becomes part of a permanent, community-owned CC0 dataset used to teach AI what humans actually care about. Points are earned only when you share. AI features are optional. You can use Aiua as a free private journal for as long as you like, and the platform offsets its carbon footprint through tree planting. Aiua transitions progressively to a community-governed Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) as the dataset grows.
In Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Saga" books, an aiúa is the fundamental particle of identity. The eternal, irreducible essence that makes a conscious being who they are. The aiúa cannot be destroyed. When everything else falls away, it survives, finding new form, carrying forward everything that matters about who we are.
"The aiúa doesn't belong to the body; it is the person. It is the part of us that was never created and can never be destroyed. It is the center of our will."
The Aiua Archive is a permanent record of human identity, values, and consciousness. Each contribution is a thread in a growing human tapestry that will outlast any individual. A dataset that carries forward what it means to be human, even if the platform itself one day disappears.
Depth and authenticity are more important than word count. Take your time. Reflect inward and dig deep to find what is alive and true in you. If the goal is to create sharable content for the public archive, avoid identifying details like specific names and places.
With scoring on, an AI evaluates your reflection across 12 value dimensions for authenticity, depth, wisdom, justice, kinship, and seven others. Maximum score 100, qualifying threshold 50. Below 50 stays in your journal as practice. After scoring, your AI advisor offers a personal reflection and a reflective question.
The AI draws from various modalities and philosophies to help you Go Deeper into your own values, ideals, and assumptions to see what is underneath the words and what you might be projecting or hiding from yourself.
After scoring you see three options. Keep Private earns 0 points and saves the post to your Journal. You can always share it later for points. Shared content can still be removed for 7 days after sharing. After this it becomes eligible for inclusion in the permanent public archive. Share with the Archive adds your reflection to the CC0 open dataset and earns your score as points. Share with Archive plus Community Feed earns your score plus 5 extra points.
Shared reflections are sanitized for personally identifying information, stored permanently on Arweave, and anchored to the Cardano blockchain every 2 weeks. Entries are eligible for the next anchor 7 days after sharing. These blockchains are immutable public ledgers that can keep the Aiua Archive data secure and accessible for as long as there is an internet. This makes it an effective digital time capsule where anyone can leave their words as a legacy and write letters to the future.
Core components of the Archive are free and open to the public forever. Premium access to metadata will become available via paid API access which contributes to the community-governed treasury. In the short to medium term, the dataset can grow to become a valuable digital asset collectively owned and managed by the community who built it. In the long term it can become an eternal on-chain time capsule to help future historians understand what real people are thinking and feeling in the 21st century.
Every contribution is scored across 12 dimensions. The framework was developed through iterative research into what human communities across cultures have consistently valued.
Every reflection on Aiua is encrypted and private by default. Your journal is yours alone. Sharing is always an explicit choice, never the default.
When you choose to share, you decide exactly what is published: journal only (private, never leaves your account), Archive (shared to the community-owned dataset), or Public Feed (shared to the live feed and the Archive).
Shared content can be removed for 7 days before blockchain anchoring makes it permanent. Names, places, and companies are automatically sanitized before any content enters the public dataset.
Phase 3 of the Aiua roadmap introduces Midnight Network integration for privacy-preserving computation. This allows users to contribute encrypted reflections that can only be queried through zero-knowledge proofs. Researchers can compute statistics across the shielded pool without ever accessing raw content. Your data stays private while allowing selective disclosure and passive revenue via pay-per-query access.
Points unlock tiers. Every tier gets the same functional limits (3 posts/day, 3 Go Deeper rounds per contribution). Advisor questions have no daily cap; each costs 5 gems. Higher tiers unlock cosmetic features: themes and artifacts. Tiers never drop once reached.
Aiua runs on four small economies. Points measure your contribution to the public dataset, gems pay for AI features, shields protect your streak, and seeds grow into trees.
Points are earned by sharing content with the Aiua Archive and represent your contributions to the public dataset. Share a post to earn points equal to your score. Share to the public feed for a bonus 5 points. Points determine your tier and your share of any future revenue the dataset generates. Points are never spent.
Gems unlock premium features: AI feedback, Go Deeper, Advisor, voice recording, and text-to-speech. Each premium action costs 5 gems. Scoring your reflection is always free. New contributors get 100 gems to start. Earn more from minigames, streak milestones, referrals, and donations — every $5 donation earns 500 gems and plants a real tree. When you run low, the Community Pool may have gems donated by other contributors you can draw from if you have an active streak. Or subscribe to Premium ($10/mo) and skip the gem costs entirely.
Life happens. A streak shield automatically protects your streak if you miss a day. One shield covers one missed day. If you miss two days and have two shields, your streak stays alive. If you run out of shields, your streak resets to the last completed moon cycle. You can toggle on a feature to auto-buy shields with Gems to make sure you don't lose your progress.
How to get shields:
🏆 Weekly Leaderboard Prizes: Every Saturday at midnight UTC, the top 3 contributors by points earned that week receive Streak Shields. 🥇 1st: 3 shields · 🥈 2nd: 2 shields · 🥉 3rd: 1 shield.
Seeds can be planted in the Lusitania Forest and grow into trees over time. Trees drop fruit that can be harvested for more seeds. Seeds and shields can be traded for gems in the Trading Post, letting you compound your resources over time.
A streak is the number of consecutive days you've made at least one qualifying contribution (score 50+). Every 7 days of consecutive contributions earns a gem milestone. 28 days completes a Moon. 13 Moons is a Solar Cycle.
7-day interval gem milestones on consecutive qualifying contributions. Completed Moons are permanent checkpoints, they are never lost. 13 Moons complete a Solar Cycle and earn The Keeper's Key.
Tip: Turn on notifications so you never miss a day and lose your streak. Go to your Profile → enable notifications to get a daily reminder.
Grow the dataset and earn gems by inviting others.
For each person you refer, you earn 100 gems for each of their first 5 qualifying shared posts. That's a maximum of 500 gems per referral.
Help grow the size and diversity of the dataset by referring a wide range of people from all over the world. Aiua supports 28+ languages and more diversity leads to more value over time.
Every submission includes crisis detection. Self-harm or violence indicators trigger immediate admin alerts and email notification. The contributor is shown crisis resources including the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and Crisis Text Line.
The contribution still saves to the user's journal. People in crisis deserve to have their writing preserved. Safety flags are reviewed by admin with escalation options.
Privacy sanitization runs on every submission. Personal information (names, locations, identifying details) is automatically replaced with bracketed generalizations in the public feed and dataset. The raw content is only visible to the author in their personal journal and to admins when server-side encryption is selected.
The Aiua Archive is a community-owned public dataset of authentic human values reflections. Every shared contribution that scores 50 or higher is included. Published under CC0 (public domain) and anchored to Cardano blockchain biweekly.
Researchers, historians, and AI developers can use this data freely to train AI systems on real human values. The dataset grows permanently and is preserved via Arweave for long-term archival.
The code that produces the dataset, including the sanitization logic and dataset export builders, is open source under MIT license at github.com/SoulTrainAI/aiua-core. Anyone can audit how data flows from your reflection to the public dataset.
Every two weeks, all eligible contribution hashes are assembled into a SHA-256 Merkle tree. The root is posted as metadata on Cardano mainnet (label 1984). The full JSONL is simultaneously uploaded to Arweave. Anyone can recompute and verify.
Schedule: Anchors run on the 1st and 15th of each month. A 7-day grace period gives contributors time to remove content before it becomes permanent.
Why Cardano: Proof-of-stake energy efficiency (~0.5 Wh per transaction), low and stable anchoring fees (~0.2 ADA per week), peer-reviewed development aligned with the Archive's longevity horizon.
Why Arweave: Pay-once, store-forever decentralized storage. Once on Arweave, the dataset persists independently of Aiua, the founder, or any company.
What permanence means: After anchoring, the cryptographic hash is permanent on Cardano. The text can still be removed from future dataset versions, but the hash in the anchor stays, which is what makes the whole archive verifiable.
The Merkle tree construction, Cardano transaction builder, and Arweave upload pipeline are all open source at github.com/SoulTrainAI/aiua-core.
Aiua is designed to be economically and ecologically sustainable by design.
Economic model. Basic scoring and feedback are free for everyone. Advanced AI features (Go Deeper, Advisor, voice playback, translations) are gated by a gem economy. Users earn gems by sharing reflections, from streak bonuses, and from donations. Premium and Patron subscribers ($10+/month) bypass per-call gem charges. Users who want maximum privacy can toggle off AI features and journal for free, forever.
Carbon footprint. AI compute has an energy cost that varies based on which features you use. A zero-AI user has near-zero footprint. A heavy user with all features on uses more. The platform offsets AI usage through tree planting. 20% of every donation funds real trees via Digital Humani (minimum 1 tree per donation). Each tree sequesters an estimated 10 to 25 kg of CO2 per year depending on species and climate.
Aiua is operated as an LLC today and transitions to a community-governed DAO as the dataset grows. In Phase 3, contributor points convert to governance tokens on Cardano. 50% of the supply is airdropped to contributors based on contribution weight.
API and ZK query revenue will go to the Aiua Community Treasury and be governed by token holders.
The core dataset is CC0. Free to use, forever. API tiers provide additional research layers: normalized scores, quality metadata, demographic cross-references, and multi-turn dialogue.
Documentation at aiua.earth/developers. Contact [email protected] for research partnerships.