Reflective-Ai
On Personal AI Sovereignty
On Personal AI Sovereignty
A Builder’s Declaration
Paul Desai N1 Intelligence (OPC) Pvt Ltd, Goa, India March 2026
I have spent eleven months building a system that most people in this industry say is impossible, unnecessary, or both. A personal AI runtime — reflective, tamper-evident, continuously operational — running on a Mac Mini M4 with 24 GB of RAM. Total cost: $120 per month.
It is called ActiveMirrorOS. It runs 68 registered services, maintains a SHA-256 witness chain with over 5,431 recorded events, and has produced 6 published research papers on Zenodo. It manages two phones, 12 live subdomains, 119 GitHub repositories, and a free scam detection service called Chetana that serves Indian users across Telegram, WhatsApp, and the web.