Universal basic infrastructure
Infrastructure you own, not infrastructure you rent.
Pleco builds the layer underneath — for a shop, a lab, a neighborhood, a chip. You hire a builder the way you’d hire a plumber, and you keep what gets built: the code, the data, the rails. Software as a trade, programs as appliances, full data sovereignty.
How we work →One conviction, four layers
The same idea, applied at four scales.
Four projects, one conviction: people should own their infrastructure rather than rent it. The layer changes — a small business, a compute substrate, a civic commons, a research field — the principle doesn’t.
Small-business layer
CODEC
Own your club.
Membership and club programs that run on the payment account a business already owns — its own Square or Stripe. One build, open-source core, no platform skimming a cut of every member. The code, the member list, and the rails stay yours.
Live · commercial · Apache-2.0 core
codec.pleco.dev →Compute layer
Pleco Photonics
Own your compute.
A photonic processing architecture for computation at the point of use — running the work where it happens instead of renting cycles from a hyperscaler. Research and patent-stage.
Research · patent-stage
photonics.pleco.dev →Civic layer
Promise Pipeline
Own your accountability.
Public-accountability tooling for nonprofits, neighborhood associations, and local government — tracking whether public commitments actually get kept. Commons-owned, sponsored through Aspiration, and run separately from Pleco’s commercial work.
AGPL-3.0 · nonprofit
github.com/koda-wzkp/promise-engine →Research layer
Pleco Kineτics
Own your data.
Open, mechanism-first methodology and commons data for drug-target binding kinetics. Active work on carbonic anhydrase isoform selectivity; methodology paper in progress.
Research
kinetics.pleco.dev →Why owned
The same three commitments, at every layer.
- Software as a trade. You hire a builder the way you hire a plumber, and you own the result — not a seat on someone else’s platform.
- Programs as appliances. Bought once, built from standard parts, serviceable by any technician. No lock-in, no metered access to your own tool.
- Full data sovereignty. You hold your own data — the member list, the record, the model, the result — across every layer.
Contact
Commercial builds, research collaboration, or a question about any of the four: