Formation-Stage Technical Whitepaper - v0.6

Optic: The Problem Is Inference

Optic is a private, local-first identity audit system for consenting users. It helps a person inspect what different audiences, platforms, advertisers, institutions, and future AI agents may infer from their digital traces.

Portrait assembled from data panes and institutional forms. — The paper uses the product mechanic as the reading interface: source, signal, inference, confidence, counterargument, repair.

Optic: The Problem Is Inference

Appendices

Source Ledger

Source Gaps