I’m building something new, and I’m excited to share it!
While consulting with startups over the past couple of years, I kept hearing the same thing: “this conversation is too sensitive — let’s move it to Signal.” Here were teams with access to sophisticated, expensive collaboration suites, but the moment something actually mattered, they’d bail to a consumer messaging app.
That stuck with me.
If your work tools can’t be trusted with your most important conversations, something is fundamentally broken.
I’ve been writing code since 1986 and spent most of the last two decades building payments infrastructure at PayPal, Google, and Airbnb. But once I noticed this problem, I couldn’t un-notice it.
I’m building mothertree — a privacy-first enterprise collaboration platform. Messaging, email, documents, calendar, voice and video, all in one workspace:
- End-to-end encrypted by default, not as an upsell.
- Fully open source, so you don’t have to take our word for it — you can read the code.
- No ads, no data mining, no vendor lock-in.
It’s designed for small teams, researchers, legal teams, nonprofits, and journalists — anyone who needs to work together without handing their data to a third party.
I’m bootstrapping, which means it’s lean and deliberate. mothertree is early-stage, built on mature, battle-tested open-source tools and with a clear vision: make secure, private collaboration practical and accessible for the people who need it most.
If you care about privacy, open source, or just think collaboration tools could be better, I’d love to hear from you - info@mother-tree.org
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