Konomi is a living-system architecture created by Thomas Frumkin. Everything on this estate is what we've built with it — sovereign software you own, running on your own machines. What I have built is one small part of what Konomi can do — a fork, downstream of Thomas. Konomi itself lives at its own home; this is just the proof of what one person made on a corner of it.
Every build on this estate is a file, not a subscription. The source is in your hands under a licence nobody can revoke. There is no vendor who can raise the price, discontinue the product, or switch it off — because there is no vendor between you and your software.
Proof: the estate — hundreds of live builds, every one open-source, every one a page that keeps working if we disappear tomorrow.
These builds run in your browser and work offline. Your client records, case files, and numbers stay on your device — they never travel to a server, because there is no server. For firms whose regulators expect them to control client data, this isn't a preference; it's the point.
Proof: the regulated shelf — working tools for claims firms, accountants, brokers, and agents, each one running entirely on the machine that opens it.
The engines that compute deadlines, totals, and money are tested by deliberately breaking them — mutation testing — which checks not just that the code passes its tests, but that the tests would catch the code if it were wrong. A total that can't reconcile refuses the document instead of being silently absorbed. And where an engine has a limit, the limit is printed on the page.
Proof: Northgate Claims — a fictional firm running a live working day on those engines, with its own limitations stated on screen.
In the systems I build on Konomi, automated agents run the routine work — but four kinds of action always stop and wait for a named person: moving money, signing anything legal, judgment calls, and moments of client trust. This is enforced in the software itself, not written in a policy. Nothing signs itself.
Proof: the konomified company — a 100-person firm designed seat by seat, where the org chart is validated by code that refuses any structure breaking that rule.
These builds today are single-device by design — there is no shared multi-user layer, so a team working one caseload together needs that layer built as part of their deployment. There is no cloud scale-out, because there is no cloud. And a build here will not pretend to be finished: every demo prints its current limits, and this page keeps this section for as long as it stays true. A vendor that hides where it's weak shouldn't be trusted where it's strong — that rule applies to us first.
Konomi is the creation of Thomas Frumkin. We learned it and build on it — the estate you can walk here is our application of Konomi, not its origin. For what Konomi is in its own words, go to its home: konomi-systems.com.
Walk the builds first — they're the argument. Then bring us your firm.
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