# Julian Nalenz

> Building sovereign infrastructure for allowing all humans to realize their full potential. Trust, sovereignty, and beauty — by design.

Julian Nalenz is a programmer and systems designer: studied computer science at TU Munich and KTH Stockholm, co-founded the German FinTech Divizend, and served on the board of The Borderland (Europe's largest Burning Man–inspired event) as treasurer and IT admin. The focus of the work is universal, open-source administrative software, guided by the intention that "everyone should become able to found and operate anything".

The full site is a single page: https://www.nalenz.org/

## Research question

"How can we make the structures through which humans coordinate their lives explicit, understandable, interoperable, and changeable, without requiring everyone to agree on one universal representation of reality?"

- [Research map](https://research.nalenz.org): every post Julian Nalenz writes on X, placed automatically on one zoomable terrain by topic and graded by how directly it speaks to this question. Updated daily.

## Works

- [Enterprise software as algebraic specifications](https://algebraic.nalenz.org) — 2026: A company that rebuilds enterprise software on algebraic specifications: the compliance plumbing every enterprise application needs gets written once, as open-source formal specifications with generated, verified code, while the domain logic on top stays proprietary. Looking for one or two technical co-founders. ([Tangled](https://tangled.org/nalenz.org/nalenz/tree/main/sites/algebraic))
- [Escape the Mind](https://escapethemind.nalenz.org) — 2026: A polemical manifesto, in fourteen languages, against the supremacy of the mind: words as the instrument of control, education as body-hostile indoctrination, and the escape route through cultivating and honouring the feeling of the body. ([Tangled](https://tangled.org/nalenz.org/nalenz/tree/main/sites/escapethemind))
- [Research map](https://research.nalenz.org) — 2026: One large, zoomable terrain of everything I post on X, placed automatically by topic around my core research question and graded by how directly each post speaks to it. New posts land on the map daily. ([GitHub](https://github.com/hermesloom/research-map))
- [Stiftungsfinder](https://stiftungsfinder.nalenz.org) — 2026: Find the German foundations most likely to fund your non-profit project: semantic matching of your project description against ~30,000 registered foundation purposes. ([GitHub](https://github.com/hermesloom/stiftungsfinder))
- [BOOTSTRAP](https://superreality.si) — 2026: A manifesto for the free human. They say: that's just how people are. We say: that's how they were made. Against quiet paternalism, for self-authorship, and for taking the will of a child exactly as seriously as the will of an adult.
- [Ideas for a Standard for Federated Resource Exchange](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yJVLV2l3UWQFi42PHAKpuwO1GXMbvu-CGnxrNEztbts/edit?tab=t.0) — 2026: A project-management and standardization playbook for developing a new open, HTTP-based standard that lets independently operated community systems exchange resources: from problem discovery, governance and a founding charter through conformance testing, security review and a roadmap to version 1.0.
- [OpenFASTER](https://openfaster.org) — 2026: An interoperable protocol and data exchange standard for Certified Financial Intermediaries (CFIs) to exchange data and events for indirect reporting under MiKaDiv and FASTER. Vendor-independent, based on the ECB's BIRD, with end-to-end encryption.
- [Der Allgemeine Markt](https://blog.hermesloom.org/p/wenn-ich-online-shoppe-tu-ich-meinem) — 2025: A community-owned, open-source marketplace concept where platform fees from buying and selling goods are redistributed to fund local education, culture, and shared public spaces instead of private profit.
- [Project Theseus](https://blog.hermesloom.org/p/the-company-that-wants-to-be-the) — 2025: Project Theseus is a speculative company concept built around making ultra-repairable products and open-sourcing them from day one, with the radical goal of rendering itself obsolete by making longevity and repairability the boring default.
- [The Offline Society](https://offlinesociety.nalenz.org/) — 2025: A self-organizing, fully offline social framework that prioritizes autonomy, self-reliance, and human connection without digital infrastructure. ([Blog article](https://blog.hermesloom.org/p/rules-for-the-offline-society))
- [Isocracy NOW!](https://isocracy.nalenz.org/) — 2025: A manifesto for implementing participatory budgeting at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. ([Flyers](https://isocracy.nalenz.org/flyers.pdf), [Tangled](https://tangled.org/nalenz.org/nalenz/tree/main/sites/isocracy))
- [Hot Visionaries](https://hotvisionaries.nalenz.org/) — 2025: A space for demisexual and sapiosexual visionaries seeking depth, devotion, and epic synergy—clarity without co-dependence. ([Tangled](https://tangled.org/nalenz.org/nalenz/tree/main/sites/hotvisionaries))
- [Creating Solarpunk](/creating-solarpunk.pdf) — 2025: A global systemic art and design competition fostering the regenerative economy through Solarpunk principles, distributed via participatory budgeting.
- [Luttmissen Library + Publishing](https://library.luttmissen.org) — 2025: A multilingual library and publishing house dedicated to giving access to and translating transformative works that challenge conventional thinking, bridging philosophical wisdom across languages and cultures. ([publishing.luttmissen.org](https://publishing.luttmissen.org))
- [Partei der Steuerverteilgerechtigkeit](https://steuerdemokratie.nalenz.org) — 2025: A political party implementing direct democratic control over tax allocation, enabling citizens to decide precisely how their tax contributions are used. ([Tangled](https://tangled.org/nalenz.org/nalenz/tree/main/sites/steuerdemokratie), [Read letter to Bund der Steuerzahler](/bund-der-steuerzahler-partizipatives-steuersystem.pdf))
- [The Capitalist Agent](https://blog.hermesloom.org/p/software-eats-the-economyand-ai-eats) — 2025: Two essays arguing that AI alignment is an economic problem: whoever controls the money AI earns holds the power, so we should build the AI-run economy first, open source and with its profits distributed democratically. ([Blog article 2](https://blog.hermesloom.org/p/ai-alignment-and-the-financial-war))
- [rightless.ai](https://rightless.nalenz.org) — 2025: A philosophical framework exploring the relationship between human and machine cognition while reimagining governance systems beyond traditional power structures. ([Tangled](https://tangled.org/nalenz.org/nalenz/tree/main/sites/rightless))
- [Divizend Live](https://live.divizend.com) — 2025: A participatory financial ecosystem combining community building, transparent decision-making, and digital tools to foster global financial health.
- [#SchlussMitOhnmacht](/schlussmitohnmacht.pdf) — 2025: A manifesto-style artwork titled #SchlussMitOhnmacht (“End the Powerlessness”) that calls on readers to demand constructive journalism, transforming passive media consumption into active civic engagement and collective empowerment.
- [dreaming.now](https://github.com/hermesloom/dreaming.now) — 2025: A simple platform which makes setting up a participatory budgeting process as easy as never before. Work in progress. ([Pitch Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YsJKmBFVZL3nt3xpBfx1A6Ml2X-Phnve-H_t8KTnsi8/edit?usp=sharing))
- [The Global Burn](https://github.com/hermesloom/theglobalburn) — 2024: The operating system for the Burning Man culture. Served as the membership platform for the Swedish burn "The Borderland" in 2025 and 2026, with >4000 members annually. It has since been superseded by an even better next generation of the platform, developed by another member of the community.
- [The Golden Thread](https://hermesloom.nalenz.org/goldenthread) — 2024: A global, open-source platform that democratizes philanthropy by intelligently connecting individuals and organizations with funding, legal guidance, and community support—making it possible for anyone, anywhere, to realize their vision for the common good.
- [Ultimate Collaboration](https://ultimatecollaboration.nalenz.org) — 2024: A digital encyclopedia functioning as an interconnection forum for movements, communities, and ideas working toward holistic regenerative transformation. ([Tangled](https://tangled.org/nalenz.org/nalenz/tree/main/sites/ultimatecollaboration))
- [Aikyaprema](https://aikyaprema.nalenz.org) — 2024: The foundation manifesto and living document of Aikyaprema as a culture, philosophy, and way of life. This project articulates how unity-centered thinking can transform personal and collective existence.
- [Nalenz Equity](https://equity.nalenz.org) — 2020: My holding company for my real-life entrepreneurial activities.

## Contact

- Email: synergies@nalenz.org
- https://github.com/sigalor
- https://github.com/hermesloom
- https://tangled.org/nalenz.org
- https://x.com/sigalor
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nalenz/
- https://bsky.app/profile/nalenz.org
- https://instagram.com/jlnnlnz
- https://blog.hermesloom.org/
- https://www.youtube.com/@CloseSpring