No single party can reassemble you.
Multi-party computation splits the work so that no one, Julia Social included, ever holds enough to reconstruct a person’s identity.
About Julia Social
Prove you are real. Without saying who you are.
Julia Social builds digital identity that confirms a person is a real, unique human without learning who they are. We make not.bot™, the cryptographic identity people carry on their phones; not.bot Verify, the server software businesses run inside their own infrastructure; and not.bot Sign My Work, the tool brands use to sign their content. honest.bot™, on the roadmap, extends the same identity to AI agents.
Cryptographic identity without surveillance.
Why we exist
It started with a question AI made urgent.
How will anyone know what is real when the internet fills with deepfakes and bots? Answering it means giving people a way to prove they are human, and giving everyone else a way to check, without building one more database of who did what.
We take our name from Julia in George Orwell’s 1984, the character who holds on to a private life under a regime that watches everything. The name carries our first principle: protecting people’s privacy starts with protecting it from Julia Social itself.
Why privacy
Identity that stays out of the data it carries.
A technology becomes infrastructure when it achieves credible neutrality. Cisco’s routers move traffic without reading it. Oracle and Postgres store data without knowing what is in it, and on a customer’s own servers the database vendor sees none of it. People build on this equipment because they trust it to stay out of the way, and that neutrality is what lets one technology become a shared default.
Identity has been the hard case. To prove who you are, a system had to learn who you are and then keep it, so it could not stay neutral. The cost shows up as databases that become targets the moment they exist, and a handful of sign-in providers everyone must route through. Julia Social brings credible neutrality to identity: we confirm someone is a real, unique human without learning who they are, and without keeping anything that would identify users in a breach.
“Internet infrastructure must not be built around honeypots and gatekeepers.”
Ken Griggs, Founder and CEO
How it works
Blind by construction, not by promise.
Blind identity is hard to build, which is why it is not already the default. Done right, it behaves like the trusted layers of the internet: useful, current, and blind to the data it carries.
Your identity stays on your phone.
Identity data lives on your own device. Your private keys are generated and held in the phone’s secure hardware, and are never shared with us.
Checks run in their infrastructure.
Businesses run not.bot Verify inside their own systems, so user data never reaches Julia Social during a check, the way a database vendor sees nothing of what a customer stores.
The team
Built by people who have shipped this kind of system before.
Ken Griggs
Founder and CEO
Three years on the Chia blockchain as VP of Customer Success, where he invented DataLayer and was technical lead on the World Bank’s Climate Action Data Trust, the registry behind 95%+ of the world’s carbon-credit projects. Seven years in Deloitte’s Innovation Lab before that, and over a decade in speech recognition at Nexidia. Holds eight patents; BS in CS from Georgia Tech, executive MBA from Emory.
Bill Kesselring
Co-Founder and VP of Business Development
A decade as a general partner at GMG Capital Partners, helping raise $250M for early-stage companies, and a founder of ventures through acquisition. Former Chief Revenue Officer at Tozny, a zero-trust security platform built on cryptography with DARPA, NIST, and Galois.
James Hoerr
Co-Founder and Engineering Lead
Builds production systems from zero and ships them. Founded the engineering consultancy Galactechs, led engineering at Evergreen Systems on a Chia-powered platform, and built a multi-million-dollar AI datacenter running 800+ GPUs. Creator of Druid Garden and the Chia FastFarmer.
Partners, advisors, and contributors
- Ram JeyaramanCo-founder and CTO of Datacaliper; his team carried much of the not.bot app’s development.
- Rob WiltbankCEO of Galois; advises on cryptography and was an early convert to our approach to privacy.
- Grant CermakAdvised Julia Social from the start and helped shape its earliest decisions.
- Santhosh Kumar and Zaina FathimaLed development of the not.bot app across many kinds of user-facing software.
Identity as public infrastructure.
Open where it needs to be trusted, blind where it needs to be safe. not.bot Sign My Work launches first, honest.bot follows, and over time we decentralize recovery and open the credential platform to outside builders.
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