About Warden
Your home, your data, your rules.
Why Warden exists
The smart home industry has a trust problem. Every device, every automation, every sensor reading routes through someone else's server. You buy the hardware, but a company you've never met controls the software — and the data it generates.
When your internet goes down, your "smart" home becomes a collection of dumb devices. When the vendor shuts down their cloud, your investment becomes e-waste. And every day between, your home's activity data sits on servers you don't control, governed by privacy policies that can change without notice.
Warden exists to fix that. We're building a complete identity and access control system that runs entirely on your hardware — no cloud accounts, no subscriptions, no data leaving your home. Not as a feature. As the architecture.
What we believe
Privacy by design
Not by policy — by architecture. Every component is built so your data physically cannot leave your home.
Local-first
Cloud is optional, not required. Your home works without an internet connection. Always.
Open architecture
Auditable, extensible, transparent. We plan to open-source the firmware so the community can verify every claim.
No subscriptions
You buy the hardware. You own the hardware. Core functionality never hides behind a monthly fee.
The team
Warden is founded and built by engineers who got tired of trusting third-party clouds with their home's data. More team information coming soon.
Open source
We plan to open-source the Warden Hub firmware so the community can audit, verify, and extend the system. A security product that asks for trust without offering transparency isn't a security product — it's a marketing claim.
Open-source release timeline will be announced alongside the production hardware launch.
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