Your node
Your data as a layered globe — core, personal, social, firewall, and public rings.
About
Personal AI infrastructure, from Dialogues.
TOPOS is a private AI node — a database and engine where your data, context, permissions, and compute stay under your control. Built by Dialogues in Austin, TX.
The product
This is real, and it runs today
The Cognitive Firewall
Every request passes four gates before anything leaves your node.
Connectors
Files, apps, and AI history collected into one system — with your permission.
Why we build it
Institutions have systems. You should too.
Institutions run on organized intelligence — policies, engines, optimization. The individual, so far, runs on memory and luck.
TOPOS gives the person a counter-system: memory, context, and AI representation of their own.
Meet institutional force with your own organized intelligence.
Team
The people building it
Jonny Johnson
CEO / Founder
LLM systems since 2016 · AI ethics & governance
Founder of Dialogues. A decade building systems that improve human outcomes. Shipped AI products for a16z-connected teams and a Meta AI cohort company; built and operates the TOPOS engine end to end.
LinkedInMitch Richburg
COO / Co-founder
Mechanical engineer · concept-to-production product leadership
Leads operations at Topos. 100+ product prototypes on time and on budget. Previously Head Mechanical Engineer at Guinn Partners, taking drone and robotic systems from concept through production — hardware-grade shipping discipline, applied to software.
LinkedInPress
TOPOS demos at Shape Rotator Demo Day
New York, NY
Ten weeks after cohort 01 opened in New York, IC3 published the Demo Day recap. TOPOS presented a personal database, the connectors that fill it, and keyed access for the people and AIs you choose.
Shape Rotator is a 10-week accelerator run by IC3 and Flashbots with The Convent and Blockchain Builders, for cryptography and AI builders turning research into products under real constraints. Cohort 01 ran May 18 – July 26, 2026 in New York.
Founder Jonny Johnson demoed TOPOS from the story of a father who started getting pregnancy ads aimed at his daughter — intelligence a company held about a family before the family had it. The answer TOPOS proposes is not less data, but ownership of it: your own database, your own collection, and access you hand out key by key.
The recap runs 6:11 and features the full cohort — private agent infrastructure, self-improving workflows, sovereign data, creator tools, and new interfaces.
News
Where things stand
July 2026
Demoed at Shape Rotator Demo Day
TOPOS presented to the cohort and guests in New York — a personal database, the connectors that fill it, and keyed access for the people and AIs you choose. IC3 published the recap.
July 2026
Selected for the Shape Rotator accelerator cohort
TOPOS is part of the Shape Rotator cohort — a 10-week accelerator for cryptography and AI builders turning research into real products, run in collaboration with IC3, Flashbots, Blockchain Builders, and The Convent.
For investors
The consumer AI infrastructure thesis
A world where everyone — not just companies — has intelligent systems working on their behalf.