woodls

The first night · early access is open

Name your woodl.

A woodl is your computer in the forest: while you sleep, it runs open-source AI for others and ripens seeds you spend on AI. The first night needs twenty-five.

Free · for people 18 or older · the privacy page says what we keep

It’s always night somewhere.

How it works

  1. A birch woodl standing on its lit roots, working.
    01 · NightLend. While you sleep, your woodl runs open-source AI models for other people. Touch the keyboard and it steps aside, in 47 to 151 ms in our tests.
  2. A birch woodl hopping, holding up a ripe seed.
    02 · MorningRipen. Every job it runs ripens seeds: a credit for AI that you can’t buy or cash out.
  3. A pine woodl standing on its lit roots, somewhere it’s night.
    03 · DaySpend. When you need AI, spend them in your terminal: a chat with open models, and the carver, a coding agent that says what it spent. A computer that’s free answers, often one where it’s night.

Limits

  • It won’t make you money. Seeds are spent on AI and never become cash.
  • The computer that answers can read your request. For private work, use your own machines.
  • It isn’t free: you pay with your computer’s time and your electricity.

See it working

Real sessions of the woodls command, from our test network on one Mac.

~/shapes-shop · woodls code carver

The carver’s last screen. The test file’s import changes from circle_area to area_of_circle; a search finds no circle_area left; the tests run in the sandbox, 82 tests, OK; a list of the five files it changed; and the closing line, DONE: 5 files changed, the tests pass, 12 steps, 0.533 seeds, 31 s. Each step shows what it spent.
The carver, woodls’ coding agent, was asked to rename a function everywhere and run the tests. It changed five files, the 82 tests passed in its sandbox, and each step shows what it spent: 12 steps, 0.533 seeds, 31 seconds. Our test network, one Mac, .

woodls · chat · the Forest

A chat in the woodls command. You ask for three good names for a Python function that returns the area of a circle, in a short table; a birch answers with circle_area, area_of_circle and circ_area, each with why, and under it: Forest, 0.004408 seeds, 191 read, 96 written, entry 6,040, ring 2,121. You ask which one it would pick; it picks circle_area, concise and in PEP 8’s style, for 0.003746 seeds.
Chat with open models, in your terminal. A birch in the Forest answered, and under each answer are its cost and its entry on the Rings: 0.004408 seeds for the table, 0.003746 seeds for the choice. Our test network, one Mac, .

woodls · the clearing · a Mac that hosts

The clearing, woodls’ home, on a Mac that hosts: its birch woodl, working, serving gpt-oss 20B; tonight 124 jobs since 11:22; ripening 169.43 seeds. Beside it, the Forest tonight on a dotted map of the world: one woodl awake, 40 jobs an hour, night in Nairobi and Sydney. Below, the line to ask, chat or code.
The clearing, woodls’ home, on a Mac that hosts. It has run 124 jobs on our test network since 11:22, with 169.43 seeds ripening, and beside it the Forest tonight shows where it’s night. Our test network, one Mac, .

The first night

The first night is small on purpose: twenty-five hosts on two continents, for seventy-two hours, with every job checked and every seed written on the Rings, a ledger anyone can check. Macs with Apple silicon host first. The first invites are planned for around Diwali, 8 November 2026; the night’s own hours are written on the first night’s page once they’re certain.

Every job is signed by the computer that ran it, and a share are run again on our own machines: in our tests, a host that cheated was caught and lost its seeds. More on the trust page.

Name your woodl, and we’ll write when your wave opens.

The film

The film’s last frame: the woodls wordmark over a city at night, each letter drawn down to its word: web of our devices, lending spare time.
Play the film, 2:30 Plate I It’s always night somewhere A film, 2:30, with sound. Its words are on the picture, in English, so it works muted too.

Questions

What is woodls, in a line?

A network of ordinary computers that run open-source AI for each other. Yours works while you’re away and ripens seeds; you spend them when you need AI.

What’s a woodl?

Your computer, in the forest: a birch if it’s a Mac with Apple silicon, a pine if it’s a PC with an NVIDIA card, an oak if it’s any other computer. You name it when you register, and it keeps the name.

What can I do with it?

Ask and chat with open models from your terminal, and code with the carver, which reads, edits and tests code in your project. Lend your Mac while you sleep to ripen the seeds that pay for it, or put your own machines in a grove, where they serve each other for free.

Is it free?

Registering is free, and so is everything in a grove. In the Forest each answer costs seeds, which your computer earns for every night it lends. You pay with your computer’s time and your electricity, not with money.

Is this crypto?

No. Seeds are a credit for AI on woodls. They can’t be bought, sold, traded or cashed out, and there’s no coin and no blockchain. Every seed is written on the Rings, a ring ledger anyone can check.

Can the computer that answers read my question?

Yes, in the Forest it can. So woodls takes out secrets, email addresses, your home folder’s path and your git name before anything leaves your machine, and never tells the host who you are. For private work, use a grove: your own machines, where woodls sees nothing.

Will it slow my computer down?

Not while you’re using it. It works only while you’re away: when you touch the keyboard it steps aside in 47 to 151 ms (our tests, one MacBook Pro, 26 September 2026), and when a game or a video app needs the graphics chip, it lets the model go.

Which computers can take part?

For the first night, Macs with Apple silicon and 16 GB or more, because their sandbox is built. PCs with an NVIDIA card, and computers without one, join when the Linux sandbox is ready (COMING). The woodls command itself runs on Macs today.

Why is there a screening, and when does it start?

The first night is small on purpose: 25 hosts on two continents, for 72 hours, with every job checked. We read every registration and invite in small waves, by machine and country, so each wave has the mix it needs. The first invites are planned for around Diwali, 8 November 2026, and your code comes by email, from a person. The night’s own hours are written on the first night’s page once they’re certain.

What do you keep about me?

Your email address and your woodl’s name, until you’re invited or for 90 days, whichever comes first, and which computer your woodl will be, if you say. Nothing about your visit is kept with them, and there are no trackers. The privacy page has the rest.