Own Your Algorithm
You should be able to see, shape, and revoke what shapes you.
The systems that decide what you see should be understandable, influenceable, and revocable. That's not a feature — it's the idea every product in this ecosystem is built on, including the ones we haven't built yet.
The principles
What OYA actually means.
Five commitments, each one a constraint on how AlignAlgo can be built — not a slogan.
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01 / Explainability
Understand why
You should be able to understand why something is being shown.
Every ranking or match names its real factors — price, trust signals, fit for the moment — instead of a bare percentage. See every parameter, on every surface.
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02 / Correction
Change what it listens to
You should be able to change what the system listens to.
Loved something by mistake, or just grew out of a taste? Correct the signal directly and the graph updates — it doesn't quietly keep believing the old you forever.
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03 / Revocation
Revoke without ambiguity
You should be able to revoke access without ambiguity.
Turn off a product, or the whole graph, and it's actually off — not paused, not quietly retained "for quality purposes."
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04 / Proportion
High stakes aren't a feed
High-stakes domains should not behave like entertainment feeds.
Coverage, Finance, and Heart don't get engagement-optimized the way Food or Music can — no infinite scroll, no manufactured urgency, on decisions that actually matter.
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05 / Honesty
Uncertainty, labeled
Uncertainty should be labeled honestly.
A 92% match says what it's 92% confident about — and where the system is guessing, it says so, instead of dressing a guess up as a fact.
What OYA protects against
What this is pushing back on.
Opaque ranking, ad-first optimization, flattened feeds, manipulative funneling, and systems that know your patterns while hiding their own logic.
In your hands
What you control.
- Preferences — tune what "good" means per surface (price vs. quality vs. speed), any time, not just once at signup.
- Signals — correct or delete an individual signal your graph learned, not just mute what it outputs.
- Permissions — grant each Align product only the slice of the graph it actually needs to do its job.
- Revocation — cut access for one product, or the whole graph, instantly and completely.
- Visibility — choose what's visible to the people you match with, and what stays private by default.
How it shows up
This is not just a slogan.
OYA shows up as explainable controls, signal correction, provenance labeling, and the ability to move between a standard and an optimized system on purpose — built into the products, not written about them.
In Align
Explainable controls sit next to rankings across the family — "see every parameter" is a UI, not a policy page. Signal correction and full revocation are live wherever those controls have shipped, and roll out to the rest of the nine tools as each one launches.
In Creytix
Creytix is the engine underneath every Align surface. Provenance labeling — human-authored vs. AI-assisted, disclosed rather than hidden — runs through it today. Browsing modes that let you inspect and choose the kind of internet you're getting, instead of accepting one default feed, are in development.
The commitments
Trust commitments.
Change of control
If AlignAlgo is ever acquired, merged, or restructured, these commitments travel with the graph — not just the trademark. A new owner inherits the promise, not a clean slate to quietly drop it.
Transparency, dated
When we sharpen a promise, we say so in public and dated, in place — not a silent edit to a page nobody rereads. See the August 2026 update →
Provenance honesty
AI-generated content and AI-assisted recommendations are always labeled as such. Where a ranking is uncertain, it says so instead of presenting a guess as fact.
Join the movement
You should be able to see, shape, and revoke what shapes you.
Add your email — we'll let you know as each OYA control ships, and when the pledge's public policy draft is ready to read.
No spam, no selling your data — that's the whole point.
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