Product design document
The Light of Alexandria
Truth with receipts — Pillar 10 initiative; aligned with Data Sanctuary ethics.
Category: Education & knowledge
Summary
Public-good knowledge archive: verified entries, source-backed tiers, provenance, and interconnected facts — no ads, no commercial funnel.
Mission fit
Truth with receipts — Pillar 10 initiative; aligned with Data Sanctuary ethics.
Role
The Light of Alexandria is the verified knowledge archive: entities and relationships with independent sources, verification tiers (Bronze–Platinum), and provenance — not a social wiki or an ad-funded reference site.
Pillar fit
- Pillar 10 — Education (The Guild): the archive is foundational infrastructure for honest learning and research alongside the Learning Academy (courses) and future guild-style programs.
- Pillar 15 — Sovereignty / Data Sanctuary: same ethical bar — no ad-tech tracking, no “truth as upsell,” public-good posture.
Deployment
- Public site:
alexandria.lumavel.co - Mission / story on main site:
lumavel.co/alexandria-knowledge
Engineering
Monorepo app: apps/alexandria-lumavel — Next.js, Clerk (admin only), Supabase-backed ingestion and search as the archive matures.
Roadmap (high level)
Placeholder routes on the public site describe future knowledge map, learning modes, themes, and research API — informational only until shipped.