Your data, your home
Personal Neural Vault
Your Neural Vault is your own encrypted, sovereign home for every neural recording you make. Think of it like a browser for your neural data: the Psyntient Node knows how to read, secure, search, and publish your files — but the files themselves are yours, and stay wherever you choose to keep them. Nothing enters the Archive without your explicit consent.
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§ 01
What it is
The Neural Vault is the user's sovereign research repository — the long-term home for every research asset a participant or researcher accumulates over time.
- → Observation Packets
- → Neural recordings
- → Experimental methods
- → Analyses
- → Reports
- → Metadata
- → Project data
- → Other research artifacts
The Neural Vault belongs entirely to the user. Nothing enters collective research without an explicit, revocable act of consent from its owner.
§ 02
How the Vault is organized
The Vault is organized around the Applications and devices connected to it. Each connected Application or device gets its own workspace, and inside every workspace live one or more Projects. Projects hold the actual data — recordings, packets, notes, analyses.
This keeps applications cleanly separated on disk, makes traversal deterministic, and lets the user manage permissions and synchronization at whichever level they want.
§ 03
One question, many workspaces
A single study usually spans several Applications and devices — a PTSD study, for example, might live inside the Research Agent, an EEG device workspace, and a dream-recorder workspace all at once. The Node can reason across those workspaces on the user's behalf — answering questions like show me everything related to the PTSD study, or compare the dream reports with the EEG recordings — without moving the underlying files.
§ 04
The Vault is the data itself
A good analogy is a web browser. The browser isn't your documents — it knows how to access them. The Psyntient Node plays that role for the Vault: the Node contains the software that knows how to read, secure, search, and publish your files, but the files themselves are the Vault, and they stay wherever you choose to keep them.
§ 05
How permission flows
The Vault receives data from any compatible source — Psyntient Ground, third-party BCIs, biometric wearables, fMRI, partner platforms, and ingested research datasets. The same consent logic applies no matter where the recording originated.
Step A
Record
Sessions from any compatible instrument or application stream into the participant's Vault.
Step B
Review
The participant inspects, annotates, or deletes any session before sharing.
Step C
Contribute
With explicit, granular consent, selected sessions enter the Noetic Archive.
§ 06
Principles
- → end-to-end encrypted at rest and in transit
- → permission-based sharing, granular per session and per recipient
- → consent is revocable; withdrawal removes data from future analyses
- → built for decades-long preservation of intimate biological records
§ 07
Personal AI insights
The Vault isn't only a privacy boundary — it's also where each participant's own neural history becomes useful to them. AI surfaces personal patterns, tracks state changes over time, and lets the user explore their own neural archetypes from whatever data lives in their Vault. Psyntient Ground adds replay and entrainment features for sessions it captures; other compatible devices and datasets feed the same Vault. None of that requires contributing to the Archive.
§ 08
Where your Vault lives
The Vault isn't tied to any single storage backend. Your Psyntient Node abstracts storage through Storage Drivers, so applications never need to know where the Vault physically resides. You pick the backend; the Node handles the rest.
§ 09
The Vault as gateway
The Archive cannot exist without the Vault. Every neural archetype Psyntient identifies is the product of many participants choosing, individually, to contribute. The Vault is the architecture that makes that choice meaningful.