Keep your browsing to yourself
Layer9i keeps no record of the sites you visit, so there is nothing to sell and nothing to hand over.
Atlas · beta, by invitation
Control your internet identity and privacy, wherever you connect.
Atlas lets you choose how apps and websites see your connection, while keeping no record of the sites you visit, wherever you are with your devices.
The beta is invite-only for now, on Mac, iPhone, Windows and Android. Email Layer9i and you'll get a reply. Anyone can join once the last privacy step on Privacy & data is done.
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You
You at the centre, not the companies around you.
The network changes. You don't.
Home Wi-Fi, your phone's data, a hotel or a café: every network you join is different. With Atlas, your account, your choices and where sites see you connecting from stay the same on all of them.
What you get
Your device is personal. Make your connection more private.
At home, on mobile data or on public Wi-Fi, the network carrying your connection can learn about the sites you visit, and that information is valuable to the companies that collect it. Privacy includes having a say in what your connection reveals.
Choose where you connect from
With Atlas, choose where you connect from for each site. Use a location in your home country for banking, or choose another location for browsing.
Available locations: Toronto, Montreal, New York, London, and Amsterdam.
More than one way to connect
Some sites work better on your own connection. Others can go through a trusted Atlas location. Atlas lets you use both, without changing the connection for everything else.
Keep control across your devices
Manage your choices in one app, on Mac, iPhone, Windows and Android. Your saved choices are encrypted on your device, so they stay private, even from Layer9i.
Your account belongs to you
It comes from a key only you hold. Layer9i can't take it over or hand it to anyone. The flip side: keep your key and recovery code safe, because Layer9i can't get them back for you.
Know when something's wrong
Atlas checks that your connection goes where you chose. If it can't confirm that, it's built to switch itself off, put your normal connection back and tell you.
Already have a VPN?
A VPN hides your address. Atlas privately puts you in control.
A VPN app sends your connection through its own servers, so sites see its address instead of yours. That's useful, but you're still trusting that company with your account and with whatever it decides to keep about you.
Atlas starts from a different place:
You hold the keys
Your account comes from a phrase only you have. Layer9i keeps no copy, so there's nothing for anyone to take.
Your choices stay private
Which sites you send where is locked on your devices. Layer9i stores only the locked copy and has no way to open it.
No record of where you go
Layer9i doesn't log the sites you visit, and the servers you connect through keep no record of which account used them.
Coming next: signing in to websites with Atlas, where each site gets a different ID for you so sites can't compare notes about you. It already works on Layer9i's test site. Real websites come next.
How it works
Three steps, then get on with your day.
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Install Atlas and save your key
Your account is a private key that only your devices hold. Start on one device, then add the others from Devices, which shows your key: keep a copy somewhere safe, along with the one-time recovery code Atlas gives you. Lose a laptop and your account isn't lost with it: your key brings it back.
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Set your Rules
Pick your Default City: where websites and apps see you from. Then, in Rules, add exceptions, such as your bank going through a trusted city in your own country, or local sites using your own connection.
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Go about your life
As you move between home Wi-Fi, your phone's data and hotel networks, Atlas keeps your Rules in place and checks that you really appear where you chose (Intended vs. Observed on the Home screen). If it can't confirm that, it turns itself off and tells you, so your connection is never quietly wrong.
Privacy & data
Your privacy, built in.
With Atlas, the sites you visit stay yours. Layer9i keeps no record of them, keeps your account separate from the internet addresses you use, and encrypts your choices so only you can read them.
This privacy is part of how Atlas works, not a line in a policy.
The Privacy & data page shows exactly what Layer9i holds and what it could hand over if a court asked. It also explains the one area that is protected by Layer9i's own rule today, and the work that will make it built in too.
Where Atlas is today
Built, tested, and nearly open.
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Experts first
DoneBefore building anything, Layer9i published the idea and asked networking and security experts to point out where it was wrong.
Read the papers → - 2
Built
BuiltYour Atlas account comes from a private key that is created on your own device and held only by you. Keep a copy somewhere safe: if a phone or laptop is lost, your key brings your account back on a new device. Atlas also gives you a one-time recovery code that unlocks your saved choices. This works today in the Atlas apps for Mac, iPhone, Windows and Android.
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Tested end to end
TestedLayer9i connected Atlas to a test service and ran the whole sign-in from start to finish. The service accepted an Atlas account on its own, with no name, email address or password to share. The Atlas locations people connect through were checked too, and they keep your account separate from your connection.
Read how → - 4
Testers are using it now
Happening nowInvited testers use the Mac, iPhone, Windows and Android apps every day. It's the real thing described here, not a demo.
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The final step before sign-up opens
Coming nextToday, Layer9i follows a strict rule: it keeps nothing that links an Atlas ID back to the person using it. The final step builds that protection into Atlas itself, so no one, including Layer9i, can work it out. An outside security expert will review the work first, and then sign-up opens to everyone.
Why this matters →
The Atlas beta
Help build Atlas.
Layer9i is looking for people who travel, juggle several devices, or simply want their privacy back. Try Atlas, and say what makes sense, what doesn't, and what you wish it did.
Go deeper
Research and investors
Open research
The thinking behind Atlas is published in the open, for networking, security and privacy experts to challenge.
For investors
What is built, what the raise pays for, and what Atlas will not do before it charges anyone.