---
title: "Federated Core"
description: "The foundation your whole business runs on — provisioning, storage, backup, authentication, and federated learning that trains AI on your data without sending it anywhere."
sections:
  - type: hero
    compact: true
    bars: false
    eyebrow: "Product · Federated Core"
    title: "The Foundation Your Whole Business Runs On"
    subhead: "Think of Federated Core as your private operating system — the layer that handles the unglamorous, essential work so every app and every AI agent above it just works."

  - type: features
    bordered: true
    kicker: "What It Does"
    headline: "The Unglamorous, Essential Work"
    intro: "Federated Core is a platform-as-a-service, but built specifically to unify open-source business software into one coherent system. That means:"
    items:
      - label: "Provisioning"
        body: " — spin up new tools without hiring an IT team"
      - label: "Unified storage"
        body: " — one place for your files, not twelve"
      - label: "Authentication"
        body: " — one login across your entire business"
      - label: "Monitoring & remediation"
        body: " — problems get caught and often fixed before you notice"
      - label: "Backup"
        body: " — your data, protected, automatically"
      - label: "Deployment anywhere"
        body: " — your device, your VM, your system, your choice"

  - type: text
    bordered: true
    tinted: true
    kicker: "Federated Learning"
    headline: "AI Training Without Giving Up Your Data"
    body: |
      Here's the part that makes Federated Core different from anything Big Tech offers: **federated learning.**

      Instead of sending your business data to a company's cloud to improve their AI, your business trains a model *locally*, on your own private data. Only the encrypted learnings — never the raw data — get shared with a central coordinator. Every business gets the benefit of a smarter, shared AI model. Nobody ever sees your actual files, emails, or customer records.

      **Plain version:** You get smarter AI. Your data never leaves your building.

      **No vendor lock-in.** No dependence on any one AI company's roadmap. Your AI future stays yours.

  - type: text
    bordered: true
    kicker: "In Practice"
    headline: "How Businesses Use It"
    body: |
      Each customer gets their own isolated Federated Core environment — your version of Nextcloud, your CRM, your email, all acting as a private "node." Federated Computer hosts the central coordinator that helps all participating businesses' models improve together, without ever seeing any one business's private data.
    ctas:
      - label: "See the Software Library That Runs on Federated Core →"
        url: "/product/software-library/"
        style: text

  - type: final-cta
    headline: "Ready to see it running your business?"
    body: "Your first 7 days are free — no credit card required."
    ctas:
      - label: "Start Now"
        url: "/start-now/"
        style: primary
---