# Outcry AI

> An AI mentor trained on a century of resistance, built for activists who want to outthink power. Three ways to run it: Outcry Cloud (the smartest model, on the web), Outcry Local (on your iPhone or Mac, fully on-device), and Outcry Sovereign (a Mac in your office, shared by your team). Founded by Micah Bornfree, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street and author of The End of Protest.

## Three ways to run Outcry
- [Outcry Cloud](https://www.outcryai.com/chat): The smartest model, on the web. 10 free messages per day, no signup for first chat. Paid plans (from $7/mo) raise message limits and opt out of training. Free chats may help train future Outcry models (IPs stripped, never sold).
- [Outcry Local](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/outcry-activist-ai/id6762086768): On-device AI for iPhone and Mac. Free forever. 100% private — nothing leaves your device. The only activist AI in the App Store.
- [Outcry Sovereign](https://www.outcryai.com/sovereign): A Mac in your office, shared by your whole team. Stays on your hardware. Free to test, $2K to unlock unlimited team use.

## About
- [About Outcry AI](https://www.outcryai.com/about): Mission, values, and the team behind Outcry
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.outcryai.com/privacy): Data protection and activist security commitments
- [Sample Conversation](https://www.outcryai.com/share/bed15a89-af90-4bf6-b1c2-10e69cffa5a5): A real Outcry exchange on inner transformation and movement strategy

## Tools
- [AI Chat Mentor](https://www.outcryai.com/chat): Strategic advice for activists on protest strategy, movement building, and campaign planning
- [Campaign Laboratory](https://www.outcryai.com/brainstorm): Interactive brainstorming tool for creative protest and campaign ideas
- [Library Research](https://www.outcryai.com/library): Deep research reports drawn from 2,000+ books of resistance history

## Research
- [What Movement Will AI Spark Next?](https://www.outcryai.com/research/what-movement-will-ai-spark-next)
- [Outcry in Code: Developing an Activist AI for Social Movements](https://www.outcryai.com/research/how-to-fine-tune-activist-ai-july-2025)

## Guides
- [Decentralized Mesh Networks as Digital Sovereignty](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/decentralized-mesh-networks-digital-sovereignty): Decentralized mesh networks are more than technical fixes to corporate internet control. They are laboratories for digital sovereignty, where communities can practice self-governance, political educat
- [Autonomy Without Anarchy](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/autonomy-without-anarchy): Decentralized movements risk fragmentation when unity is forced or lost. This essay explores how activists can cultivate genuine autonomy, maintain coherence through ritual, and avoid the authoritaria
- [Redefining Community Accountability for Transformative Safety](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/redefining-community-accountability-transformative-safety): Community accountability often collapses under burnout, vague standards and hidden power. This essay explores how activists can redefine community as structured obligation, design living covenants and
- [Media Strategy for Horizontal Movements](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/media-strategy-horizontal-movements): How can movements engage the media without creating accidental leaders? This guide explores rotating spokesperson models, messaging protocols, and rapid response systems that protect activists, preser
- [Autonomous Worker Power After Fordism](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/autonomous-worker-power-after-fordism): In the ruins of Fordism, activists can spark a new cycle of autonomous worker resistance. This synthesis explores how grassroots circles can reclaim power through local action, defiant mutual aid, and
- [Decentralized Sovereignty and Activist Credentialing](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/decentralized-sovereignty-activist-credentialing): Diplomatic protocol does more than organize meetings. It stages legitimacy. This essay shows how activists can subvert credentialing rituals, expose global power asymmetries, and build participatory f
- [Challenging Economic Power Systems](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/challenging-economic-power-systems): Mainstream economics obscures power behind mathematical illusions. This essay explores how movements can expose corporate dominance, dismantle fear and fragmentation, and build alternative economies r
- [Racial Solidarity and Strategic Power](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/racial-solidarity-and-strategic-power): Explores how interracial worker alliances can strike systemic leverage points to dismantle racism within institutions, transforming backlash and repression into catalysts for enduring solidarity and s
- [Anarchist Cybernetics and Movement Resilience](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/anarchist-cybernetics-movement-resilience): Explore how cybernetic principles like self-organization, feedback, and functional hierarchy can strengthen anarchist movements, enabling decentralized coordination without hierarchy or domination.
- [Occupy Strategy and Collective Shadow Work](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/occupy-strategy-collective-shadow-work): Occupy revealed more than inequality. It exposed the psychic architecture that makes inequality feel normal. This essay shows how activists can use collective shadow work, reflexive structures, and sh
- [Building Black Autonomy and Dual Power](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/building-black-autonomy-and-dual-power): This essay explores how revolutionary Black movements can transform everyday community practices into autonomous institutions of self-rule, grounding liberation in grassroots self-organization, mutual
- [Housing Direct Action and Community Sovereignty](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/housing-direct-action-community-sovereignty): Winning housing as a human right requires more than protest. It demands that every occupation and act of civil disobedience seed durable, community-controlled institutions that can outlast repression 
- [Autonomy Against Austerity](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/autonomy-against-austerity): This essay explores how workers can cultivate autonomous, militant resistance beyond union bureaucracy. It proposes tactical rituals that shift power from official leadership back to the rank and file
- [Protest vs. Strike vs. Boycott: Which Wins?](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/protest-vs-strike-vs-boycott-effectiveness): Is a protest, strike, or boycott more effective for social change? Strikes often deliver the strongest economic leverage, boycotts reshape corporate behavior, and protests transform public narratives.
- [Building Trust Without Laws](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/building-trust-without-laws): Exploring how activists can design voluntary, morally grounded communities that self‑govern without formal law yet remain resilient through built trust, transparent rituals, and rotating power.
- [Movement Culture for Resilient Decentralized Protest](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/movement-culture-resilient-decentralized-protest): Decentralized protest does not fail because people lack courage. It fails when autonomy turns into drift, ritual becomes predictable, and trust has no durable culture beneath it. This essay shows how 
- [Prisoner Solidarity Strategy for Abolitionist Survival](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/prisoner-solidarity-strategy-abolitionist-survival): Prisoner solidarity cannot depend on charity cycles or heroic improvisation alone. Durable abolitionist strategy requires decentralized cultural infrastructure, careful risk ethics, and prisoner-led s
- [Protest vs Rally vs March: Which Fits Your Goal?](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/protest-vs-rally-vs-march-which-fits-your-goal): A protest is the broad category, while rallies and marches are distinct formats with different strengths. Choose a rally for concentrated speeches and visibility, a march for geographic presence and m
- [Prisoner Solidarity Strategy for Living Resistance](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/prisoner-solidarity-strategy-living-resistance): Prisoner solidarity fails when remembrance becomes performance. This essay shows how to build inside-outside feedback loops, material support systems, and accountable strategy so solidarity strengthen
- [Anti-Hierarchical Organizing That Actually Holds Together](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/anti-hierarchical-organizing-coherence-accountability): Anti-hierarchical organizing fails when it treats structure as the enemy and ignores how informal power hardens in silence. Durable decentralized movements need explicit rituals, rotating authority, a
- [Micah White's Alchemy of Revolution](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/micah-white-alchemy-of-revolution): Micah White redefines revolution as an alchemy that fuses mass participation, tactical novelty and spiritual transformation. Rather than chasing crowd size, he argues for designing moments of collecti
- [Revolutionary Democracy Without Tyranny](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/revolutionary-democracy-without-tyranny): Revolutionary movements often betray their own ideals by reproducing the hierarchies they oppose. This essay explores how activists can design rituals, structures and stories that dismantle internal p
- [Building Solidarity Councils for Strategic Resistance](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/building-solidarity-councils-strategic-resistance): Mass protests alone no longer guarantee victory. To challenge repression today, movements must identify dormant sectors, build disciplined solidarity councils, and develop coordinated signals and care
- [Algorithmic Sabotage and the Future of Protest](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/algorithmic-sabotage-future-of-protest): Sabotage in the digital era is not about explosions but precision. Targeting everyday algorithms reveals how invisible code governs our lives, exposing new openings for resistance and reprogramming co
- [Blockade Strategy and Indigenous Sovereignty](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/blockade-strategy-indigenous-sovereignty): Blockades can delay harmful projects, change public consciousness, and build militant community. But when action unfolds on Indigenous land, strategic effectiveness must be fused with Indigenous sover
- [Counter-Fascism Rituals for Autonomous Resistance](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/counter-fascism-rituals-autonomous-resistance): Counter-fascist strategy cannot rely on denunciation alone. To outlast fascism, you need autonomous forms of care, ritual, and collective imagination that make liberation tangible, resilient, and diff
- [Sustaining Hope in Repressed Movements](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/sustaining-hope-repressed-movements): Movements facing repression and internal division must cultivate collective hope as a strategic resource. By reviving local traditions, designing resilient rituals, and building parallel institutions,
- [Digital Tools for Organizing Large-Scale Protests](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/digital-tools-organizing-large-scale-protests): Digital tools can help you organize large-scale protests, but only if your stack is secure, redundant, and strategically matched to risk. This guide explains which platforms to use for messaging, even
- [Mass Refusal Strategy for Rebuilding Anarchist Unity](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/mass-refusal-strategy-anarchist-unity): Fragmentation weakens movements even when their ideas are strong. This essay explores how anarchists can rebuild unity through shared tradition and bold mass refusal campaigns rooted in overlooked com
- [Reproductive Autonomy Strategy and Knowledge Sovereignty](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/reproductive-autonomy-strategy-knowledge-sovereignty): Reproductive autonomy requires more than access. It demands knowledge sovereignty, legal literacy, and community safety practices that can preserve ancestral traditions without romanticizing risk. Thi
- [Collective Antagonism Beyond Gun Fetishism](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/collective-antagonism-beyond-gun-fetishism): Gun fetishism offers radicals a false image of safety while leaving the machinery of domination intact. Durable insurrectionary culture grows from shared risk, collective imagination, tactical innovat
- [Decentralized Protest Strategy for Coherent Swarms](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/decentralized-protest-strategy-coherent-swarms): Decentralized protest succeeds when autonomy is anchored by narrative, timing, and shared protocols. This essay shows how organizers can build coherent swarms through open symbols, rapid feedback, and
- [Reproductive Justice Strategy for Community Autonomy](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/reproductive-justice-strategy-community-autonomy): Reproductive justice now depends on more than policy defense. It requires communities that can preserve accurate knowledge, organize mutual aid, and build durable cultures of care that outlast legal a
- [Civil Disobedience: Definition, History, Application](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/civil-disobedience-definition-history-application-2): Civil disobedience is the deliberate, public breach of a law, rule, or official order to oppose injustice, while protest is the broader category of collective expression that may be lawful or unlawful
- [Beyond Labor: Reclaiming Human Vitality](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/beyond-labor-reclaiming-human-vitality): Movements face a profound challenge: to overthrow the ideology of labor and technological progress that chains vitality to destruction. This synthesis explores how activists can fuse rupture and renew
- [Challenging Covert Repression in Resource Struggles](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/challenging-covert-repression-resource-struggles): Corporate extraction projects often rely on covert repression and quiet collusion between private security, political elites and media. This essay explores how movements can document hidden violence, 
- [Decolonization Strategy for Marxist-Leninist Organizing](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/decolonization-strategy-marxist-leninist-organizing): Marxist-Leninist organizations are attracting young activists because they offer coherence in an age of collapse. But if these groups approach decolonization with rigid centralism and class reductioni
- [Revolutionary Organization Beyond Spontaneity](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/revolutionary-organization-beyond-spontaneity): Spontaneous uprisings can shatter the myth of stability, but without organization they are often contained, co-opted, or exhausted. Lasting movements learn how to convert rupture into continuity throu
- [Spontaneity and Strategy in Workers’ Councils](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/spontaneity-and-strategy-workers-councils): Revolutionary power emerges through spontaneous self-organization, yet strategic catalysts can prepare the conditions for workers' councils to appear. This essay explores how activists can balance aut
- [Border Abolition Strategy for Sovereignty Beyond Nations](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/border-abolition-strategy-sovereignty-beyond-nations): National borders are not natural facts but political stories enforced by fear. This essay explores how activists can challenge narratives of stasis and security while building participatory rituals an
- [Shock Tactics in Feminist Movement Strategy](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/shock-tactics-feminist-movement-strategy): Shock tactics in feminist activism can puncture silence, but spectacle alone rarely shifts power. What matters is whether confrontation opens a passage into collective storytelling, ritual, and durabl
- [Anarchist Organizing Against Opaque Power](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/anarchist-organizing-against-opaque-power): Anarchist organizing fails when hidden power is tolerated in the name of strategic sophistication. This essay shows how movements can defend horizontal practice by making transparency, role rotation, 
- [Revolutionary Inquiry Beyond Dogmatic Marxism](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/revolutionary-inquiry-beyond-dogmatic-marxism): Too many organizations treat Marxism as a sealed doctrine instead of a method for studying and transforming reality. A durable revolutionary praxis demands disciplined inquiry, community accountabilit
- [Collective Recognition in Activism: Honoring Invisible Labor](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/collective-recognition-activism-invisible-labor): Movements often celebrate charismatic leaders while overlooking the invisible labor that sustains resistance. This essay explores how to honor behind-the-scenes contributions without creating new hier
- [Authentic Movement Leadership in Wartime Stalemate](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/authentic-movement-leadership-wartime-stalemate): When war settles into stalemate, movements must shift from spectacle to sovereignty. This essay explores how to empower frontline communities to craft their own symbols, stories and nonviolent leverag
- [Healing Justice Strategy for Sustainable Movements](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/healing-justice-strategy-sustainable-movements): Activist burnout is not a private failure. It is a political signal that movements have not yet built care into their strategy. A healing justice approach transforms trauma awareness, mutual aid, and 
- [Countering Violent Ideology Through Care Sovereignty](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/countering-violent-ideology-through-care-sovereignty): Violent ideology is rarely defeated by denunciation alone. Activists can challenge its appeal by building forms of sovereignty rooted in mutual care, credible protection, and lived moral authority tha
- [Insurrectional Strategy for Horizontal Mass Mobilization](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/insurrectional-strategy-horizontal-mass-mobilization): Insurrectional strategy succeeds when it turns coordination into a distributed practice rather than a command structure. The task is not to eliminate strategy, but to design forms of mass participatio
- [Collective Healing Strategies for Post-Crisis Movements](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/collective-healing-strategies-post-crisis-movements): Collective healing is not a soft supplement to movement strategy. It is a frontline struggle over whether crisis will deepen individualism or open the door to shared power, mutual care, and new forms 
- [Revolutionary Strategy Beyond Reformist Limits](https://www.outcryai.com/learn/revolutionary-strategy-beyond-reformist-limits): Movements fail when they confuse revolutionary clarity with sectarian purity or mistake reform for liberation. The task is to build campaigns that welcome reform-minded participants into living experi

## API
- [API Documentation](https://docs.outcryai.com): OpenAI-compatible API for activist AI
- [OpenAPI Spec](https://api.outcryai.com/v1/openapi.json): Machine-readable API specification

## Agent Services (x402 / Pay-per-request)
- Chat: POST https://www.outcryai.com/api/agent/x402/chat — $0.10/message, USDC on Base
- Library Research: POST https://www.outcryai.com/api/agent/x402/research — $5.00/session, USDC on Base
- Payment: x402 protocol (HTTP 402), USDC on Base network, Coinbase facilitator
- [Agent Card](https://www.outcryai.com/.well-known/agent.json): Machine-readable agent discovery
- [MCP Endpoint](https://www.outcryai.com/api/mcp/mcp): Model Context Protocol (streamable HTTP transport)
- [KB MCP Server](https://outcry-kb-mcp.fly.dev/sse): Knowledge base search (SSE transport)