You spent some time with the Portrait.
Something in you noticed something.
That noticing is yours to keep.
Not stored on a server you cannot see. Not held by a platform that might pivot next year. Not a profile that exists because the company exists. Something quieter than that, and more durable.
A private place where what you recognise about how you live in the world becomes a record you carry forward. It begins with the Portrait. It grows with you. It belongs to you. Permanently.
It is built up over time,
not received in one go.
Some of it is there after your first Portrait. Some of it forms later, slowly, as you live, return, notice more. Six layers, each one complete on its own, each one open to deepening when you want to. Together they hold who you are, ecologically - and how that shifts.
- 01Identity Core
The first clear picture of how you stand in relation to the world around you. Five core constructs and the thread that runs through them. This is where the record begins, and the part that is there from the start.
- 02Insight Layer
Where your ecological identity is rich and where it is thin. How it shows up in the parts of life that matter to you, and the parts you have not looked at yet. Texture builds here, slowly.
- 03Practice Layer
What you tried. What surprised you. What you already do without naming it. Living Experiments and Rooted Practices live here, the place where identity meets what an ordinary day looks like.
- 04Evolution Layer
Life moves. You move. After a different city, a different job, a year of paying more attention, the shape of who you are has shifted. This layer keeps that shift visible. Not as decline or progress. As change.
- 05Relational Layer
What you chose to share, with someone you trusted. What landed in you from someone else. Identity is not only private. It forms in conversation too. That part of it lives here.
- 06Integration & Meaning
The part written entirely by you. In your own words, your own framing. A summary of who you are, ecologically, that nobody else could write, because nobody else stands where you stand.
A platform tells you “your data is yours”.
That is not what ownership means here.
You read the line, and somewhere underneath you already know what it means. They keep it for you, and you can look at it when you log in.
When something is genuinely yours, three things become true. You can keep it private. You can take it with you. You can make it gone. The Portrait is built so all three of those are real.
Private
Nothing in your Portrait is visible to anyone by default. Not to other people on the platform. Not to TerraNovaID itself. Not to partners or researchers. Every act of sharing is a deliberate choice you make, for one moment, with one person, and it can be undone.
Portable
Your full Portrait can be exported at any time. As a readable document if you want to read it. As structured data if you want to take it somewhere else. What was built inside TerraNovaID does not need to stay there.
Deletable
Deletion is real. Not archived in a cold backup. Not anonymised and kept for “research purposes”. Actually deleted. One confirmation. Done. No multi-step retention loops. No grace periods designed to slow you down.
And one thing more, underneath all three: your Portrait does not care which membership you hold. Move from Inhabit to Observe and every reflection, every Portrait, every layer you built stays exactly where it was. Years of identity work do not disappear because of a billing decision.
An Portrait that disappears when payment stops was never truly owned.
The first time, it is one thing.
It is also just the beginning.
The Portrait. A picture of how you stand in the world right now, on the day you sat down with it. That picture is complete.
A few months later you might come back, drawn by something specific. A question that surfaced after a conversation. A pattern you started noticing in your own days. You spend an evening looking at one part of your life more closely - how you eat, how you move, the way you live in the place you live - and another layer settles into the record.
Then life moves. You change cities. You become a parent. You change work. A year goes past where you think differently than the year before. When you come back to the Portrait - six months from now, three years, ten - you can see what shifted. Not as a graph. As a felt sense of who you were then, and who you are becoming.
That is what makes it different from anything else you have used. It is not a snapshot. It is a record of a person changing.
A person who began their Portrait at thirty-five and returns at forty-five can see how the landscape has shifted. That is what makes it different.
A station you pass, and meet again from a wider place.
Most platforms write privacy into a policy.
The protections around your Portrait are not promises.
Then, a year or two later, the policy quietly changes, and what you thought was protected was protection-by-promise all along.
They are how the system is built. A different thing can be undone. A built thing has to be rebuilt, which is much harder, and much more visible.
No training
What you write in your Portrait is never used to train AI models. Not the platform's models. Not anyone else's. This is enforced where the data lives, not in a setting that someone could quietly switch off.
No tracking
There is no behavioural tracking. No device profiling. No third-party data integration. The only thing held about you is what you yourself have chosen to put there.
No data sales
Your Portrait is not a commercial asset. It cannot be sold, used for advertising, or mined for business insights. The way the platform pays its bills is built so this can never become an attractive option.
AI on your terms
If AI is part of any moment of your experience, it is because you said yes for that moment. For those layers. There is no ambient AI awareness of your identity document, sitting in the background, learning about you. You decide, every time.
The familiar shapes do not fit.
That is part of how you know it is doing something different.
Where the unfamiliar feels like absence at first, it later becomes shape. These six negations describe what the Portrait does not do - and why those gaps matter.
Not a finished thing
The Portrait is never "complete". There is no final version, no end state. There is only what you have noticed so far, and what you have not yet returned to.
Not a platform resource
The Portrait belongs to you, not to TerraNovaID. It is not a commercial data asset. It is a private record that happens to live on this platform, and could live elsewhere.
Not a behavioural tracker
The Portrait does not watch what you do. It holds something quieter than that: how you understand yourself in relation to the living world. What you do with that understanding is yours to decide.
Not a score
Nothing in your Portrait is compared to anyone else's. No percentages. No averages. No “people like you”. The record is yours, and the only frame of reference is the version of you who stood there last time.
Not a public profile
Nothing is visible to anyone unless you, deliberately, choose to share something specific. There is no feed, no timeline, no public page where the Portrait shows up.
Not membership-dependent
The Portrait survives any membership change. Moving from Inhabit to Observe never costs you a single reflection, Portrait, or layer you have built. Ownership is not a tier benefit. It is the floor.
Everything that ends up in your Portrait
begins the same way:
with some quiet time, and the Portrait.
That is the door. The rest of the record opens behind it.