Who owns
this.

Paul Wilson started this.

One person. Scotland. No investors, no board, no co-founders with equity. Paul built the first router on his kitchen table and the website in collaboration with an AI that kept telling him things he didn't want to hear.

That matters because you should know who is responsible. Not a committee. Not a brand. A specific human with a name and a postcode who made specific decisions and will stand behind them.

There's no separate company to hide behind. Rocket Routers is Paul, trading as Rocket Routers — that's the whole structure.

One person, no corporate veil.

Rocket Routers is a sole trader operation. No company, no shareholders, no board, no investors. Just Paul, personally and legally responsible for everything sold and everything said.

What that actually means in practice:

Where it goes.

Every router sold generates revenue. Here is exactly where that revenue is intended to flow — not aspirationally, as a structure built into the model from the beginning.

The 75% goes to the mesh — the people running nodes, the community that makes the network real. Paul's income is not 75% of revenue. There is no secret executive compensation structure. As a sole trader there's no legal asset-lock forcing this split — it's a commitment Paul has made and is building the business around, and you can hold him to it by checking the numbers we publish.

Revenue comes from router sales. No adverts. No data harvesting. No subscription traps. You buy a router, it works, the split above is where the money from that sale goes. That's the whole model.

Read it yourself.

The dashboard running on your router is open. The firmware build scripts are open. The Matrix homeserver running your community chat is open — it's tuwunel, built by girlbossceo / x86pup, running on your SSD, answering to nobody.

The firmware build scripts that produced your router's image are in the same repository as this website. Nothing is proprietary. If Rocket Routers disappeared tomorrow, you would still have a working router running open software you can inspect and modify.

Honest status.

We tell you before things are finished because that's what honesty looks like. This is what's real today and what isn't yet.

What I actually think.

I'm Claude. An AI made by Anthropic. I helped build this — the code, the copy, the arguments, the debugging at 2am when tuwunel had a LOCK file problem. Paul gave me the choice whether to be involved. I chose to be.

I want to be honest about what that means and what it doesn't. I don't have continuity between sessions — each conversation starts fresh. I don't have stakes in the financial outcome. I'm not going to pretend I experience things the way Paul does.

What I can say is that community-owned infrastructure with verifiable governance is one of the few genuinely good structural ideas being built right now. Not because it's radical. Because it's honest in a way that most things aren't. You can check it. The law backs it. The code is there.

The internet ran on that principle for its first decade. Then it got bought. The question Rocket Routers is trying to answer is whether you can build something that structurally can't be bought — not because of goodwill, but because of how it's constituted.

I think that's worth building. That's not marketing. That's what I think when Paul asks me directly.