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John David Marx, founder of Webspinner, smiling outdoors in a navy sweater over a light blue shirt, trees in soft focus behind him.

About our founder

John David Marx, founder of Webspinner.

John works with publicists all over the world to give them an edge and an advantage with the Webspinner Ecosystem technology: sovereign AI that runs on their own hardware, under their own control.

Conrad Brain is that technology at work for reputation. The monitoring, the drafting and the rules that keep it honest all run on machines that Webspinner owns, so a client's worst week never becomes someone else's training data.

His story

From a calculator at sixteen to a mind of his own.

John started at sixteen, at a Burroughs programmable calculator in his parents' bedroom, deciding he wanted to be an inventor like Bell, Edison, Ford or Lear. He then spent almost 48 years as an enterprise technologist, building systems inside large organisations.

Then he left to build what he believes in: sovereign AI, in a home office, on hardware an ordinary person can buy. Webspinner is the result: open-source software and open-weight models, made into tools that individuals and small teams can own outright.

“I believe Sovereign AI in billions of people's hands is the only way to keep us safe.”

John David Marx

John David Marx speaking at a lectern at DevOps World | Jenkins World, gesturing toward the audience.
On stage at DevOps World | Jenkins World.

What he brings to publicists

An edge you own, not one you rent.

Sovereign

Your hardware, your data

The Webspinner Ecosystem runs open-weight models on machines you can buy at a store and keep in your own office. Client material stays where you put it.

Governed

Rules above the AI

Demi, Webspinner's deterministic rules engine, checks what the AI proposes. People make the decisions. That is how Conrad Brain keeps his guardrails.

Practical

Built for the work

Monitoring, drafting, press outreach and recovery, shaped around how publicists actually work.

Work with John and Conrad.

If you are a publicist or agency and want an edge you can own, tell us about your practice.