Mushku
A deterministic answer oracle with zero raw-text egress
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What is Mushku?
Mushku is a deterministic answer oracle that finds exact answers in your documents without the search service ever seeing your raw text. The system works by having users paste documents and questions into their browser, where they get encoded locally into a numeric field envelope using client-side OpenEncoder encoding that operates at O(N) time. This envelope is sent to the remote oracle called Gravitas, which performs the core search calculation in O(1) time, and the answer is decoded locally by the user.
Key features include exact answers with no hallucinations, no ranked lists, no probabilities, deterministic proof receipts for every transaction, and zero raw-text egress. The protocol is open-source (OpenEncoder under Apache 2.0 license), allowing anyone to audit the wire format. The service acts purely as a zero-trust validator for signed int16 arrays and does not rely on phoning home.
Mushku is designed for privacy-conscious users who need high-stakes retrieval from source files, local ledgers, secrets, and decoded reports while keeping this sensitive data local. It's ideal for professionals, researchers, and organizations that cannot afford to upload raw documents to cloud search services but still need powerful search capabilities.
The live site serves as both a demo and a commercial inquiry surface with built-in pay-per-search functionality, giving users instant custom access to the oracle for their own data. The system includes Ionizer encoder for client-side encoding and provides proof-backed replay capabilities for verification.
Mushku pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Mushku operates on a pay-per-search model with no subscription plans mentioned. The live site serves as a demo with built-in pay-per-search function that provides instant custom access to the Gravitas oracle for your own data. Users can add credits to perform searches. There is no explicitly stated free tier beyond the public demo functionality.
Mushku pros
- Zero raw-text egress - service never sees your documents
- Exact answers with no hallucinations
- No ranked lists or probabilities - just deterministic answers
- Client-side encoding keeps data local
- O(1) search time on Gravitas oracle
- O(N) client-side encoding efficiency
- Open-source protocol (OpenEncoder, Apache 2.0)
- Deterministic proof receipts for every transaction
- Zero-trust validator architecture
- Pay-per-search model - no subscriptions required
- Public demo available for testing
- Audit-able wire format
- Works with source files, ledgers, and secrets
- No phoning home - service is stateless
- Private field search for high-stakes retrieval
Mushku cons
- Pay-per-search pricing may be expensive for heavy use
- Limited documentation available publicly
- No free tier mentioned beyond demo
- Requires pasting documents into browser manually
- New service launched May 2025 with limited track record
- No API documentation visible for integration
- Unknown scalability for very large document collections
- Client-side encoding requires browser support
Frequently asked questions about Mushku
What is Mushku?
Mushku is a deterministic answer oracle with zero raw-text egress that finds exact answers in your documents without the search service ever seeing your text. It uses client-side OpenEncoder encoding to convert documents into numeric field envelopes locally, sends only the envelope to the Gravitas oracle for O(1) search, and decodes the answer locally.
How does the privacy work?
Source files, local ledgers, secrets, and decoded reports stay completely local on your device. The service only receives the patent-specified field envelope and non-secret request metadata, which are not raw text. The service acts as a zero-trust validator for signed int16 arrays and never receives raw text, queries, or metadata.
What is OpenEncoder?
OpenEncoder is the deterministic field encoding protocol used by Mushku that operates at O(N) time on the client side. It is open-source under Apache 2.0 license, allowing anyone to audit the wire format. It encodes documents into numeric field envelopes locally without encryption.
What is Gravitas?
Gravitas is the remote oracle that performs the core search calculation in O(1) time. It receives the field envelope from OpenEncoder, searches it deterministically, and returns results that are decoded locally by the user. It acts purely as a zero-trust validator.
What is Ionizer?
Ionizer is the client-side encoder that works with Gravitas search. Users can download Ionizer to run private field search for high-stakes retrieval while keeping a proof-backed replay capability.
Are there hallucinations?
No. Mushku provides exact answers or nothing at all. The system produces no hallucinations, no ranked lists, and no probabilities - only deterministic proof-backed answers.
Is the protocol open source?
Yes, the protocol (OpenEncoder) is open-source under Apache 2.0 license, so anyone can audit the wire format and verify how the encoding works.
How do I pay for searches?
Mushku has a built-in pay-per-search function on the live site. Users can add credits to get instant custom access to the oracle for their own data. There are no subscription plans - you pay per search.
What documents can I search?
You can search source files, local ledgers, secrets, and decoded reports. The documents stay local on your device and are encoded locally before any data is sent to the service.
How do I contact the creator?
The creator can be reached at [email protected]. They describe themselves as a normal person who made a cool thing and don't know how to do marketing. They are open to talking about what to build next.