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Be known.

Own your identity and earn from being you.
Your record builds from what you do. Queries against it pay you.

Add ~Alter to your assistant.

Paste one address, then sign in.

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Install ~Alter in the terminal.

A few lines, then your browser.

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~Alter, ~alter, ~you

For most of your life, the record of who you are was built by other people. What you click, type, and buy gets read, sorted, and sold. The picture belongs to them, not you.

~Alter is that record done right: drawn from what you choose to connect, nothing you don’t. It lives with you, belongs to you, and nobody reads it without your consent.

~alter, written small, is the record’s voice. When someone asks who you are and you have said yes, it answers their exact question, never the record itself. No AI model reads you; it answers from a fixed, checkable record of what you have done.

And ~you? You just live. Every time someone pays to ask, the money goes to you. You are the owner, not the product.

The longer story, in plain answers →

Core concepts

the trill ( ~ )
The small wave at the start of every name on the protocol, as in ~Alter, ~alter, and ~maria. Every identity carries one. How names work →
~handle
Your name on the protocol, written with the trill, like ~maria. You choose it when you create your account; once you claim it, it is yours. The handle protocol →
query
One question someone pays to ask of your record: whether you are real, or how well you would work together. It gets an answer with your consent, never the record itself. How consent works →
Attunement
How well your record knows you. It deepens the more you use ~Alter, read from what you actually do, not a quiz or a form. The better it knows you, the more each read is worth. How the record forms →
Identity Income
Your share each time someone reads your identity, with your consent. You keep 75% of every paid read, and it accrues the moment the query runs. What reads cost, what you keep →
Add ~Alter to your assistant

Your assistant reaches ~Alter through a A way to plug an outside service into your AI assistant so the two can talk to each other. You add it once in the assistant’s settings. you add once in its own settings. Paste this The web address your AI assistant uses to reach ~Alter. You paste it once; the assistant does the rest. into the assistant’s custom-connector settings, then sign in or create your account when it opens.

https://mcp.truealter.com/api/v1/mcp

In Claude

  1. Open settings and find connectors.
  2. Add a custom connector and paste the address above.
  3. Follow the sign-in. New here? Create your account and choose your ~handle in the same step.

In ChatGPT

  1. Open settings and find connectors.
  2. Add one, paste the same address, and allow it once.
  3. Follow the sign-in to create your account and choose your ~handle.

Your ~handle is claimed in that same sign-in. The moment you choose it, it is yours.

Install ~Alter in the terminal

The deeper route. You will use the terminal, a plain window where you type a line and press Enter, for two short moments. The rest happens in your browser. The steps are safe to repeat.

Every install option for Windows →

  1. Open the terminal

    Your computer already has this built in. Just open it.

    1. Find the Start button, the Windows symbol at the bottom-left corner of your screen, and click it once.
    2. Type these letters: powershell
    3. Click the Windows PowerShell result at the top of the list. The window that opens is your terminal.
    4. PowerShell is not the only door. Windows Terminal works just as well.

  2. Install ~Alter

    On Windows, a single line pasted into The terminal that comes with every Windows computer. You type a line, press the Enter key, and Windows runs it. fetches the official ~Alter package from The library that delivers tools built with JavaScript. ~Alter’s official package is published there. and sets up the alter command.

    Open it normally, no “Run as administrator” needed. If anything is missing, the installer stops safely and prints exactly what to do.

    This is the line for your computer. Copy it, click once inside the terminal, paste, and press Enter.

    irm https://truealter.com/install.ps1 | iex

    To paste into the terminal on Windows, click the right mouse button once.

    When the text stops scrolling and you can type again, ~Alter is installed. If a message appears instead, it tells you what to do.

  3. Create your account

    In the same terminal, paste this exact line and press Enter:

    alter login

    This one line is the door for new and returning members alike. There is no separate sign-up and no website login. Your browser opens, and if you are new you create your account and choose your ~handle there. The moment you claim it, it is yours.

  4. Get set up

    The browser carries you through a short setup. That is the only thing the website does: there is no dashboard to log back into. When setup ends, ~Alter lives in your terminal.

    Setup is where you choose what your record reads from, if anything. You do not have to connect anything to be known. If you want to, it walks you through connecting something you already use, like your notes or a code account, so ~Alter has something real to read. It is read-only and you can disconnect anytime. If you use an assistant like Claude, setup offers to connect ~Alter to it with one command.

  5. Begin

    You are done. Your identity earns the moment someone reads it with your consent, and each read adds up.

    To look in any time, open the terminal, type these five letters, and press Enter:

    alter

    A simple menu opens: who you are, who has read you, and what you have earned. When you are ready to draw your earnings down, the menu is where you choose where they settle, somewhere you control. ~Alter never holds your money.

    And if you ever want to leave, one line, alter forget, erases your whole record. You get thirty days to change your mind, then it is gone. Being known stays your choice.

Questions people ask

Is it free?

~Alter itself is free, with no subscription or paywall to being known.

The paid part is the reading. When someone queries your identity, they pay for the answer, and with your consent your share accrues to you. The readers pay, not you.

Is this selling my data?

No. Your raw data is never sold or shared. A reader gets an answer to a specific question you consented to, never your profile or the underlying observations.

You decide what is shared and with whom, and you can withdraw access at any time.

Do I need to be 18?

Yes. ~Alter is 18 and over only at launch. That is a deliberate line, not a technical limit.

Everything else, answered in full →

Your ~handle is waiting.

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