# Federated Core

> The foundation your whole business runs on — provisioning, storage, backup, authentication, and federated learning that trains AI on your data without sending it anywhere.

Web page: https://federated.computer/product/federated-core/

**The Foundation Your Whole Business Runs On**

Think of Federated Core as your private operating system — the layer that handles the unglamorous, essential work so every app and every AI agent above it just works.

## What It Does: The Unglamorous, Essential Work

Federated Core is a platform-as-a-service, but built specifically to unify open-source business software into one coherent system. That means:

- **Provisioning** — spin up new tools without hiring an IT team
- **Unified storage** — one place for your files, not twelve
- **Authentication** — one login across your entire business
- **Monitoring & remediation** — problems get caught and often fixed before you notice
- **Backup** — your data, protected, automatically
- **Deployment anywhere** — your device, your VM, your system, your choice

## Federated Learning: AI Training Without Giving Up Your Data

Here's the part that makes Federated Core different from anything Big Tech offers: **federated learning.**

Instead of sending your business data to a company's cloud to improve their AI, your business trains a model *locally*, on your own private data. Only the encrypted learnings — never the raw data — get shared with a central coordinator. Every business gets the benefit of a smarter, shared AI model. Nobody ever sees your actual files, emails, or customer records.

**Plain version:** You get smarter AI. Your data never leaves your building.

**No vendor lock-in.** No dependence on any one AI company's roadmap. Your AI future stays yours.

## In Practice: How Businesses Use It

Each customer gets their own isolated Federated Core environment — your version of Nextcloud, your CRM, your email, all acting as a private "node." Federated Computer hosts the central coordinator that helps all participating businesses' models improve together, without ever seeing any one business's private data.

[See the Software Library That Runs on Federated Core](https://federated.computer/product/software-library/index.md)

## Ready to see it running your business?

Your first 7 days are free. Your card isn't charged until the trial ends.

[Start Now](https://federated.computer/start-now/index.md)