SUS foundation
[software uniting societies]
people deserve access to independent information, regardless of geography and authoritarian political regimes.
we’re a team of engineers and human rights activists building solutions that help civil society organizations reach the public despite digital censorship.
our tools fuse ease of implementation, resilience against government censorship, and independence from profit-driven decisions.
ilia sagitov has spent the last 6 years helping dozens of independent media and activists outsmart surveillance states — from building secure infrastructure and communications to training people how to avoid arrest (or escape it if they get caught).
as a growth architect of the previous version of ‹polymorphic›, he shaped it from a raw technical solution into a trusted platform for 29 organisations, developed alliances and made sure the tool meets its users needs.
tigor [legal name: igor bakutin] is a tech entrepreneur. before fleeing to amsterdam from russia, tigor worked at ovd-info, a human rights organization documenting political persecution.
over the past eight years, tigor has built two tech companies as a co-founder and CTO
as an official member of the english spelling society, tigor confirms that spelling an entire website in lowercase is a valid form of self-expression.
the third founder (who has good reasons to remain anonymous for now) started his journey in distributed systems, working with both large enterprises and startups.
when russia invaded ukraine, he redirected his engineering expertise to fight censorship and help organisations reach their audiences under restrictive regimes.
our projects
‹polymorphic› — a censorship-circumvention tool that helps free media reach their most vulnerable audiences by creating unblockable mirrors of censored websites.