I have been building things since before most of today's tools existed.

I am Harlee Courtepatte and I am from Michel First Nation in Alberta. I have been messing around with computers since I was a kid. At 16 I was hired through a government program to go business to business across Edmonton, updating BIOS and fixing computers so they would survive Y2K. That was my first real lesson in what it means to build infrastructure other people depend on.

The decades since have taken me through systems design, web development, and operations strategy. I love all of it. The building, the problem solving, the moment something you made actually helps someone. That has never changed.

Aerglo is the most personal thing I have built.

In the middle of building my consulting practice, I was diagnosed with Adrenocortical Carcinoma. It is rare, and it is often fatal.

I survived.

That changes how you think about what to do with your time.

While going through treatment, I kept running into the same reality: in First Nations communities across Canada, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes are far too often diagnosed late. Not because people are not sick earlier. Because remote communities do not have healthcare facilities. Because getting to appointments requires resources many people simply do not have. Because the systems that exist were not built for them.

I am not a doctor or a cancer researcher. I am a systems builder. So I started asking what a systems builder can actually do about this.

Indigenous-led medtechs exist, but there are very few of them.

Tech entrepreneurship in Indigenous communities is genuinely low. Not because the people are not capable. Because the resources are not there. And because there is a deep and earned mistrust around data governance. Too many companies have taken Indigenous culture, digitized it, and used it for their own benefit. That mistrust is not irrational. It is the result of experience.

If you want Indigenous developers to build Indigenous-led health technology, fintech, and community tools, you need two things: infrastructure to build on, and the confidence that the infrastructure will not betray the communities it serves.

Neither existed in Canada in a form that worked the way modern developers actually work.

Aerglo is infrastructure for the next generation of Canadian builders.

The platform is straightforward: database, auth, file storage, CMS, and hosting, unified into one product, on Canadian infrastructure, under Canadian law, with no US parent company and no exposure to the CLOUD Act or the Patriot Act.

The architecture reflects OCAP principles: Ownership, Control, Access, Possession. Your data stays in Canada, under Canadian law, and every line of code is AGPL-3.0 open source. You can inspect it, fork it, and take your data with you at any time.

We are not in the business of processing your data. We are in the business of protecting it.

I made a deliberate decision not to bolt AI into the platform.

Not because I am against AI. I believe in it when it is used responsibly. The reason is simpler than that: Aerglo's entire premise is that your data belongs to you. The moment a platform runs your data through an AI model, derived artifacts appear: embeddings, summaries, suggestions, model memory. Who owns those? The answer gets complicated fast.

Under OCAP principles, complicated ownership is not acceptable. So I keep AI out of the platform entirely and let you decide what to do with your own data.

If you want AI on top of your Aerglo data, fork the AGPL-3.0 code, self-host your own model, and build exactly what you need. That is what open source is for.

I am not building Aerglo to chase an exit or to make billions. That world is honestly not really mine.

What I care about is more developers building more software that matters. Software for people who need better healthcare access. Software for communities managing their own land and resources. Software for Nations building their own financial systems. Software that benefits not just the general population but the communities that have been left out of the technology economy for too long.

Aerglo is for anyone who wants to build something meaningful on infrastructure they can trust. Everyone is welcome here.