Built for you.
Not about you.
mwen means “me” in Antillean Creole — the most fundamental declaration of self. We built this to mean it.
The name
Where it comes from
“Mwen” is the first-person pronoun in Antillean Creole — the Creole spoken across Dominica, St. Lucia, Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and the Caribbean diaspora. It means “me.” Simple, direct, irreducible.
We chose it because the product is about exactly that: your identity, in your hands. Not delegated to a government database. Not owned by a tech company. Not reconstructable from your browsing history. Just you, proving you are who you say you are.
We built mwen for the Caribbean and African diaspora — the 1.6 billion-person Africa-Caribbean corridor where proving identity across borders is often the difference between access and exclusion. But the technology works globally, with any EUDI-compatible service. Identity sovereignty is not a niche problem.
The problem
Credentials becoming surveillance
Governments and institutions worldwide are rolling out digital identity credentials — national ID apps, digital passports, welfare cards. The cryptographic technology is real. But none of it solves the problem that comes next.
Every time you present a credential using a centralised system, the issuer sees where you used it. The verifier gets more than they asked for. The audit log grows. The profile deepens. A digital credential without selective disclosure and unlinkability is just a super-cookie with a government seal.
mwen uses the same cryptographic credentials — but adds selective disclosure and per-service unlinkability. You present only what is needed. No issuer is notified. No profile is built.
What we believe
Our values
Privacy by design
Privacy is not an add-on. It is the architecture. Every feature starts from the premise that your data belongs to you.
No tracking
We do not track usage, collect analytics, or retain logs. The product works without knowing who you are.
Open standards
We build on published, peer-reviewed standards — SD-JWT, OID4VP, W3C Verifiable Credentials. No proprietary lock-in.
Human-first
We design for the person, not the platform. The technology is complex; the experience should feel simple.
“A world where proving who you are doesn't require giving yourself away.”
Open source — Apache 2.0. All cryptographic logic is publicly reviewable.