Dan Hagen

Founder of Calmara · writes about privacy-first AI

Dan Hagen is the founder of Calmara. With a background in IT leadership, he writes about privacy-first AI, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), auditable AI memory, and running AI tooling that keeps your data under your control.

Every article here is grounded in primary sources and hands-on experience building the product. If a claim is wrong or out of date, that's a bug worth fixing — the aim is technical honesty, not marketing.

Writes about

• Auditable, self-hostable AI memory
• The Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its security
• Privacy-first AI: BYOK, local LLMs, zero cloud egress
• AI compliance for regulated work (EU AI Act, GDPR)

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