For over 180 years, identity, records, and decision-making in Aotearoa have been managed under central authority - Crown administration, corporate systems, or foreign technology platforms. Aotearoa Life offers a venue to step outside of that structure and build something private, governed through tikanga, consent, and community custodianship.
Your identity lives with you - not in a state or commercial ledger.
Whakapapa and records are treated as sacred - guarded, not harvested.
Hold and transact value without exposing your life or history.
Communities, not platforms, steward belonging and verification.
You hold the right to say yes, no, change consent, or revoke access.
Future tools must serve people - not replace or spy on them.
Aotearoa Life operates on three private layers you control - your Identity, your Life Vault, and your Exchange. Each is separate, but complementary.
Instead of central citizen numbers, the Aotearoa Life system offers personal credentials you hold and choose to present — issued by trusted authorities, iwi, councils, whānau registries, PMAs, or aligned partners
Your identity lives with you - not in a state or commercial ledger.
A recognition of life and whakapapa - carried by the individual.
A recognition of life and whakapapa - carried by the individual.
A recognition of life and whakapapa - carried by the individual.
Register yourself, your whānau, or organisation into this parallel venue. Verification occurs through Iwi authorities, councils, or private associations.
Optional private plates for vehicles, land, vessels, or dwellings. QR/NFC reveals only required data.
Aotearoa Life supports DNZD receipts, precious metals receipts, community value systems, and iwi economic models - all without exposing behaviours or identity trails.
A place for merchants, iwi entities, councils, and community organisations to transact value without tying purchases to personal histories.
Decentralized trade without barriers
Aotearoa Life is designed for iwi, hapū, whānau trusts, rūnanga, and private associations to stand up their own membership and authority systems, running in parallel to the Crown - not under it.
Whakapapa-anchored belonging.
Māori control of Māori data.
Dividends and value flows aligned with tikanga.
Governance that sits inside communities - not platforms.
Aotearoa Life does not replace government services or identity frameworks - it operates beside them as a private, rights-based environment that agencies, councils and organisations can align with where they choose.
Your private interface into this parallel system - where you hold identity, safeguard taonga, manage value, and connect with iwi and partner communities.
