Is your workplace spying on you? Do you have to work with your camera on, not knowing who may be looking at you or when? Does your keyboard capture your every input? At Talk Liberation, the answer to these questions is no. Yet we have just posted 308% productivity gains and our development team increased by 185% in 2025. We’re here to tell you a secret no-one else wants you to know: businesses can be extremely successful without using AI, or violating the human rights of their staff or exploiting them. We are the proof of that.

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Key updates:

• Independent software development house Talk Liberation annual productivity metrics published: Exponential gains evidenced across the board in year on year metrics released today

• Flagship social media project Panquake metrics show a parabolic growth curve: Test Net phase already completed; now in Panquake Lite with real users posting real content and fast approaching release of the Panquake Beta application

• Mobile development division in operation: Talk Liberation confirms it has successfully designed, developed and deployed custom native iOS as well as Android mobile applications, created in-house

• Increasing technical sophistication as well as organisational growth on full display: lots of dazzling nerdy data shows the depth and maturity of Talk Liberation’s continually-improving development processes

• Next phase: Talk Liberation invites strategic partnerships as it heads to market. It’s time! Come be a part of something historic and unique.

Please read and share our press release about these metrics here: “Panquake Goes Parabolic: Parent Company Talk Liberation Publishes Impressive Annual Performance Metrics”

It was a big ask from the outset: solve all of the ills of social media in a way that would restore and reinforce the human and digital rights of internet users worldwide.

The conceptual solution - Panquake - presented in early 2021, quickly went viral. Its ideals and ideas adopted by millions of users worldwide.

At its core, Panquake is all about values and mission: which we are publishing here for the first time today.

Statement of Our Core Vision, Values and Mission

Company Vision

Talk Liberation will positively impact the collective digital future of internet users by baking respect for their inalienable human rights into our simple, sleek, transparent and fair globally-minded technological innovations.

Values

• Privacy is a human right that technology should respect and can reinforce

• Platform transparency (accountable to users)

• Fair play (level playing field)

• International focus (globally accessible)

• Interoperability (industry-enhancing not anti-competitive)

• Leadership (bringing new ideas to an evolving society)

Mission

To become a world leading privacy-focused, user-centric, open source software development house delivering unique, innovative, next generation solutions to public and business internet users worldwide.

Stepping stones

There is no doubt that the idea of Panquake was revolutionary, or that the principles were sound. We all know we want and need this. But getting from concept to prototype to market with an application this disruptive is no small ask.

To pull it off, we had to first establish a solid and sustainable business foundation, in the increasingly hostile environment of global finance, particularly as relates to the internet.

Having achieved that, it was then time to hire, hire, hire. Accomplished, brave, committed individuals with a variety of technical proficiencies willing to not only bootstrap the organisation from the ground up but to do so without using any of the standard Big Tech, AI-embedded corporate tools, platforms or frameworks commonly utilised by every other software development house.

Starting with only one developer in mid-2021, progress started out slow. But by taking step by step and never giving up no matter what, the Talk Liberation team grew and grew.

From 2024 to 2025, the Talk Liberation team nearly tripled in size, stratifying into distributed product teams designing, architecting, building, testing, deploying and implementing new software solutions across a range of industries. Foremost amongst its publicly-known projects: Panquake, and digital marketing dashboard Lnqk Me.

Talk Liberation and Panquake founder Suzie Dawson said:

“Talk Liberation is all about going back to the future. We are creating cutting edge and modern software applications using foundational development tools, practices and methods from the dawn of the internet. The time before the normalisation of pervasive commercial surveillance. The time when privacy still existed. In order to resurrect that for future generations to experience and enjoy, we have to ensure that at every layer of our application, there exists nothing that could spy on you, exploit you or exfiltrate your data. It is no small challenge - but it is one we are provably realising.”
- Suzie Dawson, Talk Liberation and Panquake founder

In a presentation at a tech conference at the end of 2024, Talk Liberation released their 2024 performance metrics, setting a high standard for independent projects developing commercial-grade solutions.

But those metrics have now been completely blown to smithereens by the progress that has been achieved in the year since.

The big one

“How many lines of code?” has been the shrill refrain of the dubiously qualified since time immemorial. Too many factors are involved in code production to make total lines of code much use as a standalone metric, except in situations where an organisation is persistently raising the bar on code quality. What it takes to pass into production in year 4 or 5 is a far cry from what would have made it through in year 1. And that’s entirely normal for any startup that successfully makes the transition to Early Stage Company and beyond.

Purely from the “how many lines” standpoint, here it is.

In 2025, Talk Liberation more than tripled the (net) amount of code produced in the year prior.

All the sleepless nights pay off: 2025 Metrics show exponential growth

Privacy isn’t just needed in social media - it’s needed across the digital space. Lnqk Me, Talk Liberation’s digital marketing dashboard takes the ethics of Panquake and applies them to link and QR code creation, branding and promotion at an enterprise level. Thanks to Lnqk Me, online businesses will be able to create collaborative campaigns, teams and digital assets for promotion online and track their effectiveness through Lnqk Me’s flexible and attractive analytics dashboard - without spying on their customers and communities.

The existence of Lnqk Me was first announced in November of 2024 and only one year later, has completed its Test Net phase and is now heading into Beta with public delivery expected imminently. Furthermore, we are able to reveal for the first time that Lnqk Me is already available in both desktop and in mobile.

“In 2025, Talk Liberation established a mobile application development team and has successfully built, tested and deployed both native iOS (.app) and Android (.apk) apps for Lnqk Me. The apps contain industry-first functionality, superior usability and intuitiveness as well as a super slick look-and-feel. This achievement heralds a bright and more mobile future for our users as we continue on to create mobile apps for Panquake and our other products to come!”

- Talk Liberation and Panquake founder Suzie Dawson

The below chart tracks Lnqk Me Productivity since the inception of the project. In particular, the ratios of tasks completed to tasks backlogged between October 2024 and the present day tells a huge story.

The life span of Panquake

Perhaps the most fascinating chart is the Panquake Productivity Chart, which stretches across most of the lifetime of the project.

The data really tells the full story - not only the distinct differences between the periods of stewardship of different technical managers but also the impact of the organisation at times being slow-walked or facing various external interference.

Getting our nerd on

Warning: Things are going to get even geekier from here. We could wax lyrical about the deep technicals but will save that for the white papers, the releases and the developer documentation. In the meantime, we’re happy to announce that our lead time for Lnqk Me is down ~60% in 2025. The lead time for Panquake is down ~30%. These figures reflect the dramatic improvements in effectiveness of our team processes.

On the network, server and systems side, the late 2024 hires of extremely capable and experienced DevOps, blockchain and cybersecurity staffers has been completely transformational for the business. They have been deep-diving, diagnosing and reconditioning every aspect of our internals while providing guidance to our dozens of developers. While there is still enormous remediation and automation projects ongoing in support of producing scaleable product databases, infrastructure and fallbacks that will service millions of users, their contributions have been seminal. This, along with the retention and training of a Delivery Manager has positively impacted the metrics that follow.

To understand how in the dark ages we were as a young, underfunded and under attack organisation, the following table reformats the raw data in the above pie chart to show exactly how stark the picture really was pre-2025.

Infrastructure acquisition is also consistently increasing, although as we move into the future, this is likely to dramatically escalate well beyond what is depicted below.

The Panquake blockchain

Engineering, performance testing and integrating your own custom Layer One network protocol is no mean feat. But that’s precisely what we are doing and in keeping with the original vision and principles of the purpose of the Panquake blockchain: not to facilitate monetary transactions, but to transparently record and cryptographically evidence the network activity of Panquake users. This provides network metrics that users can trust as the stats will be unable to be manipulated - even by us, the network provider.

In 2025 an enormous amount of work by some absolutely incredible people went into progressing the Panquake blockchain build. The below is a slide from our 2025 annual technical report.

The section at the bottom of the above slide says it all. Here we are in 2025 - four years on - and we still have no AI, no Big Tech, no cookies or trackers and we still do not capture, exploit or sell anyone’s personal information.

THE NEXT PHASE: establishing new strategic partnerships and going to market

Talk Liberation is open for business. As mentioned earlier and is obvious from the statistics provided, the announcement of the Lnqk Me Beta applications (Desktop and mobile) as well as the onboarding of our Pilot Customers is imminent.

Given the scale of the opposition, we like to keep news about Panquake more under wraps however given that Panquake Lite is fully operational already it’s not much of a secret how well we are progressing towards release of the Panquake Beta.

It’s time for us to open ourselves up to new opportunities with new people and organisations equally committed to genuine, authentic privacy offerings for their audiences, users and communities.

Brave, forward-thinking people who want to be a part of the unique and exciting future we are heralding are welcome to reach out to us at contact@talkliberation.com

As always - we will end this post with an acknowledgement of all of the regular people around the world who backed our crowdfunding campaign that kicked this all off.

In honour of you, we never forget our promises to you. The products we build enshrine the ethics that attracted you to us from the beginning.

Thank you so much for all of your love, kindness and support. We can’t wait to put our products into your hands and have you enjoy the results of your belief in us.

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