The Great Migration
How to rescue your professional history from platforms that exploit it, and bring it to a platform you own.
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You spent ten years building your professional reputation. Microsoft spent $26 billion acquiring it.
You wrote articles. You gathered endorsements. You built a network. You demonstrated expertise, solved problems in public, published your thinking. You did the work.
But a corporation owns the asset.
Not co-owns. Owns. You cannot take your endorsements to a competing platform. You cannot take your connection graph. You cannot even see your own data without filing a formal request. You built it. They own it. And now they are training AI with it.
LinkedIn has your professional history. Microsoft used it to train AI for Copilot. Your career, your endorsements, the professional knowledge you shared over a decade — it was data in a training pipeline.
You did not consent to this specifically. There was a clause buried in the terms. Most people never read it.
That does not make it right. And it does not mean you cannot take it back.
Your data is legally yours. LinkedIn is required by law to give it to you. We built the Migration to make moving it take three minutes.
Every day you stay, more of your professional history enters Microsoft's AI training pipeline. There is no pause button. The only way to stop contributing to a system that does not compensate you is to leave it.
Step 1: Rescue your data.
Go to LinkedIn's settings. Navigate to Data Privacy → Get a copy of your data. Request a full archive. LinkedIn will prepare a .zip file containing your work history, connections, endorsements, skills, and articles. Download it.
This will take up to 24 hours for LinkedIn to prepare. While you wait: your data has been sitting in a database that does not belong to you. What you are about to do is not leaving a platform. It is reclaiming property.
Step 2: Claim your place.
Upload your .zip file here. Once you've joined, head to Settings → Import to upload your archive. Our One will immediately format your Professional profile: work history, headline, skills, endorsements — everything you built, restored on a platform that answers to a Constitution, not shareholders.
Your data is processed entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to any server until you review and approve every item. Then it moves to infrastructure you own. Not LinkedIn's database. Not Microsoft's AI training pipeline. Yours.
Step 3: Pay your first cent.
One cent a day. $3.65 a year. You are now a Sustaining Member of Our One.
Not a user. Not a product. A member of a platform whose governing document you can read and hold us to.
Step 4: Leave a forwarding address.
When your migration is complete, we generate a shareable graphic for you to post on your old platforms. Let your network know where you've gone.
"I just migrated my professional identity from LinkedIn to Our One. For years I gave them my career history for free. They used it to train AI. I now pay one cent a day. I own my data. My expertise will only be used to train AI that I and my community actually govern. The migration takes three minutes: our.one/migrate"
Alternative: "LinkedIn made $16.4 billion last year from professionals like me. I switched to a platform I actually own. It costs one cent a day. Three minutes to migrate: our.one/migrate"
Every person who sees that post is someone who might do the same. The migration grows by the people who migrate. This is how a platform built for its members actually spreads — not by optimizing a feed algorithm, but by people telling each other the truth about where they went and why.
What you are building by joining.
This is not just a personal decision. It is a small piece of a larger project.
Every professional who migrates brings expertise, relationships, and reputation to a platform that cannot exploit them. As the community grows, the quality of the network grows — not because an algorithm is optimizing for engagement, but because professionals chose it deliberately.
When this community is large enough, we build Our One AI: a model trained by professionals who own it, governed by the same Constitution, whose revenue returns to the community whose expertise made it possible. The people who show up now are the people whose judgment shapes what that model becomes. The community's founding standards become the model's founding standards.
You are not just migrating a profile. You are helping establish a different model for what professional platforms can be — and what they owe the people who build them.
The migration takes approximately three minutes once you have your LinkedIn archive. If you don't have a LinkedIn account to migrate from, you can also build your profile directly — the principles are the same.