Runs offline · no GPU · your data never leaves the room

AI that runs on your hardware.
Not someone else's cloud.

Multi-model AI that does real work — drafts, reasons, runs your operations — entirely on a commodity laptop. No GPU, no subscription, no data leaving your device. Built for the people the datacenter wave priced out — and we run our whole company on it.

Explore the systems FORGE on GitHub
No cloudRuns on local hardware
No GPUBuilt for commodity CPUs
PrivateData never leaves the device
AuditableGoverned, source-grounded
The systems

Three AI systems — built, and run on our own hardware.

On-premise AI that takes real initiative, inside limits you define.

Aegis AI

Controlled autonomous AI · defence research

A multi-agent intelligence platform for defence research and high-assurance environments — autonomous where it counts, human-in-the-loop where it matters.

  • Safety stack: human-in-the-loop kill switch, authority gating, escalation
  • 79-model specialist swarm with a values-alignment gate on every action
  • Fully on-premise & air-gappable — no cloud
Explore Aegis AI

Neuron AI

Controlled autonomous AI · multi-persona

A multi-persona AI that orchestrates many specialist models across 259 knowledge domains on commodity, CPU-only hardware — retrieval-grounded, latency-engineered.

  • Effort-routing: compute spent by query complexity
  • Retrieval-augmented generation over an offline corpus
  • ~4× lower common-query latency on a 14 GB laptop
Explore Neuron AI

Cipher

Controlled autonomous AI · on Apple Silicon

A sovereign AI workspace that builds, remembers and reasons on your Mac — a brain, layered memory and 205 grounded skills — it reads your state, thinks in the background and grows, all on-device.

  • A brain, 7-layer memory + a read of your state, on-device
  • 205 grounded skills + studios for apps, sites, legal & marketing
  • Vision, voice, fine-tuning + an encrypted, machine-locked vault
Explore Cipher
Grounded knowledge · offline

Answers from real sources — not guesswork.

Every system is retrieval-grounded: it answers from the full English Wikipedia and three more language editions — Hindi, Bengali and Swahili — plus nearly 1,500 curated reference books, all held on your own hardware and retrieved at answer time, with zero internet.

1497curated reference books
4offline Wikipedia languages
0internet required
The product · live

Sovereign Email.

Your own mail server. Your own AI. Your own domain.

ENVOY runs the mail; Chancery drafts the replies — both on your own hardware, never handed to Google or Microsoft. It already runs the email behind this very site.

Explore the email suite
The product · self-built & running

Reeve — the browser your own AI drives.

An agentic browser whose agent runs on your AI, not a cloud.

A de-googled Chromium we compiled and signed ourselves, with a self-built agent that acts inside it — navigating, reading, doing tasks — driven by your own Neuron AI on your hardware, no cloud in the loop. A reeve acts on your authority: the agent acts, you stay sovereign. It’s the browser we use to run Collab-Foundry.

Explore Reeve
The infrastructure · open source

FORGE.

A self-hosted AI cluster — and the platform that builds it, released under AGPL-3.0.

View FORGE on GitHub

A multi-node cluster spanning edge devices, local compute and a hardened public gateway — linked over a private mesh, running open models end-to-end. K3s under the hood; one command to stand it up, no Kubernetes expertise required.

Aegis and Neuron AI run on this cluster; Cipher operates it from Apple Silicon. Aegis self-elects node roles and keeps running if any node drops; Cipher ferries heavy work across the fleet and manages k3s over the mesh; Neuron AI drives Kubernetes directly.

5nodes, one private mesh
NPUon-device AI at the edge
0cloud AI required
ControlControl plane · vector store · orchestration
EdgeOn-device NPU · local AI drafting
MailSelf-hosted mail server (ENVOY)
ComputeHeavy compute · model serving
GatewayHardened public gateway
Proof · we run on it

We don’t just build it — we run on it.

Collab-Foundry runs on its own sovereign AI. The systems on this page aren’t a showroom — they operate the company every day, on our own hardware.

Talking to you nowXenia answers every visitor
The AI in the corner of this page is ours — a sovereign local model running on our own hardware, grounded in our own knowledge. No third-party cloud. Ask it anything about Collab-Foundry.
Ask Xenia now
Always evaluatingAegis reviews every question
Aegis shadow-answers every question this site is asked — on its own node, in the background — so every real conversation becomes continuous self-evaluation — on our own node, never trained on your data. Running now, not a demo.
A team on a laptopNeuron AI commands 69 troops
Neuron AI orchestrates 69 specialist local models — coders, researchers, analysts, security, writers, strategists — each its own persona, deployed on demand across our work, all on commodity hardware.
Builds & shipsCipher runs day-to-day
Our Apple-Silicon workspace builds and ships the work, manages the FORGE cluster and writes the morning brief — the same Cipher on this page, used to actually run the company.
Our inboxOur mail runs on Chancery + ENVOY
Every message from contact@ and founder@ is served by our own mail server and drafted by our own on-device AI — never handed to Google or Microsoft. It already runs the email behind this very site.
Always watchingOur AI keeps the lights on
Health checks every 30 minutes, a daily operations brief and multi-service monitoring — the infrastructure is watched and reported on by our own AI, on our own cluster.
The AI workforce · Neuron AI

One founder. Sixty-nine AI specialists.

Neuron AI fields a workforce of 69 sovereign local models — organised across eight departments and deployed on demand, each its own persona, all on our own hardware.

69specialist troops
8departments
100% open-weight models
Dept 01Engineering
Architects, coders, DevOps and SQL — builds and ships the software.
Dept 02AI Research & ML
Training, fine-tuning, RAG, evaluation and MLOps — the model factory.
Dept 03Security & Governance
Safety classification, compliance, audit and security review on every action.
Dept 04Research & Analysis
Deep research, reasoning and science — answers grounded in sources.
Dept 05Data & Intelligence
Biomedical, geospatial, data pipelines, knowledge curation and news.
Dept 06Content & Media
Long-form writing plus image, video, audio and music generation.
Dept 07Strategy & Leadership
Architecture, strategy and the routers that deploy the right specialist.
Dept 08Business Operations
Finance, legal, sales and operations — the back office.
On the roadmap

Two flagships in build — and a roadmap behind them.

Vitruvius is being built to design real houses for 3D-printed construction — the foundation of a home that makes its own power and water and keeps going off-grid. Alongside it, Ark — the off-grid layer that keeps a node alive when the network is gone. Behind both, a roadmap of offline-first apps for regulated sectors, on the same stack.

Building now · physical AI · in active build

Vitruvius

Firmitas · Utilitas · Venustas — strength, function, beauty.

An AI being built to design real, structurally-valid houses and 3D-print them — the foundation of something bigger: a home that makes its own power and water, runs its own on-device brain, and keeps going when the grid, the network or the rain doesn’t. The parts already exist — solar, storage, water-from-air, mesh, on-device AI; Vitruvius is the intelligence being built to connect them into one house that keeps going off-grid. Structurally validated and sovereign — the design-and-validation core is what we’re building first.

Are you an architect? Let’s build it together Building now · off-grid resilience

Ark

Sense · locate · know · talk — off the grid.

The layer that keeps a node alive when the grid, the internet and GPS are gone — celestial navigation, an encrypted mesh with signed commands, offline knowledge and a one-seed keyring. The positioning, signed mesh and keyring already work in software and are tested; the radios and edge hardware are on the way.

See what Ark is — and what’s already real
Comms · building nowSovereign chat & video
Our own messenger and calls — self-hosted Matrix with end-to-end encryption for chat, Jitsi for group voice & video. Own the protocol, own the server, own the data. No WhatsApp, no Zoom.
FintechSovereign payment rails
Take & reconcile payments with funds and PII that never leave your systems — processor adapters, a double-entry ledger, idempotent intents.
EducationOffline-first LMS
Courses, progress and assessment that run with the network optional; learner records stay on-device, syncing only when you allow.
HealthOn-prem EHR
Patient records that never touch the cloud — encounters, prescriptions with interaction checks, immutable audit, human-in-the-loop.
RetailOffline POS & inventory
Sell and track stock with zero network — the till works offline and the shop owns its data, with deferred sync.
GeospatialSovereign field mapping
Geospatial capture on local tiles for sensitive locations — no map cloud, attribute forms, GeoJSON export.
IdentitySelf-hosted identity / SSO
Your own identity provider others federate to: directory, OIDC, MFA, RBAC — a trust anchor that is never cloud.
AccountingData-sovereign accounting
Double-entry books on the owner's machine — invoices, reconciliation, period close, no SaaS lock-in.
Field opsOffline field-ops
Work orders and assets captured in the field, state owned on-device, syncing back when a connection returns.
NGO / LegalCase management
Sensitive, grant-auditable casework — lifecycle, parties, deadlines, role-scoped access and a full audit trail.
GovernmentProcurement
Tenders, sealed bids and awards with a tamper-evident, append-only record from open to award.
About Collab-Foundry

Sovereign technology, forged in the open.

Collab-Foundry is an independent Australian technology company building ethical, sovereign, humanity-first AI. Everything we make runs on your own hardware — your data, your models, your keys — nothing handed to a cloud that can change its terms, raise its price, or read your work.

We build controlled, autonomous AI systems: Aegis AI for defence-research and high-assurance environments, Neuron AI across 259 knowledge domains, Cipher on Apple Silicon, a sovereign email suite, and Vitruvius — physical AI that designs real, self-sufficient houses for 3D-printed construction. All of it runs end-to-end on our own FORGE cluster. Nothing here is a demo: it is real, or it is honestly marked as in build.

The name is the method. A foundry forges raw capability into something durable; the collab is what keeps it human — we build the systems, then open them to the architects, clinicians, engineers and builders who bring the truth of their field. Sovereign technology, forged together, for more people than the cloud was ever built to serve.

Bapista Khan, founder of Collab-Foundry The founder

Bapista Khan.

I build sovereign AI systems end-to-end — multi-model orchestration, on-device inference, retrieval-augmented generation, and the latency and memory engineering that keeps it stable on real hardware, because I have built the whole stack myself.

That depth sits on more than six years in enterprise IT and business-systems analysis. Collab-Foundry is where I bring it together to build ethical, sovereign, humanity-first technology.

I’m pursuing a funded PhD in efficient, on-device AI, and I’m open to research and senior engineering roles. LinkedIn · GitHub

AI Systems Engineer M. Information Systems 6+ yrs enterprise IT Sydney, Australia Open to PhD & roles
Get in touch

Let’s talk.

PhD supervisor, industry partner, recruiter, grant team — or you just want AI that runs on your own hardware? Tell me which, and I’ll point you to the right thing.

contact@collab-foundry.com.au