strata→signal is a small workshop building AI software that runs on computers we own instead of a cloud service.
Below are the things you can go use, the tools they're built from, and the machines those run on. Each dot is one entry in its own color — click it to read what that thing does.
Things people use
the live products — every one built with the tools below
RuleSagesettle the argument — cited, from the actual rulebook
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RealKeepan RPG whose world remembers you
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Researchbenches, field guides and galleries, in public — every claim carries a receipt
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ambleai-guided walking tours with footnotes
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studiothe Beat Lab — build a groove in the browser, share it in a link
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the print labtwo words become three pictures, and one goes on the wall
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the long tablea dinner party for the dead: three guests from history, three rounds, on a public wall
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designthe gallery — every picture carries its own recipe
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The tools underneath
the core tools that do the work
SharpSignalask questions of your own documents and get an answer that names the page it came from — the documents stay on your hardware
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Kilnturns a document into checked, quotable facts — a second pass reads every claim back against the source and drops what it can't find
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memoryyour memories, any platform
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agencyassemble a team of AI specialists — parked while not in use
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easelthe image pipeline — where the pictures get made
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The machines
the computers this runs on — ours in the house, plus the rented server out front · as of 2026-08-14
brainthe big card — where the heavy thinking happens
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keelthe box our models run on
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the rented servera server-class VPS that faces the public and serves every site and app here (as of August 13, 2026)
forgea planned machine — not assembled yet
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Where to start
Every one of these shows its work: an answer arrives with the source it came from.