The Roadmap
Phase 1, Building in the Open
Website and vision documented. Architecture designed. Daemon READMEs live in the repo. Code is being written.
[ WATCH THE REPO → ]If you believe in the mission, here's what we need to make it happen. Some of this we're building, some of it we can't build alone, and all of it is listed below with enough detail to start.
These are the missing pieces, things anyone can build. Without the critical ones, local-first stays a hobby.
Local AI That Actually Works
A complete AI assistant running entirely on hardware you own. Not a tech demo, something your non-technical family member could use. Handles personal data, works offline, no subscription. Ollama runs models, but nobody has built the experience around them yet.
Data Liberation Tools
Export everything you've given to Google, Apple, Facebook, banks, and health apps, then import it somewhere you control. The "download your data" options are deliberately hard to use. We need tools that parse those exports into something useful.
Serverless Backup
Back up your data across multiple locations without trusting any single company. Like BitTorrent but for keeping your stuff safe. The technology exists (erasure coding, DHT, etc.) but making it easy doesn't yet.
Cross-Device Sync Without the Cloud
Keep phone, laptop, and tablet in sync without going through someone else's servers. Syncthing does this and it's great, but it needs to be easier and work better on phones, iOS especially.
Local Photo Library
Google Photos and Apple Photos are genuinely good. A local version needs to match their search and organization features without sending everything to the cloud. Face recognition, scene tagging, timeline views, all running locally.
Personal Knowledge Base
A system that collects everything you save, notes, emails, documents, bookmarks, and lets you search and ask questions about it. Obsidian is close. Making it work with local AI would be transformative.
Pick the thing about cloud services that annoys you most.
Build a local version. Even a partial solution is better than nothing.
LocalGhost is our piece of the puzzle, a privacy-first, self-hosted AI system designed to run entirely on your hardware, built around a fleet of daemons that each handle one job, from ingesting your text, images, audio, and structured data, through building the memory layer, to backup, encryption, duress mode, and ghost.shadowd which exists to challenge your thinking instead of confirming it. The fleet starts at ten daemons and will grow over time as new modalities and jobs are added. Hardware tiers run from Raspberry Pi to rack mount.
The technical details live in the repo. Architecture, security model, roadmap phases, hardware specs, all documented there.
Current status, Phase 1. Software releases are named after ghosts, from wisp through poltergeist, and hardware ships after software is stable.