Written down as
we solve it.
Everything we figure out building the box gets written down — plain language, errors verbatim, numbers measured. The reading below is free. The deeper build guides live on the shelf →
A real photo, a real AI transcription, one wrong number. Two AIs and a human missed it. Can you find it?
Three local AI voices: last year's, an untuned blend, and the one we shipped. Pick the voice that reads invoices for a living.
The plain-language field guide for people figuring it out on their own.
Is it private? What hardware? Why does it forget things? The questions everyone asks, answered without the pitch.
Every claim we make about our own product — dated, measured, in one place.
The attacks our guard can't catch — published instead of papered over.
New notes land as we solve new problems. The free guides on the shelf count too — errors verbatim, fixes measured.
These are the questions behind what we build at ThirdShift R&D — private, on-prem AI you own, not rent. Want to go deeper? The field notes are the candid build reports behind the boxes — the mistakes, the fixes, the disciplines that held. Free to take.