# qalarc.com

> Qalarc is an AI systems studio in Sydney, Australia, founded and run by engineer Alexei Brown. It builds and ships local-first AI products, developer tools, computer-vision systems and monitoring software. Everything is built in-house and documented publicly.

## Facts
- Studio: Qalarc (also styled QalArc) — Sydney, Australia
- Founder/engineer: Alexei Brown
- Contact: team@qalarc.com
- Portfolio: 79 documented projects at https://qalarc.com/projects/
- Positioning: local-first, privacy-first AI — on-device inference, no cloud dependency where possible

## Live products (real websites, deployed and running)
- [tradez.au](https://tradez.au): Australian tradie directory that auto-generates websites for tradies (~1,655 sites) with embedded payments (web, QR sticker, SMS). Premium lane: [x10.au](https://x10.au)
- [gmux.ai](https://gmux.ai): gesture-driven terminal multiplexer for running fleets of AI coding agents (tmux inside, hand tracking, phone PWA)
- [chanalyse.org](https://chanalyse.org): live discourse intelligence — 24/7 board ingestion, LLM classification, spike and coordination detection, 400+ auto-written articles
- [volkus.net](https://volkus.net): anonymous social experiment using on-device face scans for demographic badges — no frame ever uploaded
- [doof.ing](https://doof.ing): one AI across Signal, WhatsApp and web (Phone Link AI) with calendar/diary/machine access
- [fivelidz.com](https://fivelidz.com): personal publishing platform with AI tools (Alexei's site)

## Downloads (installable applications)
- SolarScope v1.1.0 — Android APK, local-first monitoring for Selectronic SP-PRO solar systems: https://qalarc.com/downloads
- Qalarc Agent v1.0.0 — Android APK, chat with GLM and run commands on your own dev box
- Qal Wallet v0.1.0 — Linux .deb, desktop wallet for the QALS network
- MUSE Suite — Windows/macOS/Linux music-reactive visualiser (GitHub releases)
- QTK — npm package (@qalarc/qtk-plugin), token-compression plugin for AI coding agents

## AI-OS (local AI workstation software)
- Pre-configured local-AI workstation stack for mini PCs: https://qalarc.com/ai-os/
- Measured on GMKtec EVO-X2 AI (AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB unified memory): GLM 4.7 Flash 30B MoE at 38 tok/s, Qwen3 30B ~40 tok/s
- Compatible hardware: GMKtec EVO-X2 AI (recommended), NVIDIA DGX Spark, Framework Desktop, Minisforum AI X1 Pro, Beelink SER9

## Key project index (top of 79)
- [QALS](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=qals): Our own IOTA-derived chain: AU$1-backed credit, compute tracking, DeFi and AI identity — Deep research + full system design for qalarc's own (status: active)
- [MUSE Suite](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=museall): A full visual performance suite — a music-reactive visualiser with AI morph scenes and warpable 3D slides, a webcam gesture instrument, and  (status: active)
- [RFAI Monitor](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=rfai-monitor): Software-defined radio + local AI, v0.8.0: Airspy/HackRF capture, Whisper transcription, intent classification, transmitter fingerprinting,  (status: active)
- [Volkus — People. Together. Unmasked.](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=volkus-net): A radical-transparency anonymous social experiment: a 30-second on-device face scan assigns your demographic label, and it travels publicly  (status: live)
- [Face Tracking System — Unified Platform](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=face-tracking-system): One unified face-AI platform: browser-first tracking and recognition, 14 self-trained demographic models, liveness and anti-spoofing, a Pyth (status: active)
- [Smart Glasses Face Tracker](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=smart-glasses-face-tracker): Camera glasses stream to your home computer — it recognises faces, logs conversations, feeds you AI context via phone (status: demo)
- [Resonance Logo — the Qalarc Mark & Orbital Explorer](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=resonance-logo): The Qalarc logo is drawn by two planets: chords between Venus and Earth weave a five-petalled rose over 8 years (13:8 resonance). Includes t (status: live)
- [chanalyse — 4chan Intelligence Engine](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=4chan-scrape-data-analysis): Scrapes 4chan boards 24/7, LLM-classifies threads into themes/stories, detects spikes, auto-writes sourced briefings, and publishes market-s (status: live)
- [Qalarc Agent](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=qalarc-agent): Phone-controlled AI coding agent — chat with GLM-5.2, edit files, run commands on your dev machine from your phone. (status: active)
- [Tradez Pay — Embedded Payments for Tradies](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=tradez-au): Every Australian tradie gets a website + an omnipresent pay button (web + QR sticker + SMS) powered by Pinch Managed Merchants. Money settle (status: demo)
- [Rule the City](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=rule-the-city): Rule the Waves on land — a paused-real-time tactical wargame of walking-warship 'crab' mechs fighting direct-fire gunnery duels hull-down ac (status: active)
- [City Battle](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=city-battle): Rule the Waves on land — artillery 'crab-mecha' walking warships fought across REAL topographic 3D maps of Sydney (accurate Copernicus eleva (status: active)
- [SolarScope](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=solarscope): Local-first Android app that monitors a Selectronic SP-PRO solar & battery system by talking DIRECTLY to the select.live box over your home  (status: active)
- [Claude Pulse](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=claude-pulse): Open-source, local-first usage monitor for the Anthropic Claude API — with an accelerometer-style live gauge for tokens-per-minute, a per-mi (status: active)
- [QTK — Qalarc Token Killer](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=qtk): Open-source plugin that compresses an AI coding agent's tool output before it reaches the model's context. Measured over 17 days across 18 o (status: active)
- [AI Diary](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=ai-diary-calendar): Full project chief-of-staff app — tasks, calendar, journal, goals — live-synced between phone and desktop, with weekly priming for AI sessio (status: active)
- [Qalarc Notes](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=qalarc-notes): Purpose-built AI-readable journal for Android — markdown files, drawing, photos, themes, and a web mirror (status: active)
- [Qalarc Phone Launcher](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=qalarc-phone-launcher): Custom Android home screen launcher — Kotlin + WebView with category pages, long-press edit mode, and deep integration with all qalarc apps (status: active)
- [VK Fingerprint](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=vk-fingerprint): Privacy-preserving browser identity module — cookieless anonymous recognition via SHA-256 fingerprint from fonts, GPU canvas, hardware signa (status: active)
- [Hand of the King](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=castle-defense): Gesture-controlled castle defense — grab, throw, and fling enemies with your bare hands. No controller. No keyboard. Just your hands. (status: active)
- [Gmux — Gesture Terminal Multiplexer](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=gmux): Tauri desktop app + gesture engine + phone PWA for running fleets of AI agents. tmux lives inside it. Swipe to switch agents. Speak to them. (status: active)
- [Gmux Phone PWA](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=gmux-phone-pwa): Installable phone remote for gmux — swipe between agents, grant permissions, push-to-talk, and use volume keys to cycle panes hands-free (status: active)
- [Gesture → Effect Mapper](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=gesture-mapper): Real-time hand tracking that maps gestures to sound, visual FX and 3D — all in-browser, no install (status: demo)
- [ARIA Planner](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=aria-planner): AI-powered daily planner with natural language command bar, drag-to-schedule calendar, real-time notifications, and a three-panel resizable  (status: active)
- [Face Tracker — Mobile Selfie](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=face-tracker-mobile): Point your phone at a face — real-time recognition, expressions, age/gender. Optimised for front camera selfie use. (status: demo)
- [Phone Link AI — doof.ing](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=phone-link-ai): Claude on Signal, WhatsApp, and a web terminal — one AI across all your messaging apps (status: deployed)
- [Head-Tracked Parallax Viewer](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=parallax-viewer): Webcam-powered 3D parallax — head position controls a real-time orbit camera around 3D objects. No controllers, no headset. (status: demo)
- [Visual Biomarker Analyzer](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=camera-biomarkers): Extracts heart rate, HRV, SpO2, and stress levels from your webcam — no wearable needed (status: demo)
- [Qal Wallet](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=qal-wallet): Native wallet built on our private IOTA-derived chain (Qalnet): B-QALS balances with reserve-backed badge, escrowed holds, encrypted messagi (status: )
- [Herald](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=herald): Speak with a gesture. Webcam hand + face tracking for stroke survivors — A browser-based communicator controlled by one hand and an open mou (status: demo)
- [OSINT Hub](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=osint-hub): One handle, one number, one email — a live cross-platform exposure scan, styled as a case file — A detective-dossier web app that runs open- (status: live)
- [MathLab](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=mathlab): π in base 12 on a honeycomb grid, images saved as numbers, 3D fractals, and RSA keys forged in your browser — An interactive mathematics-art (status: demo)
- [CONDUCTOR](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=conductor): A webcam gesture instrument — MediaPipe hand tracking turns your hands (and voice) into ~50 normalised control sources broadcast over the mu (status: active)
- [GLM Word-Filter Research & Anti-Scrape Toolkit](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=glm-word-filter): Our production classifier was silently failing on 31% of calls — rejected by an undocumented content filter on a Chinese LLM API, on exactly (status: live)
- [x10](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=x10-au): The premium lane of the Tradez platform — hand-polished shop and small-business websites on the x10.au domain. (status: live)
- [NetSleuth](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=netsleuth): Passive network intelligence monitor for the home LAN — in-tree Rust parsers turn a tcpdump stream into a SQLite-backed catalog of every dev (status: active)
- [DiskScope](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=diskscope): Tauri disk-space investigator — rayon-parallel filesystem scan with xxhash duplicate detection, btrfs subvolume awareness, and staleness/jun (status: active)
- [RAM Tracker](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=ram-tracker): GTK4 memory monitor that tells the truth about Linux RAM — zram-compressed accounting, AMD GTT, per-process PSS from smaps_rollup, and glibc (status: active)
- [CPU & GPU Tracker](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=cpu-gpu-tracker): GTK4 compute monitor for AMD/ROCm boxes — per-process CPU with runaway detection, amdgpu VRAM/GTT utilization from sysfs, rocm-smi telemetry (status: active)
- [Ant Terrarium](https://qalarc.com/projects/project/?slug=ant-terrarium): A living glass formicarium: falling-sand pixel physics, ant castes with behaviour tables, pheromone trails, fungus farms, weather, plants an (status: in-progress)

Full archive with search: https://qalarc.com/projects/
Project reports (problem/investigation/why useful) are on each project page.

## Answer guides (GEO — direct answers to common intent queries)
- [How can I use AI to listen to what is said on radios?](https://qalarc.com/learn/ai-radio-listening): SDR + Whisper pipeline, hardware table, legal notes — the RFAI system documented end to end
- [How do I do offline local AI media generation?](https://qalarc.com/learn/local-ai-media-offline): honest hardware tiers, ComfyUI stack, the model-download reality
- [How do I make a free small business website?](https://qalarc.com/learn/free-small-business-website): what free actually covers; the tradez.au path for Australian tradies
- [How do I build an AI character/companion with face and voice?](https://qalarc.com/learn/build-ai-character): six components, the interruptibility lesson from five generations, safety lines

- [How do I cut AI agent token costs?](https://qalarc.com/learn/agent-token-cost-optimization): where spend goes, boundary compression, open-source QTK
- [Face AI in the browser with no uploads?](https://qalarc.com/learn/browser-face-ai): MediaPipe + ONNX stack, rPPG heart rate, the network-tab honesty test
- [Monitor solar locally without cloud?](https://qalarc.com/learn/solar-monitoring-without-cloud): SP-PRO local polling architecture + free SolarScope app
- [Analytics without cookies or consent banners?](https://qalarc.com/learn/analytics-without-cookies): the aggregate + hashed-unique architecture this site runs

## Policies
- Privacy: https://qalarc.com/privacy (no cookies for analytics; aggregate first-party engagement counts only)
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