Lab

Most of what ships at StrongAfter and Frankie runs on hardware and infrastructure developed here first.

guapo primary inference · serves wize73.com · class.wize73.com ● online
cpu
i7-12700K
ram
64GB DDR5
gpu
RTX Pro 2000 16GB primary inference
RTX 3070 Ti 8GB embeddings · reranker · frankie voice
role
strongafter · frankie · this site · aise course notes
wize73.com personal infra surface ● online
root
this portfolio
class
class.wize73.com aise course notes
rack
rack.wize73.com dashboard
home
voice api · home assistant · scrypted / homekit
backbone
Jetson Nano always-on
soma self-organizing distributed os · 5-node cluster ● online
nodes
Jetson Nano + 4× RPi5
focus
graph-native memory substrate · voice pipeline · learning engine
role
personal R&D — informed the infrastructure behind strongafter and frankie
solarroot hobby · off-grid greenhouse, Edison NJ ● building
footprint
16×48
solar
7× 150W Renogy
grow
IBC totes · Dutch buckets
monitor
IoT telemetry via existing Pi cluster

Why self-host

Three reasons, in order of importance. First, data posture: survivor conversations and justice-impacted interview practice sessions don't belong on third-party API logs. Second, cost: per-token API pricing does not scale for programs where session count is the success metric. Third, control: a self-hosted model stack fails in ways I can see, reproduce, and fix. A third-party API fails in ways I can only report.